Lighthouse Subs and Pizza — Restaurant in Port Richey

Came in, new to the area, and I wasn’t impressed. At all.

First picture is a turkey sub. Second is a chicken parm.

The turkey sub only tastes like pickled onions. No flavor whatsoever. If you’re going to use pickled onions you have to balance the vinegar with something sweet or salty.

The chicken parm had zero flavor. It needs salt and actual sauce on it. Lots of cheese though. Tomotos need salt this is day two stuff in any culinary school. Escoffier taught me this. The chicken was dry and lightly burnt. If we are going to do a chicken parm we need to toss the chicken in LIGHTLY salted marinara and then melt Parmesan cheese. After the cheese is melted you put a little more on there and call it a day or if you don’t want to use salt you have to add more parmesan cheese. You want the nuttiness from the cheese to balance out the acid from the tomato sauce. Not that difficult but, alas this is not my restaurant.

We waited twenty minutes for our order. Here’s the kicker our food was done in 5 minutes. Supposedly the back didn’t know that our sandwich’s were to go because front of the house didn’t share that information with them. Seems like a breakdown in communication. The back of the house was too busy talking about Hail Mary’s, a concert, and sharpening knives. The young lady was very rude to my partner. Both the sandwiches went into the trash and we ended up going to Walmart to get more food. Honestly I’d love my money back but, I highly doubt that I’ll get it back even if I tried. So disappointed. Give me ten minutes in your kitchen and I’d love to show you...

I have NO idea why we were the only ones in this place. The food, the atmosphere and the service should have this place packed to the walls with a line outside. We went yesterday around 3pm and were instantly greeted with smiles from all of the employees as soon as we walked in the door. After placing our order, we found some seats while we waited for our food. We ordered subs (you HAVE to try their subs) and a cheese pizza that was dubbed “the best cheese pizza” by our pizza loving boys. The food didn’t take long at all to get to us and let me tell you, this food fills your soul too. 100% made with love. While we waited for our food, the owner came over to us and asked if he could turn some cartoons on for our crew. We requested Bluey (because DUH) and he happily accommodated. It really spoke volumes to all of us that he took his time to notice that we had our hands full and wanted to help find something to keep them happy and occupied. Donna, who took our order, came over to us and made some small talk after asking how our food was. It might have been something small for her, but it was huge for us. This place literally made us feel like we were visiting our Aunts house after being gone for too long. And we won’t ever forget it. Seriously, EAT HERE. We have visited quite a few restaurants in our short time here in Florida but this is one stop we will be making again before we head back to...

I will never darken the doors of this place again. Although the food is very good, the owner is crazy! What I witnessed last week at this restaurant when I went to order and take out was atrocious!! The owner yelling and swearing at an employee and telling him he had a screw loose and micromanaging every little thing he did. The owner took my order, screwed it up and then threw the order on the counter because he made a mistake. He admitted it but then continued to escalate in his horrible behavior. I told him he should never confront employees in front of customers and especially shouldn't yell at them. He yelled back that he wasn't yelling, the employee was. I looked at him and said it sure sounds like yelling to me!! When I finally got the correct sandwiches, I still didn't get my garlic knots. Again, the owner flew off the handle and blamed it on the employee. He ended up telling the employee to get out of his restaurant and continue to yell and swear at him. I actually thought about calling the police because he was so out of control. The employee remained relatively calm and all he wanted was his pay before he left. The owner refused. There were seven of us in the restaurant when it happened and every one of us said we would never go back there again. It was honestly something like you would see in a bad movie!! Seriously,...