Goodfellas Pizzeria - OTR — Restaurant in Cincinnati

Goodfellas' pizza is just okay. It's drunk food.

They call the pizza New York style. If you have been to NYC for New York style, you'll see that Goodfella's is not really New York style. It's much thicker, bigger, saucier, not as fast, etc.

I've been a few dozen times though mostly hang out at the Wiseguys lounge upstairs instead. Wiseguys is awesome (5/5).

I had a weird experience at Goodfellas last night though. It's very common for people to bring pizza upstairs or drinks downstairs and eat them together. You can order pizzas from the bar upstairs too.

However, late at night after we waited in line to get in, got drinks from upstairs, hung out for a bit, and came down to get a few slices, we were told by the bouncer "You can't order pizza inside late at night. You have to finish your drinks, go back outside, and wait in the line again." What? We just waited outside to get inside for drinks... but they did not care. At that point, the wait outside was 20+ minutes.

That's pretty unreasonable to me. I'm in your building with a tab open and you won't let me give you my money. At what other business do you have to wait in line twice to get food and a drink?

I hope they figure out how to both crowd control outside on the weekends and keep their customers inside the building happy too. We left and took our business across the street to Lucy Blue's where we got a hot pizza in five minutes and they were very friendly and professional.

Next time I'm grabbing pizza I'll probably consider some place else. I'm really looking forward to the forthcoming Taglio...

Nice place and very good pizza and pasta salad was delicious 😋 and awesome atmosphere and friendly employees .Great place to go to grab a slice of 2 of pizza there huge slices too it's like 2-3 slices all in 1 slice and great bread sticks all the people was. Very friendly and they have and outdoor area to eat and drink and you can smoke there to if you want to also it's very clean place because im very annal about making sure wherever I eat at its clean or I won't eat there but it was very clean and the place was kinda crowded but they kept it moving so wasn't a long wait at all it went fast .Thank you Goodfellas pizza employees for a outstanding service.🥰The Best Pizza that I have ever eaten and its made fresh right there where you can watch it be made its a Amazing place.Love the food it was delicious 😋 and Beer was cold 🥶 and They have a Awesome team of Employees and Management they all do a great job and work very hard to keep down the wait time as it's very busy place and they keep it moving to accommodate there customer's in a timely manner and employee and management come to check on you to make sure everything is alright and if you need anything and is everything okay with the food and Overalls just Love this place it's my favorite place to eat and grab a beer with friends whom also love this place and the atmosphere is awesome.Ive been to there Cincinnati Ohio and Covington KY locations there both Awesome places to eat love...

Decent pizza that can easily hit the spot, but horrible and very slow service. Often when you go in and stand there waiting to be served, there will be an employee right in front of you but they won’t greet you or acknowledge your presence in any way for quite some time - they just keep doing whatever they are doing without even looking up, as if they don’t see you. And then it always takes way longer than it should to check out. The cashier is also in charge of answering the phone and taking down carryout orders, and it is not uncommon for them to take a call and put in an order right as you are checking out, which can take as long as five minutes - when it would only take about thirty seconds to take your payment. They have the most disorganized and poorly conceived ordering system of any restaurant I have ever been to. Incredibly inefficient. A pizza-by-the-slice place is supposed to be fast, but for some reason it always feels incredibly slow, and I can never quite pinpoint what is making it take so long. The employees are curt at best, and sometimes outright rude, probably because they are poorly trained. The manager at this location must be either totally absent or absolutely terrible at his or her job. That’s my impression. On the plus side, the food is not bad and it’s neat having a pizza-by-the-slice place in Cincinnati. The service just needs drastic improvement. After a series of bad experiences, I won’t be going back...