Dolce Vita Pizzeria

Great people yummy pizza. A place you can feel welcome. It was great treat being a local to take a ride on the street car. And jumping off and finding new places to visit.

This is the first review I’ve ever left in Unilocal… that’s how bad this place is. I live a half mile from it. First of all they ask you to tip the driver before, which I thought was odd, but later found out was bc they suck.
It took them 1 hour and 30 minutes before I called the guy who said he was on his way. After 2 hours I called back and finally cancelled and asked for a refund. Keep in mind this place is .5 miles away and it was 1 o’clock on a Sunday.
I’ve called back twice after not receiving my refund that he said he’d give me after my miserable experience and I still haven’t gotten refunded.
Never go to this place.
Seriously. Don’t do it.

We ordered the Milano pizza. The service was great the pizza had a butter flavor and I wish I could have one delivered twice a week to my home 400 miles away

I don’t recommend delivery. Our food was cold when it got to us so we were pretty disappointed. The flavor and customer service was pretty good though so I’m sure we would have enjoyed it much more if we dined in.

We ordered delivery and the delivery time was pretty good — they estimated an hour but delivered in about 45 minutes. Unfortunately, it wasn’t all our order. I ordered a meatball sandwich and they brought me chicken wings. I called and they told me that the delivery driver gave me part of the order for his next stop and that he would call him and have him come right back. I waited 30 minutes in the hotel lobby and finally gave up. Sometime later, the driver called and said he was there and I went to meet him and give back the chicken wings. The meatball sandwich was (naturally) cold and soggy. They gave us a piece of Nutella tiramisu but I really wanted a nice dinner. My husband’s pizza was fair but the brick-​oven baking burned it a bit on the bottom.

I’d give zero stars if I could. We ordered delivery and live less than a mile away. After an hour of no delivery, we called and were told that our order was out the door. Another hour of no delivery later, we called again to find out that they were simply «too busy to handle their orders.»
The manager got on the phone and told us that the delivery was en route and offered 50% off the pizza and not the entire order (we ordered a salad too) after we told him that we were walking to Wood instead. We told him we would walk back and accept the order for free and tip the delivery driver. He daïs he «couldn’t do that without calling the owner» and he wasn’t going to call the owner that late at night. So we told him we weren’t going to pay anything for the late delivery and the lies an hour earlier and we walked to Wood and had a superior experience.

Service was slow. Food had cheese on everything we ordered. Waitress needed to drink a red bull or something to put some pep in her step.

Great pizzas!

We were greeted by a very friendly gentlemen named Lindsey. He helped us choose a good wine and beer and off we went. The chicken wings were good, the Florence pizza was great, and the Diablo sandwich was AMAZING! Marriage material. Very good deal and great location for non locals because it’s on the streetcar route.

This was a tough one for me. I think I’m going to go with 3.5 stars. One of the big selling points of this place is that it’s open late (until midnight), even during the week. In a city that likes to brag that it’s all about the night life. that’s hard to come by.
Me and a friend had gone to an event earlier in the evening when we realized we hadn’t eaten. I jumped onto my Unilocal app, did a quick search and saw that this was one of the few places still open in the area, after nine– perfect.
We started with the truffle chips, which was kettle cooked chips topped with truffle oil and cheese. I think this must be the new trend in apps as this is the third time I have had this somewhere. I don’t know why I always expect it to be more spectacular than it really is. For my pizza I got the pepperoni pizza which came topped with a really generous serving of pepperoni. I liked it and although the pizza is cooked in a wood oven, it was evenly cooked and not charred on the bottom. Was it the best pizza in the world? No, but I was really hungry so it definitely hit the spot.
The staff here is friendly, and although the pizza takes a while to come out, I would say that it’s worth the wait. This wouldn’t be my first choice when looking for a good pie, but I would eat here again.

So I’ve never set food in the building but they deliver to my place of business. The Rockefeller is to die for! Fast service! Delivery was perfect! I try to order from these folks any time I’m in the mood for Focaccia and Cannoli.

This pizza is phenomenal. It is wood fire pizza after all. I don’t usually eat the pizza crust, but this dough is so good, that I did. The pizzas are pretty big — and the are pretty loaded with toppings. They have a very friendly staff, and the last time I was there, they accidentally added a pizza, which they just gave us for free after apologizing — simply amazing!

Went here on a weeknight, we were ²⁄₄ people in the place. Walking in, we weren’t greeted and kind of awkwardly found a table ourselves. We weren’t sure if we had to order at the bar or if we would have a waiter. The service was really slow and awkward.
We ordered 2 salads and the Venice pizza. The salads were delicious and fresh. The pizza crust was too thin for the amount of toppings and everything fell off. But the ingredients were really fresh and it didn’t taste bad, just hard to eat.
Overall, we might try this place again for takeout or delivery… definitely never dining in again, though!

Best parade on Mardi Gras day. You can try and debate me if you like but *Kanye Shurg* people get up and six outside at 6am for this bih so yeah. Great music coming from almost every float. They’ve reclaimed an art form that once mocked us as a people.

I love this place!!! And my daughter says «it is the best pizza she has ever had». I tend to agree.
Perfect crust, perfect amount of sauce, perfect amount of cheese and the amount of pepperoni they give you on the Pepperoni Pizza (which is our favorite) is insane. Definitely one of the best pies in the city!
Super — friendly staff with Owner on-​premesis. Clean, slick facility. Great pizza. Not much left to say…
Phenomenal addition to the Garden District food scene!

The pizza was good and enough was left over to take to the hotel. Atmosphere was average and drinks overpriced. Used a Groupon and the establishment appeared to have a hard time understanding how it worked. Hearing the employees speak overtly about sexual issues was unusual.

I was here Friday night all I could say was that I was pretty disappointed there’s pizzas were barely made. I could still taste the dough. It wasn’t fully made. I don’t ever wanna eat here again and the bathrooms are nasty

Live in the building where they have their business, would think this would be totally convenient… no! they decided to close early one night for the Mardi Gras parade even though their hours are supposed to go until 12am, and so rude and so unaccommodating about it would think this would be the one time they would stay open late! totally lost our business…

I ordered a pizza on seamless and the time estimate was an hour or a little bit more. An hour later they called me to tell me they wouldn’t be able to get to me tonight. Why they couldn’t tell me an hour earlier is beyond me because now everything else is closed.

Just ordered dolce vita and it is so so good! We ordered a half Milano, half Tuscany pizza and the wedge salad, and they actually delivered a whole Tuscany pizza, but when we told them, the delivery driver called the restaurant and they started making our correct order while he went back to get it, AND he let us keep the wrong pizza. The delivery guy was so nice about it too! And on top of that, the pizza and salad are both amazing. I’ll definitely be ordering from here regularly now.

The lunch wedge special is the perfect size at a reasonable price. Loooove the house dressing.

Our first time there today and we will definitely be back! We got the Margherita Pizza and the Pepperoni Pizza with Olives, Greek Salad and an order of Truffle Chips. Everything was fantastic.
They definitely pile on the pepperoni. The entire pizza was covered and the crust was perfect.
The Margherita Pizza will probably be our new favorite order.
The Greek Salad was full of good stuff and the Truffle Chips are instantly addictive. Don’t forget to add them to your order.
We can’t wait to go back and try more of the menu.
Thanks again Angela!

Very creative menu! Love the salad dressing, my pizza was exactly as I ordered it, the dessert was the bomb. Delivery was 30 min late, but it was hot and worth the wait.

The pizza here is SO good!!! Our server was really nice too! :)
We ordered the spinach salad which was delicious. We also ordered half of the Tuscany and the Florence pizza. Although both were good, my fave was the Florence. The food was plenty between my husband and I. I would definitely recommended coming here is you are in the area!

This place is horrible just got home to eat my pizza. Taste like all ingredients are spoiled and rotten. Horrible I do not recommend this place

I ordered the Venice pizza and Nutella tiramisu. I am in love! The thin, slightly crisp yet soft enough crust is delicious and I couldn’t get enough of the balsamic drizzle on top of the pizza, it was so good, I was mopping it up from the sides of the box with my crust! I have never had roast squash in a pizza before, I have been missing out!
Nutella tiramisu was light and oh so chocolatey. I total winner, I highly suggest you indulge yourself.
Delivery was pretty quick and delivery guy was friendly and polite.
Pizza was hot and tiramisu was still nice and chilled.

Oh my god. How disappointing! I went here with my roommate for lunch. It’s 11:03 and we walk in. No one is there to greet us and we are awkwardly standing by the door. We grab menus and seat ourselves. The pizza cook greets us and tells us our server has not arrived for his shift yet, but he can take our drink order. (Seems like bad service so far or just an off day)
We order the lunch special which is a wedge slice of either Pepperoni, Cheese, or Margherita Pizza and a side salad. The salad was regular but the croutons were very soft and fresh — like they made it in house. The pizza was very, very disappointing. It was paper thin and tasted like nothing! The toppings were minimal and it just kind of fell off the pizza. We were still starving after eating the pizza and the salad so we got the parmesan chicken wings…
EVEN WORSE! It tasted like microwaved, frozen chicken. The flavor was good but the chicken was mushy and not fresh.
I’m not sure how the hype built up. I honestly, really did not like it at all. The food looks appetizing by appearance, but the flavor and composition was very lacking.

Good thin crust chewy pizza just the way I like it! I had it delivered to my hotel room, waiting time was about an hour. My pizza was a bit cold by the time I ate it. They forgot to deliver my pepper flakes! :(
Salad was good, but I put in too much dressing so it was too sour.
I think it would taste much better and hotter if I ate at the restaurant.

I wish that I could give them more stars but unfortunately the person who handled my order over the phone the last time that my ordered from them has caused to cross this place of my places I will eat.
I have eaten here several times and the pizza has always been good. The pizzas have never disappointed me but the last time I placed a delivery order with them the person I spoke to was very rude.
I called and ordered a pizza and wings and was then called back some time later to tell me that the wings were sold out and I had to make a substitution for something else. Then when my food arrived my pizza was cold and they had forgotten parmesan cheese, which I specifically asked for.
When I realized that the parmesan cheese had been forgotten I called back to ask if there was anything that could be done and the person was very rude. He said the only thing that could be done was another delivery man come and deliver me a side a parmesan, which would have only caused my pizza to become colder. I asked if there was any way to get a replacement order at a later period and he was very rude in saying no there was nothing that he could do.
Sorry to them, but I will never be giving my money to Dolce Vita Pizzeria again.

Dolce Vita is a super fun pizza place. I visited on a Sunday and there weren’t many people, which was nice. Ordered a pepperoni pizza and a few salads. Everything tastes wonderful, I really liked the crust of the pizza.
Happy hour specials everyday from 4 – 7, $ 10 for a pepperoni pizza!

Sunday is a great day to frequent this otherwise busy restaurant. Pizza is delicious as well as the wine
:) My family and I enjoyed our food and our waitress was great! I absolutely love brick oven pizza, but New Orleans is lacking in this area. Dolce Vita caters to my craving for great pizza! Thanks to Groupon for urging me to buy this deal!

I tried to order online through Unilocal but they did not deliver to my hotel– Grubhub to the rescue. I was exhausted and wanted to chill in my room with a wood fired pie. When I saw they had a Stefano Ferrara wood fired oven that was shipped directly from Italy. I knew I found my pie. Beats whatever the concierge at the Hilton suggested.
The pie had a nice char, was thin, crisp yet chewy. I went with the Milano. It had capicola, prosciutto, sopressata, and pancetta. I am not sure what cheese was featured but it was nice but not fresh mozzarella.
To finish I had the Nutella tiramisu. It really hit the spot. Nice and creamy with an espresso kick. I just wish they would have included some napkins and a fork. I had to call room service for that.

Rolled into New Orleans from Houston, if you’ve ever made that drive, you’ll know how ridiculous it is, and needed some food so of course, we turn to Unilocal for guidance. It led us here, it was late on a Sunday, so of course nobody was in the place so we could sit wherever we wanted, it was kind of hot in the building but when there’s a pizza oven in a place, it’s bound to be hot. Our server was very nice and allowed us to take our time and help with all of our questions.
The food was awesome! We had the truffle chips to start and my wife and I had the wedge salad and a pepperoni pizza, I always say you can judge a pizza place based on they way a classic pizza is made, it was pretty damn perfect. Everyone came by to make sure we were doing well and to see if the food was to our liking.
Well will defiantly come back if we make our way to New Orleans again, I MUST try more of their pizzas!

I am so excited we finally tried this place! Back story: I lived in NYC for a brief time because of Katrina. I used to absolutely love this pizzeria/​deli spot on the corner of Mulberry street in Little Italy. Every Time I visited New York I craved this delicious pizza… but they closed. I was heart broken! After searching tirelessly, aways being disappointed, I thought I would never find a pizza that good in the US again.
Fast Forward to 4 years later, today, at Dolce Vita!!! The pizza was perfect. The crust was the perfect consistency and very authentic. We had one of the weekly specials made with prosciutto, fresh spinach, Garlic oil, and goat cheese all drizzled with my favorite… a balsamic glaze.
We also had the largest garlic ppl chicken wings we have ever seen served with a very tasty ranch dressing. The dressing was so good I used it as an extra treat for my pizza crust. Amazing Value! 6 wings for $ 9 seems a little pricey until the plate comes out!
And…even better. They take suggestions for pizza specials. They are going to try to make my favorite from Little Italy as one of the specials soon. So Excited!!!
Fortunately, I had not been there when the previous owner was there so I am not accustomed to getting my food in 5 minutes. Especially not when we walk in to an empty restaurant and within a few minutes had 4 tables that came in within seconds of each other. To me, well worth the drive from Metairie and worth a wait of any time. Don’t know that I will ever be able to eat pizza anywhere else.

It was our first day in the Big Easy, and after flying in early, and walking around all day, we were simply too tired to go out and eat. The wife suggested this place as it was close to our hotel. I felt guilty about ordering pizza in a city so full of delicious places to eat, but order it I did. We called and placed an order for a plain cheese pizza and a Venice pizza. They told us it would be about ten minutes. I waited in our hotel room for a few minutes, and then walked over to their establishment.
After a couple minutes, they presented me with my two pies. I paid and brought them back to our room. The Venice pizza consisted of roasted eggplant, zucchini, squash and portabellas. It was also adorned with only the finest Italian meats, capicola, prosciutto, sopressata, and pancetta, then it’s drizzled with truffle balsamic. By the beard of Zeus! This is the best pizza I have ever had the pleasure of putting in my belly. I’ve never had such a light, perfect crust. I’m not even a fan of plain cheese pizza, but even that was heavenly.
I’m not sure how they do it, but their pizza is a thing of beauty. I even almost considered performing the ultimate sin in a new city and going back there a second time during our trip. If they had a shop in Clearwater, Florida, I would eat there at least once a week. Please open a shop in Florida!