La Pizzetta

New Chef rocks! The salads are amazing in addition to the pasta and pizza. Wine selection very diverse. Service is very friendly too. We’ve made this a weekly tradition. If you’ve been here before this new chef … you need to come back.

Tried this restaurant for the first time on Friday evening. Great atmosphere, love that you can see the pizza oven from the table. Best pizza I have eaten since moving to the US. If you like authentic Italian pizza this is the place. Looking forward to going back to try some different dishes.

Came on a Saturday night, the place is packed but service is too slow because they only have 2 people running around to wait on all the tables — really need to have more servers so people don’t have to wait long.

This place is horrible. I called in for a to go order, one pepperoni, cheese and mushroom (I had to create my own since they didn’t have this option WTF) and a cheese pizza which was gluten free.
The restaurant was hideous and you can see right through the kitchen. When the kind older lady took my order, she gave it to the tall pizza chef. The moment he heard gluten free he threw the biggest fit! I mean shut the hell up kid and do your job! I was furious. I was so tempted to leave but my boyfriend really wanted to try this place so I waited. Somehow I waited about 20 even after I called it in about 10 min prior to walking in. What upset me more was waiting all that time when I tried to avoid that by calling in the order! As soon as I get the pizza and get home the pizza was cold!!! I live literally 5 minutes from there. The pizza was salty and bread was under cooked. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS PLACE!

We happened to luck into finding this wonderful restaurant. The food was incredibly fresh, delicious and very shareable amongst all our friends. Pietro, the owner, was amazing. He visited all of the tables and made us feel like family. Will definitely be back again!

Great pizza and a great staff as well. Very attentive to your needs and an Italian chef who cares about what he serves. He came out to our table just to be sure. The seating area is small but cozy, so don’t be surprised! Thanks to the staff for being so attentive and friendly. See you again.

tried new menu and new chef! They have added pasta and larger pizzas. The food was great! I had chicken Marsala and my husband had chicken piccata. Both yummy. Bread comes baked with oil and balsamic vinaigrette. So good! New chef is very nice. He’s very experienced. Definitely recommend and will go again.

New chef with new menu… delicious, authentic Italian pastas, salads and pizza. Dessert had several different types of high quality chocolate in the cookie and we gobbled it up. Service was top notch. Chef visited with us and was very friendly and excited to be there. He’s actually from Italy so we can’t wait to come back and try more dishes. Reminds us of our trips to Italy with all those flavors that are hard to find here.

Service was excellent. Chef Pietro came out and greeted and conversed with us. Pizza was amazing, very tasty. We also had their homemade cheesecake that was delicious. I will definitely be a regular. Thank you.

We pulled up and questioned the décor and were a bit confused if it was a dining or takeout restaurant.
I can say that after bringing my family here and after the La Pizzetta’s «new chef» came out and met us, we were intrigued. We ordered mussels and several recommended main dishes. Without a doubt it was all some of the best Italian I have experienced globally.
The wait staff was very friendly and attentive.
I truly would recommend this place and I hope they will work on their ambiance as much as they have with their quality food.

Caprese was very good but unusual from what you may be used to. Had pesto on it, which I personally love, but no balsamic. Wine was reasonably priced and yummy. Fire roasted Brussel sprouts fell flat. Egg was unnecessary and a little overcooked — it wasn’t runny which is usually the point of adding the egg. I wanted to add salt for flavor. Margherita pizza with prosciutto was very good — slightly sweet sauce, pretty cheesy, phenomenal crust. Service was great. The ambiance was small and casual. They tried to make it low lighting for more intimacy, but there’s not much money put into the ambiance. Waiter said new chef is straight from Sicily, and you could tell from the pizza but that’s definitely their focus — brick oven pizza.

One of the best pizzas in town. On par with Pizzeria Bianco. They are really friendly. Good quality ingredients and the crust is the best.

At the owner’s request, we gave LP another shot and were very pleased we did. We had two pizzas, the Michelangelo and Messina, both were hot, heavy with cheese and the perfect amount of sauce. We got them to go so I can’t comment on the service, but the quality of the food was great and the server handling our order was very friendly and professional.

The food was delicious and our server (Phil) was attentive and knew his menu. We ordered the
grilled eggplant with goat cheese and a perfectly tasting pizza and it was delicious and had the Block Nine Pinot wine and all was perfect. We will definitely be back. So happy to have this wonderful little restaurant right in our neighborhood.

Super inconsistent. We’ve had great pizza from here & terrible pizza from here. Sometimes the crust is crispy & delicious — other times it is over-​salted or, as it was tonight, raw in the middle and burnt on the edges. Limited menu of gourmet pizzas, a few appetizers, salads and desserts. This place seems to be run by a bunch of teenage/​20-​something guys who maybe take classes at the attached cooking school. They’re polite, but don’t seem to know what they’re doing. Get your pizza to go since the décor is meh at best. If you’re going to eat-​in, get a bottle of wine instead of a glass because the pours are not generous. I will give them one more try and hope that tonight was a horrible anomaly.

This is just sort of a bizarre little place.
First, the ambiance. The dining room is tiny and the furniture is mismatched. Figure, maybe ten tables or so. Strangely, their walk in refrigerator is located *in* the actual dining room, so you’ll see staff running back and forth grabbing things out it while you’re eating. Odd. I ordered a beer. It was actually a canned beer and the waiter proceeded to pour it into one of those little six ounce glasses you typically find in a dorm cafeteria. Not what I expected for $ 6 or $ 7. My better half also noticed the silverware appeared to be from Ikea. Lol, five star dining, this isn’t.
The food. We ordered two pizzas and they were decent. Not outstanding, just solidly average. You’d better be sure you like cheese because they’re going to give you a ton of it. Most of the pizzas are in the $ 10 range and they’re fairly small pizzas, so it’s a not great deal for what you pay for it. We had two of them and were still hungry. I did notice that the bottoms of the pizzas were burnt and had an ashy taste to them. I’m not sure if maybe the cooking surface was dirty, or what, but it detracted from the quality of the pizza with an ashtray like after taste.
The staff. They were halfway decent. Our waiter was working hard, but seemed to be a bit overwhelmed despite only having two tables. The head chef came around to visit the tables and seemed like he genuinely cared. Overall, I can’t fault them here.
So, yeah. There you have it. The restaurant just doesn’t have a finished, professional shine to it. Things feel haphazard and sloppy. Some of the other reviews mentioned they thought it might be part of the adjacent cooking school. Given what I had seen, and the weird door they have in the dining room that presumably goes to the next door cooking school, it makes sense. We bought a group on for this place to give it a try. I wish we hadn’t. Some of this stuff is forgivable for the right price, but this place isn’t cheap.
We won’t be back.

My wife and I had a fabulous dinner tonight at La Pizzetta. Everything was Perfect from the services to the dessert. Our server brought complimentary mild green peepers infused with balsamic vinaigrette and asiago cheese. It was delicious and we wanted more.
We ordered the grilled eggplant and a Margarita pizza and both were absolutely scrumptious. The eggplant was stuffed with grilled red peppers, spinach and goat cheese and was heavenly. The pizza was prepared and baked in a brick oven to Perfection. The Scottsdale Blonde Ale was wonderful and paired well with dinner.
We going back next week with family.
Linda and Ron

Me and a friend stopped by there last night and was very happy with the food, service and wine! They were prompt and friendly. The food was delicious, and we took advantage of a deal where you could share a salad, get your own 10 inch pizza, a glass of wine each and share a dessert for like 33 $! It was a cute, quiet environment with great food and service. You should definitely try it out. Great for date night.

Excellent pizza and desert. The service was very friendly. We did their salad, 2 pizzas, wine and desert special for a fixed price. Definitely will be back.

This place is possibly the worst dining experience my family and I have ever had. This is a case of: if it looks like a disaster, it will be a disaster.
I saw them listed for Arizona Restaurant Week and they had one of the best deals — for $ 33 per couple you could share 1 appetizer, get 2 pizzas and share 1 dessert. Plus it included 2 beverages — wine, beer or soda. So I convinced my family we should check it out. We had 5 adults, 1 toddler and 1 baby.
I called to make a reservation and got us in. We got there and it was in a strip mall and had its two front doors wide open. You could see into the dining room (very small — maybe 10 tables — all different sizes with mismatched chairs and some were even ottomans!) and people were waiting outside.
2 young men were running around looking totally overwhelmed and I wasn’t greeted for ten minutes as there was no notable host stand or procedure.
The rest of my party arrived and we surveyed the situation discussing whether to leave or try it and decided to try it — BIG mistake.
We were seated and left there for 20 minutes — no one greeting us or bringing us waters. Our toddler was getting thirsty so we were again debating whether to just get up and leave. Just then a 3^rd young man asked if we were being helped and we said no! They apologized and brought us water and menus.
When our waiter finally came to take our order, we asked what wines were included in the deal — he pointed out a Chardonnay and Merlot. Then he said there was one other white wine included but was not on the menu. We asked what kind — he said «just a white — like a Chardonnay.» We pressed further and he said it was a Pinot Grigio so my sister and I ordered that. Lol.
Now it was not just annoying but comical. We came to realize the place was next to a cooking school and every few minutes someone new (obviously with the school/​restaurant) would come thru a door in the adjoining wall — carrying supplies, carrots and one point even a bucket and toilet plunger (gross!).
If the restaurant was a cooking school restaurant, run by students of the school, it should be apparent on the website and you would know what you were getting into in the first place. This is not advertised as such anywhere. But that’s the only thing that makes sense to explain the horrible service and food.
We ordered 2 appetizers– the brocolini with burrata and roasted cauliflower. Both were served luke warm, if not cold and were not good. For pizzas we ordered 5: 2 sausages, 1 pepperoni/​mushroom/​onion, 1 margarita, and 1 walnut. They were decent — good flavors. I wanted salt and pepper but no one came by for me to ask for it and we could not get their attention until I was done! But they were the smallest individual pizzas I’ve seen. They were about 10 – 11 inches where most are closer to 16″.
By that time we tried to wave down anyone to put in our dessert order and get our check. To make it easy we ordered 2 of the Nutella banana crepes.
Literally 20 minutes later (1 hr 40 minutes since we sat down, mind you) we were about to cancel the order and leave when they said there were just putting them on?! What?! We placed the order 20 minutes ago?! And they are crepes!
10 minutes later they came out — the smallest underwhelming plate ever — two little roll-​ups with some sauce drizzled over and a sprig of mint. But I thought they still may be good — most portions today are too big anyways — but no. They were cold (nothing about them was even warm), with very little bananas or Nutella. We left most of it on the plates.
We finally got out of there 2 hours from when we sat down! Will never go there again…
I would have given no stars if I could.
Pretty much the most horrible dining experience of my life.