The Garden by Poco Piatti — Restaurant in Toledo

4/5 star.......conditonally. Well I actually love the whole environment that this place is located. The food is good especially the pizza-but I am disappointed with the Smores I bought from them. I had rented 2 Cabanas on a recent Saturday for a group of 25 to 30 young people. So I ordered smores for 30. The quality was good but they gave me 5 roasting sticks. I could have easily bought the smores myself for $20 including the sticks. Price was almost $60. Came with 5 sticks. They did end up giving me 5 more sticks (so my group did have a total of 10 sticks) but that is kinda gross. I hated having to take a star away but again I could easily take away 2 more for the grossness of it and other reasons, see below. If the point is to share, it is still kinda gross to share sticks with people who were not my family. As far as friendlines it depends, the pizza/food preparers are always friendly and say hello even when your just standing in line but a few of the younger ones (running the registers/taking orders) are not friendly at all. Smile please and say hello and thank you. Was there on again on another day, it was Presidents day and good Lord. Friendly was not happeneing today. They take your order and look and act very unfriendly. No hello or thank you, they just look at you or not at all. Again I really do like this place but had to make this review because I would hate to loose this whole concept because of this type of stuff. Also phones should not be out when you are at work. Overall this place is nice but have seen some things heading downward which is sad. Still giving 4 stars even though my experience today would easily be a 2. Hope my recent experiences are not going to be the normal. Pizza we had was...

We loved this place when it first opened and it has drastically gone downhill. I normally don’t do reviews like this, but need to inform the average person that this is what your tax dollars are funding. It was a hot day today and we decided to go here on a walk with our dog and to order a pizza. Went inside and ordered food, drinks. We tip the staff ALWAYS and they are super friendly and accommodating. We bring our hard earned money into this place; have came for numerous occasions with family for ice skating, etc. Try to sit down and have a nice time and it’s overrun by kids screaming, parents screaming at their kids, etc. We were trying to eat and there were several tables next to us open and a group of young kids decided to sit directly right of us to charge their phones and talk about how “they’re going to beat each other’s asses”, mind you these had to be 10-15 year old kids. Banging on the table. Parents of course nowhere to be found. The whole thing was exhausting. When they finally got up to leave we saw the Ranger and came up to us to tell us we couldn’t have our dog in there. Fair, I didn’t see it on the door until after we left. But our dog is super well behaved and was sitting there the whole time drinking water and eating chicken because it was so hot out. Maybe direct that attention to the kids yelling and attempting to beat each other up. Everything in Toledo gets ruined and people wonder why we don’t have nice things here. People ruin it. YOU’LL DO BETTER HERE, right? This place is a joke and we...

We got two pizzas, a bowl, and a pita. The bowl and pita looked good but I didnt try them. I ate the pizza and was really surprised, honestly thought it was one of the best pizzas I have had in this city. I'm a big fan of pizza, I've had pizza at all the top places in New York and New Haven and all the major cities in Italy. Seriously this was really good pizza. It was neopolitan style and there was nothing I would knock it on. Good quality cheese, good toppings, great sauce and the crust was 10/10 in my book. We waited 20 minutes total for our food but it was very busy. The people that worked there were great and it's at an incredible park. Couldn't get much better. We do wish there was an ice cream place here but thats beside the point!

Edit: We have eaten here probably another 5 times since this review. This place is awesome, never had a bad experience. Had a few of the bowls all have been great, all the ingredients are fresh and on point. Also they now regularly have an ice...