Rizzo's Restaurant

Their food was amazing. Service was unbelievable nice and waiter was amazing In all I definitely would recommend this

My husband and I planned a date night here for dinner. I called and made reservations for 7:15 on a Saturday night. Reservation process was easy enough. Upon arriving, we were seated within 5 minutes, and I'll admit the restaurant was quite busy, but they seemed to handle it well. Our waitress came to our table and introduced herself. We ordered a white Claw, Peroni, and two waters. Our waitress brought the Peroni and White Claw over. I wasn't given a choice in flavor of White Claw. I assumed like most other places they had original, but much to my surprise, the waitress brings over pineapple.... Which is quite literally one of the only flavors from the version 2 pack I don't like. I asked her if she could get me another flavor, and she quickly returned with a strawberry flavor White Claw. At this point we still didn't have the two waters we ordered. We ordered the assorted platter for an appetizer. Which I'll admit I completely misinterpreted what this dish was. I thought it was going to be an assortment of deep fried cheese, artichoke dip and marinated peppers. What we got was a tiny bowl of cheese cubes, oil marinated hot peppers, oil marinated artichokes, and some kind of oil marinated piece of fish. I have no idea what it actually was. For a price of $9.99 it was a real let down. In the midst of us picking through the soggy and oil drenched appetizer. I flagged down our waitress and we finally got our waters. For our entree, we both ordered the prime rib special. I ordered mine with salad and rigatoni with Alfredo. My husband ordered his with salad and baked potato. Our salads came out first. Honestly the salads were nothing special. Bagged salad, a chunk of tomato, a single slice of cucumber, and a side cup of bottled ranch. Overall, very underwhelming. Soon after our prime ribs came out. Again, first glance we weren't even sure they were our meals. We both ordered our steaks medium and they both were cooked well done. Our waitress left our table before we really had the chance to say anything and she didn't return until we were nearly done. On top of that the prime ribs were upwards of 40% pure fat and inedible. Taste wise, nothing to brag about. Overcooked, fatty, and over priced. The rigatoni's with Alfredo was ok. My husband noted his baked potato was very bland. My husband decided to order a piece of carrot cake for dessert. Now this carrot cake slice was hands down one of the biggest slices I've ever seen. I gotta hand it to Rizzo's... the cake was absolutely fantastic. Moist and the cream cheese icing was silky smooth. Best part of the meal. Overall, we left very disappointed (minus the carrot cake). Maybe we got a bad cut of steak? Who knows. I definitely don't understand all the rave reviews. Definitely overpriced and underwhelming.

Great Italian food in Windber. We made Wednesday night reservations and were seated promptly. Ordered the antipasto plate to start, which was great. Entrees were Veal Parm and Cheese Ravioli, which were also great. Dessert was cannoli, which was also great. Overall, a great Italian experience. *Sister restaurant is Anthony's in Johnstown.

Terrible food. Burnt food, questionable meat terrible service. Will not be returning to this "authentic local Italian restaurant "

Pretty good Italian place for the area. Lots of choices. The regular red sauce seemed spicy on multiple different dishes, maybe that's just the special thing about their sauce? I would go back and try other dishes. Popular place, I suggest a reservation if you are going during prime weekend dinner hours.

I do not understand the weird obsession with this place from people from Johnstown. Actually I do; they've never had good Italian food. This is certainly not it. I've always had mediocre food from here. The bread and salads could be bought from the grocery store. It feels like stepping back in time of you've been out of the area. No thanks. Hopefully will never be back.

Ate there one night and the food was so good we came back again the next night. I had ravioli the first time and lasagna the second. I will probably go back one more time before I leave town on this stay.

I had made dinner reservations for two, a couple weeks in advance of Valentine's Day. I received a phone call from Rizzo's the day before to confirm my reservation for 8 o'clock. When we showed up at the front door at 7:45, we thought we would walk back to the hostess station to be checked in. And to my astonishment, we were greeted at the front door by a hostess, who confirmed we were there by writing my name on a piece of paper. We stood at the front door for about 10 minutes and I asked the girl how would they know in the back that we are here. She said they will look up here from the hostess station in the back, probably close to 100 feet away, and they would see you. She did not even have a phone in her hand to communicate with the hostess station in the back . There were other people standing at the front door with us and nobody from the hostess station was coming up to seat anybody. So at that point, we decided to walk back to the hostess station and check in. They confirmed our reservation and we sat and waited to be called for a table. We sat there and waited while another couple with 8:15 reservations were seated before us. When my name was finally called, they said party of four. I'm not sure why they thought me and my girlfriend were a party of four when I made the reservation and confirmed the reservation as a party of two. We were taken to our table where we sat for about 10 minutes before a waitress greeted us. We ordered a Pepsi and a Mountain Dew to drink. The waitress came back about 15 minutes later with some bread and only had the Mountain Dew, which wasn't even filled to the rim of the tiny glass. It looked like someone had already taken a drink out of my glass. She then said she didn't know where the Pepsi was and didn't know what they were doing in the back, but she would return. She did about 10 minutes later with my dates Pepsi. We were not offered water or straws. So we had to ask for both . And Since we realized the service was gonna be terrible, we decided at that point to order a picture each of both Pepsi and Mountain Dew and some more bread. When she returned 20 minutes later with everything we requested, my drink had already been empty for a while. We went to butter a piece of bread, but it was frozen in the middle. We did not know the bread was frozen in the middle at first, so we had to flag her down when she came whizzing by our table. She seemed like she did not have time to stop and talk to us so we had to speak with her super fast. We told her about the problem and she said she microwaved it and didn't understand why it was still frozen in the middle, but that's how they do it there she says. She takes the frozen bread and comes back with some unfrozen bread, fresh out of the microwave, lol. It took an hour to get our dinners. The food was fine. But when we received our bill, she charged us $6.00 for the 2 tiny glasses of pop and were also charged $10 dollars for the two pictures of pop. I asked her if she could comp the glasses of pop due to all the problems we had, which I then reviewed in detail with her, and since we had to switch to pictures because of how slow the service was. She said she could not do that. After that experience, I absolutely will NEVER ever go to this restaurant again. I realize it was Valentines Day and they were busy, but that does not justify the terrible experience we had on what was supposed to be a very special dinner.

The homemade pasta and meatballs were the real deal. So good! Finished with chocolate mousse which was also great. We will be back!

If you are in the mood for Italian, then this is the restaurant to visit in the Johnstown area. They've been serving Italian cuisine for decades. There are numerous dishes that will satisfy your Italian craving. Atmosphere and service is great. Definitely worth the visit if you're in the area and in the mood for great food.