
Eatery with brick archways & red-checkered tablecloths offering pizza, pasta & other Italian fare.
Address and Contact Information
Address: 6 Brookside Ave, Caldwell, NJ 07006
Phone: (973) 226-1234
Website: https://getangelonis.com/
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As for the service… you couldn’t find nicer people if you tried! Just an overall great experience!
I passed by a billboard on R46 advertising Angeloni’s pizza and the picture of the pie looked pretty good, along with the ‘thinny thin’ slogan. For my wife and I, thinny thin pie is our favorite, so I said we need to try Angeloni’s one day soon. That was about 10 days ago.
Yes, you have to love ‘thinny thin’ pizza and we do. So thin and tasty.
We also had the mussels fra diavlo. My wife is still talking about how these were the best we’ve ever had… hours later.
Oh… the Avocado caprese salad is really quite excellent. Never had an avocado served like this before.
Service was prompt and excellent… and it’s a BYO (our favorite) so I know we’ll be back again… soon!
The Waiting Game: An Olympic SportWe, a group of eight, had the audacity to make a reservation—a month in advance—for 8 PM on a bustling Friday. We arrived 15 minutes early, full of hope, only to be told our table was… somewhere in the future.
Wait #1: A brisk 40 minutes past our reservation time.The Seating Attempt: They then tried to cram our eight adult-sized bodies into a patch of real estate best suited for six garden gnomes. We declined this generous offer to experience human Tetris.
Wait #2: Another 20 minutes for the proper table.That’s a full hour of our lives we won’t get back, all to honor a pre-arranged commitment we made. They really should change their sign to read: “Welcome! Expect to Wait.”
BYOB (Bring Your Own Wine Glasses?)Finally seated, we remembered this was a BYOB spot. We cracked open our lovely bottle of red wine only to discover the height of Italian dining irony: No red wine glasses. In a BYOB establishment. This is like a gym with no weights. Another 20 minutes of our precious time vanished while the staff performed a thrilling scavenger hunt for stemware. I’d have offered to drink from a coffee mug, but I was worried they’d charge me a corkage fee for it.
The Kitchen’s Timing is… AbstractThe food eventually arrived. The appetizers were good, though miles away from being “great.” The best was a sausage and hot peppers dish that was, let’s say, not offensively bad.
Then came the main course tragedy:One dinner plate was delivered.The pizzas—meant to feed the remaining seven of us—arrived a full 15 minutes later.Our solitary diner had to choose between two equally grim options: Eat alone and feel like a ravenous pariah, or wait for the rest of us and enjoy a lovely, chilled entrée. She chose the latter. The kitchen has clearly mastered the art of the Ice-Cold Main Course. Bravo.
The Pizza: Charred and UnapologeticThe pizzas finally showed up, proudly boasting the place’s signature characteristic: an unapologetically burnt bottom. If their reviews mention it, it’s not a mistake; it’s a lifestyle. I suppose that’s the “thin thin” style—a fine line between crispy and straight-up charcoal.
Were they worth the parking struggle, the hour-long wait, the lack of wine glasses, or the cold dinner? Absolutely not.
The Final Stick-It-To-YouJust when we thought the ordeal was over, we were presented with the final insult: The 3% Credit Card Fee. That little “thank you for your patience and patronage, now let us stick you one last time” fee. A truly beautiful curtain call for a thoroughly mediocre experience.
If your idea of a perfect night out includes: Being late for a reservation you made. Getting packed into a tiny space. Eating burnt food. And paying extra for the privilege of swiping your plastic. Then congratulations, you’ve found your happy place.
As for me? I’ll be enjoying great food and timely service somewhere else. And I won’t be back anytime soon—even if you find me a parking spot.
Great service, even when busy.
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We come from the S. Jersey area, so this was about an hour and a half ride from us. We visited the Star Tavern in Orange and loved it. After seeing his review, we had high hopes (since he specifically called out Star Tavern in his review). Well….We couldn’t have been more let down, and disagreed with “El Prez” more.
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We visited on the Friday of Labor Day weekend, for lunch around noon. Parking was plentiful on the street. We walked in and were promptly seated as the restaurant was about less than 1/4 full (again, it was the beginning of a holiday weekend).
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We ordered a coke and a water, small Chicken Pastina Soup and a Large Thinnie Minnie plan pie.
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The girlfriend didn’t care for her cola. Maybe it wasn’t a name brand, maybe it was watered down. Don’t know, didn’t taste how she’s used to cola tasting, but that’s ok, it’s just cola. The water with lemon was fine (much better than the Philly city water we’re used to).
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Chicken Pastina Soup was pretty good….but onto the pizza.
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Even looking at the photos, we’re like….Damn it looks good. The pie is very photogenic!
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But the taste….ugh….The taste MIGHT’VE been better, but our tastebuds were ruined. You see, the edge of the pie has crispy cheese around the edge. We thought it would be similar to like a Detroit pie with cheest around the edge. The thing with us….The thing that absolutely ruined this pie (and our tastebuds for the rest of the lunch) was that this cheese was burnt. Burnt, burnt, BURNT. So we go, grab the cheese and go to snack on it and we were both like “oh no….this is stright up burnt”. So now we got the burnt taste in our mouths that won’t go away…
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So that taste lingered the whole rest of the pizza and just ruined our experience for the most part. The second slice, I ate up to the “crust” part of the pizza and then stopped, and it wasn’t that bad…..but then we started to think about it and said…”We’ll it’s not that bad, but not that great either….” For our preference, we prefer the other joint previously mentioned.
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…..and before anyone says anything….we literally take shreedded cheese at home, put it on parchment paper, bake it until it gets nice and crispy. This was legit just burnt, can’t understand anyone eating it and finding it pleasant. However, that’s just us.
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The ambiance was nice inside, the restaurant was large and the server was quick and efficient. We just weren’t the biggest fans of the pizza….but that’s why we drive all over, to try all these spots.
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FWIW, when we went to the Star Tavern, we were talking to the bartenders/waitresses and asked them where they like to go to get Pizza, and two of them mentioned Angeloni’s.
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This place likes to cook their pies well done (as we could see from other tables), we just didn’t like how well, well done ours was when it came to the edge and all. Maybe a regular pie (not a Thinny Thin) would be more enjoyable? We can only speak on our expierience.