Luigi’s Cafe

Great pastas. Make sure to try the pasta special with the clams, scallops, and crabmeat if they have it on the specials board as you walk in on the left… it’s absolutely delicious. Also get the garlic knots as an appetizer. Luigi is a great guy and very passionate about his food. The only thing keeping it from being a five star review are the desserts. The key lime cheesecake we had one visit was of the standard, pre-​boxed variety, while another time we had a chocolate mousse which was a bit better. My advice is to pig out on the pasta so you have no room left for dessert!

My wife and I eat here at least 2 times a month (normally carry out) and everything is delicious! We tried every pizza place in HOCKESSIN and Kennett Square and this is by far the best! The owner Luigi is always there and is extremely friendly. A great place with delicious food and nice people!

This is a little place tucked away in a tiny strip center at the top of the hill on route 41 in Hockessin, DE.
Short version: Over the 2 years I’ve been going there… reliable, clean and affordable.
First of all… I am very picky when it comes to my food. I’ll try anything, and I’ll try most places… my loyalty is based on a few factors: Cleanliness is paramount, then the taste /​quality /​reliability of the food, then presentation… prices I could care less about. Expensive good food beats the hell out of cheap bad food no matter what. By reliability I am referring to the consistency of the food… IE: you go one time and something is great and the same exact thing be different (better or worse) the next visit, which is very important to me. I don’t want to go to get a meatball grinder with american (makes it sweet as opposed to provolone which has a sharper flavor… yes I have an issue with meatball sandwiches) and have it be awesome one day and totally suck the next and get all depressed over it.
Luigi’s Café has about 4 booths, 2 large tables and 2 smaller tables… if you have a large group or 6 – 8 the seating is available for you, if you have more, I’m sure they could arrange the tables to accommodate you. The TV is usually on during the day with whatever channel happens to be on, he will change it happily if you ask. During dinner hours, the TV is still on but very quiet or muted with some nice easy music playing… makes you relax so that you can stuff your stomach to the point of maximum expansion and not feel like you have to go to confession the next day.
When you walk in there is a short wall on your left that has the specials etc written on it… pay attention to it… there is usually something very good on it.
The menu is your typical Italian pizza shop type menu at first glance, but if you read it you’ll see that something is a bit different. For Instance: The Old World Italian sandwich. I think Unilocal frowns upon colorful language, but… DAMN. If you like more authentic foods, try this one. The pizzas he has on display are another clue that the man cares about his food… try the Grandma Pizza — freaking awesome. His sausage scallopini (I get with me meatballs too) is another one that is just great. If he ever has linguine with shrimp and octopus (shut up and try it and thank me later) you will forever regret the day you didn’t try it… it really is freaking delicious, although I prefer it fra-​diavolo.
Luigi is a great guy. He enjoys food, he enjoys seeing his customers enjoy his food. He tries new things on a regular basis… although I’m still trying to get him to make cannoli with citrons instead of chocolate chips… if he does, and I ever get divorced, I will marry his shop. Yes it sounds like a total brown-​nosing review, but in all honesty, there are very few places that are reliably good, clean and affordable. I honestly have to NOT go here some days on purpose because I almost feel like a stalker. And as comedic or ass-​kissy as all of this sounds, it is honest. Reliably, good, clean… go here.
Oh and one last thing… after 2 years I realized the huge mural is actually a mirror image of itself and was devastated. Staring at that thing all that time cross-​eyed with post-​feeding delirium and thinking it’d be cool for a gondola /​boat ride down that river while I digested all the food I ate that all those people in the cafes didn’t get to was fun… now I hafta come up a reason why we just passed the same exact dude but backwards a few minutes ago, lol.

I do not usually give pizza places 5 stars but they deserve it for making me a very tasty tomato pie. Everything about it was very good. Even the crust was excellent. It is not the same as many places make with almost a tomato paste sauce. It was their own style. They put a crushed tomato sauce on with fresh basil leaves on top. It is located where Andrea’s Best of Italy was and has been a few pizza places since and I never stopped in there but I think I will be going there more often now.
The downsides to this place are it is very small inside. They have maybe 10 tables, so it is not good for large groups. And the parking lot in this shopping center is crowded and busy.

The food here is awesome! Best chicken Parmesan in hockessin. Ravioli is out of this world. The service is always excellent and friendly.

Great thin crust pizza new York style, great sandwiches. Old world Italian sub is great. The La Nonna pizza is out of this world. You won’t be disappointed, the people are very nice and take care of you.