Luigi's Trattoria Pizzeria — Restaurant in Livonia

20221203 update: star gained. Service was again spot on. Tuscan chicken was excellent. Gnocci was good - not the best; not the worst. House salad was good - no odd sweetness. Pasta fagioli was good.

Service was excellent - our server was attentive, but not to the point of being of being obnoxious - just right! The deep-dish pizza, though decent, was not as good as we’d hoped it would be. There didn’t appear to be any tomato sauce on it, and the lack significantly detracted from what would otherwise have been a good one. The antipasto salad was nice enough, but the house Italian dressing served with it had a sweetness that just doesn’t belong in such a dressing. The bread served with seasoned dipping oil was great. The oil was not the EVOO we are used to - it was either a light olive oil or a flavorless vegetable oil - very light, and sort of refreshing in comparison. The cannolis for desert were good - the filling was not overly sweet as with some renditions. The shells were a bit thicker and harder than most I’ve had, and, unfortunately, you could taste the oil the shell was fried in and it tasted like it needed changing.

Finally, I had ordered a Bell’s Oberon, and it arrived with a slice of orange on the glass. I really wish they’d ask if you wanted fruit in your beer (almost without exception, I do not), or that it mentioned that it was served with fruit in the menu so you could tell them to hold it. So many restaurants assume (wrongly) that certain beers should be served with citrus, and all that it does is detract from the flavor of the beer… (a rant for another day, I guess).

All in all: not somewhere I’d avoid, and I do plan to return to try some of their other fare - man does not live on pizza, antipasto salad, and...

Ok firstly we entered as a group of 7. Everyone ordered drink, we all received our drinks except for my mother. She waited patiently and as they sat the bread down she immediately asked for butter. My mother is a organic eater and she will not touch butter at all unless it's real butter. The waiter came back with butter in the packs and she asked if he could soften it under there heat lamps. He of course obliged and took it away. She waited another few minutes until interrupting another server about the butter. She also mentioned she had not received her drink yet. The server left to go check on the butter, our original waitress came out with a huge bowl of whipped butter from the back. Clearly not butter and she stressed to our waitress in the beginning. Then said I cant eat this, this is not butter and I still dont have my drink and the bread was cold coming out. Her dinner meal was ruined and she was upset and telling our waitress then the manager walks out and without hesitation says what going on and my mother starts to speak and the manager immediately says you know what this dinner experience isnt going to work out and says he is going to tell his cooks to cancel our meal. No one was upset in our party except one and he didnt even attempt to rectify the situation. He immediately stopped our experience. I am in complete appall of how the situation was handled. I know I could not recommend this place. ...

When we arrived at the restaurant our family was already waiting. We sat dowm ordered our drinks and app. My mother in law requested a sample of a beer to try and recieved this. After the rude server took our order, my mother in law requestes bread with SOFT butter, and an actual drink of the sampled beer. We were brought cold bread, and rock hard butter. She requested the butter to be sat under a warmer to soften and about 5 minutes later we revieced a bowl of cooking butter(not the quality of the real butter we asked for and completely different). She asked for the beer when this brought and asked for the other butter back. The butter was returned(softened). She then asked the server for the beer again. She finally recieved said beer after almost ALL appetizers were ate. The owner then came from the kitchen and approached our table and said "i dont think this dining experience is going to work for anyone, im going to tell the kitchen to stop your food". The owner was rude, unprofessional, and very un concered with the quality of the service or food.

I returned to ask for the owners number when i was told who the owner was, he explained that he did not have to explain why, but he would and stated "i could tell this experience was not going to work for anyone".

I WOULD NOT support this buisness and the rudeness and...