Amato Pizza

how can a pizzaria go about completely effing up a slice of plain cheese? just ask amato queen east! … crust that is still doughy and overly salty, sauce that barely tastes like anything except canned paste, and barely any cheese to speak of. looks okay, but tastes unfathomable, no bueno.

Got food poisoning. Reported it to the Dine Safe, they sent an inspector and the establishment was in fact outside of sanitation regulations. Don’t eat here!

This is the last time that I will order from Amato.
Pizza delivered an hour past promised time.
Showed up lukewarm and soggy yet no refund offered when requested.
Poor customer service. You’ve lost a customer.

The pizza slices that they have available generally look like they’ve been sitting there for many hours.
Eating one doesn’t change that impression.
After a couple of attempts to get a good slice of pizza from here, this is now the pizza place of last resort. They need to clean the place up and put some fresh pizza in the window.

I have to say, I don’t often eat in here — the tables etc do look a bit tired. I suspect this location does get a lot of business from take out or delivery.
We have always enjoyed their pizza slices — my husband usually gets something with pepperoni and I love their pesto slice with potato, garlic and onion. I know it sounds a bit different, but if you ever had it – well it’s great!
We normally ask for the slice to be heated a little longer and then enjoy with limonata or brio.
Good crust — great flavor — pretty consistent!

base this review solely on the experience of eating inside the restaurant itself. or perhaps takeout place would be more appropriate. there are tables and chairs, but the guy warming up your pizza will not bring it over to the table or ask you how your meal is.
its really funny, because this location is no more than two years old if that, and it looks like its been open for about twenty. with random paintings (surely picked up for a buck or two at the local garage sale — they do have some charm mind you.) hung haphazardly along the cheerless coloured walls, the cheap equally hapless tables and chairs, and top-​of-​the-​processed line of condiments for your slice residing on a table at the back it feels purely functional.
i dont even know if i should expect any different, hoping for something more fresh from a pizza place. i always find it disheartening to know im going to be paying for something that at first glance looks like a rubber reproduction of its original tasty self.
the pizza was slightly thin; i prefer less dough to more, so that was in its favour. the ingredients on mine were sopressata, blue cheese and mushrooms i think — not a bad combo. when i walked in, there was one slice labeled, which some of you more herbivorous eaters out there would be pleased to know was, of course, the vegetarian slice. (here here, you guys deserve the cheering section when you can get it.)
another funny thing is visiting their website where you get a black and white photo of Master Chef Gino Amato! this looks like it was taken during prohibition on the streets of new york (probably here though) as gino stands, suspect, the butt of a cigarette in his left hand and leaning atop a sandwich-​type board that looks more like a converted bedpost. on it is advertised a nice plate of (im sure) homemade tiramisu, and although they currently offer this as a dessert on their menu, i would venture to say that its current incarnation is a far cry from the mastery that gino claims to have used in creating it way back when.
to their credit though they have quite a selection of ingredients, pastas, salads and a couple of traditional entrees like veal parmagiana. to be fair, the best way to judge this place is by ordering a pizza fresh to take home or get delivered so perhaps one day therell be a reworking of this review. ive done this before, remember not being floored by it then, but that was a long time ago so i dont feel just in commenting about it either way.