Italian Delight

Unfortunately have to drop my rating down. We were thrilled with this place when they first opened. Good food, good portions at a good price. Over the past several months they seem to have gotten stingy on their toppings. For example, we stopped ordering black olives on the pizzas because it was just cheaper and better to get a plain and put the olives o. ourselves out of the can. I hope someone from the restaurant reads this and makes changes. Would love to continue patronizing them but we will ultimately go where we get the best value.

Great food, great customer service. I order here a lot and my orders are always correct and fast delivery. The one time they messed up an order they apologized profusely and had the correct order at my house within 10 min. They care about their customers and it’s refreshing.

The Fat Boys lunch special is good! Great deal and very filling lunch. I enjoyed there pepperoni more than there sausage. Check out the other lunch specials. Great deals!

Very good pizza. Sauce, cheese, and toppings on the pizza dough really delicious. Very friendly service. Very convient location. The subs are made with very delicious steak and fresh vegetables.

After checking on a friend’s chickens, cows, and horses (farm sitting), we headed over to Italian Delight for lunch. The service was friendly at first crack of the door «how we doing today?!?» then we got a bonus of two servers keeping watchful eye over everything. They serve hot rolls with nuclear marinara complimentary – who needs chips and salsa today? Not me. So we ordered a pizza which was tops, an antipasta salad that was fresh and came with an excellent homemade vinaigrette, and a philly done right except the green peppers were a little off tasting. The prices are easily better than most places, maybe even against the cost of cooking at home – at least it feels good to believe that. Will return. Clean, vibrant inside too!

Being from northern New Jersey where «mom and pa» Italian restaurants are the norm and you can get a good pizza or pasta without paying more than $ 7 – 15, I’m always on the look out for good locally owned Italian places. Italian Delight meets that criteria. The food is good basic Italian-​American; don’t expect fancy or complicated. The portions are generous and a good value; you’ll walk out full without having paid $ 20 an entrée.
The service is okay, not bad but not incredible either. The waitresses I’ve had have been friendly but also have disappeared for periods, sometimes chatting with employees or guests. You’ll hear more Spanish (sometimes loudly) from the kitchen than Italian, but the food isn’t from Tuscany either so that’s okay. As we were getting ready to leave last visit, a manager or perhaps an owner stopped us to make sure everything was okay, which is a nice touch.
The space is clean and the seating comfortable, but you can feel close to your fellow guests and the last two times I’ve been there we were pestered by flies (just a few, but persistent).

We were the first to rave about Italian Delight when it opened. We loved that we had a great restaurant within quick walking distance of our neighborhood. The owner himself used to greet customers. But service lately has been awful. We came in after church today with the whole family including my husband’s 86 year old grandfather. Service was extremely slow. Waitress got the order wrong but by that point we let it go. She had us pass her our cups to refill so she didn’t have to go to the end of the table. We waited a long time for our bill. At no point did she ask if we wanted the bill split. There were 9 of us. We eat out as a family often and we’re always asked if we want it split. She then had to ask us what we all ordered so she could split it. She disappeared and I had to ask another waitress to take our payments because it had been so long and our kids were understandably getting restless. I’ve noticed a lot of complaints about their service so unfortunately this seems like a trend they have. There aren’t many good places to eat in Stephens City and I’m saddened this will no longer be our go to.

Had a really bad experience on yesterday. The customer service has never been the greatest, but the worst was on yesterday, as my daughter stated below.
Overall, the food is not bad at all; but I’ve been there on a a few occasions and saw the employees mopping and using their hands to mop the bathroom and store floors and use cleaning supplies, then go straight to the register and start waiting on customers. The waitresses play with their hair and then go straight to the food.
It’s one of those things that you eat there and close your eyes.

Quite the hidden gem. They have great lunch specials every day even the weekends. Reasonably priced. Fat boys are great and I would recommend their salads which are huge. Love their house dressing even though I’m not really an oil and vinegar fan. The only criticism is that seating is limited. They seem to do a tremendous carry out and delivery business. Wait staff are all friendly and willing to help.

The pizza was pretty good. I would recommend it. Stay away from the pitiful salads though. The lettuce was not good (turning brown and mildewing), the tomatoes were sliced for hamburgers and didn’t have the stems cut out, and the house dressing wasn’t good. We threw it our and use some from the fridge.

The fat boys are amazing. The service is alright, but the prices are good. I’d recommend this place to anyone!

I’m going full-​stars on this review because I applaud an Italian restaurant that goes so far to cater to the gluten-​free crowd. Gluten-​free pizza (ask for it to be well done so it’s not soggy in the middle under your toppings) and a good selection of gluten-​free pasta meals. I can’t speak to cross contamination because I am not Celiac but I know I’m a fan as an intolerant. It’s sometimes nice to have a GF go-​to.

Best Italian food in Stephens City! Pastas are great! New York style pizza is awesome. Service is always good. Smaller place so occasionally you won’t get a table. Very affordable.

A brand new italian restaurant that offers the traditional dishes and pizzaria favorites that will soon be a favorite in the area. It competes very well against the others in the area. I had the eggplant rolatini, tuna salad, and cheesecake and was extremely satisfied. The sauce is robust and flavorful. Large portions of eggplant hand battered and stuffed with spinach and cheese. The salad had ample tuna that wasn’t soggy at all nor full of mayonnaise. The cheesecake was light and seemed homemade. I can’t wait to try the cheese steaks, molten lava cake, cannoli, calzone, and pizzas! Delivery was within 30 mins and the gentleman was very pleasant as well as the staff taking the order and the chef explaining how he preps the meal (a big help in that I didn’t want pre-​made or frozen food).
I would check your credit card statements or pay cash only. Their credit card database was hacked and cards were compromised, but they told my boyfriend that the hackers were caught. Impossible within a short time frame especially in a small town where cyber theft is not exactly the main priority here. Read the not recommended reviews for more info.
Cash only for future orders which makes it more complicated to take time to get money just to order when I can pick up instead. Also, my card was getting Marriott and gasoline charges in Peru this past summer by a «swiped» plastic card. My card company alerted me and also are tracing it. The businesses could do their part by securing client information to employees or reporting compromise to authorities. This has now changed how I call in ANY ORDER to places that employ illegals. I just don’t shop at those places anymore.

I knock down my review to 3 stars for 3 reasons.
1.) Reviews here have indicated this place has been implicated for a credit card scheme earlier this year. While I haven’t heard of anyone recently being victimized by this, I do know people who were affected by it in the area. Since the incident, I will no longer be using a credit card with them, only cash.
2.) It lately seems that they cannot get an order right. I have ordered with them on several occasions, and I feel I’m always repeating myself because their computer always crashes whenever I place a pick up order. And then, after bringing the order back, either I’ll find they gave me somebody else’s food or my order is completely wrong.
3.) Their service is slow. I’ve gone there and waited a good half hour just for pick up. I understand that Italian food can take a while to make, but that’s way too long, and especially since they back up too quickly. The place is small, and I know they want to expand, but I’ve waited
and 3.5) Their sauce is extremely rich. Always order it light, because otherwise it can run right through you. And even then, when I ask for light sauce, they still give me the regular amount, which is already heavy as it is.
I would still go there, but bring cash and order very carefully.

I ate lunch here today. I thought I would give them a second chance because so many people I know just love their food. When I would talk to them to ask what they like they always talked about their hoagies.
Today, I ordered their Philly Cheese Steak… loaded. My friends were right. Their hoagies are great! I also ordered a side of onion rings. The onion rings were done perfectly. The batter was crispy and golden brown. The onions were sweet, tender, and very good.
The service is excellent. The staff is very friendly and courteous. The restaurant is exceptionally clean.
They still only get three stars because they need to work on their other dishes. Their marinara sauce needs some serious work. It’s all tomato and no seasoning. It needs garlic… and lots of it. It also needs oregano, basil, Italian seasoning, parsley; it needs that pop of flavor. It’s just too bland. They put this sauce in almost all their other pasta dishes that I have ordered.
Their pizza is too greasy. Their crust is excellent. Adding some herbs (GARLIC) to the crust or their sauce would take their pizza to the next level. They need to work on the cheese recipe so its not so greasy. Now it gets so greasy that it soaks through the crust and even the box. Personally, I don’t like that.
I will definitely go here again. I HIGHLY recommend their hoagies and sides. If they follow my recommendations, they have the potential to blow the other restaurants in this area out of the park and earn five stars.
I was wrong in my first review of Italian Review. They make a GREAT sandwich! I plan to go back for more. I hope you do to.

I went here with a friend and got a small Calzone. It was still huge for not even being the large size. It was excellent and I would say it was one of the best I have ever had. The restaurant was clean and they were pretty quick. I would recommend this place, especially for the bread that comes with the meal. Yum!

Have been here 3 times now. The food is very much like the food one get around Philadelphia and New York. It is very tasty and reasonable

We ordered carry out and found this to be a well run place and we really liked the food. Can’t wait to go back and eat in.

I’ve lived in this area my whole life and have tried every italian restaurant around. This one is way better than most! Everything I and my husband have ordered has been amazing. I LOVE the eggplant and the chicken parm, calzones, steak subs, and salads are awesome! I’m sure everything else is wonderful too! The décor is very nice, the restaurant is clean, and the people are very welcoming and attentive! Highly recommend!