Forza Cucina — Restaurant in Northfield Township

You can’t have a good sandwich with bad bread!! I went to this restaurant solely because of its affiliation with Forza meats in Glenview that we frequent to buy high-quality meat. Me and my wife ordered two sandwiches to go to bring to the park to eat shortly after we both ordered the chicken sandwich “Josephine” We each ordered different bread, me the French and my wife, the Ciabatta.

We opened up the sandwiches to find the bread and I mean both sandwich breads, soggy, and looked mostly like store-bought cheap bread, not flavorful not fresh. Certainly not French bread that I’m used to and not the Ciabatta that my wife is used to. Anyway, that being said, we tasted the sandwiches and the chicken on mine was rubbery with no flavor, and on my wife’s was in some areas not cooked all the way through The rest of the ingredients in the sandwich were completely tasteless. I finished my sandwich but my wife did not.

So really what we have here is another fast food restaurant right store to another fast food restaurant that my stomach will regret for the rest of the day. Forza should be ashamed for serving such terrible food advertised as freshly...

I ordered a salad and ate on premise. There are a few tables but judging from the flow of customer traffic, it's mostly takeout. My salad, a BYO, had several ingredients I didn't ask for and 1 was missing. When I pointed this out, the employee was very apologetic, and in spite of the fact it was the height of the lunchtime rush, produced the correct salad in a few minutes. The ingredients in my salad were fresh and I would order it again (although I wish it was a bit larger for the price). In too many places when you point out an error, the employees simply roll their eyes and sigh as a response, as if you're bothering them. Because of their response here to my order error, I raised my rating from...

Ordered the meatball sub. It was well made, but I felt it lacked flavor overall. It didn't taste bad, but just bland. I felt the meatballs were probably over worked and kind of tight.

My girlfriend ordered an Italian beef and they just served dry Italian beef on bread that had no au jus on the bread, not a drop. When we ordered we were not asked Dipped? Wet? Dry? Etc we were able to get a side and fix the sandwich but this seems like a training opportunity.

I ordered a side of tater tots and they were amazing. Fresh oil, salted perfect.

The seating arrangement is very tight. They should consider going back to booths against the wall like Mario's had...