Ciro's Ristorante & Pizzeria — Restaurant in Indio

Pretty decent pizza joint in a place like Indio.

Stopped in after an awful experience at Charli Marrones and were greeted and sat immediately upon entering by a nice young lady and a nice young man brought us waters and some bread while we looked at the menus.

They have a great happy hour from 3-5pm, which we just missed, but luckily there regular beer prices are fairly reasonable as I got a pint of Moretti for $4.50.

The clam chowder is only served on Fridays, so I was interested to try it. I'm glad I did as it was surprisingly good!

I had the BBQ Chicken Pizza and added pineapple. It was pretty tasty and the crust was especially edible. My only gripe would be I wished they had put the bbq sauce under the cheese rather than drizzled across the top to give it more consistency in flavor instead of bbq sauce pockets. I got a small and it was six full size pieces, so be warned that they don't skimp on portion sizes!

That being said, the prices are a little high for what you get. My pizza was $12.95 w/a $2 upcharge for adding the pineapple, so $14.95 for my pizza was a bit pricey, I felt.

I did dock a star for an issue w/the garlic cheesebread we had ordered. Our soups came out immediately and when we ordered the garlic bread we had wanted it as an appetizer before our pizzas. Our pizzas came out fairly fast, so when I asked the waitress about our bread she said it was probably ready, then a few mins later said it would be out any min, and halfway through our pizzas, it showed up. For $4.99, it was definitely not good as it was basically a bread log w/too much garlic flavor and drizzled with melted cheese. What miffed me about the whole thing was I think our waitress forgot to put in the order (as the ASAP next to the last entry for the garlic bread on our receipt indicates), so instead of fessing up or asking if we even still wanted it, she blatantly lied about it.

Needless to say, I cannot recommend the garlic bread, at all, but if you are in the mood for some quasi-expensive decent italian food with a casual atmosphere, this...

Chose this location after looking up reviews, but the reviews that we should have read where of the ones that where most recent versus the past reviews that made it sound like a good place for a meal.

Brought my family after traveling to Indio for a baseball tournament expecting good Italian food.

We arrived when the restraunt had very few guests,

The server was nice and catered to our needs in a timely manner,

The food was unfortunately not very appealing or tasty, and extremely overpriced for how small the portions that they servered us. The even charged 7 dollars for a salad that had one pepper and a couple of croutons.

The food we chose to eat was Cheese tortellini- tasted of milk and tap water had little flavor besides the ones listed above

Xl pepperoni pizza- the outer crust was good, crunchy however it does not support the extremely oily cheese on the pizza with little to no sauce under the cheese, overall personally gave me a stomach ache after eating it. Chicken parmesan- the lunch option was the size of a average coster for a drink and pounded extremely thin with zero flavor besides a very bland cheese mixture Chicken fettuccine Alfredo- was appetizing as the cheese tortellini which means it wasn't good. And a small pepperoni and pineaple pizza- similar to the xl pepperoni pizza.

We brought up the concerns to our waitress who we asked to mention this to there cook and Manager, she told then Informed the owner and he refused to come speak to us.

All in all extremely disappointing not worth any...

These are some postings from my long time friends that I grew up with in the Desert.

I have complained also and was told by manager that if I didn't come that was fine as there would always be new customers. Service sucks and food made with cheap product!

Has anyone went to Ciro's lately?? I'm sorry to say that I'm not very pleased with the service & food, and when we called to complain the person on the other end said she was to busy to talk to me right now😱so needless to say I loved there food years passed but I'm done with them now!!

Its the worst I've experienced

I used to go there all the time as a kid, 30 ish years ago and just went this past April. I ordered the basic Italian sub that I loved as a kid.....it was nowhere near as good as it was years ago!

Wow! We had the exact same experience. It was great, but like you I will never go there again...

I was disappointed when i went in February it wasnt as good as it was when i was a kid

Yes not the same!

Ever since its been under new ownership their food and service...