Dino's Italian Food

To bad its went to hell !. I have been going to Dinos for 30 years and in the last year it has went to hell.The Pizza has no taste to it and the sand witches are not even close to what they were at one time.The service is always good and the place is still clean but the food sucks!!!…

Chef Boy-R-Dee is better. My wife and I visited Dino's on a Saturday night. The decor is like others have described: stuck in the 70's. The hostess was not particularly outgoing but we were seated quickly. The menu was ordinary, service was curt but quick at first.

My salad consisted of a few light green pieces of lettuce and a few carrot shreds on a small plastic plate. No tomato, no other vegetables that one expects. The Italian dressing came from a bottle, was not homemade. The bread we received was cheap, very bland, and COLD.

I cook Italian food at home using recipes straight from Italy, so I have an idea of how the food is supposed to taste. My wife had a pizza and thought it was OK (she grew up in New York). She remarked that she wouldn't order the pizza again. It didn't look like anything I'd had in Italy.

I ordered pasta with marinara. The pasta was indeed homemade but didn't have much flavor. The sauce... The sauce tasted like a cross between Chef Boy-R-Dee and Ragu. It was very sweet, had almost no tomato flavor, zero garlic, few herbs. It was terrible, worse than you'd find in a middle school cafeteria. The sauce probably came right out of a can into the pot and onto my plate. It was so bad that I left 2/3 of the pasta on the plate.

After receiving the main course, we couldn't get the waitress to return. We waited for ~20 minutes and got her attention by waving to her. She walked up with the bill in her hand and didn't ask us how the food was, if we wanted dessert, etc. Maybe she heard my remarks about the food.

Anyone who wants real Italian food should look elsewhere. Better yet, get some real recipes from the internet, buy quality ingredients, and make it at home. It will be money better spent than dining at Dino's.…

Good basic non-fancy Italian. Retro-atmosphere. Affordable. Been going to Dino's since the early 90's. My ex is half Italian, and she turned me on to it. They have a fairly pedestrian menu... It's not "Pagliacci's". But it's also not going to cost you 80 bucks for a dinner for two. I love their pizza!. It's worth waiting almost half an hour for one! Decor - who cares! I'd rather they spend the money on the food. The Dino's special sandwich is also really good!…