Grande Pizzeria Italian Restaurant
(607) 723-9011
1250 Upper Front St
Binghamton, NY 13901
This Binghamton restaurants has mixed reviews from me. I personally have to say that it's a miss and hit on certain things. Something are superior to others. But I would give them great reviews just on there sauce, they do have authentic sauce that makes most of there dishes which is great.
Pro's: Pizza Buffet at reasonable price
Salad bar, if your going to get a salad, might as well pay the extra dollar for the salad bar
Good customer service
Great Food
Cons: Price increase
Less quantity for the money now on entree's, not the pizza buffet.
Grande's has an extensive Italian menu. This is the only Pizza place that has a Pizza and Salad buffet in any of Binghamton. Which is pretty awesome since there pizza is GREAT. Grande's has great food and a wonderful staff, everyone is very friendly. Grande's Pizza probably has good pizza. Grande's is a very busy place especially on the weekends. Usually when you order something it takes from anywhere from 20-50 minutes which I guess is nice because then you know your food is fresh. The inside is so beautiful. It has the Greek columns that's nice and it's nice looking, great for a date.At this Binghamton restaurant I have had several dishes on many different occasions and here are my reviews on them.
Veal Parmesan Sub
I would have never in a million years have baby cow, but it was one of the meats my boyfriend LOVED and so I tried it. It's not funny in taste or anything it's tender and very delicious now it's become another meat that I eat. This use to be one of the best I've ever had, now I ordered it 5/5/12 to find out the price increased and they started shedding the meat so you get less, it was a disappointment really cause now it was not enough meat to cover the bread. Unfortunately, I personally didn't like that, I don't believe a restaurant should raise prices and cut the amount. If your raising prices keep everything the same, if your cutting the amount then don't raise prices. I use to pay $7.50 now it's up to $8.50. Typically I wouldn't mind the price range cause on average most Italian restaurants would charge that for a veal but they shredded it and gave so little that I felt like I was eating bread with a little flavoring from the sauce. I would say I wouldn't buy it from here again, I'd rather go to Tony or Mario's. They don't shred they give you the whole thing in the sandwich.
Lasagna
One of the best I have had since I've moved to Binghamton. I know it's there sauce! The portion size is just right with the bread and salad. No complaints here.
Chicken Parmesan Sub
Chicken is a thing of the past, I do like there Chicken Parmesan but it's not my favorite thing on the menu, maybe they just messed this one order up and made the chicken to dry, but there was plenty of cheese to compensate. I dunno how I felt about this. Since I LOVE cheese it to me it seemed good. But to someone else that might not have been acceptable.
Steak and Cheese Sub
This is one of the best Steak and cheese sub's I've had. I asked if they were using box steaks like steak-umm for this sandwich and they told me no real meat. I could tell you I've made steak-umm a lot and it's nothing like that. It was really good, it could have been real steak, I dunno. Anyways I would try it if I was you. It's worth it and it's probably the cheaper of most items. But it's not a real Italian dish.
Meatball Sub
The meatball subs are phenomenal, the meatball size are bigger than a golf ball, it's is pretty huge and fits all the way to the top of the sandwich so that every bite has meat in it. It is great. I loved this sandwich very much.
Cheese Pizza
Who hasn't had regular cheese pizza it was good, they do have authentic sauce that makes the pizza good, but plain pizza is plain pizza.
Meatball Pizza
Whole real meatballs, was a phenomenal pizza, we ate all the pizza in one sitting a party of 4 and wanted to buy another one that's how great this pizza was. But we had entree's already and decided to come back another day for it.
Before you head down and want to see what's on there
MENU, remind you the price has changed, everything is probably about a dollar more.
