Avanti Pizza

They took wonderful care of us and our dietary needs.

Fast serving excellent pizza very nice personnel. Strongly recommend. My favorite place in Menlo Park.

Pizza was great and when they say ready in ten minutes, they mean it. Ordered a pepperoni and pineapple. 😋 yummy

We ordered our dinner online and got it delivered. Pasta dishes were great, my spinach salad was fresh, and pizza was yummy. Definitely, we will be a regular here!! I will take some picture next time!

This place satisfies you better than a person ever could. I've only had their pasta and boba tea, but could eat this entire store. I will now come here when I want to be happy or want to feel like someone loves me. Appreciate these people, because they do everything in their power to make you feel complete.

My first time here and the food was great I tried the pepperoni pizza and I would 100% recommend. The service here was amazing the staff were very helpful and friendly. Also thanks to Nelson my first interaction with Avanti pizza was wonderful! Would 100% come again.

Love the place, love the pizza, been going here for years and it’s great every time!!

Long review coming: a friend took us to this place. The selling point was pizza and boba teas under the same roof. In the rain.... What came after that was a lovely surprise! The most amazing pizzas! Not overloaded with stuff. Medium thin crust with just enough flavor, bought suffocated with cheese, amazing flavor combination of organic fresh ingredients. Best. Pizza. Ever. Eat your heart out, Joe Ciolli! The teas: when you order these teas you always cringe inside because you anticipate a syrupy concoction. We ordered passion, lemonade, strawberry milk and we got to taste the mojito, which was in evolution ( recipe perfection) . Wow! You taste the tea....not the syrup. Very smooth and tasty! Then we met the owner, Arash! He sat with us, chatted with us, told us his story. What an incredibly amazing holiday treat this visit to Avanti Pizza this was! I highly recommend this place, my foodie friends!!!!!

Best pizza in the region! And it travels really well during delivery and take out. It's just perfect. Although we love the pepperoni pizza, we've also fallen hard for a simple Italian sausage with honey. Fabulous pizza.

Rosa Cortez

My first time here and the food was great I tried the pepperoni pizza and I would 100% recommend. The service here was amazing the staff were very helpful and friendly. Also thanks to Nelson my first interaction with Avanti pizza was wonderful! Would 100% come again.

Kedar H

Love the place, love the pizza, been going here for years and it’s great every time!!

Ildi Dihen

Long review coming: a friend took us to this place. The selling point was pizza and boba teas under the same roof. In the rain.... What came after that was a lovely surprise! The most amazing pizzas! Not overloaded with stuff. Medium thin crust with just enough flavor, bought suffocated with cheese, amazing flavor combination of organic fresh ingredients. Best. Pizza. Ever. Eat your heart out, Joe Ciolli! The teas: when you order these teas you always cringe inside because you anticipate a syrupy concoction. We ordered passion, lemonade, strawberry milk and we got to taste the mojito, which was in evolution ( recipe perfection) . Wow! You taste the tea....not the syrup. Very smooth and tasty! Then we met the owner, Arash! He sat with us, chatted with us, told us his story. What an incredibly amazing holiday treat this visit to Avanti Pizza this was! I highly recommend this place, my foodie friends!!!!!

Jessica Alba

Best pizza in the region! And it travels really well during delivery and take out. It's just perfect. Although we love the pepperoni pizza, we've also fallen hard for a simple Italian sausage with honey. Fabulous pizza.

Great, fast, pizza. You just order on the app and usually within 10 minutes it's ready waiting for you on the take out shelves. They are really setup for take out and delivery but do have some tables inside to dine in. They are really consistent and a step above the chain pizza places.

I ordered through Uber eats and everything I ordered was absolutely delicious. Fresh ingredients, perfect pizza crust, amazing spaghetti with meatballs. Very authentic 😁 and I am a very picky eater. If I don't like something I have no problem leaving a bad review, but this place is amazing in my eyes. I will definitely be eating here again and again.

Best takeout spaghetti bolognese in the area! The pizza is tasty but more of a splurge in calories and price. Order online 15 minutes before you arrive for quick service! The iced lattes are a hidden gem

4X Customer & 94 % Positive Experience Here ! We usually get the large pepperoni pizza with a salad here. The pizzas are made to order quickly ! The large pepperoni pizza is still only $18-20 (As of 5-8-22). Usually we get the Mediterranean Salad. This evening we we tried the newer Asian Salad. It is now my new Go To Salad ! Only once we ordered combo pizza, It seemed a little undercooked. I recommend Avanti !

​This is a gem of a pizza place! The quality and taste of the pizza are very good, and the staff provides quick, friendly service. ​I highly recommend the Combination pizza, which I ordered with no tomato sauce—it was excellent. A special shout-out to Rush (the owner) and Elizabeth (the manager), who were both incredibly friendly and made the experience even better. I'll definitely be back!

Super tasty pizza to go. Thin crusts with that right combo of crunch and chew. We like The Menlo and the Margherita. Speedy, too--ours was ready in under 10 minutes!

Excellent pizza. The crust was absolutely perfect! And I am a very picky eater. I loved it! I also had the spaghetti with meatballs. Loved it all, could have used more marinara but I like mine with extra, extra sauce. The flavor of their sauce was very good. Tasted authentic to me 😊 I would definitely recommend Avanti Pizza for anyone looking for an authentic Italian pizza or pasta.

Peter Blum

Great, fast, pizza. You just order on the app and usually within 10 minutes it's ready waiting for you on the take out shelves. They are really setup for take out and delivery but do have some tables inside to dine in. They are really consistent and a step above the chain pizza places.

Jenna Ahn

Best takeout spaghetti bolognese in the area! The pizza is tasty but more of a splurge in calories and price. Order online 15 minutes before you arrive for quick service! The iced lattes are a hidden gem

Michelle Kear

I ordered through Uber eats and everything I ordered was absolutely delicious. Fresh ingredients, perfect pizza crust, amazing spaghetti with meatballs. Very authentic 😁 and I am a very picky eater. If I don't like something I have no problem leaving a bad review, but this place is amazing in my eyes. I will definitely be eating here again and again.

Paul Kear

Excellent pizza. The crust was absolutely perfect! And I am a very picky eater. I loved it! I also had the spaghetti with meatballs. Loved it all, could have used more marinara but I like mine with extra, extra sauce. The flavor of their sauce was very good. Tasted authentic to me 😊 I would definitely recommend Avanti Pizza for anyone looking for an authentic Italian pizza or pasta.

Krista D

Super tasty pizza to go. Thin crusts with that right combo of crunch and chew. We like The Menlo and the Margherita. Speedy, too--ours was ready in under 10 minutes!

SkyNet

4X Customer & 94 % Positive Experience Here ! We usually get the large pepperoni pizza with a salad here. The pizzas are made to order quickly ! The large pepperoni pizza is still only $18-20 (As of 5-8-22). Usually we get the Mediterranean Salad. This evening we we tried the newer Asian Salad. It is now my new Go To Salad ! Only once we ordered combo pizza, It seemed a little undercooked. I recommend Avanti !

Allen S

​This is a gem of a pizza place! The quality and taste of the pizza are very good, and the staff provides quick, friendly service. ​I highly recommend the Combination pizza, which I ordered with no tomato sauce—it was excellent. A special shout-out to Rush (the owner) and Elizabeth (the manager), who were both incredibly friendly and made the experience even better. I'll definitely be back!

Prices were great for the area. The food is hearty bordering on greasy spoon. If that is what you're going for, come here! We got our order online so I can't speak to the service sitting in but it's a nice little place that I'm sure I'll come back to.

The pizza and pasta and salads are great! They also a lunch special that's good too! Down side i'ts small and some of the staff can be unfriendly.

Nice food, affordable price, and quick service.

Pizza is really good. Only thing messed up is that they have drinks in bottles instead of fountain drinks. But, the pizza is off the hook good

Very little seating in this place, as most folks get their pizzas to go. Best bang for your buck if you are in the area, and would like good pizza.

I've bought pizza here twice, the first time it was perfect, my favorite in the area. Strong undercarriage, good quality cheese, crispy pepperoni. But yesterday it was overdone, burned in some places and the crust was tough and crumbled like a cracker upon biting. My impression is that Avanti can make great pizza, but it's inconsistent.

Rob Tobin

Very little seating in this place, as most folks get their pizzas to go. Best bang for your buck if you are in the area, and would like good pizza.

Austen Casey

I've bought pizza here twice, the first time it was perfect, my favorite in the area. Strong undercarriage, good quality cheese, crispy pepperoni. But yesterday it was overdone, burned in some places and the crust was tough and crumbled like a cracker upon biting. My impression is that Avanti can make great pizza, but it's inconsistent.

I think this place might be under new management. They replaced their cashiers with iPads. They now serve all of their pizzas in cardboard boxes and refuse to give you pizza on a plate, so the restaurant's garbage cans are overflowing with takeaway boxes that were never taken out of the seating area. They have some drinks that seem pretty interesting, but they're prepared long after you've been served your food. Employee morale seems low, perhaps because they're being replaced by iPads and because they spend their day seeing cardboard get thrown in the trash.

Not liking recent menu changes. No add on spinach to pizza, no family size, only one thickness crust, just didn't think the pizza I got this weekend was as outstanding as I was able to get a month or so ago.

Pizza is fine, but but I have never forgiven them for delivering my pizza an hour later than promised after I told them when I HAD to have it by and they said "no problem".

Disappointing- Polish Sausage & Ricotta. Flavor was good as well as the crust, however, sadly light on toppings considering the price.

Fresh, hot, thin crust pizzas is their specialty; bubble/tapioca drink was too diluted. Seems to have undergone a menu change and other small changes. A very small space that churns a lot of pizzas located off of an unexpected corner block of restaurants including Lulu's Mexican restaurant just right across the street. Small seating inside and outside available.

Good product, however, they have overly automated the process, no phone orders, no half and half pizzas, everything done through the kiosk.

T McCoy

Disappointing- Polish Sausage & Ricotta. Flavor was good as well as the crust, however, sadly light on toppings considering the price.

M.A. EatsArt

Fresh, hot, thin crust pizzas is their specialty; bubble/tapioca drink was too diluted. Seems to have undergone a menu change and other small changes. A very small space that churns a lot of pizzas located off of an unexpected corner block of restaurants including Lulu's Mexican restaurant just right across the street. Small seating inside and outside available.

Mike Picone

Good product, however, they have overly automated the process, no phone orders, no half and half pizzas, everything done through the kiosk.

I’m mostly giving this 2 for nostalgia... this place used to sell cheap, giant, delicious, fresh slices. This isn’t the case anymore, as ive come back for the first time in a year or so and the slices have shrunk to about 60%, they’re reheated, and one slice of pepperoni was 5 freaking dollars.

Pizza's flavorless the wing things are pretty good. However those are not hot wings there are chunks of chicken breast. I asked the guy for a refill and he said we can't do that because of covid but he was the one drinking sodas with the same cup at least 3 times in the setting of 20 minutes that we were there. The pizza on the screen was clearly made in a wood fired oven which is not what they do there at all they use an electric oven and that's OK but false advertisement. As somebody who makes pizza we all know it's about the sauce and is the sauce and the crust here you will not find that.

Restaurant is 16 minutes from my house driving according to Maps. We would order from them when we had a party and placed larger orders ($200+). Their pizza is not as good as other places nearby. And service was rarely great. But they were the only ones who delivered to our street. They stopped delivering up here... Even for a higher minimum. (the last driver said it took him 45 minutes to get here...I have no idea what map program he was using). I have no reason to order from them again.

Pizza is good, but ordering/pick up ridiculously inconvenient. Cannot call to order. Must show up in person, then follow non intuitive ordering on screens. Today ordered twice, waited for pizza, then found out order not properly placed, no order had gone through. Must not want new business or are catering only to those who like to deal with machines/technology rather than people. No thanks!

sue Shaffer

Pizza is good, but ordering/pick up ridiculously inconvenient. Cannot call to order. Must show up in person, then follow non intuitive ordering on screens. Today ordered twice, waited for pizza, then found out order not properly placed, no order had gone through. Must not want new business or are catering only to those who like to deal with machines/technology rather than people. No thanks!

Jennifer Zanocco

Restaurant is 16 minutes from my house driving according to Maps. We would order from them when we had a party and placed larger orders ($200+). Their pizza is not as good as other places nearby. And service was rarely great. But they were the only ones who delivered to our street. They stopped delivering up here... Even for a higher minimum. (the last driver said it took him 45 minutes to get here...I have no idea what map program he was using). I have no reason to order from them again.

Overpriced mediocre pizza. Staff is not friendly. Tables were not clean. Pizza was brought to my wife one of them was upside down in box . $3 cokes. Full price on refills. Pizza was almost burnt paper thin pepperoni. I'll go to 7-11 before I go back.

Very overpriced. $30 for a 3-topping 14” mozzarella pizza. Very little sauce and toppings were not fresh. Save your money and get Dominoes for tastier and cheaper pizza.

Food is great. But customer service is non existent. They can't take an order over the phone. The counter guy was polite but getting a lot of complaints. I am leaving this here for the owners benefit as they are the ones making the decisions. They seem to really appreciate tech and not people.

Terrible service. I placed a phone order. Told me it will be ready in 15 min. I got there in 20 min. It wasnt ready for another 15 min. Simply terrible service. No apology or explanation. Staff is rude. Last time I will be here

Staff did not pay attention while I was waiting for 5 minutes in an empty restaurant. Then when another gentleman entered they offered to serve him first. Since I had been settling in my kids to pour them a glass of water, I had been standing 5ft to the side of the entrance “carpet”. The server then told me that I was standing in the wrong place to be served. Yep, great service that put me off my lunch. Don’t come here if you expect a greeting or a smile.

Customer service is not sufficiently empowered to support customer requests. Ordered on Postmates and got a message that my instructions to put a topping on only half the pizza had been rejected. Called Avanti and was told that not only did they have a strict rule that they could not split toppings, but that they could do nothing to help me cancel my order without being charged. Lost the whole cost of my order.

On Service, not Pizza... Ordered via computers due to no staff available. Requested a 50/50 cheese and pepperoni pizza in the notes. Manager later informed me they couldn’t fulfill the 50/50 request, which is clearly possible but not their policy. After a brief, polite exchange, I canceled my order, got a refund, and went to the deli across the street. This experience highlighted their absurd policy and ineptitude, costing them my business and potentially future customers.

This place used to be our go to for catering for several years. Now it has changed completely. Customer service, they are rude on the phone. Delivery guy is nice, but make sure you tip him well. The portions were large, now whenever I order a large tray of pasta, I get a medium tray with the price of the large tray. They act like we don't know what they did, smaller portions and raised the prices. Even the pizzas are smaller now, but costs more. This place is totally ridiculous. I don't know what happened, maybe new owner.

Bennett Lebherz

On Service, not Pizza... Ordered via computers due to no staff available. Requested a 50/50 cheese and pepperoni pizza in the notes. Manager later informed me they couldn’t fulfill the 50/50 request, which is clearly possible but not their policy. After a brief, polite exchange, I canceled my order, got a refund, and went to the deli across the street. This experience highlighted their absurd policy and ineptitude, costing them my business and potentially future customers.

Marta Vitale

This place used to be our go to for catering for several years. Now it has changed completely. Customer service, they are rude on the phone. Delivery guy is nice, but make sure you tip him well. The portions were large, now whenever I order a large tray of pasta, I get a medium tray with the price of the large tray. They act like we don't know what they did, smaller portions and raised the prices. Even the pizzas are smaller now, but costs more. This place is totally ridiculous. I don't know what happened, maybe new owner.