Reviews for Graziano's in Forest, VA
My son has been asking to try this place for the past month. Friday night dinner? He chose Graziano's. We shared a pizza, the... Sicilian special. We are both adventurous eaters and really loved this GIANT pizza. It lasted us 2 additional meals after theone we had @ the restaurant. That's saying a lot when you have a teenage boy. This pizza was delicious. The sausage was shavedthin, instead of ground. The flavor was delicious. The red sauce was a bit on the sweeter side (which my son loves). The crustwas fluffy, chewy and crispy in all the right spots. I appreciated the crunch of the veggies. There were quite a few toppingsscattered across the pizza. For a Friday night we expected it would be busy and sure enough it was. The service was great,however. Both the hostess and the server checked in with us periodically. Even the patrons within the restaurant were friendly.We had a few comment on the GIANT size of the pizza ???? Cute decor. Great food. Giant portions and phenomenal service.Everything you want in a restaurant experience! 5 stars! Read more
Ever since Graziano's opened, my wife and I absolutely loved their food. We would always get either spaghetti with meat sauce or... penne with alfredo. The portions were always incredible (easily two meals per order) and the quality was unmatched. In fact, itwas the only restaurant I'd order spaghetti at. After not having their food for maybe a year, we decided to order takeouttonight. Spaghetti with meat sauce, and penne alfredo, our usual. I noticed right away that the portions had changed drasticallyfrom both dishes. We couldn't have been more disappointed with our food. The spaghetti tasted nothing like it used to, the sauceused to be thick and hearty, and slightly sweet, tonight it was bland and unremarkable. The portions have easily been halvedfrom what they were for years. The penne alfredo was also bland and unremarkable, and with the smaller portions, the $14 pricetag is unexplainable. Our bill was higher then we expected, and upon looking into that, it turns out we were viewing an oldermenu pre 2022 inflation, and we can accept that. What we can't accept is higher prices for less, lower quality food. Grazianoswas our favorite Italian restaurant in the area, and we are disappointed. I am leaving two stars instead of one due to ourcountless positive experiences with this restaurant in the past, and hope the next time we try it things will be different. On apositive note, the new interior renovations look great. Read more
I go there at least 1 once a week for long while now, but something has changed in the last few weeks. The pizza isn't near as... good and the cheese is the culprit. Just another somebody taking over a good thing and sacrificing quality for the dollar. Read more
Ordered with grub hub never had their pizza before. I lived in NJ years ago and the pizza was the closet I've found here....its... amazing and my only go to from now on...and the simply vanilla cheesecake we are speechless. Thanks so much for an amazingdinner Read more
Vary cute place! I went on a dinner date with some old friends and it was a vary enjoyable time. She waiters were vary friendly.... the food was delicious all tho kinda pricey. Would still definitely recommend ???? Read more
Update- Just for clarification this pizza below is the 24" and we paid $5 for pepperoni and this is what we got. Also I do not... appreciate this businesses response I find it very rude and very condescending. How as a business do you belittle the customerand make them feel like they've done something wrong? Oh and you DID NOT STAY OPEN FOR ME there were customers in yourrestaurant still eating their "questionable" food. Let me begin by saying we used to get pizza here all the time when it wasthe old pizza place and it was delicious. We ordered pizza last month and this is the pizza below, you pay quite a bit for thislittle of toppings. So I gave them another chance and ordered pizza Christmas Eve I had called ahead of time and was told theyclosed at 6 so I said if we ordered for a 530 pick up after church they said that would be perfect. I called back and they saidcan you pick it up earlier we're closing early, I explained I was told 6 so they took my order, I was there at 525 and sat andwaited. Left with my pizza and had to make another stop for another pizza because this one last time was so disappointing. Myfather said he wouldn't pay that kind of money for something like that again. I brought the pizza home, and once again I wasdisappointed again you pay quite a bit for toppings and as you can see there isn't a lot. On this night we paid $2 for pepperoniand $2 for pineapple (unfortunately I didn't take a picture of this) and once again barely any toppings. I don't know how youcharge customers $2 for pineapple when you gave me 10 pieces on the whole pizza and the pepperoni was very slim as well. I wasvery hopeful with this order, but again was left very frustrated and disappointed. Also this pizza in the picture below is the24" and there isn't a lot of pepperoni (we paid $5 for this pepperoni)oh and the pizza was spread out so thin that there wasbarely any dough. Pretty sure they use the same amount of dough for all their pizza regardless of size. Read more
This place gave me mixed feelings so I'd rate 3.5. The calzone was huge at a base fee of $13.50 with $2 for each additional... topping. Unfortunately, it's not worth it because it's SUPER thin so it averages out to about and the same filling as a regularsized calzone. It did taste really good though! I just had to poke it to let the air out since it was puffed up. The cheesefries were not worth it. For $6.50 I expected them to have some flavor or actual liquid/melted cheese. It was just a bigcontainer of plain fries with a very small amount of shredded cheese. They come with nothing else but you can add bacon for like$2.00 and that's it. The wings were your basic, average wings. The only sauce options are mild and bbq and I didn't like themild at all. They tasted pretty good plain though. Theyre very crispy and would be even better if they didn't have so much faton them. Read more
The pizza itself is very good at this restaurant but my low star rating is mostly due to the prices on the website not being the... same as what they actually charge. The difference is sometimes a few dollars worth which is an unwelcome surprise. The staffstate the prices online have been updated, however as of today the pizza I ordered was 2.50 more than what the website stated.This can be remedied by verifying the total price over the phone when ordering which I did not think to do but either way, I amhoping this review helps someone else to think of that so they aren't surprised by the end cost of theirorder. ****update*** Grazianos reached out and informed me that they adjusted their website the same day! Changing my reviewfrom 3 to 4 stars. Read more