Oregano’s Pizza Bistro

Love this place, good atmosphere, great food. Service is decent, wait is usually quite long though. Often worth the wait. There parking lot is too small and usually you have to walk across tot he mall parking lot.
Their lunch special is excellent and lots of food!!!

My wife thinks this place is the best Pizza in the world! I think it is good pizza, so I am writing to tell you about it. Pizza is very subjective. My favorite kind of Pizza is New York style which is what Oregano’s serves of course with a little extra flaked oregano in the cheese. This gives the pizza an original flavor. The salads are all very good and very big. The pasta dishes are great and again very big. You can’t go wrong with a casual dinner or lunch out at any Oregano’s location!

Went here a couple of weeks ago and got take out. My big rig pasta was missing it’s garlic bread and the pasta was over cooked and mushy. My fiancé’s beef sandwich was missing it’s cole slaw. I’ve gone to this restaurant to eat as well in the resent past and felt the service was crappy and the food was mediocre. Think I’m done giving this establishment my money. Recommend you find a different, less crowded, less loud and less over priced Italian restaurant. Unless you like not being able to hear each other talk and having crappy services plus a high bill, by all means.

it’s a 4.5 star place.
really good casual italian place. salads are pretty much can’t miss, and i love the clark street pizza.
but for something in this space, it needs the «you MUST try» dish to get five stars. while almost everything on the menu is really good, there’s nothing life-​changing about it.

Absolutely superb!!!
Outstanding service and food.
We sat at the bar, and were treated like royals. This was our 1^st time at this restaurant. ‘o my gosh’!!!
Mmmmm delicious.
So often people take the time to complain about service, attitudes and product/​s, and they dont realize the importance of taking the time to compliment these things. Right to the bus boys, and the cooks, so very important.
Thank you Marie, Joe and
manager Garnett.
Warmly, Gyl and Gary from Chicago

This is a casual local chain, which is very popular. Why? If you like good Italian casual dining with lots of choices and great value, this is why locals flock to Oreganos and it also explains their growth in the Phoenix area. Love their lunch pizzas. Very good but hard to finish. Have to take some home for later. Salads are LARGE. Sandwiches are exceptional in choice and quality. Also, have to take some home for later. LARGE. Haven’t tried the pasta dishes, but they are popular and in some cases unlimited. Pizzas are also very good and come in a large variety, thin crust or deep dish. Easy to see why I always want to return, which I do. Oh yes, they offer you a traveler – your soft drink or tea in a container when you are on the road. Makes me feel good.

My wife called Oregano’s at around 6:30 PM to place a takeout order for one pasta dish and one salad. She was told that a simple takeout order would not be ready for pickup until around 8 PM.
I’ve lived in cities with high demand, high quality restaurants (NYC and Chicago). I can understand a 1+ hour wait for a table and am used to that. But a 1.5 hour wait just for a simple takeout order? That’s unacceptable. This tells me that this restaurant is just very poorly managed, nothing less.

Cons:
Pizza was burnt and not that great, the crust tasted dry and crunchy
The dressings that came with the salads were disgusting! Full of random chunky food scraps. (we had 3 different dressings) pieces of broccoli and kale etc were in the dressing cups. Makes me wonder how clean the kitchen is.
All 5 of us had terrible stomach aches that evening, not sure if it was because we ate so much salad or what. Makes me nervous to return.
Pros:
Comfortable seating at a table
VERY nice and helpful waiters and staff — they nicely turned down the pumping music so we could hear each other
Food was very quick coming out of the kitchen

I had a horrible experience at another location. This location was amazing !!! I ordered with Paige and she made it so easy and was very professional! When I got here, Martin was quick to assist and informed me the promised time had not been reached yet and my pizza was still in the oven. They offered drinks at the bar to ease my remaining wait time. Joe and Kareem was quick to grab me a drink and great conversation. My pizza and wings were delivered to me at the bar within the promised time. I will definitely be returning as much as I can. Great place and highly recommended!

I like oreganos. I like their food and pizza. I comfortable bar and outside tables. It is not too loud, like you can hear person you want to talk. But is loud enough that other visitors couldn’t eavesdrop your conversation. There is no smoking inside. Beer is pretty good as well. Prices are not bad, it usually cost me 20 – 30 dollars every time I go there. Oh yeah I love their Barbeque pizza
I think it is a good pass time place

I’m new to the Paradise Valley area so I thought I’d check out the stores & restaurants in the surrounding areas. Anyhow, I had a taste for pizza & stumbled across this gem. Had the Oregano’s Favorite salad (BIG size, which actually feeds 2 – 3 ppl)…Apparently BIG is small there as they have an even BIGGER size! We also ordered a Stuffed Spinach & Pepperoni Pizza (Chicago Style is what they call it). This pizza is stuffed with cheese & your favorite ingredients with a marinara on top! Suuuper good! Sauce is perfectly sweet w/​a bit of saltiness… can you say PERFECTION? Overall, I’m in love with this place now & will be back again & again!

Been here a couple times now and the pizza is sooo good. Thankfully they serve lodi wines. Had to get the michael David seven deadly glass. We ordered the combination pizza. Delish!!! We will be back again soon. Great place to stop into on the way to Scottsdale from the airport.

They left some pasta in my sister’s menu and she flipped out. Great dinner and a show. Man what a place to be! Love the staff as well.

Always a great gathering place with the best pizza and servers in Arizona! Always personable and talk about a salad that is a starter will take it over the top
Give it a try you will be a regular!!!

Rode our bikes to lunch at this newer oreganos location. This American inspired italian local chain really has a yummy menu & a hip positive vibe through all locations from Tempe, old town, Bell Rd, or Tucson.
At this stop we sat at the bar with no wait and opted for a margarita and dos Equis for my hubby. We ordered the simple salad & carne asada pizza.
The salad was large (even the half was a lot for 2 people) with just basic greens and like 2 croutons but maybe only $ 5 or something reasonable.
The pizza was I believe a puerto penasco named menu item. After our long and sunny ride we were ready for something substantial and this did the trick. Grilled carne asada thin crust with a yummy cilantro pesto to bring it together.
Our service was friendly & professional even if the thin crust pizza took 40 minutes to come out.

We love Oregano’s. We hate their wait times. Their stuffed pizza keeps us coming back, despite having to wait over an hour most times. While their regular stuffed pizza is good, their stuffed pizza using their Big Rig sauce (from their Big Rig pasta) in place of the normal pizza sauce makes it something you can’t get anywhere else. It makes the pizza a little creamy and gives it a bit of a spicy kick. The server is always a little confused when we order it this way, but they always comment that it looks amazing when they bring it out. And it always is.
If you somehow have room left for dessert, their pizza cookies, slightly underdone, are the perfect way to end the meal.

We dined here while we were in town for the Patriots Super Bowl. It was a 40 min wait so I figured it would be worth it. They have some good beers on draft which is a good way to start off. The menu is huge, and we started with the garlic bread. It’s only around $ 4 and it’s literally an entire loaf, and very good.
We went with a medium Pan pizza, as we didn’t want to wait 40 min for the Deep Dish. The medium pan was tasty and very filling. While it won’t make you forget Chicago pizza, it’s a worthy substitute. They had a deep dish cookie dessert which looked great, but we were too full for that.

Oregano’s is always a solid place to go for pizza, especially if you like your crust very thin as I do.
It’s also great for kids. They’re presented with a wad of pizza dough to keep them busy for what can be a pretty long wait for food. If you order the kids pizza, you can get them started eating ahead of the adults. For about $ 3, the kids can opt for a simple pepperoni, diamond cut, while the adults can select something more flavorful. For dessert a warm panned cookie with ice cream to share for just five bucks.
This location, in a building originally built to be a restaurant, is not as unique as some more creative converted locations, either a plus or a minus depending on your perspective. There is an outdoor patio with a very effective heating system if it’s cold outside.
The only problem, really, is that wait times can be long. We arrived at 5:15 p.m. on a Wednesday and still couldn’t be seated immediately. That’s Oregano’s, I guess.

We have always enjoyed the Oregano’s chain and this one is not much different than the others. My last visit was during the record breaking rain from hurricane Norbert. It was decided to close the shop and have a fun Ferris Bueller’s Day off.
This location seems a little smaller the some of the others and can get very busy. They usually have some pretty cool jazz music playing or something that will make you want to tap your foot while you wait.
Usually get one of the the Real Big Salads or a tasty and delicious Thin Crust Pizza. Could not resist ordering the Numero One-​O Stuffed Pizza on my last visit. Decided to get it TO GO and it must of weighed ten or twenty pounds.
Food is always pretty tasty and the service is friendly and attentive. Really like their homemade sausage and the Rib Eye Salad. Looking forward to trying out the famous Original Pizza Cookie with Ice Cream for the topper on our next visit.
Located in the PV Mall parking lot in the SE corner next to the candy store. The restaurants in this parking lot are always changing but this one is definitely a keeper. PIZZA ME BABY!
3.75 STARS

Thanks to a good friend who brought me here for dinner, I was able to experience this cute little spot! It was a warm night and we opted to be seated outside so that we could take advantage of the great weather. I was in a pizza type of mood and decided with the help of our awesome server that I was going to order some thin crust. But before talking about the pizza, I have to talk about our appetizer first:
BOOM Dip:
Named after our infamous Kaboom Room, it’s a delicious concoction of spinach, artichokes and cheeses served with our Italian chips for dipping. If you like Spinach and Artichoke dip, then this is going to be right up your alley.– It’s oozing of melted cheese and artichoke and the chips are large enough to hold globs of dip into your mouth. I loved this stuff and if you didn’t take it away then I probably could have kept on eating it.
Clark Street Meat Pizza: (straight from the menu)
It’s the spicy meat lover’s pizza that keeps on giving. It’s loaded with our Chicago sausage, capicolla, salami, garlic, mozzarella, oregano, chili flakes, Parmesan and parmano cheeses, then finished with fresh basil and more parmano. You won’t remember your name after a night with this hottie. – I ordered the medium size and it was enough to feed about three people at the least. The only reason I’m taking off one star is because it was a bit salty for my tastes. Other than that, they didn’t skimp on toppings.
What made this place truly stand out was our server Lily (If I have her name wrong, please forgive me!!). She was amazing– took care of us from the moment we sat down and made us all want to come back just so that we could be seated in her section.