Gallina’s Pizza

I have been eating at Gallinas Capital City for well over 30 years. Being from an Italian/​Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn NY I’m pretty particular about my italian food — especially my pizza. Vito has been making the best pizza in Springfield ever since he took over the place from his uncle Tony some 30 years ago. Whoever left a review about the dough must have landed at a bad moment. The pizza dough is made from scratch every day, and the hero sandwich rolls are just one dough pan cut in thirds and baked fresh. The stuffed shells are fantastic, as is the roast beef parmigiana sandwhich and the sausage and peppers are the real thing too. Even the grated cheese brought to the table is the best I’ve ever had. All the ingredients come off the Roma truck straight from New York. And now they have Peroni beer on tap — Icing on the cake!

We ordered this the other night because we had a coupon and thought that we would try something new. They told us that the coupon was printed with an error, so it wasnt such a great deal as we thought we were getting. The pizza was just ok. We had the cheese and then a 4 topping. The cheese was ok. Crust on the 4 top was very soggy.

We ordered pizza and wings for pickup and it was ready in 15 minutes. Very good service. The wings were delicious and the pizza was good too.

The pizza is amazing! Best New York style pizza in Springfield. It’s always done perfectly. You have to try a submarine sandwich. You will not regret it.

I’m from chicago so I’m a pizza snob. This was awful. The cheese kept coming off, awful sauce, and the crust was way too thin to hold anything. Big fat no from me.

Eat here often good food good service. Vito does a great job with pizza all big pieces of veggies ham sausage etc. And the beer Italian or domestic yum. All food is great.

Great end to our stop in Springfield. Place was only maybe ¹⁄₃ of capacity so we had both of our pizzas quick in only a touch over 20 minutes. Two 12″ pizzas fed my family of five with a little left over (keeping in mind our kids are in the 4 – 8 range) and a pitcher of beer plus a pitcher of soda and I still barely broke a $ 30 bill. Most fast food joints run me as much an I don’t get quality pizza and a pitcher of beer. I loved the ambiance as it felt kind of 80’s pizza parlorish. Juke box had great mix of classic rock plus some 80’s and 90’s hits.

I am giving them one star based on their despicable customer service. Today was my daughters first day of school, ever. She really wanted breadsticks and pizza to celebrate, so that’s what I ordered from them. The driver shows up and I tip him before I realize that the garlic bread isn’t there. I asked him if he had them and he seemed bewildered by the question. He says he’ll go back and get them.
I get a call 15 minutes later from the bewildered driver and he says that he didn’t charge me for the garlic bread so he’s not bringing them back, period. He saw that I had small children when I answered the door and I tipped him pretty well.
How rude and clueless can someone be? It just amazes me. I was a delivery driver years ago and even at 20 I was not this much of an idiot. I will NEVER order from this place again.

This is the worst restaraunt. Don’t go here! We waited for our food for over a hour and never received our food. Apparently they lost our order. When we asked about our order several employees were rude and almost violent with us. They even yelled at us. We demanded a refund and finally got one. Don’t go here if you want to eat within a reasonable amount of time.

Nice pizza and hot Wings. Wish the wings were more fried and less soft but overall the sauce was very good. The prices were great. The interior needs a little bit of work but the staff is friendly and attentive. They pizza sauce and cheese were really nice although on the preference side it was a bit too thin for my taste.

We are in town for a convention, and asked the front desk agent about good pizza and he suggested here for delivery. Although the delivery was super fast, we didn’t particularly enjoy the pizza. The crust was thin and ok, but the sauce was bland, the pepperoni soggy and there wasn’t much cheese.

Good pizza, not exceptional but good. Placed smelled exactly the way a pizza place should when you walk in. Sausage and mushroom pizza and garlic cheese bread hit the spot. Clearly we weren’t regulars and were made to wait before being served. Regulars were treated with a completely different attitude.

I have to admit that I’ve turned into a pizza snob. I grew up in Chicago.
If you have never had «real pizza», you might like it. Coming from Chicago I have to say it’s nothing special.

BEST Pizza in Springfield.
I’m originally from the East coast and this is the closest thing to tasting that authentic East coast pizza.
I’ve also had meatball sub and eggplant parm sub, both made with in house made rolls that are huge. Anything I’ve had there was absolutely delicious. The people are super nice and welcoming.

I’m surprised by all the positive reviews.
The décor is cool, retro Italian pizza joint, I’ll give it that. Regarding the pizza: The sauce smells and tastes great, but the dough was rock solid on the bottom, and undercooked at the top. This is clearly frozen crust. Hard to chew, even. This shocked me considering it took long enough to make that they easily had time to use fresh dough.
tl;dr Underwhelming, frozen pizza crust.

Best Italian sub in town!
I get it every time!

Some of the best pizza in town. If you like thin, floppy, New York style pizza, this is your spot. Similar to the downtown location, which is owned by Vito’s cousin. The atmosphere here is better. Vito is from Italy. He and his wife own the place. They are super friendly and they’re always here! Say hello!

This is an untypical review for me. When in town on business, I use Unilocal as my source for restaurants and usually focus on the food and not other factors. I found this place charming, divey-​charming, a throwback to the 70’s, checkered vinyl table cloths, and reminded me of a local establishment in my home town back then! Dark, cheesy, old!
I ordered the Galina with a side salad. When I ordered my salad, I asked what was on it. Lettuce, onion, tomato and an olive. When I got it, they were right, one olive. This struck me as funny! I should have asked for some cheese on top also.
The pizza was good, but like Rob L said, canned mushroom and crumbled sausage? Deep dish, I think not, well, at least not like Chicago; it’s more of a «normal» crust as opposed to a thin crust. Not enough cheese for my taste either.
No Parmesan cheese on the table or red pepper flakes which I found odd.
With all this being said, I have been to better pizzeria’s, but this hit the spot for the night!

This review is purely on the Antipasto Salad!!! Absolutely delightful!!! They marinated the artichoke, and veggies and it made the salad even yummier!!! The salad was so super fresh!!! OMG!!! I want one right now!!!

Pretty much the only New York style pizza in town. Everything else is St. Louis style thin crust. And don’t even try looking for Chicago style pizza in Springfield — it simply doesn’t exist. The pizza here is great. Be sure to get the deep dish with lots of toppings. Nice folks that own the place too.