Rafael's Italian Restaurant — Restaurant in McMinnville

Horrible. We thought we would try this place out because we live in McMinnville so why not end up trying it. We normally don't like to eat within McMinnville because they are very bad with their food...nothing tastes good at all. We will literally go out of our way for something easy as fastfood. Anyways, we decided to give this place a shot and they are nothing but an over expensive piece of crap place. These people rating this must be drinking the Kool-Aid, because I actually like it when my pizza has sauce, and isn't a giant piece of mush, and on top of that, I wanted jalepenos, but I didn't want my whole pizza to burn my mouth or my butt. My husband ordered the calzone...they obviously don't know what a calzone is, it was absolutely disgusting, and their dipping sauce for it tasted like a can of tomato paste. This pizza had NO FLAVOR at all. I will never waste my money their again. I guess if you don't ever wanna go out of your way for good food or willing to travel outside of McMinnville, of course you're going to think they are the best, but let me tell you, they're not. You really want to spend your hard earned money? Go to New York New York Pizza. Yeah, it's located in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, but I'd go out of my way for that place anytime. Great atmosphere, great food, great service, great everything, and you will get actually good AUTHENTIC tasting pizza, New York style. If you want pizza, just go to Little Ceasars in town rather than spending on an over...

Tasteless food bad service however let me iterate when we first arrived we were informed we had to order before we got to sit down when me and my wife ordered the woman at the counter argued every step of the way with us and then told us it would be brought out to us it was all served in Styrofoam bowls and plated with disposable utensils the lasagna was absolutely pathetic almost no meat and the only cheese was on top and had no flavor other than the prepackaged marinara sauce the ravioli combo which is meat and cheese it was literally the same ravioli that you get at Sav a lot in the freezer section. Smothered in the same rancid marinara sauce with mozzarella microwaved on top of it the supposed Greek salad was a bowl full of iceberg lettuce with 2 black olives half a slice of cucumber and one tiny wedge of tomato with a tiny cup of salad dressing me and my wife ate about 2 bites and left we stopped at the Wendy's down the road at least it...

I moved to McMinnville Tennessee 2 1/2 years ago and let me tell you this place is the closest place that I found that they have pizza that taste just like Philly pizza really good pizza and to boot buy one get one free come on. I’m walking out with two pizzas for less than $18. I’m surprised this place isn’t packed around the corner and I just found out that they have a drive-through window place your order and drive through the window, and get it, , I know it’s not delivery, but you still don’t have to get out of your car and no, I’m not getting paid to write this review. I’m not getting anything free and I’m not related to anybody. I’m not a worker. I’m a customer showing my appreciation for good food and I hope it helps someone out there...