Papino’s Ristorante and Pizzeria

I’m shocked to see negative reviews about such a wonderful place! Papino’s is a highly regarded local favorite. Pizzas are delicious, their spaghetti and meatballs super tasty, and I love their garlic cheese bread!
This place is quaint, inviting, and the staff has been great in my experiences here. I encourage anyone looking for homemade Italian food to check out this little gem!

Inconsistency rules the day. One time it’s great, the next time, it’s awful. The other day, it was the latter. Way too much sauce and cheese. One time, the topping are perfect. The next, they’re all dumped in the middle of the pizza. It’s just very hard to know what you’re going to get.

They send out coupons and then tell you they are not excepted. They also said they are not good for Friday or Saturday’s. They finally excepted the coupon over the phone and then when we arrived they gave us the runaround again at the counter and told us a different price than they said before the coupon.
The pizza was cold and cheese looked like pizza does after it sits in a fridge. They told us 45 min and I am thinking it sat there for 30 after the it was done.
The waitstaff even shouted to the kitchen staff that a customer ordered Alfredo sauce.
Get rid of the kids and hire people that can handle orders!

We stopped in the other night with our family for some pizza and appetizers. It was wonderful. We ate the Bosco cheese filled breadsticks for an appetizer. We tried a few of their pizzas as our dinner. The waitress was nice enough to allow us to do half and half so we can try more kinds being it was our first visit to thier resturant. We tried the Pepino on half and theTrapino on the other half. This was hand tossed crust. (My favorite) Then on another pizza we did bbq on half and the other half brueschetta which was my wife’s favorite pizza. This was thinking crust. Both crust good and cooked perfect. They offer beers or wine with dinner if you would like.
We thought the service was very friendly. The resturant was smaller, but very cozy and comfortable for a small town Italian place. Not a long wait for food. The waitress brought our daughter a small ball of pizza dough to keep her entertained, which we thought was clever and a fun idea for kids. Got a chance to meet the owner (Joe) as we were leaving. Seemed like a nice young man. This is one of those places you need to try if in the area or order out if you live close because they deliver. Very nice food for the small town of Windsor. We will be back to try the pasta and lasagna. Then once we try the pasta maybe we will change review to 5 star if it is as good as the pizza was.

Updating my review from 3 stars to 4 stars because Papino’s has a functional website again with an online menu. Yay! Thank you!!! We’ve ordered from them 2 – 3 times in the last 2 – 3 months because of this small detail. So helpful to have an online menu.

First time here, and loved the food. We had the eggplant fries, Caesar salad (great home made dressing, but just a tad too much of it), and chicken Parmesan. Atmosphere is very cozy, and the service was great. We will be back!

The pizza is excellent. The service is friendly and the pasta dishes are top notch. I come here when I’m in Madison. The menu is typical American Italian food but everything is made with quality ingredients.

We had a fantastic pizza half Hawaiian half the works. It was warm and cozy atmosphere super fresh salad and great tasting pizza.

CRAPTASTIC.
Apparently, one-​word reviews are FROWNED UPON in this institution, so let me elaborate. DISCLOSURE: The reviews seemed evenly split between likers and haters, so I came in with an open mind.
I hereby officially declare myself a HATER. Sugar-​filled pizza sauce. Underdone (and very bland) crust. I could go on… but I have better things to do.
Slow service never helps either.

Second time back. My family loves us, but I am more tentative. The portions are a pretty good value but the food is good but not great. I want a local restaurant, a local business, to succeed and I want them to be great. They do a bustling take out business and so something must be going okay for them but the food doesn’t stand out.
My daughter only ordered a cheese pizza, but her cheese pizza was probably the highlight of my meal.
The staff was young but they were friendly and served us well. I was well satisfied with the wait staff.

Not good… Gross pizza and very poor service. Its like the goal of the people working there is to make sure no one comes back

I really wanted this new pizza place to be great but we were sorely disappointed. We ordered pizza and were surprised that the green peppers and mushrooms were canned. We really prefer fresh veggies. The crust is a manufactured crust and is not hand tossed. The last complaint I have is that we tried delivery and the order was messed up when we received it. I called to only have the manager or owner swearing as he hung up the phone. Still need a good pizza place in the Windsor/​DeForest area.

We ordered the bakes tortellini and the vodka penne and they were both excellent. Small place but great food.