Bruno’s

We had a make your own pizza with mushrooms, tomatoes, and basil. I love mushrooms and they put plenty on the pizza. The basil was an excellent addition. Our waitress Tessa was very attentive. A must in West Lafayette!

Good food make tummy happy, make wife happy! Me happy! Go Boilers! :) Seriously good food and service!

Love Bruno’s. Great pizza, salads it’s all great.

Ok ok, so my review may be a little biased since I was a student at Purdue and to me this is a West Lafayette classic. However, Bruno’s is a great place to have some good pizza with friends and family. You can tell that Bruno’s is a part of Purdue because as soon as you walk in the place is decked out with memorabilia. There’s a take out counter to the left and the host stand to the right. The place can get busy on weekend nights especially if there is a big game in town or family weekend, etc. Service has always been very friendly as I recalled and experienced this past weekend. We ordered a complex pizza and our server was more than accommodating to our requests. The pizza also came out just as we ordered. The Bruno’s dough with cheese dip is the best. Must be a Midwestern thing to ask for cheese sauce as a breadstick/​dough dip. Honestly, great food and a nice ambiance with good staff. What more can you ask for?

Bruno’s has a ton of character. It is a Purdue institution and we love the Purdue memorabilia as well as the Boiler Up feeling of the place. There is a quiet, kitschy but romantic bar area where you can also eat dinner if you want. The pizza is old fashioned and really good. Love their old fashioned pasta dishes, too. Restaurants with character and a long history in any area are hard to find, so this gets a 5 from us. We visit every time we go to West Lafayette.

We came here after a football game. Thankfully they took and then honored our reservation for 12. We had a fabulous time. Our server was friendly and even though they were packed with hungry football fans the owner stopped making pizzas long enough to say hi and check in on his patrons. This has been our go to restaurant since I was a little girl as we always have large parties for Purdue football games. They are always so accommodating.

Canned mushrooms on the pizza? Revolting.

I appreciate the décor here, it’s a real experience for a Boilermaker nut I suppose. My mom loves coming here, so that’s cool.
The pizza was okay, decent flavor by a little bit overly gooey cheesy for my tastes. Definitely decent quality. Their house side salad was really well thought out and had lots of different ingredients, a very welcome change from the side bag-​o-​iceberg and shredded carrots many places serve.
Service was efficient and friendly, which is great especially in a college town. Noise level wavered between acceptable and intolerable. Basically one loud table such as we’re about 25 feet from us can really make it painful for the rest of the dining room.

The one truly great about this place is their pizza crust. But as with all pizza, crusts get cold and then they get sucky. Therefore there’s virtually no point of ordering pizza For delivery as the crust only tastes phenomenon when it’s fresh out of the oven. Everything else is so so. Toppings aren’t that spectacular, just the regular pizza topping variety. (If you want more topping variety, walk next door to Puccini’s, their crust is a hit or miss sometimes though).
Ps: get their Shakies on everything. EVERYTHING.

Bruno’s is family owned and operated and caters to a variety of tastes. The sports theme brings a homey charm; memorabilia adorns every wall, and the nearby Purdue University is well-​represented. The pizza is excellent, and the Bruno Dough cannot be missed. Order it with the nacho cheese!

We went there on a very unbusy night. Service was typical for college kids. We were given a very awkward table in the center of a large empty room and asked to change seats. We were then moved directly behind a table with 5 screaming toddlers/​babies. Ordered cheese garlic bread for an appetizer. It tasted like frozen microwaved garlic Texas toast with some mozzarella on it. Then we each ordered our own pizza and the mushroom ravioli. Pizzas were bland… Just a step above frozen baked at home… Though we did like the crust. Pizza sauce tasted like flat ketchup, cheese was tasteless and clumpy (looked like melted plastic) toppings were not evenly spread out, so one bite was a mouthful of sausage, next bite was cheese only. The mushroom ravioli was swimming in a creamy soup of again, very bland sauce and far too many mushrooms. It was not made well at all and after three bites we chose not to finish it. Our goal bill for four sodas, three pieces of cheese garlic bread, three personal sized pizzas, and inedible mushroom ravioli came to $ 90.00. The next morning we all looked forward to cold pizza only to discover that what was bad when it was hot became god awful cold. I would not recommend this. Go to Sylvia’s brick oven pizza off Columbia street instead.

Since moving to San Diego, I’ve been really missing Bruno’s. Good crust, good amount of toppings and those long, scissor cut slices.
Haven’t found anything out here quite like it. It’s high on the list for the next time I’m back in town.

I had the Bruno dough which was just ok. I guess I shouldn’t have expected alot. I also had the peanut butter and chocolate pizza. Not bad but not great. I saw the other pizza’s and it was pretty basic. I guess being from Chicago made me think their pizza was extremely ordinary.

Very disappointed. Food, mediocre at best. I ordered an Italian beef sandwich, bread not toasted, no peppers and a very tiny amount of au jus. The lasagna was served without any bread. Waitress said you have to know to ask for it because they were tired of throwing it away… If it’s included in your meal who cares if they don’t eat it. I paid for it! Don’t even get me started on the waitress… grrr I will not go again.

A casual, homestyle type place that might not have the most sophisticated cuisine, but after spending those formative college years in the WL, you can’t help but have a soft spot for Bruno’s.
Also, I realize it doesn’t take a lot to make good breadsticks, but holy geez I love those things.

Based on the local competition, this is one of the better pizzas in town. The toppings are tasty and plentiful, as is the sauce.
I like that it’s a locally owned, mom & pop type place. And everyone I’ve had contact with has been super friendly.
Service is always good. Prices are decent.
I’ve never understood the fascination with ordering «Bruno dough». It’s…dough.

It’s locally owned, and that’s enough for me. I believe in supporting folks who aren’t going to send a portion of my money to some corporate office. It also means that food is prepared by people who really care about it on a more personal level. The specials are actually «special» and not something that a marketing committee voted for. It’s food that has it’s own local flavor & style, which might not work anywhere else. It’s Italian, it’s Swiss… but it’s also American – and uniquely so.
And it’s damn tasty.
So, skip the chain restaurant and eat some real food.

This place is pretty damn good. We generally come here to get a pizza, but mainly show up for the Bruno dough. If you come here, you must get the Bruno dough (it’s not required but I highly recommend it). This stuff is good. We normally get the cheese sauce with it and everyone enjoys it. Their dough is among the best bread appetizers we’ve had. The pizzas are also good. They are priced a little higher than your typical pizza joint but they do taste better. Unfortunately, I can’t comment on the quality of the other entrees, but if they are anything like the Bruno dough or the pizza, I’m sure they are good. I would recommend giving this place a chance if you’re in the mood for a sit down meal in a nice, family friendly atmosphere and aren’t looking to go to the typical, mediocre chain restaurants.

Bruno’s is one of those quintessential family restaurants that you only realize is average when you get older. It has probably stayed in business because it is comfortable, but slowly moving out of fashion, like mom’s jeans. I was there a few days ago with a group of people and found the pizza to be mediocre at best. I am not really sure why people think this place is the bee’s knees. I am a Purdue alumnus, but even I can admit that «excellent» and «pizza» are two words that don’t really go together in West Lafayette. I may have to return and try their other menu items, but it’s unlikely.

I found Bruno’s to be exceptionally bad.
While service and décor were fine, their take on some Italian staples was lackluster.
Their veal parm may be the worst I’ve ever had. A very southern take on it where it was just strips of beef layered in cheese and piping hot sauce. Most customers in America expect veal parmigiana to be tenderized, breaded and pan fried.
Ok, so veal parm didn’t work out, try the pizza. The product used in the pizza was lackluster at best. Cheap sausage devoid of flavor. You know the canned little sausage bits.
Bruno’s dough may be their only saving grace, otherwise a general disappointment.
The place had lots of space and enough tables for big groups. Our server was friendly and didn’t skimp on refills. Splitting bills was a challenge. They had no way to issue separate checks for shared pizza and it was up to the customers to split it evenly. They offered no parmigiana sandwiches and now I see why. If I had ordered a chicken parm sandwich it would have ended up as grilled chicken with sauce and cheese tossed on top.