Taste of Italy

I honestly hate giving bad reviews as I know how hard it is to run a business and that you can’t please everyone.
I have been ordering from these guys for years. The pizza used to be wonderful but has been on the decline– I’m not sure why. The last time I ordered through grub hub I requested 2 side sauces for my pizza. The sauces weren’t delivered — that would have been ok if it were a simple mistake but I called the manager and he told me he saw that I ordered them and INTENTIONALLY ignored the request as I hadn’t paid the 50 cents required in the initial order– my order was very expensive already, apparently it didn’t occur to him that I could have just paid for it when they got here. My order was for a veggie pizza so the sauces were important. This incident isn’t the sole reason for my review as needless to saw the pizza was a ³⁄₁₀.
I am disappointed that this place has gone downhill in quality and service as it used to be good, it delivers, and is open relatively late. I hope they change the way they do business and improve their product and customer service as they were great at one time.

Good pizza… great cheese, good sausage and mushrooms. Sauce was fine. Family loved it.

This is the worst pizza I have ever had. Terrible dough, nasty sauce, and we were the I only customers in the place. That should have been a sign. I would rather have frozen pizza then have to eat that disgusting pizza.

After a bad experience at Fleet Pub around the corner in Printer’s Alley. I had very few minutes left of my lunch time. so I stopped in at Taste of Italy. I had never been here before and they offer a lunch buffet for $ 7.95. I didn’t have enough time during my lunch to seat and eat there, but the buffet looked like there was some choices, so I probably would have if not in a hurry.
The lady behind the counter said I could choose 2 slices off the buffet for $ 4.00 with taxes it was $ 4.26 so I chose a slice of each supreme style slices since I prefer veggies on my pizza. the only other option was a ham and pineapple… Not a fan personally. but they all looked appetizing. They also have bread sticks and salad on the buffet.
I thanked her and grabbed my purchased and walked back to my office. The pizza smelled good but it was not very hot. I arrived back at my cubical and ate my lunch in the 10 minutes I had left. not good to gulp… but hey, I should have just ate downstairs at Chic filet or gone to Panera… my two standbys. I wanted to be adventurous and try some new location… to my unhappy experience all I received for my efforts was 15 wasted minutes at the Pub in the Alley, and two slightly cold over priced for the food quality slices of pizza and a tummy ache for gulping my food down in a hurry and some fast paced sweat breaking walking through town… Well at least I did get some EXERCISE. I guess that was the PERK REWARD.
I might do this restaurant again, if I had time to sit down and enjoy the inside atmosphere and order a entire pizza pie to share with my family. might be a total different experience. I am not blaming them for the cold pizza, it is not their fault I wasted most of my lunch at the joint around the corner. so I will definitely recommend that you try Taste of Italy and form your own opinion. I am definitely going to try them AGAIN… I love pizza and their sauce had a good taste…

Went here after a late conference presentation. The good places were packed, and many of the lunch places were closed. It was pretty good pizza for not having a plan. if you are tired and don’t want to go out, you could do worse.
The pizza isn’t worth a trek, but it’s fine if you’re tired and nearby.

Ok portion for the price for dinner. Got the shrimp scampi, and the sauce tasted heavy in garlic powder. For a butter based sauce, it was fairly powdery and nasty. Good breadsticks and salad. Fast service, not many choices on a Sunday night.
Biggest complaint is the staff. They were loudly, and quite I appropriately slamming each other out in front of the few of us in there. If I hadn’t already ordered and paid, I would have walked out.

I felt like my wife and I were taking a chance since I didn’t know anything about this place, and we were. We shared a house salad and chicken Florentine. I could’ve made a much better salad at home with items from the grocery store. And the house Italian dressing was nothing special — a little sweet for my liking. The chicken Florentine wasn’t awful, but I wish I would’ve ordered something else.
Our waitress was nice and looked like she works hard for a living, and the speed of the service was acceptable. The one highlight was the fried ravioli appetizer — I truly did enjoy this, but certainly not enough to ever go back. I didn’t waste any money on dessert since the salad and main course were disappointing.
The take home point: they tried to make it worth my time and money but it wasn’t — go someplace else.

Having ordered delivery from here a few times and carried out pizza a few more times, I definitely recommend this place if you’re just looking for good, greasy pizza (I can’t comment on anything other than pizza as that’s all I’ve had). The prices can be a little high, especially for delivery, but if you ask when you go for carry out they usually have a few specials that make the price much more reasonable. I would not go here expecting gourmet Italian, but that’s clearly not what they’re marketing either.
Overall, solid pizza that’s better than any delivery chain, but could stand to lower its prices a bit.

I don’t like to give out one star ratings much, but this place deserves it.
1. Service — slow and painful (and I went when only 3 tables were full)
2. Pizza — way to watery (clearly stuff from the can). Basil can only disguise so much
3. Dessert tasted like stuff bought from the grocery store
Basically… it is no taste of Italy… more like taste of greasy pizza that attempts to disguise itself with spice overload

Tonight me and my girlfriend decided to try this place because the value seemed good. It took them over an hour to deliver 3 entrees including a cheese burger, chicken alfredo, and baked ziti. when we finally got our order EVERYTHING was cold and absolutely disgusting. The lettuce on my burger was slimy and wilted and the tomatoes were the same. The ziti and alfredo had little to no sauce and bone dry pasta. When i called to complain and ask for a new order or a refund the man said there was nothing he could do for me and i was SOL. He then proceeded to curse me out in an irate fashion. So unless u enjoy cold disgusting food and and love to be told to go f yourself i would try pizza hut before these guys.

We had dinner here last week.
One of the cheapest place in Nashville for a piece of veal.
We had the veal parmesan and the veal marsala for $ 13.99 each.
Both came with a mixed green salad and spaghetti with sauce.
Also 2 pieces of garlic sticks.
Not the greatest but it is filling.
Most of the people were there for pizza.

Quite possibly the worst pizza place I’ve ever been to.
We went in around dinner time on a weekday. There was only one other group there. Not only was the pizza ridiculously overpriced, but it was also low quality. The menu was also unclear about pricing of larger pizzas. The restaurant itself is a typical greasy pizza joint that appeared to be set up for the late night post-​bar crowd (the pizza may have tasted good if we were inebriated).
Bottom line: I would have rather gone to Little Caesar’s.

The buffet is good if you take your lunch at 12:00 anytime after that is a hit or miss on when they shut down the buffet.

The pizza is okay, nothing to write home about but there are other items on the buffet that are pretty decent. I won’t be making the trip from my house if I really want Italian food but it’s a decent enough spot for a quick lunch.
The staff made me feel right at home though… I was ignored and nobody seemed to care anything about me after I gave them my money.

Awful. Just. Awful. Terrible and rude service, hour and a half delivery time (when quoted half an hour on the phone), bland and low quality food.
Just skip it.

At lunch this place gives three bars in one: pasta bar, pizza bar, and salad bar. Ci-C’s does NOT have to worry. The salad bar — fair. The pasta bar — pretty good as far as selection even though some items were unidentifiable. The pizza bar — limited and quality was so-​so. To be fair I have to admit that I had my spaghetti and sauce were on the same plate as the pizza, so that made the crust soggy. I would like to try again soon on separate plates. If you’re hungry you could get a fair deal here for the price. If you’re going for quality Italian food try the menu as the selections sound delicious. Many buffet restaurants I have tried have better items on menu than the buffet.

Great food at a great price with friendly service. They are kind of slow with their service at night… but not too bad. I wouldn’t have minded if I didn’t happen to be in a hurry…

This is a great DIY restaurant. You sit yourself and you wait. Then you decid when you want to ask the waitress when she’ll come to your table. Then after you order drinks and food, you proceed to go and fill up your own glasses of water because the waitress is busy. They make baked potatos turn into french fries by the powers osmosis.

This place has some damn good calzones but be prepared because they’re huge. Also, don’t exactly expect service with a smile.

When you say endless pizza, I say — TELL ME MORE. The lunch buffet here will be sure to impress.
What is great about Taste of Italy is both the thematic Italian checkered décor and the addition of traditional items on the buffet.
Many Italians make their salad with olives, tomato, onion, garlic and chopped lettuce covered in Italian Dressing (that is oil, vinegar and herbs). Taste of Italy has this on the salad bar as well as the make your own salad fixings.
They typically have a meat, cheese and vegetable pizza on the buffet. Also, they buffet has meatballs, spaghetti, red sauce, a baked pasta, a pasta with chicken and pasta with Alfredo.
For just under $ 10, you can eat enough to cover the expense of dinner. The staff are very attentive and will consider requests.
Buon divertimento!