DeMatteo's Pizza - Riverside — Restaurant in Riverside

7/13/22 Food is always great! Found out about them through work and group events, and now I get random cravings for their spicy chicken pizza! It's not really spicy, but just really tasty!!! Decided to order delivery, since it's too hot to cook and they have half-priced pizzas on Wednesdays!! Pizzas were yummy as usual; their dough actually has flavor, unlike so many other places. I swear I could just eat their dough with the marinara sauce! The dough has a bit of chew and the right amount of crisp on the crust! You can request "well-done" but you won't always get it that way - still delicious though, not a big deal.

The Stromboli here are delicious but hadn't had one in awhile because everytime we ordered it there was an issue, so we decided to try again and added a 4-Cheese Combo Stromboli with added meatballs (add'l $0.85 charge) to today's order. The flavor was outstanding- this is for garlic lovers (like me)!!! I just wish I knew how the meatballs tasted; even though I paid extra, there was no meat in the Stromboli, just the regular 4-Cheese Combo (which does have veggies: Fresh tomato, fresh garlic, basil and artichoke hearts). Delicious and we will order again but for some reason, every time we order the Stromboli and add toppings, they're never included. But the Stromboli as is, is still worth it; don't mind losing extra topping fee(s) to support a mom & pop shop versus the big chains.

The delivery fee isn't bad here either; was only $6.50/order - which we prefer to pay over using one of the large delivery services.

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The food deserves 5 stars, but I had to deduct 1 star for the disorganization that has resulted in our order sitting in a bag, getting cold & soggy on several occasions. This is our favorite pizza place. We travel from Colton to pick up up our order. We generally arrive before our order is ready to be picked up. We don't mind waiting. What is disappointing is that despite us checking in with the staff, waiting inside the restaurant, in clear vision of the staff, we are not notified that our order is ready. After waiting patiently, smiling at the staff, we finally go check on our order, only to find out it was ready a while ago, but they forgot to rip the ticket to signal to the staff that it was ready. This is not the first time this has happened. It's happened prior to Covid, during Covid, and again this evening. If the food wasn't amazing, we wouldn't come back. But, it is disappointing that we only receive a shrug and half hearted apology when we are given cold, soggy pizza & wings instead of the fresh, hot, out of the oven pizza...

I have not eaten here before. I have had their bread sticks which are fabulous! I ordered manicotti and then two meatballs on the side. My impression was not great. Sauce was dark dark red and was too acidic. I could only find 2 shells hidden under ALL the sauce. The meatballs were in the plate and may have taken up space that normally would have Included a third manicotti shell. I wish I had taken a picture of the leftover...it was a circular metal container full of cheese swirled sauce. I could have and would have taken it home and made 1/2 pound of noodles or 3 manicotti shells with it but it didn't taste good enough to do that. Idk if they use the same sauce non the spaghetti but my husband's pasta was too acidic also. I will always go back for the breadsticks.... Definitely will try the pizza next...