Italy Pasta Pizza — Restaurant in Fort Worth

One of my co-workers raved about Italy Pasta & Pizza for the tasty food and large portions, so another co-worker and I took the trip for lunch.

On our first visit, I ordered the baked ziti based on the waiter's recommendation and had a salad with house dressing (tomato vinaigrette). The first to arrive to the table was the salad and then the bread. The salad was fresh iceberg lettuce with one sole cherry tomato on the side. The tomato vinaigrette was unlike any dressing I've had before. It was very flavorful; I just never got used to it and every bite was like whoa this is weird and good. The bread was served warm and was light and spongy- a perfect texture to dip into olive oil with Parmesan cheese, pepper, and balsamic vinegar. Then came the baked ziti, which was served piping hot. I was not expecting all that cheese and ricotta! I told the waiter that I was a big fan of sauce and I was disappointed with the small amount of tomato sauce. However, the waiter brought me a side of sauce and I poured it all in. It made the baked ziti PERFECT! I was a happy camper. My co-worker ordered eggplant Parmesan without spaghetti from the dinner menu and loved it. It didn't come with a free salad though since it was from the dinner menu. By the end of the meal we were so full and had leftovers but wanted to try the tiramisu, so we got it to go. We ate it at the office later and it was a sad tiramisu. It was bland, not much texture, and barely had a coffee flavor. No better than from a grocery store. Overall, this trip made us happy and wanting to return for more good Italian food.

But then... today we returned and everything was off. We were placed in a small booth with no waiter assigned. The owner got our waters and took our order. I ordered the spaghetti with meatballs and my co-worker ordered eggplant Parmesan with spaghetti this time. The salad, the bread and the food came in quick succession. They didn't time it right and it was suspicious how quickly the food came, like it had been sitting there. There was a new cheesy topping on the bread that I didn't like. The cheese tasted weird and the bread was less flavorful. It was also barely warm unlike last time. The spaghetti was a joke. It did not have enough sauce by anyone's standard and it came with one meatball! The menu said spaghetti and meatballs not meatball. The whole dish was flavorless and watery. A freezer spaghetti was tastier. No one came to ask us how the food was or fill up our waters. The hostess was kind enough to clean out some dirty plates from our small table. We started to wonder if we had to get our own check. Finally, we asked a busboy for the check.

Overall, Italy Pasta & Pizza is inconsistent in it's service and flavor. I'm not sure that...

Seriously the comments on this place are just outright hilarious, how this restaurant was able to build a coalition of over 600 people to actually rate this place has me in sheer amazement... In fact, I would possibly go there again just to post pictures of the abismal emptiness of this establishment during peak eating hours just to show how absurd these reviews must be. I live VERY nearby this place so needless to say I have given it a shot on more than one occasion just hoping and praying for a positive experience that will make the fact that it's literally the closest Italian eatery in the area have even an ounce of meaning but alas... No sauce... I also LOVE to eat so I've tried the simple and the complex and the only notable experience I have ever had is the inside jokes I am able to share with my friends on just how truly deeply awful this place is... Cleanliness=not present, atmosphere=very old people no music, no lighting, just a cold bleak space think super bad 1990 pizza hut, service=I honestly don't even know how to comment here once one of my servers had dandruff so bad I felt physically ill, I personally witnessed and experienced not only lack of attention but actually acting as though I and my party where bothering them by asking for menus... Freaking menus!!!, Food=This is the front runner for the worst... Terrible just horrible, pizza cold soggy, unseasoned, sparsely dressed and almost no topings... I seriously have NOT tasted a single dish here that I couldn't have made better in my own home... Even cooking from frozen would be better than the absolute garbage they served... I mean me and my friends have actually considered submitting this restaurant to one of those save my restaurant shows where the celeb chef comes in and does an overhaul... Which is basically the only thing that could EVERY get me back in this place... And you can check my reviews, I almost never even leave and and this has got to be my first or one of 3 or less negative reviews it's just so crazy I was looking for local pizza and this came up... Like seriously...

EDIT: YOU CAN GET FOOD POISONING IMMEDIATELY FROM BAD FOOD. SHAME ON YOU. Y'ALL DON'T DESERVE TO BE IN BUSINESS.

Picked up chicken fettuccine alfredo a few weeks ago around 8pm on a Friday night for my boyfriend's birthday, and both of us got SEVERE food poisoning. The sauce tasted odd, but figured it was the flavor of the restaurant. The chicken used was very dry as well. A birthday weekend was ruined by a place that didn't perform quality control, nor the basic skill to make or heat up alfredo sauce properly. I've been angry this entire time since it happened, and it took a week or so to feel better. The third person in our party had an antipasti and didn't get sick. We're too nice of people to call and complain, and we literally don't want to ever have to deal with this place again. I had such high expectations when a longtime customer (she called herself that) was complimenting who I guess was the manager or bartender, so I really did think everything would be fine, giving the alfredo sauce a chance. I'll stick to Olive Garden as they've never done me wrong in my 30+ years of life. Please Note: this is a lengthy review for many reasons. Had I been in worse health due to my autoimmune disease, I would've gone to the ER. Bad food practices can kill people. The fact that the sauce was old makes me wonder how long it was being used since it's creation and how long the temperature was not at a safe heat. Is everyone there food handler certified? This is...