Listrani's — Restaurant in Virginia

We get their pizza for staff meetings and they are always things of culinary beauty. Arugula and prosciutto; Genoa salami, basil and goat cheese; fresh eggplant, fresh mushrooms, and spinach; marinated chicken, fresh garlic and oregano, with feta fontana and provolone! If your mouth isn't watering yet there is something wrong with your mouth! The crust is the perfect width, not so thin to be a cracker, but not so thick to be bread with toppings.

Oh and that's just the pizza. They have so much else to offer, and I'd suggest coming for their lunch specials to try out all the different types of things that they make. You can't go wrong for 6.99.

Today I had a melty wonderful chicken Philly sub and fries. While I was there I caught them cooking up fresh peppers. The smell was amazing.

But not as amazing as their house made deserts. The cannoli, dies, is just like my Italian in law's.

The only problem is it is small, the food is so good and fairly priced that you will want to eat here every day and bring your whole family, but alas there may or may...

I've previously ranked Listrani's with 5 full stars because the customer service and food were exceptional. It appears my last two visits it has slip a bit. Their Pizza and Steak&Cheese options are still top tier. However, delving into their pasta options has been rather pedestrian.

I most recently supplemented my pizza order (modified Columbo) with the Shrimp Alexandria. It was dreadful, the sauce was the taste and consistency of lemon water. The pasta and shrimp weren't seasoned, and the shrimp was slightly overcooked (a lil rubbery). So imagine staraight linguine swimming in a very bitter lemon flavored water without any other flavor. The pastas are kinda priced alongside pizzas, so you would expect better quality.

This is fixable with better attention to detail and either stricter adherence to the recipes and/or tweaking...

Update: Elias reached out to me to offer a make-up order of the sub and chips, and went above and beyond. He was extremely patient with me (I disappeared on him a couple of times). The food was excellent--the fries perfectly cooked, the sandwich delicious. Thank you, Elias!

I've ordered delivery twice now; the review is based on both. The prosciutto and mozzarella sandwich (NOT THE PANINI--haven't had it, can't comment on it) is delicious. The fries have been over cooked both times; one the first occasion the chips were not A. Expected and B. Not what I wanted in any situation. The second time the chips were again A. Not expected and B. More in line with something I like.

The delivery has been on time both times, the driver quite polite, and otherwise I have no deep lows but also no...