Uno Pizzeria & Grill

Service was great. The food is what you’d expect from many large chains — tasty but very processed. Definitely get the deep dish pizzas and skip everything else. We got the 2 for 12 and got the classic deep dish, pepperoni deep dish, macaroni and cheese, and baked ziti and sausage. The best part of the pizza is definitely the thick, crispy, buttery crust. The toppings are not very fresh. The pastas tasted salty and were a little soggy. The sauce on the mac and cheese was more of an Alfredo sauce, and it left a weird taste in my mouth. We were told the portions would be smaller because we did the 2 for 12, but we felt everything was decently sized. I took home half a pizza because I was really full. Not a bad meal for 12 bucks.

This is my go to place for pizza and beer. Yes, I know, it’s Chicago style pizza and we’re a whole 40 minutes away from authentic New York style pizza, however the flimsy slices you find in the city don’t really do it for me.
Yes, I know, this is a chain and for the most part, the pizza you find at this location is exactly what you would get if you went to any other Uno location in the country– but as someone who grew up in an area where Uno did not have any locations, it’s still very much a treat for me.
My real reason for reviewing is the beer. This location has their very own brewery right inside the restaurant and makes all of their own beers. I’m told this was a prototype restaurant built sometime in the 90s that never ended up getting rolled out to other locations, but the rest of the country’s loss is certainly New Jersey’s gain.
My go to beer here is their IPA, although they do regularly have seasonal offerings. The summer Wit beer they have is pretty good, however, it’s the Scotch Ale that comes out during the winter where I normally put my money. At a respectable 9%, you can really taste the scotch flavor.

Late night drinks and dinner with friends after movie
Good drinks and loved the deep dish pizza
Been my favorite for last 20 years
Will be back soon

I’ve maybe been to an Uno one other time in my life, and it was the same experience, solid, nothing special, but not bad. This time around I tried the Uno Burger to be different, and it was average at best (great fries though). The other people I was with had a personal pizza and the chicken parm meal. The chicken parm was surprisingly good, the sauce is definitely on the sweet side. Of course, the pizza is decent too. What bumped this review from a 2 to a 3 though, was the personal deserts. I was loving em’. Also the waitress was great. This is a solid place to go, when you don’t feel like waiting for a table at a busier place nearby.

Been here 2 times, first time our waitress sucked, & managed to over charge us. The second time our service sucked. I’ll never go here again, just because I don’t expect much & there’s other places to go in the area.

WHERE DO I BEGIN!!! My Husband and I live in Brooklyn, we’ve visited the Uno’s in Bay Ridge several times and have always had subpar service. Craving some Deep Dish Chicago Style Pizza, we made the trek all the way to Metuchen, NJ on Friday 10/​16/​2015. We arrived at 9pm. The Hostess was on the Phone. The restaurant was mostly emptyy. After approximately 5 minutes the hostess seats us. Our waitress came took our drinks and promptly disappeared. 20 minutes later, the manager comes over to ask us if someone has assisted us. We explained it had been over 20 minutes and our drinks had not arrived yet. 5 minutes later our waitress comes brings our drinks and takes our orders. 45 minutes later our appetizers arrive. My husband ordered mozzarella cheese sticks and I ordered a cup of broccoli cheese soup. The broccoli cheese was watery, disgusting and filled with the stems of the broccoli. Additionally the soup was not plated properly as the edge of the cup had soup dripping on it.
Another 30 minutes later our waitress returns to ask us about our appetizers and sends my soup back. She then brings our entrees. The pizza was so disappointing. Toppings were cold on the pizza, little cheese, and the deep dish crust was soggy in the center. To add insult to injury we were never provided with napkins or cutlery. We had to get our cultery from a bus girl.
We asked for the check and our waitress gave us some one else’s bill. It took her another 20 minutes to correct the situation and provide us with the correct bill.
Never again! I’m so done with Unos.

Food is always consistent and the beer is great. Service and atmosphere are appropriate for dinner. Would recommend and will return when in the area. Our server was nice, quick and friendly.

So where do I begin? The pizza curst has potential, it’s a good deep dish crust. But let’s look at what doesn’t have potential:
Toppings — Barely there
Sauce — Meh
Cheese — Did dairy cows die off or did they go extinct? There’s little to no cheese on these «pizzas»!
Each pizza that serves 2 people is very small and very pricey. Not worth coming here.
Also tried the nachos with the chili, it was ok, not enough chili though.
Waiters are great though, very nice and not in your face which is very important when you are stuffing your face with food and ask you if everything’s okay when you can barely talk.

I believe in giving places second chances. Besides, the turnover rate of cooks and waiters these days… you come back in several weeks and what was a bad experience will be wiped clean with a good one. But the whole point of a chain restaurant is uniformity. A place that provides a good quesdilla here will also provide a similarly good facsimile a thousand miles away when you walk into the same chain restaurant.
Not this one I think.
Quick background. I’ve lived in the area 40 years. I could literally see the empty field from my apartment room before Bennigans first, then Uno set up. We visited Uno from week 1. It was great. I’ve also been to Chicago several times. I have tried authentic Chicago Deep Dish from tiny stands right off the street. I have also been to the original Uno on Ohio St. They were all great. I met my husband at the Metuchen Uno on our first date (because the original restaurant we aimed for was full)
But the Metuchen Uno has steadily been going downhill. It all started a few years ago when we sat at the booth and saw a live cockroach crawl up the wall. Not one to make a fuss, I quickly squashed it with a napkin and handed it over to the waiter. My mom loved (past tense) eating at Uno, I didn’t make a big deal out of it.
The past 6 visits have just been awful. The coffee tasted lukewarm and seemed as if it’s been sitting in the pot for hours. The pizza and nachos came out cold. The last time we went was when she got off the plane from a 12,000 mile ride. She wanted to eat at Uno’s. Imagine that. When the pizza came out cold, she complained and sent it back. It came back slightly warmer, but still cold. I asked for no sun dried tomatoes on the farmer’s market veggie pizza. It came out full of sun dried tomatoes. I just picked it off and put it on a plate. The waiter surely saw it there. Did he apologize? Nah.
We couldn’t send it back a second time. I mean, what if Dane Cook and Luis Guzman was in the kitchen?
We dropped in on an Uno in Connecticut, New Haven. It was good. Then we dropped in on one at Sturbridge MA, and it was uniform as expected. We dined at the Uno at the Maine Mall in S. Portland. It was great. All within the past 3 months, so we do give Uno plenty of business. This location at Metuchen though, it’s just atrocious. We won’t be going back.

So I was contacted by someone in the UNO office to «give them another try», because I was being gifted 25 dollars in «uno dough» (gift certificates). So, I did. Was it better than the last time? Eh…
This time I decided to get take out, as I did not have time for a sit down. Ordered using their online system (very easy), and picked up from the metuchen location at 3:45pm, yesterday afternoon. I ordered a deep dish pie, with beef and sausage, and a «deep dish Mac and cheese». Honestly, the pizza was soggy. Undercooked in some areas and overall it was soggy. Very flavorful, no question. But not what I was expecting. The Mac and cheese however, was bland and uninspired. The crumbled cheese topping they add on top of it tasted like stale breadcrumbs.
I wanted this to be the experience UNO was hoping for when they offered me 25 dollars in gift certs to try again, but it just wasn’t. They got the extra star for the effort to save a customer, but unfortunately, they haven’t. But that’s life I guess. I simply cannot recommend the food at this location.

Upside — manager was very helpful in us breaking up the check 3-​ways, honored the NJ Craft brew discount, and the beer selection is very good. Downside, looked like a bus or two just left and they seemed real slow on service and were running out o items like dishes. The waitress asked us how many people would be eating appetisers since they were short on plates and only wanted to give us plates if we were eating appetisers. I had a flatbread (been hooked on these lately from several different restaurants) that was so-​so. portion size was great, presentation of it was bad, and tasted only average.

I wanted to give somewhere between 1.5 and 2.5, so 2 is appropriate I think. We came here pretty late on a Saturday, around 9:30, clearly after the rush, and that was apparent from the stickyness on the floors and table we were at, and the dirty bathroom. Seriously the table was so freakin sticky! Firstly, when we got in we waited for no reason for like 5 minutes to be seated, the place was half empty, but there was some guy picking up food with a dozen coupons and all the time in the world and the hostess didn’t think it was necessary to just seat 2 people real quick. That irritated me, it would have taken next to no effort to grab 2 menus and throw them at the closest table.
We got 2 appetizers and a large pizza. I got the pizza skins, with mashed potato, cheese and bacon in a deep dish pizza, and the buffalo chicken quesadilla. The potato skins were pretty good, but the quesadilla was soggy. When it came out our waiter made a comment that it didn’t look good and if we wanted to send it back to let him know. If the waiter thinks it stinks then jeez, he thought it looked burnt, and it did, but it didn’t really bother us so we didn’t send it back. We would have gotten an unburnt version of the same thing. It was way too soggy.
We got the Numero Uno pizza, and were disappointed. The veggies on the pizza were practically raw, raw onions, raw peppers, raw mushrooms. The crust I initially liked, its practically a biscuit, super buttery, tasty, but I got a little sick of it after the appetizer, I assume all deep dish things have the same crust. You know how in Disney World, if you stay in a Disney hotel the food in the parks tastes the same as the food in the little restaurants in the hotel? All mickey shaped ice cream, pancakes, everything. It was like that.

My boyfriend and I had a gift card for UNO and were in the area a couple weeks ago, so we decided to give this place a try. Definitely will be the first and last time we come here. We started off with the Walnut, Blueberry & Goat Cheese tossed salad and the salad was so overpowered by the amount of dressing on it, it looked like soup. We couldn’t even eat it. I don’t know why the kitchen even allowed that to be sent to our table. We then ordered the Mediterranean Vegetable nuovo deep dish pizza. I do appreciate that nine-​grain crust is an option but don’t be fooled by the pictures you see on the website. The pizza looks and tastes like those boxed pizzas you get at the supermarket and stick in the oven. We even had it served to us cold. It was not a busy evening so I don’t understand how our visit could have gone this negatively.

What a great restaurant. They had multiple gluten free options and the friendliest staff. We will definitely be regulars!

Management was sloppy, did not communicate well, unapologetic, rude, if I could give a 0 star i could. I am a very understanding person and I always rate high unless I was given poor service or if they were rude. In this case it was both. Everyone in my small party of 5 were charged for things they didn’t order, charged for extra things that were never ordered at the table and the worst thing is the manager even came out and individually wrote down our orders to fix the issue, but STILL GOT THE ORDER WRONG! Some people in my party got compensated even for the alcohol but i didn’t get any compensation! Teaches me for being patient and not breathing down their neck to do their job.

Usually they are always on point. Service was fine, but the food was not up to its usual standards, perhaps a new chef in the back? ;(…
Also wish they didn’t take the Steak and Chimichuri off the menu… that was always one of our usual picks.
The pizza was sloppily put together today. We give this location another shot, in hopes for a better visit next time.
The Mac and Cheese was flavorless, and the 5 cheese tortellini was bland.
Definitely not a shining example of what we had normally come to expect from this particular location.

Excellent food! The Mediterranean Veggie deep dish pizza was excellent and the craft beer sampler was absolutely refreshing with an excellent seasonal ale! The quality of their service was excellent, too!

Dined in at UNOs and had a great experience. My server was Jill and she was amazing, made sure we were well taken care of. My wife and I had the 2 dinner special, which we were able to pick two entrees for $ 12. I would definitely recommend the pepperoni pizza (real cheesy).

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I normally try to avoid chain restaurants when I can since there are so many great independent restaurants in the great state of New Jersey. With that being said, I made an exception to come to Uno since I heard that they brew their own beer. So a friend and I decided to stop in and sample away.
The atmosphere of bar was a bit sad. When I say sad I mean there would probably be more excitement at the DMV. We witnessed a person with a wireless mouse and keyboard with their laptop and a couple sitting side by side, the girl on her tablet and the guy highlighting notes in a book. This crowd made up about half of the bar crowd.
As far as beer goes, we were both a bit disappointed. Although I wouldn’t classify the beers as terrible, I would venture to say that I’ve tasted home brewed beer just as good if not better than the beer we sampled. On the plus side, the beers weren’t expensive and we were there for their late night happy hour so appetizers were half price.
If you are into deep dish pizza and craft beer than Uno might be the place for you, but you could probably accomplish the same thing with a craft beer and a frozen pizza at home.