Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders

Second best pizza in the world and sandwiches are great. Large variety of choices. One of our family favorite places now to eat.

I have orders grinders delivered to my hotel on 2 separate visits. This visit I dined in and had the spaghetti dinner. One of the best meals I have ever had and cheaper than Mcds. Love this place

I ordered 3 grinders, wings and a family salad to go. The staff was very friendly. Everything was good. I was late picking up so the ranch dip containers had melted. They noticed and replaced them.

Always love going in for Waffle Cone Wednesday!

Always have good food. There’s always a place to set. Customer service is always good all-around great business to support locally.

Ordered the the pride. It did not disappoint. I have had pizza all over the country. This is good pizza. Nice employees and a there is a dining room to eat in. Highly recommend.

Always good food when ordering in. Friendly staff and clean environment.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Not anything like the any other Bellacinos I've had.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 5

TLDR: Good submarine sandwiches, mediocre pizza; don't get the ice cream.

MENU: Toasted submarine sandwiches (called grinders) along with pizza, classic sides like breadsticks and cheesy bread, salads, pastas, and lasagna.

FOOD QUALITY: On the upside, Bellacino's is generous with toppings - you will get a good bang for your buck, no matter what you order. On the downside, overall quality is pretty low for some of the ingredients, IMO - especially meats, and the cheese that comes standard on pizza. If you do decide to get pizza, make sure to ask them to cut it in wedges; otherwise the default is squares, which means you wind up with a soggy bottom and an odd mix of sizes with an uneven distribution of crust and toppings. (I don't see any benefit to cutting a pizza in squares, but people do what they do - if you want to make a pizza "more shareable" just cut it into smaller wedges...)

MENU FAVORITES: Skip the pizza and get a sandwich. (A whole grinder is 18", a half is 9", and a quarter is 4.5". A quarter is sufficient for one meal, for most folks.) The Club and the Italian are my go-to choices.

MENU FAILS: The pizza here is mediocre at best. They don't have a thin crust option. The one-way-for-everyone crust is chewy to the point of being rubbery, and it tends to be a bit thick and stodgy on the bottom. I recently hosted a party of about twenty people and the ONLY reason I went with Bellacino's is because two of my friends don't eat gluten, and they have a gluten-free crust option - as far as I know, this is the only pizza shop in town that offers that courtesy. Otherwise, pretty much any other place has better pizza. Honestly, I'd rather have a thin crust Screaming Sicilian from Hy-Vee. The wings here are some of the worst I've ever had - to me, they looked like they were baked, and just barely cooked through, then slathered with bland, runny sauce. So far in life, the cinnamon sticks here are the worst dessert I have ever gotten at any restaurant - it amounts to bland, rubbery pizza crust covered with a powdered sugar icing. They have an ice cream bar inside the restaurant as well; the ice cream itself is fine, but they store the scoops in water so they cut through the ice cream more easily, and the result is that they slop water into the ice cream every time they dip, and you get little chips of ice in every bite. It's also expensive, for what it is. Don't get ice cream here.

FRONT OF HOUSE SERVICE: I would say the delivery staff are some of the best you'll find anywhere. The three or four I have interacted with so far have been friendly, and they usually take a few seconds to share a joke or banter with me while they hand the food over. When they delivered the food for that party of twenty, I got the impression that the guy might have been a manager - he was very cordial and helpful, which I take as a sign that they strive to do the best they can for the customers. A+ from me.

KITCHEN SERVICE: As far as I can tell, all the food preparation is automated, so there just isn't much to say about it.

ATMOSPHERE: Typical fast-food joint; nothing to write home about. Clean and orderly. They have multiple screens playing sports, if you're into that. My main criticism is that the menu board is posted on a side wall, which you can't see until you're up to the register, so if there's a line and you aren't already familiar with the menu, you won't have a chance to decide what you want until you get to the front. On the few occasions I have dined in, the bathroom was very clean and well stocked.

Vegetarian options: You can get a pizza with whatever combination of vegetarian toppings you like.

Dietary restrictions: Gluten free crust available - as far as I know, the only place in town that offers this option.

Parking: The restaurant

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 5

Friendly staff and fast service for takeout.
They were able to accommodate and do the pasta without meat. Vegetarian friendly

Vegetarian options: Cheese pizza, veggie pizza, spaghetti tomato sauce, veggie grinders

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

A small family-run business, Pizza is a good deal service is great very

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Pizza

Best gluten-free pizza! Greek salad was great also!

Dietary restrictions: Amazing gluten-free pizza.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Salad, Pizza

Good grinders, friendly staff, good visit.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Thank you James for making it right. I appreciate the extra effort. love this store

I like the food but after tonight, I will not be ordering from here again, they made me a sandwich was cold raw bacon and then we I asked for them to remake it they didn't remake my order they just gave my the planet sandwich they could offer and then wouldn't refund my order either. I was was even willing to come back and pick it up because they couldn't even deliver after THEY messed up my order.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1