John's Restaurant & Pizzeria

Classic long time Italian restaurant in Rockford just off Route 20 in a kind of crappy area. It certainly is better than it looks. John's specializes in pasta, pizza, and steak. Has a bit of everything for everyone. There's plenty of meaty as well as plant based options. A thing to know before going is that it closes between lunch and dinner. It's also closed on Mondays. They also only have dinner on weekends. Can also get takeout or delivery. These were certainly a few choices that are offered. It has quite a vegan friendly menu. There's quite a lot so that's cool of them. It's about $12 for pasta. Vegan Pasta is made with mostaccioli topped with garlic, olive oil, vegan pasta, and seasonal vegetables. It's about $19 for the small pizzas. Vegan Pizza has a vegan pesto sauce base, topped with artichokes, basil, Daiya cheese, kalamats olives, onions, spinach, and sun dried tomatoes. It's served with a side of vegan cashew Parmesan cheese. There's other options including an Impossible Burger, and of course not to mention any of the meaty steaks. Great choice to get Italian food around here. It has a pretty big menu. There's plenty of meats including steaks, as well as lots of pastas and pizzas, several of which are okay for vegans and vegetarians.

Stopped in on a short layover at Rockford. Very friendly service, great prices and fantastic pizza. Had the meat lovers and there was a ton of meat on it.

The service was good. I ordered the strip steak/spaghetti and french onion soup. The butter was too cold to spread on the bread, and the French onion soup didn't have any cheese on it. The steak was cooked to order, but lacked any real flavor (I was nervous when she brought out A1 ). I salted/peppered it and drenched it in the au jus they brought out and it was....ok. I came here because I heard the steaks were great. The steaks are OK. I tried a bite or two of the spaghetti and enjoyed it, and took it home. We also got desserts to go which actually ended up being the best thing I ate. The blueberry cake was my favorite. We'll give it another try and I think I'll stick to the pasta. Nice looking place until you look up at the ceiling tiles.

Food is great, when dinning in service is also great! We order take out from time to time and it never disappoints!

My family and I stopped In because of the great reviews . I must say food was horrible. All three dishes lasagna, peppers and sausage pasta and my son's spaghetti with meat ball were so bland. Never again.

A real gem in the Rockford area. Great food and service. A definite place to revisit.

Ordered for Super Bowl and very disappointed with their dry pizza. I have been eating pizza from John's since I was a kid and have always been my favorite until tonight. The dough tasted old, very little sauce, and tasted very dry with little flavor. Unfortunately we will not order from John's again

Haven't been to John's in 30 years and went there only cause I wasn't feeling well and wanted something close. Worst $20 I ever spent. They asked did I want thin or extra thin. I said thin. There was nothing "THIN" about this crust and the pizza had no flavor at all.

The lasagna was overcooked. A frozen lasagna would be just the same. At $17 I would never recommend.The said was so small I would hope that they would learn to make fresh good lasagna.

We loved the service and help we received when we went to John's for the first time. We saw a sign in the highway and decided to give it a try. The ambiance was nice and I always love flowers on the table. Food was excellent. I got the salmon with roasted vegetables and potatoes. The vegetables were delicately seasoned and delicious. The salmon was cooked perfectly. My husband got the seafood Alfredo and it was chock full of shrimp, lams and mussels. We both had so much food we brought home lunch for the next day. My husband got a huge bowl of ice cream with his dinner and we shared I ordered Tiramisu for dessert, but we took it home because we were full You will be surprised at how good the food and service are at John's.