Onlywood Pizzeria Trattoria — Restaurant in Key West

A step up from canned spaghetti, chef boy-o is sometimes better. Wow, where to start? Was told 15 min wait, had tickets go be somewhere, ok. 15 min. Nope, 35 min in and had to sit on metal stools at the bar, I am convinced these stools were leftovers from a ww2 concentration camp. Most uncomfortable ever! Okay, next to the bar, not big enough to serve you a drink, but here is where we sat and had dinner, I would recommend a sign above the bar stating, worlds 2nd smallest bar! Ok. On to the drinks, there are very few beer choices. Ordered one. Had to ask for a glass, I guess I was expected to drink from the bottle which is fine if I am at a jelly roll concert, not a resturant serving me a meal on the hardest damn seats ever created. Wine by the glass, same as beer selection, reminded me of my ex. Unappealing, lifeless, and unsatisfying. Maybe just maybe the food is good. Well appetizer was carpaccio with arugula, shaved parm cheese. No, I repeat NO! Dressing on flavor at all on it, No salt, No pepper, No EVOO, nope, just a side on lemon! I guess we should have been thankful for the lemon. Meanwhile, my butt cheeks are now numb from the torture devices they call stools, btw, ordered the dinner at the same time as the appetizer. Now the wait, 30 minutes go by, we are now going to be late cause a pizza and pasta dinner take 30 min. So let's talk pasta. Pastas itself was cooked ok. Not al dente, but ok, sauce with pork cheek. Sauce was out of a can. Not seasoned, nor roasted. Barely heated and tasted like the metal can it came out of. No basil, no garlic. Nothing but canned tomato sauce. The pork cheek was great cause I get to take it home and cook it. Was NOT cooked at all. It wasn't even warm! Cold fatty chunks of pork cheek laying in canned tomato sauce. Those poor pigs died, so I could have a great meal but not these ones. They died in vain cause this place can't cook even a little bit. Pizza was overcooked on one side and undercooked on the other side! How do you mess up, pizza? Well, first, let's put a pizza oven in the dining room, run it @900 degrees in key west, it was about 87 degrees in the dining room sitting at the second smallest bar on top of the marquee de sades stools. Wow, what a blunder! Oh BTW the bartender, if you can call someone that totally doesn't know how to open a bottle of wine correctly, that explains why so many bottles were screw capped. Asked if I would like another beer, after I drank the beer, drank my water, and was 90 percent done with my meal, and she was only 24 inches from me sitting at the bar. Way to pay attention. Did not order desert, was disappointed enough with one of the worst meals ever in Key West. BTW, the pizza had a nice ash taste to it, not a wood fired taste that I am used to. All in all, I would never go back here, tell anyone it's good, or suggest to anyone that they eat here and for God's sake Do not...

Overall this is the worst Key West dining experience I have had in 2 years of living here. The only reason for the one star is the polite service. Me and the wife went and had a couple of happy hour drinks for $4 a piece, not a bad price. We had the happy hour chicken wings for $9 (5 wings). The normal price for wings on the menu says $17.50 so I am guessing that you get more than 5 wings for that price, so not really a deal. Then, I had a peperoni, salami, and onion pizza for $32. Thought I was getting a large pizza to have some leftovers, but instead, it was pretty much a personal pizza with almost no cheese. I could have gotten a large pizza that was twice as good from Duettos right down the street and it would have been cheaper. The wife had the fettuccine alfreado that was $25.50 and added chicken for $8. The portion was so small my 110lb wife almost finished it and there was only about 10 bite size pieces of chicken for the $8. Could have gone to Mangia Mangia or La Trattoria and gotten better pasta for the price. Finally, to top it all off we had a woman's club card I paid $120 for that gives you a free meal at about 32 local restaurants. I was told by the server that I could not use the card due to the fact that we had happy hour drinks and wings. I said okay and instead asked if I could get the 10% local discount which was again decline due to the fact we had happy hour drinks and wings. What a joke, it would have been cheaper if I had paid full price for the happy hour items and gotten to use my card or local discount. I have eaten at probably 100 restaurants in Key West and had happy hour drinks and appetizers and then ordered dinner and this is the first place that has ever said that you can't get a local discount on food if you had anything during happy hour. Then they had the gall to tell me to make sure I come back to use my woman's club card. So to sum it up, good service, small over priced average meals, and definitely not local friendly. I guess they figure they rip off enough tourists they don't care about the locals. WON'T BE BACK EVEN FOR...

I came to eat during my last night in Key West during my February vacation. I saw an advertisement during a stroll earlier in the day so l figured why not have a nice meal before we leave key west. We were sat down after a short wait and our drinks and food came in a timely manner. The pizza was fantastic and the crust and flavor was exactly how a Neapolitan pizza should be. I paid in cash and left the tip. The waitress comes and grabs the money from my table while I'm sitting and counts it out in front of me and my family. So far no big deal but kind of weird that she decides to count cash right in front of me. Then she asks, "was there a problem with the service?" I go "no, everything was good." I ask her why she's asking that? She tells me, in front of all the tables full of customers and my family that people only leave less than 20% when there's a problem with the service. I decided to pay cash to avoid the ridiculous 4% card surcharge which the restaurant charges and left a 16% tip, which if we are being realistic, is more than 16% due to it being cash (I won't detail more than that but any waiter knows this is the reality). She kept arguing with me and asking why I didn't tip 20% and at this point I was in shock. It was like living a real life scene of the movie "Waiting." Anyway, I didn't want to argue or make a scene because I don't do that, especially in front of my family. I left very anngry and I'm still in shock at how one of your employees had the nerve to confront me in front of my family and a full restaurant demanding a 20% tip. You know, if you want a 20% tip just make it mandatory, you might as well sour me and others completely from supporting your place. What a way to ruin what up until now was a great family vacation to Key West. I don't know if the restaurant is not paying a living wage that personnel have to stoop to this aggressive behavior of demanding tips but I truly hope it was an anomaly since it was beyond appalling and I hope no one has to deal with that...