Italian Village — Restaurant in Monmouth

We having been coming to this restaurant for many years. Whoever owns in now has ran it into the ground. Ordered a half ham half mushroom pizza tonight. Got there to get pizza and it wasn’t ready. The lady running the place went to get it out of the oven.

As I was standing there waiting for my pizza I watched her start pulling pepperoni off the pizza with her bare hands. And one of the employees started assisting her with paper towels to soak up the grease. This went on for about a total of 7 minutes.

A gentleman walked up and told me my pizza was still browning. I watched the lady continue to pull stuff off the top of the pizza.

Another gentleman walked over and I questioned if it was my pizza. He said hold on walked over to the lady and told her I was questioning it.

Finally the older lady walked over and said we can’t send a pizza out the door if it is not done cooking. I simply asked if that was my pizza she was picking at. She said yep. I told her to keep it and we wouldn’t be back.

I know everyone is human and mistakes happen. But not once did she come over and say that we messed the pizza up would you take it like it was made or would you like us to make a new one. Instead she took it upon herself to start picking at the pizza with the hands that no one knows if they are clean. She is the one who works the register and takes money all night long.

If I would have not witnessed this first hand we would have took a pizza home with who knows what germs on it.

If the owners are doing this in front of customers what are they doing behind closed doors?

If Lou was still alive or Hank they would not be okay with their restaurant being ran...

8:01pm brings garlic Bread for spaghetti order 8:19 Brings Spaghetti 8:34 Brings sandwich for another person at our table... 8:45 I ask,” please take my spaghetti back until the pizza comes out forthw rest of our party, server says it will be about 10 more minutes 9:01 brings pizza and the spaghetti they left sitting on top of oven.... I asked for it to be warmed in microwave, just dumps more sauce on it. The sandwich the was brought out 25 minutes earlier had spoiled meat on it They took it back, she didn’t care to try anything else. Pizza was incredibly greasy, but it was for the youngsters so they eat thru it.. had great flavor though!!!! Garlic bread and cheese bread were to die for! I would go back just for that!! Waitress did a great job just didn’t have it going on in the kitchen.. I hope it was just a one off night! They have been in business for decades, So I’m sure someone knows the game!!!! I always say when this happens that we came together, we would like to eat together, better luck next...

Great place to eat! Plenty of history, plenty of atmosphere and bottom line one of the best authentic pizza around! Deb took my order and made sure she took down the details, and made my visit extra personal! She chatted with my 12yr old and even explained the games they have at the restaurant. The 2 pizza's we ordered were equally tasty! We ordered a pepperoni and a combination pizza, both were loaded with plenty of ingredients! The combination had a layer of sausage that added that extra flavor that Italian Village pizza is known...