Il Forno
Il Forno
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
5 reviews
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Not gonna lie. This is probably the worst pizza I ever had in my life. Ingredients were not fresh and everything tasted like they came out of a can. A few friends and I ordered a 14 inch pizza through grubhub to be delivered to a friend's house. One of my friends is a vegetarian so we all decided to go healthy and have a customized veggie pizza. We ordered mushrooms, eggplants and spinach on the pizza. The mushroom tasted pickled and it had an odd mildly sour taste to it. The eggplant was interesting though cause they breaded it but it was extremely bland. I also would have preferred to have the spinach sprinkled on top of the pizza and not cooked in cause spinach has a lot of water content in it and made the pizza a little soggy. Overall, I'm not a fan.
What do you do when you're in the middle of an ice cream tour of the city and the need to use a restroom occurs?
Normally, you look for a Starbucks. But if you're in this particular area of Manhattan, you will not find one. Even the all powerful Starbucks finder app couldn't find one.
So, we had to resort to the old-fashioned trick of buying something cheap inside an establishment and acting like we were sincere patrons of the establishment. Enter Il Forno. I ordered once slice of cheese pizza (at $2.25) for the two of us as Margot G went off in search of the restroom. I waited, and waited for the slice of pizza that I *sincerely* wanted (read: my turn to go use the restroom), but no slice. Margot G returned, and I headed off in search of the restroom. By the time I returned, the pizza had finally arrived and we sat down to one of the few savory items of food that we ingested over the course of the day.
To be honest, it wasn't bad at all. Especially the cheese…it had some ooey gooey stringy cheese of goodness that I loved. But that was one hell of a wait time. However there's PLENTY of seating in here, which is rare in Manhattan pizza joints.
Hidden by scaffolding for quite some time now, I almost ran right by Il Forno without realizing it. I had a hankering for a slice of pizza and something about the awning and the somewhat dated appearance of the restaurant's interior drew me in. When it comes to pizza joints, glitz and glamor have no effect on me. Instead, I tend to pay attention to places that had been around for a while and Il Forno counted as one for sure. Using my handy dandy Yelp app, I saw its 3.5 star average rating and felt confident I'd get something good inside.
The variety of pies was pretty cool. There was a chicken salad pie, bbq chicken pie, buffalo chicken pie, fresh mozz and basil and so on. I decided to get one of the more delicious looking options: the bbq chicken pie. The crust was interesting, thicker than I'm used to getting but it was still nice and crispy. The layer of cheese was rather thick, but not in a gross way. The chicken was super tasty and when I was done with my slice I genuinely wanted another one right away.
Service was good hear with the young lady behind the counter giving a good old fashioned "hon" or "sweetie" at the end of each customer acknowledgement. She was quick too considering the after school crowd was hitting when I got there and she was alone manning the register.
I'm glad I decided to try Il Forno and look forward to my next slice there!
Pizza is ok, they make a lot of specialty slices. But, get ready for it… They make fresh homemade toll hill chocolate chip cookies–get them right out of the oven!!! And…they are only a $1.50! Best cookie spot ever:)
A thoroughly mediocre generic every-other-corner pizza spot. My co-workers like ordering from here; I find it mediocre, but have a slice or two because pizza is pizza. I will never understand the chicken caesar salad slice. You want chicken caesar salad, but you also want it on cheesy bread? Because that's what it is. What's the endgame with that? The plain slice is the plainest it gets ; marginally better than the 2 Brothers dollar slices.
It honestly feels like it's worth passing over more often than not. Nothing stands out, it seems to be just another drop in the bucket of NYC pizza spots.