Genova's To Go — Restaurant in Hampstead

I've eaten at Genova's way more than I can count and have tried virtually everything on the menu, aside from the Italian dishes.

Firstly, Genova's has the best bread for subs in Carroll County. Their meats are on par with everyone else but nothing special, but the bread makes it. Portion sizes for the cost are hit or miss. If you get a parm sub, fillings are generous. Cold cuts filling is about what I expect and are decent (although their Italian Cold Cut is only ham and salami, which is not an ICC which should have at least 3 meats IMO, but that's a different rant.) Steak subs are a little light but relatively fair. I always add extra meat onto a half which is reasonably priced add on and that works for me. I've gotten their BLT and Veggie subs from time to time and they are absolute rip offs. It seems like they just give you the normal amount of filling as a topping on a regular sub with for these.

Their pizza is one of the better ones around. Haven't really had a bad one there, although on a personal level, their pizza can sometimes be rough for my stomach. Try their garlic sauce even though its more butter than garlic but I'm not complaining.

I used to like their salads too but the past few times I've been disappointed. I usually get the small Greek with chicken which is around $12, which is a bit high and twice out of the last 3 times, the container was about 3/4 full and/or has wilted or big chunks of white lettuce. The wings are another one that is a poor value. They are big and tasty, although sometimes light on sauce, but $10 for 6 wings is high. They bumped up the price when there was a wing shortage and never reduced it.

So overall, Genova's has some great items and virtually everything tastes good but the value on some items is poor. Fortunately I've eaten there enough I know what is a good and poor value and I...

I hate leaving bad reviews, but I was disappointed with my experience ordering from here. I ordered pizza and wings for the first time and heard from a friend that they had pretty decent pizza. I ordered a 10" specialty pizza and 6 wings which came to a price of $23 and change. I originally thought, okay, it's a little pricy, and granted I ordered a specialty pizza, but I figured for fresh pizza, why not? I waited in the parking lot for my order and when I saw them bring the food to the counter, I went in and paid. I immediately could tell it was not very hot, but didn't think much of it at the time as I was grabbing the side of the box. I live about 3 minutes away and when I got home I immediately started eating. The pizza was NOT fresh. The dough seemed old to the touch and taste, almost as if it were made an hour ago and just heated up when they put toppings on it. The dough was the right color, but when you touch it or tear it apart, it was already starting to harden a little. Additionally, it was NOT hot, it was warm at best. Growing up in NY, I know fresh out-of-the-oven pizza. Even when I order from other places, you can tell fresh out of the oven, and this was NOT it. As for the wings, they too were warm at best. They were definitely hotter than the pizza, but also taste as if they were made earlier in the night. The taste of the pizza and wings undoubtedly tasted good, just want freshly made, or so it didn't seem to be. I gave them 3 stars because the taste was there, but literally anyone could tell it...

I have eaten here before and didn't have anything to complain about, usually good food and good service. Today however I got a chicken parm sub and it was not good at all. The sub came out of the kitchen within 5 minutes of me ordering it, which would be great and fast service but it could not possibly have been made fresh, the chicken was tough and dry and burnt, really not edible and there's no way they had enough time to cook it properly, much less burn it in the time they brought it out to me. I asked for a new one which I hate doing because I know its a burden to the staff but I literally could not eat what they brought me. I had eaten a few bites of one half of the sandwich and I took a small bite of the second half. When the waitress brought me my replacement sub there was still a bite that I took out of one of the halves with some more sauce on it on a different roll, I don't think they noticed I took a bite out of it but I recognized it right away. I asked the waitress and she said it had to be made fresh because she asked for the sub I sent back to be thrown away, and that makes me not want to eat the new sub at all because again, I can assure you it was the same piece of chicken I just sent back, it was still a burnt piece of chicken with one bite taken out and when I tasted the replacement sub it was exactly the same. I just asked for a box and left because I didn't want to say anything else and I threw it away at home. Probably will go back but not anytime soon and not for that item on the...