Gilan Pizza & Grill — Restaurant in Long Beach

I think the pizza is delicious; however, I feel that the crust could have been a little thicker and maybe the pizza could have been a little bit more delicious and larger than what it stated, that it was large. They're large seemed like more of a medium Pizza. I think Round Table does a better job, however, no offense but here I speak the truth! On the other hand, I felt that there was some racism due to the fact of the way my family and I were treated as I compared to others were treated in this restaurant. Moreover, a lot of other customers kept his own staring at my family and me especially the man sitting at the table next to mine. Can't understand why people have to be so rude! Furthermore, there was a long line of customers waiting to be seated and I took notice of the people who were standing in that line continue to stare at everybody, not just my family and me but everybody. I definitely felt that this was rude and unnecessary. People have no manners! Bad, bad, very bad manners! Very rude! Their mother needed to slap them and teach them manners! Such uneducated people and I am so surprised! I wish that there was a way the employees could find to have these people wait elsewhere so we can eat and peace. They were staring at us as if they wanted everybody to hurry up and eat for them so they can come inside and sit down and have a turn to eat. Talk about little kids, they were worse. Would I eat in this place again? No. I'll go around tables. So I paid about $137 treat my family to eat. I didn't have to tip. I paid $140 and left the change to the server. I don't even feel he deserved my two bucks! I hope he decided to buy a popsicle with it. When I was able to pay the $140 in cash looks like his attitude changed. I felt really discriminated for some reason. I might be Mexican but I sure do know how to educate myself and my dollar to pay for my food, even if it was just a...

We came here because every other place in shoreline was packed with an hour+ wait time, or some were not taking any more people to the waitlist.

I was skeptical because the place sold pizza and the rest of the menu was more or less, not pizza related. (Clam chowder, etc).

I saw one (kids) pizza briefly on another table about an hour earlier that didn’t look appealing, but while waiting to be seated (as they cleaned our table) I saw a large pizza that gave me hope.

It was a bit of a wait after ordering, but given the current staffing issues that a lot of places are having, and the other locations being packed to the gills, it wasn’t too bad. We got our pizza sooner than anyone else would have even seated us.

When the pizza came, my first thought was that it looked surprisingly good, but I’ve seen good looking pizza that tasted bad, before, so I tempered my hopes. Especially considering experiences I’ve had at “boardwalk” or “seaport village” style pizza places in the past (all bad).

Then I took a bite. Immediately this was a good pizza, great crunch outside and chewy inside, only a little floppy near the tip, did a good New York crust fold, flavorful pepperoni, good melted cheese in a good proportion, not too much or too little.

The thing that surprised me was the outer crust. I’m NOT a crust eater, and this pie came with a rope-knot type twist to the outer crust, I expected this to be thick and tasteless, but it was actually knotty and twisted on both top and bottom, and was airy and light! And flavorful. I ended up eating the whole crust, and liking it! My only recommendation would be a better sauce (it was just average) and that they sell it as slices! Given the location, they could do major business as a slice shop to hungry passers by.

I can’t speak for any other food item, but this place will be a go-to spot for pizza when we’re...

The owner of this restaurant is rude and discriminatory. We had a party of 8, with 4 kids and 4 adults. Our group went inside to order our food to go (which is how you’re supposed to do it for to go orders). When we ordered, we noticed the table in the corner for 8 was available. We asked the waitress who took our order if that table was available and she said yes. I asked her multiple times and she said no one was waiting for it, but she was going to double check and that she doesn’t see why not. The kids start sitting down, so we figured it was fine after what the waitress said. My husband goes to order something else and the owner angrily yells at him asking us to leave the table because someone else was waiting for it. We get up from the table and I ask to talk to the owner myself because there were no large parties waiting outside and if there was, there was another large table available outside. The owner spoke rudely to me and raised his voice shouting that we ordered our food to go and we can’t sit there because someone is waiting for it. I said that I know we ordered our food to go but when we saw the open table we asked if it was open and it was so we sat down. We go back and forth for a while, but it was pointless.

We wait outside for our food and guess what…nobody sat down at the table we were at as evidenced by the picture below. That awful man kicked us out of a table just because I don’t even know what. How on earth can you run a business like that?! He lied multiple times to my face. I don’t write this review lightly because I know businesses are hurting, but that was down right discrimination. Do not eat here.

P.S. the clam chowder was watery as hell and their...