Lello's Ristorante and Pizzeria — Restaurant in Rockledge

Lello's Ristorante Pizzeria 2025 Murrell Rd. Rockledge, FL 32955

5 Stars

New Numero Uno Pizza

Holding down an anchor spot in a strip mall in Rockledge sits Lello's Ristorante Pizzeria. Its location, décor, and enticing aromas assaulting my olfactory sense upon entrance were all very prelapsarian and caused me to wax poetic for a moment about simpler times gone by when no Italian restaurant dared use frozen anything, let alone dough. Now, get off my lawn and continue reading.

Lello is the owner as well as the delivery driver, pasta maker and I am sure a plethora of other duties. He has a huge, welcoming smile and speaks Italian (he is the real deal). He might be a diamond in the rough, but what potential.

Like most places in the country, Brevard County is filled with atrocious Italian food. You have Brano's, Amici's, Alfredo's, etc. Mamma Mia! The list of terrible Italian food joints is endless. There is NO Italian in Italian food anymore. NOT even in Italy. You read that correctly. Then you have Lello's Ristorante Pizzeria. Unlike the scammers at Trattoria Bella, Lello actually makes his own fettuccine. Wait. What? Yes, my friends. Lello is the SOLE and only maker of in-house pasta in Brevard County. If any of the aforementioned clip joints have lied to you and told you they did? Well, they are avaricious, dishonest scoundrels because LELLO IS IT.

That said, my server today was Hannah; she was charming and delightful. I asked Hannah for an order of their Baked Lasagna, one 14” Lello's Special Pizza and a plate of the aforementioned fettuccine. Digging the vibe of the joint, I awaited Hannah's return with my ordine di cibo. In no rush, knowing the pasta was homemade and the mozzarella was shredded to order. Yes, not only does Lello make the fettuccine in the back, but each pizza is made with to-order hand grated Mozzarella. The only way this could be any fresher is if a dairy cow was tethered in the back (I looked. There isn't).

First up was the Baked Lasagna. Fresh sauce, had grated cheese, what else is there to say? 4 Stars, better than average, but nothing spectacular. Especially when compared to the pizza. Consisting of bacon, pepperoni, sausage, ham, meatballs, black olives, mushrooms, green peppers, onions and extra cheese, it is a meal in itself. All the ingredients were fresh, the veggies hand-cut to order and topped with freshly grated mozz. This cannot be beaten. Oh, and least I forget. The Dough! The dough is light, fluffy, crispy and extraordinary. Before the clowns start crying that's not a New York Pizza, guess what? I hate to break it to ya, but New York Pizza is slovenly pie hyped by half-wits and extolled by zero-wits. It doesn't exist. In fact, can anyone explain the difference between New York pizza and Brasilian pizza? I rest my case. I already mentioned the home made Fettuccine, suffice it to say, it was spectacular. However, the King here is the Pizza. This is the best in Brevard. PERIOD. If you don't love this pizza, then you are a simpleton, plainly put.

The Big Boy says, “Order the Fettuccine and the Lello's Special Pizza. Then message me and tell me I'm right....

I just had the most euphoric plate of ravioli I've ever eaten in my entire life. I got off a 7 hour shift where we were so busy all day that I didn't get any downtime, just constantly moving, and I"d had the shakes from not eating for a while at that point. I wanted ravioli. I NEEDED ravioli. I could taste it in my mouth. My love for ravioli is well-known within my workplace, and if I don't get it I can become rabid, unhinged, capable of leveling a small city in my quest for pasta. I called the closest Italian restaurant to my work and order. It'll be 25 minutes, they say. It was ready less than 20 minutes later. The drive home took as much discipline as Atlas holding up the sky in order for me not to eviscerate the plastic and paper bags my pillowy treat was in. When I finally got home, got seated with a good YouTube video, and dug in- hoo boy. I think I saw God. My life, dull as it is, flashed before my eyes, as if to show me how much I've survived through, though I'd never lived until I had this ravioli. The pasta was so delightful, the cheese filling inside so perfectly dense, the meat sauce cooked to perfection. I cried. I screamed. I cursed the world that I don't make enough money to afford the surgeries required to rid my body of the need for any sustenance aside from this ravioli, garlic knot, and pasta fagioli combo. The garlic knots were soft and buttery, the soup stock full of beans and noodles, all enticingly warm, soothing my mind and body as they went down better than a mother's hug could. I've suffered severe eczema my entire life and I was able to watch the open skin on my hands heal over from the supernaturally good broth of the soup. I haven't truly been happy in years, but after having this ravioli I think life is worth living again. I owe Lello's my firstborn and my secondborn and also my thirdborn. Thank...

I came here a few days ago to grab dinner with my partner. When we arrived we were greeted and offered a smaller table that was ready or a bigger table that needed to be wiped off. The tables for 2 are quite small so we opted to wait for a bigger table. After a few minutes we were sat at the table and greeted by Cindy our server. We ordered drinks and then waited for her to come back and take our food orders. There appeared to be 2 other tables with 5 people total in the restaurant besides us at this point. We ordered a slice of pizza each, one spaghetti and meatballs and one bolognese. Dinners come with 2 garlic knots so 4 cans to the table shortly after. I could’ve used marinara sauce but that’s just my opinion. After a few minutes the serve came back to tell us they typically don’t sell slices after 3, and asked if we wanted to ordered a 10” pizza instead which we did. During this time while waiting on our food another couple came in and ordered pizza and pasta. Our pizza came out and it was delicious. While waiting for our pasta the table behind us got their pasta which was confusing because we ordered first. We got our pasta shortly after. The bolognese came with spaghetti noodles which was not expected. We ate our food and another party came in and sat behind us. As we finished and were waiting on our check someone who I presumed to be the owner walked to the back of the restaurant, taking a look back at each table he passed. While walking back up front, he checked in with the tables on both sides of us, but we didn’t get any greeting of any sort which was odd and seemed rude. Not sure why someone wouldn’t want to check in with all the tables and would skip over us so that was a...