Puccini's Pizza Pasta-Chevy Chase Place

Amazing food and great service by Milo

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Horrible at getting to go orders out in a reasonable time

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Very polite staff, very professional service, excellent food. The man that answered the phone was very patient and helpful, great restaurant.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

It wasn't bad. There were booths and tables. It was on the darker side, not much light inside. The menu was pretty simple. Some pasta dishes, salads, breads and pizza. The service was okay. Our server was a little forgetful. I loved the ranch dressing I got with my salad. We tried the garlic cheese bread and it was pretty good. The marinara was nice. It was the thick chunky kind. We got a large pizza that came cut into 16 squares which I like but a lot of the outer pieces were missing cheese. The crust was pretty plain. Not much flavor. It was thin crust. The pizza sauce was good but lacked seasoning. Overall it was okay. The taste reminded me a lot of the frozen Digorno pizzas you get from the store.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 3

Ordered a half margarita and half king of hearts pizza. I see the vision of the king of hearts flavor combinations but the delivery fell short. We came in hungry and ready to eat the entire pizza and left disappointed with the cardboard crust, Roma flavorless tomatoes, great value dried basil, swimming in oil, all the ingredients were obviously from a can or from prepped frozen portions that lacked in both flavor and texture. I would get a better pizza from the frozen food isle or even if I over salted my own dough. If you are coming for a little kids pizza party it reminds me of the quality from chuck e cheeses.
The server was prompt and kind and food came out concerningly quick.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 2

Absolutely one of my favorite places to eat. However, the last two times I tried to dine in, I was completely ignored by wait staff. Today, I sat for 15 minutes and didn’t even receive a drink or a heads up that the waitress was busy, so I just left. I understand that lately there has been a staffing issue, but I have worked in the restaurant industry for years and if you get slammed, you should give your other tables at least a heads up. Both times I’ve been ignored I had been by myself. I get the same thing every time, so visiting my table would take less than a minute. Gave it another shot today, didn’t go as planned, maybe I’ll try again in 6 more months.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 1

The pizza is slightly on the expensive side,. But you get what you pay for. Great ingredients, and choices of ingredients. You can make some very interesting pizzas on the build your own, also, they have some interesting choices of their own on the menu. I went with pepperoni, fresh basil and ricotta. Word of warning. They mean it when they say spicy meatballs, I did not expect it to be so spicy and it surprised me, still very good. The cheesecake is also tasty, More on the tangy side.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

The pizza was the best ever. The service was wonderful. will go back again

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Very much liked the low- carb meat dish I tried!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I’m not usually a person who leaves reviews but holy heck this is great pizza I got the campfire and added spinach and chicken…the marmalade combined with the pungent Gorgonzola is a match made in heaven and the staff were all excellent

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The chicken Diavlo spicy is very spicy but delicious. Thier pizza is some of the best we have ever had. I would say the only complaint would be the appetizer garlic bread and cheese was a very small portion for the price.

I ordered a $24 white clam pasta for delivery. It comes DRENCHED in oil. Please be aware, it looks more like a soup than a pasta. The “pasta” was tasteless, I had to add my own seasonings and it it still didn’t taste like anything. I have fatty liver disease and the amount of oil is not safe to consume. Thankfully I was able to get a refund. Don’t think I’ll order from here again.

Food was not good, it took forever for our food to come to us, our server never came to get us drink refills, they got our orders wrong, and it smelled like cigarette smoke in the restaurant.

Coming in, we were immediately met with a foul odor of old cigarette smoke. I wasn't the only one in our party that noticed it. Not sure if it's just an old building but it wasn't a pleasant smell to be hit with when first arriving.

We were seated quickly but the server seemed unfamiliar with the selection of drinks available and just gave a written down list. The drink items on the menu were no longer available. When I asked about certain beers, the server had to go and ask.

The place was not busy for a Sunday night which was fine but even with how slow it was, we could barely hear our server as she didn't seem to have very much inflection. I guess it's not necessarily her fault.

The food took quite a bit of time to get to the table. Fortunately, we had a lot to talk about in our group but there were situations where the drinks were empty and we were waiting for more. The food turned out good and our group seemed to be happy with it. I felt like the portions were kind of small considering a kids pizza was the exact same size as small pizza and I feel like there should be a disparity especially since they are different prices.

Me and my partner ate here for dinner, and they seemed slightly busy. We had a pizza and added pineapples and one of their pastas. The pizza was underwhelming and they forgot the pineapple. The pasta was better i liked the noodles but it felt like it was missing something. Overall i might give them another try when they’re less busy or the other location.