Panico's Restaurant & Bar w/ Brick Oven Pizza

No longer Panico's-- now Victoria. New owners doing their best to ramp up but service is a bit slow. Food is good, management aims to please. Traffic and parking down town New Brunswick a real pain.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 3

Ordered a chicken parm pizza from this place the other night. Whenever I order this kind of pizza from other places, it usually means the pizza will be dressed with ricotta cheese or fresh mozzarella and basil. This one however, was just a plain pizza with a few thinly cut slices of burnt chicken cutlet. If that's what youre into, consider this place golden, but if youre like me and expect more for the price, just go somewhere else.

Food: 1

We had a great time. Pizza was delicious as well as pastas! Enjoyed our meal very much. Service was superb.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

A super nice spot in New Brunswick. The range of food options is strong. The eggplant parmesan is outstanding. This is a nice gem if you are visiting Rutgers or just passing through on your way to somewhere else. Definitely will return.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

I've been here before to have drinks after the Stress Factory. I stopped in again on 1/25/24. The bar is nice and modern. I haven't eaten here yet but I will. The woman behind the bar, Irene, was very personable and funny. She was a great host behind the bar. I am hoping that experience for food will be just as good as the experience for drinks.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

This place is actually called Victoria's Tratta Italiano. So, if you are using Google maps when you past the restaurant and turn back, you will see a sign for Panico's. Definitely recommend stopping and getting some pizza here. They have a brick oven, and the crust was cooked perfectly. They offer pizza by the slice or pie, small is 4 slices, and the other is 6 slices. We got the 6 slice vegetable pizza, and it was perfect for 2. We had leftovers, which we gave to a gentleman on the streets. This is a great place to explore while in New Brunswick.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I’s no longer Panico’s but Victoria’s and the food is not the same. Ordered pizza today that had the soggiest crust ever. Total waste of money!

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 1

Service: 3

As a travel party of 55 individuals, we used Panico's to cater our team meal while visiting Rutgers University. The staff was very accommodating, and communicative, in spite of it being such a large order. We ordered the fettucini alfredo, baked ziti, and pasta with ground tomato. Our proteins were chicken parm and chicken francaise. There was a garden salad for an appetizer. 10/10 food. Our travelers commented that it was the best catering they could remember. The only qualm I have was the lack of serving utensils delivered with the order, but they returned promptly with the missing utensils. We will be utilizing Panico's again if we return to Rutgers.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

called 25 mins in advance for a to go order. got to the restaurant and its clear that whoever took the order had no idea what they were doing since she clearly went back to the kitchen and told them to make it on the fly. then proceeded to come back out front and say itll only be 2 more mins lol.its not like it was busy either when i walked in so theres that.and I even tipped an extra 20% for the nonexistent to go service and the food wasnt great.

This is a big restaurant with a fun bar area to hang out at. The service is super slow, but the atmosphere makes up for it slightly. The food is good. I would typically come here to grab drinks and appetizers with family or friends on a lowley night.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 3

Did a fantastic job providing a private room for my wife's surprise birthday party! Food was excellent. Same with service. Very accommodating...

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I had never sent anything back to the kitchen in my life until I came here. I ordered the chicken alfredo and it was flavorless and the chicken was dry. Thankfully, I was able order a different meal, and I ordered the vodka penne. Honestly, it wasn't much better so I finished about half of my meal, payed, and went to a different restaurant to fill my appetite. The service was also slow and often time I felt ignored. I had to ask for a napkin and a fork and was never given a drink menu. Overpriced, flavorless food, with slow service. I wouldn't recommend going here.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 2

Bad service, and the chocolate pizza ???, sorry for people from Italia ??

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Restaurant is no longer named Panicos as others have stated. The Stress factory recently brought it, therefore the mane changed. Went to the restaurant Saturday evening. Ordered 1 greek salad, 1 house salad, 1 chicken Parm pizza ,2 red sangrias.The salads tasted great ! The sangria was probably my least favorite I have ever had. It was extremely weak. We wanted to play it safe since it was our first time, so we ordered pizza. This was probably one of the worse tasting pizzas I ever had.The service was okay. The server was kind and polite.The restaurant decor is very nice and inviting.It was time to pay and I am so glad I checked my bill, 20% gratuity was automatically added. For larger parties, I understand, but not for a party of 2. I wish that was advertised or the server told us.Overall, I wouldn’t return back. There are too many other restaurants in the area to eat here again.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 2

Recommended dishes: Greek Salad

Delicious food- I got the balsamic salmon, highly recommended. Parking is a little scarce though but it’s to be expected being right next to a college.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Seafood, Margherita Pizza