Vicino Pizza Neapolitan Style Pizzeria — Restaurant in Coeur d'Alene

DO NOT EAT HERE If you like ranch with a side of pizza. If Pizza Hut is your gold standard. If you’re craving a 3,000-calorie grease bomb.

For everyone else: Vicino’s is the best pizza in Coeur d’Alene—possibly in the entire state. Honestly, it’s the best pizza I’ve ever had.

I’ve been coming here biweekly for three months, and every visit delivers the same results: incredible pizza, consistent quality, and friendly service.

Their red sauce pizzas are a masterclass in craft. The crust is blackened just right in their arch oven, offering structural integrity for a mighty bite while folding effortlessly into your hand like a taco. The ingredients? Always fresh. The meats? Delightfully unique. Forget pepperoni—they use house made coppa speck, and it’s a game-changer.

The Spicy Coppa pizza: a perfect combination of heat, saltiness, and peppery arugula. The bitter greens balance the rich pork, all elevated by tangy olive oil on a crisp crust. It’s $20 well spent. Hesitant at first, I trusted the server’s recommendation, and she nailed it.

Feeling less adventurous? Try the Sausage & Honey pizza. I was skeptical too—honey on pizza? After bad experiences at places like Mod, I avoided it. But here? It’s perfection. The fresh ingredients make all the difference, including the spicy jalapeños that pack a punch.

Their meatballs? Next-level. Soft, tender, and bathed in a tomato sauce that feels like a bite of Italian heritage. Don’t skip them. The server informed me the recipe was over 100 years old and researched to infinity.

I heard the owner trained with Italian chefs who’ve passed down generations of recipes. You can taste the refinement and authenticity in every bite. The photos in the restaurant are taken by the owner in Italy.

Service Matters
The team at Vicino’s is cordial, attentive, and reassuring. I once mentioned needing everything spot-on for visiting friends after disappointing meals at “popular” spots (cold food, stale flavors, hair in the dishes). The server listened with genuine care and ensured everything came out perfect—and it did.

Try Vicino’s If You: Can’t risk a bad meal. Love authentic pizza. Appreciate great cuisine. Want to relax at a restaurant that cares.

Vicino’s isn’t just a pizza place—it’s a...

Stopped by with some extended family members for dinner during restaurant week. Tried the radicchio salad, meatballs, focaccia bread, Margherita pizza, sausage and honey pizza, and a variety of gelato options. I lived in Naples, Italy for a couple of years. As you would expect, the pizza was incredible and I'm always interested in tasting local attempts at similar style pizza. Vicino pizza was good, but I would place heavy emphasis on the style in "Neapolitan-style" versus bring true to the original. Their sauce does have the sweeter San Marzano tomato flavor, but their mozzarella didn't have the strong flavor, and the crust closer to American style pizza in thickness. Not sure if they use 00 flour, but it didn't seem like it. Therefore, the margarita pizza was ok, but nothing that brought back memories of Naples or anything. By comparison, I would recommend the sausage and honey pizza as it offered a unique flavor pairing that was quite nice. Our entire dinner party tried each others orders and reached unanimous consensus that we would not recommend anything beyond the pizza. The radicchio salad had an unusually bitter after taste, meatballs tasted like meatloaf, the focaccia like toasted burger buns, and the gelato was more like ice cream in texture and it tasted like the recipes needed much more refinement to reach the quality for serving at a restaurant. If I lived in CDA, I would consider getting the pizza on occasion - but otherwise, it's not worth going out of one's way for it. Plus, the service was poor in the ways mentioned in other reviews. The servers were not particularly friendly from start to finish, plus everything took an extraordinary amount of time. As one example, I asked for a beer at one point, reminded the server after 15 minutes, and finally got it about 5-10 min later. Overall, we were at the restaurant for 2 and 1/2 hours because of what appeared to be inefficiency with service versus our desire to be there. Vicino has a lot of potential, and hopefully they'll work out some of these kinks to become the go-to...

I am a pizza lover! I eat pizza at least once a week. I have been wanting to try this place since I heard of it's opening a few weeks ago and I finally got the opportunity. I went around lunch time. There was only one other table so staying socially distanced wasn't a challenge. The staff wore masks and there was sanitizer at the door. The design felt a little cold to me, grey, concrete, black and white. Despite that, the pictures on the wall were great and pizza oven is in full site of the dinning area. The wine selection was excellent and the waiter offered recommendations and samples. He also mentioned they will do wine flights upon request. Overall the server was pleasant, helpful, and making the most of the two tables he had. A+ for servers.

Now for the food. I had the meatball appetizer. Did I mention I love meatballs. There were three meatballs, slightly larger than golf ball size. They were fall-apart moist, covered in plenty of red-sauce, overall good. I got the sausage an honey pizza. Pizza is about three things: crust, sauce, and ingredient quality and a restaurant usually shines at one of these. Hands down the ingredient quality was top notch! This place clearly specializes in ingredient fusion. The toppings went very well together. As for the pizza, everyone has their personal preference on sauce and crust style, so here's my observations: the sauce was sparing, but good, and for a thin crust, it was dense and chewy, but still crisp and light. My opinion is that this place is focused on crust, ingredient quality, and fusion flavor in that order. For me personally, the crust was missing something. However, I think this is a solid restaurant and no matter what your personal artisanal pizza style is, you will enjoy trying this pizza! I have no doubt that this place will only...