Russo's New York Pizzeria & Italian Kitchen

The giant slice pizza, the meatballs, and the spinach and artichoke dip are some of the best I've ever had! Don't sleep on this strip mall location! Absolutely wonderful food!

Upon arrival the cashier told us they didn't know we were coming and didn't have the staff to cook and serve us. She sent us away. When we called back later to take to a manager the cashier answered and hung up on us. We've sent messages on social media with no response. Don't waste your time with this place. Unfortunately we read other reviews too late. Would not recommend.

Upon arrival the cashier told us they didn't know we were coming and didn't have the staff to cook and serve us. She sent us away. When we called back later to take to a manager the cashier answered and hung up on us. We've sent messages on social media with no response. Don't waste your time with this place. Unfortunately we read other reviews too late. Would not recommend.

The food was good. We had pizza, lasagne, ravioli and baked ziti. Prices are a little high for this type of restaurant. Really no ambiance.

No complaints on the food but such terrible service. Even though our server was actually nice, she was very distracted and did not do good at all. Took forever to take our drinks and our order. We got the salad and the pasta, but never got our pizza because she clearly forgot about it. She even came to our table to ask if we wanted some dessert. We reminded her about the pizza, and she even asked what kinda pizza we had ordered. On top of that, they did not even have the intention to prepare it so we decided to leave. We were never approached by management or anything. Terrible experience.

Delicious pizza! We went once to eat in and the service was wonderful. Tonight we picked up our pizza and a delicious slice of tiramisu that was homemade. We will be back!!

Worst experience we ever had in Clearwater! We visited Russo's after a shoping tour at around 2pm. Besides us only two guests were in the restaurant. We were not greeted but recognized and given the menue. After that we got ignored for around 20 minutes. So we decided to leave and definitely never come back.

Arrived and were told they weren't serving anything but pizza - would have been good to call us before.

Made reservation for NYE. Showed up and the waitress comes to the table and says they are only service pizza that day. A sign on the door or a posting to the scheduled reservations would have been nice.

Well, I have an update I did revisit russo's this last Friday to see how things where while under pressure I revisited around 3-4pm, as soon as I walked in the door and sat down just to add I wasn't greeted or acknowledged during the time as I walked in nor while I got situated into my table and while I was waiting on a waitress to come over to my table (please note that during the time I was there there was one other table with customers) it took over two minutes for a waitress even to acknowledge the fact I had sat down in her section. For an Italian based restaurant you expect to be welcomed and treated like part of a family when sitting down to eat. Since I was the only other table seated at the time and ordered a single slice of pizza, I expected my slice of pizza to be done around 5-8 minutes after ordering (greetings and when the food should be brought out after ordered are important to me) the food took almost 13-15 minutes from the time I ordered to the time it got to my plate and the pizza slice was broken in half when it got to me. See the photo for proof. The food was still good and the flavors where still as expected excellent.Unfortunately this is where things went kinda sideways for me, I have kitchen and food handling experience and observed my waitress who turned out to be the front of house manager cough openly without using her shoulders or elbows to cover her mouth and then later using her hand to cover her mouth and proceeded to not wash her hands afterward for at least 5 minutes (as far as I could observe) and actively handle a food order for carryout, I did try to reach out to the owner directly to address the lapse in food handling and safety protocols that night but it's been over 24 hours and no reply or response to my outreach. The food is great but I would definitely recommend after watching everything unfold Friday afternoon a retraining of the staff in food handling protocols until or unless that happens please give the restaurant a pass until these issues are addressed.

This is a 11.99 salad! A large!! I called and the girl/chef told me when i complained i dont know what to tell you!! I can tell tou its not a good look on your place! Rude! Very dissapointing!

My husband and I made a second visit to Russos yesterday. We live in New Port Richey. The trip was worth it. We ordered a delicious Mediteranean salad that we split, and still had some left over. The salad was fresh, cold and gorgonzola was fabulous. We had the best airiest garlic knots we have ever had. We are both garlic lovers, and would have liked more garlic , but they were fresh out of the oven and awesome. Our pizza was wonderful, the dough delicious and made fresh. Our server was starting that day, but she was terrific. Apparently, there has been an almost complete change of staff in the last month, and obviously, the change has made a huge difference. They are adding a comedy night, and other fun events. We are planning to go again, and look forward to it.

We ate here a week or so ago on a trip to Clearwater Beach. The food was excellent and the wait staff and pizza chefs were super friendly! This was our first visit and I would definitely eat here again. I would highly recommend Russo's New York Pizzeria.

Had a Christmas party that was supposed to start at noon. Delivery was scheduled for 1130 they did not show up till 1245. And then tried to say we did not pay but luckily I had the credit card payment form. When I called the new owners did not care that they screwed up. We will not be using them anymore. And we use them for all our locations multiple times a year. Manager said he would call me back but never did and now will not answer the phone ! Avoid this place at all cost !

Hugely disappointing. First the horrible service— I usually sympathize in this pandemic environment, but there were staff standing around doing nothing. Went to the bar to try expediting things and told the person behind it that we needed the fastest option available in order to attend a show nearby. In the end it took over 40 minutes for 2 rewarmed slices. And those slices were pretty awful. Nondescript in every way, from the alleged sauce to the nondescript cheese to the bland and tasteless crust. House balsamic dressing that tasted like nothing. I hate giving bad reviews, usually just don't comment at all. But if I can save someone from wasting their time and money then this is worth the effort.