Everything was fantastic! My server was outstanding. It was very sad that this was our last opportunity to eat their Graziano's. Thank you for so many years of great food and service.
marlap
Unfortunately, this wonderful neighborhood restaurant is closing. So I could never recommend it because by Saturday it's not gonna be there and I am very sad that it's going.
Graziano's is one of the best Italian restaurants around! I'm so sad that it'll be closing later this month. Such a loss for the community, but I'm glad I've been able to enjoy some delicious Italian food with my family there over the years. It won't be soon forgotten!
Graziano's has been a favorite of our family for years! We've gone there for several special occasions. We will miss going here. We came from Fox River Grove and Gurnee to come back before it closed! Good luck to the owners and staff!
Heels314
Sad ending to a restaurant's history. I hoped that one last meal at one of my family's all time favorites would be as great as in the past, but sadly the current staff is overwhelmed by the demand and in the case of our waitress seemed like she no longer cared. I don't know what was more upsetting, the fact that drinks including water were never offered to be refilled, dessert not offered, the idgaf attitude from the waitress, or her drive by drop offs of togo containers and plastic bags, presuming we were done. Maybe someone will continue to make the salad dressing, but like many other closings, we might have been better served by finding a note on the door saying closed.
Mrszippy
When we heard Graziano's was closing we had to get one last meal in! The food was excellent as usual. The service was a bit below par. Our waiter seemed confused and several times brought the wrong items to our table. He never asked if we would like anything else, just offered containers to pack our leftovers in. We had indicated on the Open Table reservation that we were celebrating our anniversary but I don't know why we even bother. They never acknowledged it or asked if we were there for any special occasion. All that aside, I'm very sad that Graziano's will soon be no more.
BarbR
I have been going to Graziano's since I was a child with my parents. Now, my family and I live in northern Illinois and decided to revisit our old neck of the woods and drive down to Grazianos. Boy, have things changed. The ambience is the same, very pleasant, but a little dirty. The service was excellent, the menu has been completely stripped, and is very limited now. I remember loving their salads, they used to come in a big family style bowl and had onions and a delicious dressing. It is VERY different now, and not for the better. The salads came out in individual bowls and looked just like a premade garden salad that was probably stuck in the refrigerator just waiting to be pulled out.  The type of lettuce they used was different, the dressing even seemed different. I was so disappointed I pushed it aside and asked for a minestrone soup instead. The minestrone soup was very good, although it seemed light on noodles, but it was still quite tasty. My family ordered a variety of things, there were five of us, it ranged from a pizza,eggplant Parmesan, chicken Vesuvio, fettuccine Alfredo, and bowtie pasta in a creamy vodka sauce.  My husband who also grew up in this area and has always gotten the chicken Vesuvio said it tasted completely different and was loaded with salt. He said the chicken was dry and he did not enjoy it. My bowtie pasta tasted the same thankfully.  Indeed, I found myself gulping down water because the food was so incredibly salty. I don't remember it being this salty. The prices, of course have gone up tremendously, which we are used to at this point post Covid, but for five of us it was about $177 plus tip. Only two of us ordered alcohol, myself, and my mother-in-law each ordered a glass of rosé at $10 each. It arrived in a glass with about not even a fourth of the glass full.  I was NOT happy about that.  We were also surprised at how empty the restaurant was. It was virtually empty on a Saturday night at 7 PM.  So different. ☹️
StephanieT
Had a wonderful dinner at Grazianos. Our server, Linda, was fantastic. She answered our questions clearly. She seemed to anticipate what we needed just as we needed it. She really couldn't have been more helpful, welcoming or attentive. We had Chicken Vesuvio and pasta with tomato vodka sauce. The portions were very generous and the food was delicious. We also shared a slice of cake for dessert. Linda said that it would be a huge slice and it was. The $3 charge fir unlimited soup or salad was very reasonable. The house salad was crisp and fresh and had a delicious dressing. Our orders also came with a basket of sliced bread. There was olive oil and Parmesan on the table to use on the bread. This was our first visit to Grazianos since the pandemic and we were happy that everything was just as great as it was before.
Jack Cartlidge
So I brought my my future wifey here for a date night. I've been here before a couple of years ago and enjoyed the food. I love their brick oven pizza but decided to try something else. It was delicious. In fact had a bite of my girls dish too and that was delicious as well. The portion was bigger then what I was expecting. Got full and couldn't finish it so I had to take it home. The service was great. The people were welcoming and nice. It has intimate lightingand I would highly recommend this place to any pizza and pasta lover.Parking: Parking is plentiful
TanjaA
My friends and I celebrated my birthday yesterday evening and we had a wonderful time. The food was delicious. Our server Julie took very good care of us. She overheard us talk about my birthday and at the end of our meal a beautiful festive ice cream dessert was brought out for us to share. Thank you Julie and thank you Graziano's. We'll definitely be back!
Graziano's is a great place! The food is delicious (and there's a ton of it!). The management and wait staff are incredibly accommodating too. They were able to provide us with a specific type of table and a specific menu request, and acted like it wasn't even an issue - I love and appreciate that so much. It's rare to find! Can't wait to go back!
Calvin Wei
The carnivore pizza (we ordered the 12 inch) and their salad were superb!!!! Will go next time. Portion of pasta was a bit too much, but good nevertheless.Kids menu s’ghetti was good (do mention you want side of meatball).But I didn't understand the 3% processing fee on the receipt……. And that it can be removed on request?
Huge servings. Tasty. All four dishes except the lasagna arrived hot. (Lasagna was incredibly thick so it obviously did not come directly from an oven.) Tasty bread, would have liked balsamic vinegar to mix with oil at table for greater authenticity. AC made our booth in the back super cold. Friendly server but we did have to wait a while to order, and later also, even though it wasn't that busy. Everything was close to outstanding, just missed the mark in a few areas. Our last name is Graziano and we had looked forward to dining there for years until we were in the area, but no one blinked an eye or acknowledged that detail. No biggie! Overall we loved the food, and will be back again if we are ever in the area.
Awful service. Didn't bring plates for shareables Twice! Slow service- burnt calamari - brought the wrong salad- threw out food I wanted to take with me. People were friendly just not good at service.
Kathy Fern
This has been my favorite restaurant of all time for a long time. I've had just about everything on the menu over the 24 years I've lived in this neighborhood and it's ALWAYS been fantastic! Some of my favorites are 4 cheese fettuccine (I add Italian sausage, yum!), Bow tie pasta with vodka sauce, and they are famous for their house salad dressing (which you can even buy by the pint!). Their brick oven pizza is really good, also (I recommend margarita). The owner has always been very active in supporting the community and won't hesitate to donate a gift certificate for a good cause. When my boys were little, one of their favorite things was to go to the pizza counter and they would get a hunk of pizza dough to play with while they watched the pizzas being made. I've had many family parties here and there's a pretty decent bar vibe also! Try it; you won't be disappointed.
Everything was fantastic! My server was outstanding. It was very sad that this was our last opportunity to eat their Graziano's. Thank you for so many years of great food and service.
Unfortunately, this wonderful neighborhood restaurant is closing. So I could never recommend it because by Saturday it's not gonna be there and I am very sad that it's going.
Graziano's is one of the best Italian restaurants around! I'm so sad that it'll be closing later this month. Such a loss for the community, but I'm glad I've been able to enjoy some delicious Italian food with my family there over the years. It won't be soon forgotten!
Graziano's has been a favorite of our family for years! We've gone there for several special occasions. We will miss going here. We came from Fox River Grove and Gurnee to come back before it closed! Good luck to the owners and staff!
Sad ending to a restaurant's history. I hoped that one last meal at one of my family's all time favorites would be as great as in the past, but sadly the current staff is overwhelmed by the demand and in the case of our waitress seemed like she no longer cared. I don't know what was more upsetting, the fact that drinks including water were never offered to be refilled, dessert not offered, the idgaf attitude from the waitress, or her drive by drop offs of togo containers and plastic bags, presuming we were done. Maybe someone will continue to make the salad dressing, but like many other closings, we might have been better served by finding a note on the door saying closed.
When we heard Graziano's was closing we had to get one last meal in! The food was excellent as usual. The service was a bit below par. Our waiter seemed confused and several times brought the wrong items to our table. He never asked if we would like anything else, just offered containers to pack our leftovers in. We had indicated on the Open Table reservation that we were celebrating our anniversary but I don't know why we even bother. They never acknowledged it or asked if we were there for any special occasion. All that aside, I'm very sad that Graziano's will soon be no more.
I have been going to Graziano's since I was a child with my parents. Now, my family and I live in northern Illinois and decided to revisit our old neck of the woods and drive down to Grazianos. Boy, have things changed. The ambience is the same, very pleasant, but a little dirty. The service was excellent, the menu has been completely stripped, and is very limited now. I remember loving their salads, they used to come in a big family style bowl and had onions and a delicious dressing. It is VERY different now, and not for the better. The salads came out in individual bowls and looked just like a premade garden salad that was probably stuck in the refrigerator just waiting to be pulled out.  The type of lettuce they used was different, the dressing even seemed different. I was so disappointed I pushed it aside and asked for a minestrone soup instead. The minestrone soup was very good, although it seemed light on noodles, but it was still quite tasty. My family ordered a variety of things, there were five of us, it ranged from a pizza,eggplant Parmesan, chicken Vesuvio, fettuccine Alfredo, and bowtie pasta in a creamy vodka sauce.  My husband who also grew up in this area and has always gotten the chicken Vesuvio said it tasted completely different and was loaded with salt. He said the chicken was dry and he did not enjoy it. My bowtie pasta tasted the same thankfully.  Indeed, I found myself gulping down water because the food was so incredibly salty. I don't remember it being this salty. The prices, of course have gone up tremendously, which we are used to at this point post Covid, but for five of us it was about $177 plus tip. Only two of us ordered alcohol, myself, and my mother-in-law each ordered a glass of rosé at $10 each. It arrived in a glass with about not even a fourth of the glass full.  I was NOT happy about that.  We were also surprised at how empty the restaurant was. It was virtually empty on a Saturday night at 7 PM.  So different. ☹️
Had a wonderful dinner at Grazianos. Our server, Linda, was fantastic. She answered our questions clearly. She seemed to anticipate what we needed just as we needed it. She really couldn't have been more helpful, welcoming or attentive. We had Chicken Vesuvio and pasta with tomato vodka sauce. The portions were very generous and the food was delicious. We also shared a slice of cake for dessert. Linda said that it would be a huge slice and it was. The $3 charge fir unlimited soup or salad was very reasonable. The house salad was crisp and fresh and had a delicious dressing. Our orders also came with a basket of sliced bread. There was olive oil and Parmesan on the table to use on the bread. This was our first visit to Grazianos since the pandemic and we were happy that everything was just as great as it was before.
So I brought my my future wifey here for a date night. I've been here before a couple of years ago and enjoyed the food. I love their brick oven pizza but decided to try something else. It was delicious. In fact had a bite of my girls dish too and that was delicious as well. The portion was bigger then what I was expecting. Got full and couldn't finish it so I had to take it home. The service was great. The people were welcoming and nice. It has intimate lightingand I would highly recommend this place to any pizza and pasta lover.Parking: Parking is plentiful
My friends and I celebrated my birthday yesterday evening and we had a wonderful time. The food was delicious. Our server Julie took very good care of us. She overheard us talk about my birthday and at the end of our meal a beautiful festive ice cream dessert was brought out for us to share. Thank you Julie and thank you Graziano's. We'll definitely be back!
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Graziano's is a great place! The food is delicious (and there's a ton of it!). The management and wait staff are incredibly accommodating too. They were able to provide us with a specific type of table and a specific menu request, and acted like it wasn't even an issue - I love and appreciate that so much. It's rare to find! Can't wait to go back!
The carnivore pizza (we ordered the 12 inch) and their salad were superb!!!! Will go next time. Portion of pasta was a bit too much, but good nevertheless.Kids menu s’ghetti was good (do mention you want side of meatball).But I didn't understand the 3% processing fee on the receipt……. And that it can be removed on request?
Huge servings. Tasty. All four dishes except the lasagna arrived hot. (Lasagna was incredibly thick so it obviously did not come directly from an oven.) Tasty bread, would have liked balsamic vinegar to mix with oil at table for greater authenticity. AC made our booth in the back super cold. Friendly server but we did have to wait a while to order, and later also, even though it wasn't that busy. Everything was close to outstanding, just missed the mark in a few areas. Our last name is Graziano and we had looked forward to dining there for years until we were in the area, but no one blinked an eye or acknowledged that detail. No biggie! Overall we loved the food, and will be back again if we are ever in the area.
Awful service. Didn't bring plates for shareables Twice! Slow service- burnt calamari - brought the wrong salad- threw out food I wanted to take with me. People were friendly just not good at service.
This has been my favorite restaurant of all time for a long time. I've had just about everything on the menu over the 24 years I've lived in this neighborhood and it's ALWAYS been fantastic! Some of my favorites are 4 cheese fettuccine (I add Italian sausage, yum!), Bow tie pasta with vodka sauce, and they are famous for their house salad dressing (which you can even buy by the pint!). Their brick oven pizza is really good, also (I recommend margarita). The owner has always been very active in supporting the community and won't hesitate to donate a gift certificate for a good cause. When my boys were little, one of their favorite things was to go to the pizza counter and they would get a hunk of pizza dough to play with while they watched the pizzas being made. I've had many family parties here and there's a pretty decent bar vibe also! Try it; you won't be disappointed.