Salvatore’s Cucina — Restaurant in Middletown Township

I am really bummed about the 3 stars.

After going into HMart.. was craving pizza, and there it was. Checked reviews, great!

Although, to each his own tastebuds and experience. Upon entering the establishment, we were kindly welcomed by an older gentleman. The owner? I have no idea.

We were offered to sit in the restaurant side but I believe it looked too lovely to accommodate two people doing errand runs🤣

So, we chose the 'regular seating'. A menu was bought to us. An elder gentleman said, what do you feel like having... Basically ordered a pie, half Hawaiian, half veggie.

Our pizza is done, brought to us, drinks placed. We go to serve ourselves and having a hard time grabbing a slice. 🤔🤔🤔 It looked like paper was underneath.

There was red & white paper underneath but it was visible THROUGH the center of the pizza!. The center of the pizza was paper thin and damp I guess because crust TOO THIN & water from veggies.

And my veggie pizza must have been color-coded because it only has GREEN veggies on it.

If there was a mushroom, maybe there was 1! , No onions, mushrooms...again, just green: Green peppers, green brocolli, green spinach.

Ive NEVER had a veggie pizza with 3 green items. Very odd. The taste however was FANTASTIC! Almost like the toppings were sauteed in butter. Maybe they were.

I was awaiting being asked how everything was, because that's the 'norm', especially when you're a new face.

Nope. Not once. Not even while paying at the counter. I would have been honest & politely said about the center being odd.

If I can post, I will. This experience really put a 'damper' on wanting to come back again.

Guess one must have to go to the restaurant side to have a waiter ask how everything is?

Oh, We didn't take the 2 leftover pieces. Wasn't asked either! Unreal! To be fair, the older gentleman wasn't in site at this point. But the middle aged man that looked as if he's the son is the one that served us, privided our drinks, cashed us out. Not one word about how is everything? Would you like a box.

Very poor service..sad. Can you make out the 'transparency'. I'm not intending to make fun of. I truly have never cx experienced such in my entire pizza-pie eating life. Video...

We hosted an engagement party there and while the atmosphere and room was modern and very nice, there were some other aspects that we were put off by. They told us we could bring any decorations the night before the party to decorate and when we did they were rushing us out of there. Please don’t say to bring stuff to decorate when you really don’t want to wait for us to decorate. Also, when we showed up the night before they were already rushing us out the next day. We get that you have dinner reservations but don’t already be kicking us out. Even the day of the party we were reminded when we have to be out of there by and how they’ll keep giving us updates throughout the party. That’s not how I want to enjoy a party is being known how long I have left to have fun and have a countdown. They even started taking down decorations 45 minutes before our end time was over. The party was too rushed. Another thing, the food. It was served family style with not nearly enough for the quantity of the party we had and we had given them a headcount a...

Nothing particularly redeeming. Service was clearly struggling but that doesn’t make up for the overpriced and terrible quality food.

The calamari was horrendously chewy. The veal entree was terribly low quality, and contained 4 small, thin, and yet somehow chewy pieces.

The “bread” was pizza dough in disguise from next door and maybe the highlight of the meal.

The rubbery appetizer and two lackluster entrees ran a bill of 80 bucks which was magnified by a surcharge of paying with a credit card. Skipping desert was an easy decision based on the quality of the meal.

It was our first time there but spending that money to get a “pasta platter” from any pizza place would have been an equivalent and much wiser choice. I know times are tough, but a comparable meal at any other Italian restaurant would have been infinitely more enjoyable for the price point.

At least the food was served warm and at a decent time window. That’s worth another...