Adriano’s Pizza Grotto

This reminds of a little Filippi’s but even better! Their marinara sauce is so savory and just the way I like it! I recommend their spinach lasagna dinner special! (tho I just don’t know exactly what days they have it) It has real fresh spinach and the mozzarella and ricotta tastes just like milk! I tried a slice of their margherita pizza once and they did a pretty good job too! I also like the garlic sourdough bread as well. My advice is to go on weekdays in the afternoon, otherwise they get pretty crowded on weekend nights.

Very good! Ordered a large pepperoni & sausage. Very cheesy but not too bad, little greasy but not overly. The crust stayed crispy all over-​even on the bottom (Good alternative to Flippi’s, which CAN get greasy & soggy!). Sausage and pepperoni have good flavoring.
All around good tasty and will definitely be back.

Ok, Friday night and no French rolls!
They seem to be out of something every time I come here. Makes me wonder if i’m being generous with the stars.
Ok, bumped it up a star after eating the pizza, damn it’s good!

My husband and I found this place recently and were pretty happy with it. We always order a small pizza and salad with garlic bread. It’s always very fresh, no brown lettuce, fresh veggies, tons of cheese on the pizza and lots of yummy ranch. Very happy

Have been going to here for years! Tonight went in with my cousin and 5 kids got our salad first and the lettuce was slimy brown asked for a new one got started eating and found a hair wrapped around the cheese… Asked for money back they refunded me and then sever told me as she’s giving money back that her manger seen me put pink lemonade in my 2 year olds water cup! Like I get it you don’t want people free loading off your stuff but maybe your manger just have the decency to come to our table and let us know that himself after molded lettuce and hair on cheese! I’m not to worried about your tiny pink lemonade! As this place was my first job working in high school i deff think it’s gone down! Lost a lot of respect for this place and most likely will not be returning as to mention our dinner was 50.00 $ for one pizza, salad, spaghetti plate!

This is some of the best pizza in the County. Hands down. My brother-​in-​law is a HUGE pizza snob and Adriano’s is up at the top of his list. The owner spent years with the Fillipi family and I think helped shape the Filippi pizza as we know it — so Adriano’s pizza will please Filippi fans. One of my favorite menu items is their antipasto salad and the salad dressing is so fantastic that I buy it buy the container and share it with friends. It’s great on their superlative salad which is packed with meats, cheese, olives and peppers, but it’s also great on rice, potatoes, as a dipping sauce — you name it. I’ve taken the large portion salad to work for special occasions and my workmates can’t get enough of it! I also have to put in a word about their soups — sure tastes like they make them fresh daily and they are consistently delicious. Maybe odd that a pizza place would excel at soup, but I’m not complaining! I feel pretty fortunate to live fairly close to Adriano’s, but I encourage anyone driving through the area to stop at the Viejas outlet center and give them a try. Service is prompt and polite and the food is consistently tasty and the prices are fair.

The sandwiches are consistently great. The bread is wonderful. The antipasto salad is really good. This is our favorite at Viejas Outlets.

We stopped on our way back to Phoenix & decided to give this place a try. Although I forgot to read previous reviews. We ordered a meat lovers pizza, pepperoni pizza, small salad & an order of half ravioli & half lasagna. The salad was ok. The pizza was good, it had meatballs, sausage, pepperoni & Canadian bacon, except it was a bit messy as a blanket of cheese covered it. When you grabbed a slice, all the cheese & meat would pull off. The crust was crunchy. The lasagna was tasty, the ravioli a bit chewy & the meat sauce that covered both had a bitter taste– as if it had been burned.
Our pizza was made fresh & our wait time was about 15 minutes. It was empty when we arrived but within minutes, 3 other groups came in. Their wait time was about the same.
I know we won’t return because it’s off the main grid & if we did I would only order pizza.
The guy that took our order seemed a bit shy– but he did check on us several times to see if we needed anything.

Being in the hospitality industry I don’t like to trash an establishment, but when you find prices of metal Brillo pads in your lasagna and the staff shrugs it off as if they did nothing wrong.
It is only fair to warn you before you test your luck.
The food was ok up until the taste and feel of metal hits your mouth.

I was absolutely surprised at how good the pizza tasted. A sit in restaurant next to the food court at the Viejas Outlet. Gooey hot cheese dripping down as you cut each slice. Ordered the pepperoni and sausage pizza — large was able to feed 4 people and a child. Was a bit disappointed in the antipasto salad but overall a good experience. Will definitely come back again.

Not from the area… Was driving thru and stumbled upon this place. Probably one of the best finds on the whole trip. The service was friendly and prompt. Food was cooked to perfection. There was something for everyone and was reasonably priced. Again not from the area but would definitely come back if we come thru here again!!!

The food is ok but they put to munch cheese on the pizza that y my don’t like this place

I was craving Italian food so I decided to give this place a try. Place has a divey, hole in the wall feel to it so I ordered the ravioli and Karl Strauss Red lager. I’m glad I did, the beer was served in a translucent plastic cup, and it helped wash down the taste of clearly frozen ravioli with jarred marina sauce that had been doctored up to appear home made. Seriously Ive had better ravioli from Fresh N Easy. They also gave me real silverware to eat my food off a large plastic plate. Overall a perfectly off putting experience.

The pizza is yummy. The spaghetti is yummy. The people are friendly. I don’t have anything bad to say.

This place has it all! Friendly customer service, nice warm atmosphere and homemade delicious Italian food. I had the soup and salad lunch special and the Italian dressing is the best. Their homemade split pea soup was very fresh and tasty. The kids had pepperoni and cheese pizza which was amazing. The crust tasted homemade and the mozzarella cheese tasted better than any ordinary pizza. Even the red pepper tasted like they added something special to the jar. The garlic bread was a nice added touch. We will definitely be back for more!

I just stopped at Adriano’s Pizza Grotto for lunch since I was near by working. I ordered meat sauce lasagna to go. I thought it was strange how quick it was prepared, but oh well. When I opened and start eating it, what a disappointment. It was cold and there were only a few chunks of meat here and there and the cheese wasn’t even melted. The sauce on it was definitely from those giant jars from Costco stores. I don’t recommend this place for anyone. If you spent $ 8 dollars on a piece of lasagna, it must be a good piece of lasagna. Very disappointed, and I will never come back.

Omg this place ia awesome just like filippis clean restaurant great atmosphere and the staff are great very friendly helpful pizza is the best the sauce is just the best ever

This little pizza joint located in the Viejas Outlet Center make some promising pizza. I stopped in after a few hours of shopping for some lunch and found myself ordering small personal pizza, a little over 8 inches with pepperoni, sausage, and mushrooms which they called the works for $ 7.95.
The pizza was good but it was served on a plate that was to small for it (
). The pizza came with a lot of sausage and mushrooms (
) and loaded with double layered pepperoni which I liked (
). The crust was pretty good with a good crunch, soft center, and was baked well (
). The cheese was good, but the tomato was was not very good. To keep it simple, it was very bland and tasted as if it came directly out of a can. It needed some oregano or garlic, something to liven it up. This pizza could of easily have been at the least a four star event is the sauce were better.
Service at the counter, where you order, was okay. The girl was pretty direct, but friendly and she was nice of enough to bring me real utensil, not the plastic variety they had on the counter.

I’ve never tasted cardboard before… until now:
— «spinach lasagna» tasted like bitter cardboard
— «garlic bread» was salty cardboard
— «water» was liquid cardboard
The worst part was that I kept eating because I was ravenous and each bite actually tasted more like cardboard. HOW. PLS, I JUST WANTED FOOD. I KNOW IT WAS THE MALL, BUT I WAS HUNGRY AND THERE WERE NO EXPECTATIONS. NONE.
…
:(

Joe is the man!
I love Joe, you can find him behind the counter with the funny looking chef hat. I walk in and he knows how I like my margherita pizza — extra crispy. The pizza comes out perfect from they special oven.
If you don’t know what to order just look at the special of the day and you can’t go wrong.