My wife and I happened along this restaurant on our way taking the back roads from STL to Minneapolis, what a true delight! We were greeted by the most wonderful host (happened to be the owners daughter) I wish I remembered her name, she was fantastic. She helped us decide what to order, her knowledge of the food was superb, then she suggested a great beer to go with dinner. The Lasagna was amazing, with the garlic bread, my wife had the Chicken Alfredo, and we had a small veggie max pizza. Everything was so good and fresh, the pizza crust was great, super crisp and flavorful with lots of fresh veggies and cheese. I got some Alfano's Pizza beer to go, for later on our trip. What a blessing it was to have found this place for a great dinner and hospitality! I can only hope we pass this way again. Thanks Alfano's Knoxville for making our trip more memorable!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Lasagna, Chicken Alfredo
Corri
What a wonderful family-run business! This was my mom and dad‘s absolutely most favorite place in the whole world to eat dinner!! With my mom‘s recent passing, we wanted to honor her memory and visit as a family! We stopped in with eight adults and six kids. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit! The owners knew our folks and loved them! The owners also faced a staffing shortage and were able to adjust their business model to make it work and stay open. What a great family!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Annie Nan
Meatball Sandwich-Meatballs good, but Sandwich very dry. Needs more sauce with crunchy (overcooked) bread. Next time I'll order it not overdone & extra sauce. Didn't see any cheese either. 🤔
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
James Block
Excellent Meat lover pan pizza, the staff is very nice and kind, would recommend stopping by for the pizza!!
Real good food with a real Italian touch. A family favorite for life!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Joyce Monique Denham
We ordered pizza to be delivered to our campsite. The food was great, fresh, and homemade. We would definitely order from here again if we are in the area.
Food: 5
Jessica Johanneson
Found this place on a road trip! The pics looked so good I had to stop. Called and ordered and the guy said 30 minutes. I was already outside and they were pretty busy so we waited about 25/30 minutes and went in. The lady was very helpful, even caught an overcharge the kid had quoted and fixed that for us. I loved the atmosphere it felt like a little diner! Got the food, which was ready and left. Grabbed a piece and it was only warm.. the crust was somewhat bendy so I knew it had sat for a bit. The cheese and sauce were delicious and I bet this would have tasted better if we had eaten there and it was hot and fresh. I think the kid told me too long of a time. If I ever pass thru again I will try it again.. all the dishes being served to the tables looked so yummy and I totally should have ordered garlic bread after seeing that too omg 😋
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 4
christopher cunningham
Everything was perfect this evening and the girl working the drive through was very nice!! Best pizza around
The pizzas we got were terrible.the so called taco pizza was just lettuce and chips basically no meat at all. The veggie was nothing but green and black olives.terrible pizza.wont return
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 2
Shasta S Greenwood
Update 2025
So it's been over 2 years since going here. We purchased gift certificates from dine on a dime to give them another chance. I placed a carry out order, they would only let me use 1 of the 2 gift certificates I had the order was over 30.00 & each gift certificate was 10.00. (They still would have made money & had a happy customer) I paid the difference, kept 1 of them & brushed it off.
Returned again on 1-3-25 with my remaining gift certificate. I ordered the 9.99 pizza special & bread sticks at menu price, My total was about 18.00. I handed them the 10.00 gift certificate & 8.00 cash. The owner returned & told me she couldn't take my gift certificate because I ordered a pizza with the coupon. She finally did take it for the breadstick portion of the order, although she was very salty about it. I paid the full 10.71 for the pizza. She referred to my gift certificate as a coupon. It does not say coupon on it, nor does it say only valid on menu priced items. With that being said, if you don't want to honor them, do not sell them thru dine on a dime. Pizza was ordered at 4pm & requested at 715 it was not ready until about 725. The odd thing was it was not very hot when I got it.
Original Review from 2 years ago.
We have went there off & on for years. Since covid, they have went down hill. I don't like the way you have to order. My biggest reason for this negative review is last time we were in. This will be our last. We went to the counter & ordered. We say there for over an hour & our food didn't come. No one checked on us just left is sitting. I finally went up to the counter to check on our order. The young man looked confused & got owner. She advised me they didn't get our order. After going thru the tickets to find our order. They apologized & said they would get it immediately. The food did come quickly after this. We were not offered anything. In my opinion, we should have at minimum been offered a free drink while we wait. Maybe even a gift certificate to get us to return. At this point, we will not be going back. Other visits recently have been slow. All this could have been avoided by an employee checking on us, which was never done in over an hour.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Josh Pickrel
Always good
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tacos, Taco Salad
Peter Vlassis
Great family run spot. We come back every year while we’re in town for hunting season. 👍🏼
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Breadsticks
Martin Rodrick
WoW! After all these years, branched out from the Family Restaurant in Kewanee, the pizza is Authentic Alfano's! Alberto said he gets the same ingredients from the same suppliers they used 45-50 years ago! Very Very Impressive Alberto!!! Thanks Again!!
My wife and I happened along this restaurant on our way taking the back roads from STL to Minneapolis, what a true delight! We were greeted by the most wonderful host (happened to be the owners daughter) I wish I remembered her name, she was fantastic. She helped us decide what to order, her knowledge of the food was superb, then she suggested a great beer to go with dinner. The Lasagna was amazing, with the garlic bread, my wife had the Chicken Alfredo, and we had a small veggie max pizza. Everything was so good and fresh, the pizza crust was great, super crisp and flavorful with lots of fresh veggies and cheese. I got some Alfano's Pizza beer to go, for later on our trip. What a blessing it was to have found this place for a great dinner and hospitality! I can only hope we pass this way again. Thanks Alfano's Knoxville for making our trip more memorable!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Lasagna, Chicken Alfredo
What a wonderful family-run business! This was my mom and dad‘s absolutely most favorite place in the whole world to eat dinner!! With my mom‘s recent passing, we wanted to honor her memory and visit as a family! We stopped in with eight adults and six kids. We thoroughly enjoyed our visit! The owners knew our folks and loved them! The owners also faced a staffing shortage and were able to adjust their business model to make it work and stay open. What a great family!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Meatball Sandwich-Meatballs good, but Sandwich very dry. Needs more sauce with crunchy (overcooked) bread. Next time I'll order it not overdone & extra sauce. Didn't see any cheese either. 🤔
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Excellent Meat lover pan pizza, the staff is very nice and kind, would recommend stopping by for the pizza!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great people!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Breadsticks, Lasagna, Taco Pizza, Baked Veggie Pasta, Mega Meat Pizza
Great pizza friendly staff and cozy atmosphere
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Real good food with a real Italian touch. A family favorite for life!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We ordered pizza to be delivered to our campsite. The food was great, fresh, and homemade. We would definitely order from here again if we are in the area.
Food: 5
Found this place on a road trip! The pics looked so good I had to stop. Called and ordered and the guy said 30 minutes. I was already outside and they were pretty busy so we waited about 25/30 minutes and went in. The lady was very helpful, even caught an overcharge the kid had quoted and fixed that for us. I loved the atmosphere it felt like a little diner! Got the food, which was ready and left. Grabbed a piece and it was only warm.. the crust was somewhat bendy so I knew it had sat for a bit. The cheese and sauce were delicious and I bet this would have tasted better if we had eaten there and it was hot and fresh. I think the kid told me too long of a time. If I ever pass thru again I will try it again.. all the dishes being served to the tables looked so yummy and I totally should have ordered garlic bread after seeing that too omg 😋
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 4
Everything was perfect this evening and the girl working the drive through was very nice!! Best pizza around
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Breadsticks, Mozzarella Sticks
Restaurantji Recommends
The pizzas we got were terrible.the so called taco pizza was just lettuce and chips basically no meat at all. The veggie was nothing but green and black olives.terrible pizza.wont return
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 2
Update 2025
So it's been over 2 years since going here. We purchased gift certificates from dine on a dime to give them another chance. I placed a carry out order, they would only let me use 1 of the 2 gift certificates I had the order was over 30.00 & each gift certificate was 10.00. (They still would have made money & had a happy customer) I paid the difference, kept 1 of them & brushed it off.
Returned again on 1-3-25 with my remaining gift certificate. I ordered the 9.99 pizza special & bread sticks at menu price, My total was about 18.00. I handed them the 10.00 gift certificate & 8.00 cash. The owner returned & told me she couldn't take my gift certificate because I ordered a pizza with the coupon. She finally did take it for the breadstick portion of the order, although she was very salty about it. I paid the full 10.71 for the pizza. She referred to my gift certificate as a coupon. It does not say coupon on it, nor does it say only valid on menu priced items. With that being said, if you don't want to honor them, do not sell them thru dine on a dime.
Pizza was ordered at 4pm & requested at 715 it was not ready until about 725. The odd thing was it was not very hot when I got it.
Original Review from 2 years ago.
We have went there off & on for years. Since covid, they have went down hill. I don't like the way you have to order. My biggest reason for this negative review is last time we were in. This will be our last. We went to the counter & ordered. We say there for over an hour & our food didn't come. No one checked on us just left is sitting. I finally went up to the counter to check on our order. The young man looked confused & got owner. She advised me they didn't get our order. After going thru the tickets to find our order. They apologized & said they would get it immediately. The food did come quickly after this. We were not offered anything. In my opinion, we should have at minimum been offered a free drink while we wait. Maybe even a gift certificate to get us to return. At this point, we will not be going back. Other visits recently have been slow. All this could have been avoided by an employee checking on us, which was never done in over an hour.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Always good
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Tacos, Taco Salad
Great family run spot. We come back every year while we’re in town for hunting season. 👍🏼
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Breadsticks
WoW! After all these years, branched out from the Family Restaurant in Kewanee, the pizza is Authentic Alfano's!
Alberto said he gets the same ingredients from the same suppliers they used 45-50 years ago!
Very Very Impressive Alberto!!!
Thanks Again!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Pepperoni Pizza
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