D'Angelo's — Restaurant in Halstead

We decided to stop by for lunch around 11:30 AM, intrigued by the ratings and the promise of a daily buffet from 11 AM to 1 PM. The reviews and outdoor signage suggested the buffet was the way to go, so we thought we’d give it a try.

Upon entering, the salad bar greeted us right at the entrance, but strangely, we couldn’t spot any pizza, which we had expected given the reviews. Feeling a bit unsure, we asked the counter staff for some guidance since it was my first visit. The staff member read the buffet items aloud, but the pricing was nearly impossible to see until she pointed to the very faded menu board above the counter that required a certain stance to read.

When we requested a menu to get a clearer picture, we were given one that surprisingly didn’t have any prices listed except for the buffet items. Even more puzzling, the paper menu also lacked descriptions for all of the other dishes. At this point, with no pizza on the buffet and a menu that left us with more questions than answers, we decided to take our lunch idea elsewhere and headed down the street as we were really hungry and wanted something easy to figure out and...

We arrived on a Saturday evening, before 6:30 pm. There were no utensils on the salad bar, my husband and I both wanted a salad. We ask the young man at the counter if the salad bar was closed. He replied, "I'll get you some tongs." We placed our order for a medium pizza, 2 1 trip salad bars and 2 medium drinks, cost was right at $35. We went to get our salads the only utensils that were gotten for us was 1 set of tongs, 1 small spoon and 1 dressing ladle., with a lot more choices than that on the salad bar. The young man didn't seem interested in getting us any more utensils. If he knew anything about foodservice, he would have known to put out more utensils, to prevent cross contamination of the foods on the salad bar, let alone if the next customer had any food allergies. The dressings were watered down. My husband put 1000 Island dressing on his salad, which is usually pretty thick. His dressing was in the bottom of the bowl before he started to eat it. The dill pickle spears tasted like they were old, we had to spit them out. We will think twice before...

We went in around 4 or so a few months back... half the items on the menu, they didn't have. We had to accept substitutions on most things we ordered. The ice cream I ordered my daughter was nothing like what was described, and they were out of whipped topping and cherries, but did not mention that when we ordered. The salad had tasted like the lettuce was frozen and then thawed... very thin, transparent leaves with a weird taste throughout the salad, and to top it off, the dressing was packet dressing and had an odd taste. I was throughly disappointed after the good reviews and recommendations for here. Giving 2 starts vs. One because the staff were kind ♡ maybe we just went on an icky day....