Vocelli Pizza — Restaurant in Pocono Township

After a long & exhausting day at the outlets my husband & I set out to explore something other than the usual steak, ribs & seafood dinners. We had been to The Tannersville Inn and also The Smugglers Cove. Both good establishments. But it was late & we didn't feel up to a huge & heavy meal. So it was that while scanning the area we spotted this tiny little pizza joint nestled behind the Smugglers Cove parking lot. Lo & behold we decided to order a pizza to go. Well, when my husband came back to the car with this huge pizza box, I couldn't help but to reach over & peek inside. This pizza was so wonderfully aromatic that we chose to park & eat it right there & then. No plates, no utensils, just bare knuckles clashing while trying to beat each other to the next slice. Sort of Neanderthal. My husband's grunts of delight reminded me of Tim The Tool Man. Of course if it wasn't that I'm a lady, I would had clobbered him over the head with a cave man's club just like Carol Burnett clobbered Tim Conway in her Cave Woman episode just to keep him from hogging up the whole pie. Needless to say, we grabbed, tugged & playfully shoved each other until nothing but the wax paper remained. All the while laughing & giggling like little school age kids. This was by far the most fun we had eating a meal. The pizza was bursting with flavor. Lots of perfectly cooked spinach, slivers & slivers of tasty pepperoni and tender juicy strips of grilled chicken. We're both ex-military & well traveled professionals, though you would not had believed it by the way we were carrying on that night. But anyway, whoever says that this is not the airiest, most perfectly prepared pizza they have ever tasted has no taste buds. We live in Jersey where pizza joints fill almost every square inch of the state. So we know our pizza. Listen, do yourself a favor & go try it for yourself. If you don't like it, listen to me carefully; (subliminal message to follow). Go out onto the parking lot, rip your shirt off, take a high propelled dive into the adjoining pond & while you happen to be up in the air yelling " I'm King of The World" fill your indiscriminate beak with fat juicy mosquitos instead....

This place has gone downhill. They will probably blame covid but during the last lockdown a year ago they were great so no excuse in my eyes. The average delivery is about an hour and a half and I only live 10min from the place. They get the order wrong more often than not. Tonight I ordered a half and half artisan pizza. It was half Red Top and half BBQ chicken and Pineapple. Well the red top side was good but the other side was a disgrace. Looks like they forgot to put BBQ on before the cheese because it was added atop the cheese in splats. There were no pineapples on it at all. It was originally 17.99 but I took off the red onion and added Pineapple and the price went up to 19.99. The pizza was one big bubble on the BBQ side so it was pretty much just dough, dry dough at that. This will be the very last time I order from this place. For the price and quality I'd rather buy a frozen pizza from Giant. If you want pizza that would satisfy you and your family, I'd suggest not ordering from here. I'd give them zero...

First off, the pizza is actually quite good!

If you want Vocelli’s, you’d better plan to go pick it up yourself. I’ll forgive any place the first time (we all have bad days), but two strikes is enough for me.

#1: I placed an order for delivery online (was told about 50 min), and after about 90 minutes decided to call to check in. The guy told me he had forgotten to start the order and that it’d “be there in about an hour”. After he hung up, the roommate and I decided to eat something else, so I called the guy back and he said “well wait, we just sent the delivery, I can’t call him back now!” Needless to say, frustrating.

#2 (today): Placed an order via DoorDash, again 40-50 minutes. At the 55 minute mark, I checked the app and watched it reload to “Dasher is waiting for pick-up. Estimated Delivery: 60-70 minutes.” At the 110 minute mark, they finally delivered the pizza and got the order wrong.

Vocelli’s, your food is good. But it ain’t...