Natale’s Italian Restaurant & Pizza — Restaurant in Long Hill Township

Natales Italian Restaurant Seafood and Pizza is located in a strip mall with Lung Yan Chinese Restaurant in Gilette. You can easily pass this place if you blink. Parking is shared lot with the other businesses. With that being said, you can either sit in the front which is the Pizzeria or make your way to the back where there are tables and waitress service. There’s nothing fancy here, but the food is consistently good. Natale’s makes a really good marinara sauce it reminds me of my Nona. I always get extra marinara for the Fried Calamari and their Calzones. They make all their calzones fresh to order and they’re large and stuffed. Their pizza is also very good. Some of my favorite dishes are- Fried Calamari, Chicken Francese, Flounder Francese, Chicken Marsala, Stuffed Chicken with Marsala Sauce, Shrimp and Scallops Cosmo, sautéed String Beans. I also love their desserts- Italian Pastries, Fried Zeppoles, and their Almond cake it reminds me of a good humor almond bar. This restaurant is a BYOB The staff is very friendly and accommodating. They do take reservations for parties of 6 I definitely recommend...

You'll experience a lot of local love at Natales which is a local restaurant/pizzeria that some may say is stuck in a time warp based on the older and now kitschy wallpaper but it's a great background for Italian food or maybe even a period movie set. Packed on my visit over the holidays which had at least one group waiting for a table. A large staff of young folks hustle out the orders and wait tables. Very attentive too as we were asked a few times how everything was and if we needed anything. We had only stopped for pizza and not even in the main dining room so +2 for effort. Pizza is very good, other dishes I saw pass by looked amazing like the calamari so will need to stop...

The first few times I got pizza from here I liked it a lot. It was hot, great sauce, great dough. The last 2 out of 3 times I ordered pizza to go it seemed that it was made in advance and reheated instead of being made when I placed the order. The crust was crunchy, like a pretzel, and it just tasted like next day pizza from my toaster oven. I am hoping I am wrong and this I just coincidence. I am going to give it one more try before looking somewhere else. I like this place and don’t want to but I’m not going to keep eating overdone/ reheated pizza. 3 strikes...