Faccio Pizza

When Im back home, this brings me back to random night at home watching a movie and being too lazy to cook so ordering here and eating yummy food by the tv.
I love that they haven’t changed much in 15+ years. Their service is impeccable & they have ample parking on the side.
Order a «pasta blanca con jamon» with a side of red sauce to mix and you will thank me later.
They make great pizzas and have awesome garlic bread.

I ordered the eggplant Parmesan to go and that stuff gave me diarrhea. It looked as if they did it like 2 months ago, freezed it, then heated it again for when it was ordered. Never eating here again.

Good service, good pasta, good pizza, good sangria.
They offer specials during the week.
You can place orders thru the phone and it will be ready when you get there.
They have make your own pasta option with great healthy choices.
Pizza is delicious, even cheese only. Love combination pizza with meat, ham, chorizo and other ingredients! Highly recommended!

Awesome pizza top quality ingredients, got to try the Carbonara my family’s favorite. Appetizers are good, great service and good wines for fair prices.

The service was a little slow and the ham calzoni was just and average one, nothing outstanding or memorable.

how is something connected to a holiday inn this delicious?
yummy pizza! great service. i think this was the only place in PR that actually refilled our drinks while dining.
cheese balls were also delish!

We were in San Juan and somehow we were craving Italian food. The intent was going to another place but walked by this one and looked good to us.
It is a decent sized place. We sat along the window for people watching. Penne with shrimp and clam with tomato sauce looked really good on the menu to me. It did taste great too. Small shrimps and chunks of clam meat with very light tomato sauce tasted great together. However this dish was served with spaghetti instead of penne which was not big deal to me. One of the cold workers ordered Veggie pizza which was pretty good too.
Italian salad was fine. The desert was flan which was just fine.
The waitress seemed not focusing enough for her job. She forgot the salad until we called her after the entrée was served. And we had to remind her twice about extra plate or spoons.
A fine average Italian place for dinning when you are in area.

***Yummy pizza in a family-​friendly environment.***
I really love the pizza here because of the cheese. I don’t know which they use or where they get it, but the Margherita pizza I ordered the other day did not disappoint. I had the small/​personal size, which they cutely call «pibe» (small in Argentinian Spanish).
This place has been around for awhile — 25+ years. This is their original location, although they have 10 other locations in Caguas, Escorial, Isla Verde, Dorado, Guaynabo, Sierra Bayamón, Rexville, San Patricio, Mayagüez and Plaza Las Américas.
I used to live quite nearby when I was little, so my family and me would buy pizza there very frequently. I never remember having pasta, and the other day was the first time I went in many years, so I can’t rate their other-​than-​pizza Italian; but I loooved, loved my Margherita pizza. The sauce was not acidic or bitter, the crust was thin and chewy but not soggy, and again, the cheese! They used fresh basil and tomatoes, and I like that they put those underneath the cheese, so you don’t have a mess of ingredients falling on your lap.
I also ordered their Pale Ale tap beer — which I REALLY needed. Their coffee was the superb ender. I loved my lunch.
The bill:
1 Pibe sized Margherita pizza @ $ 9.15
1 Old Harbour draft beer @ $ 4.95
1 coffee & milk @ $ 2.39
municipal tax @ 16
+ I.V.U. (6%) tax @ 99
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= $ 17.64 plus tip
Service was quite nice and timely, but I sat at the bar, so I don’t know how the wait staff functions in general. But Gilberto the bartender, and the owner (or manager?) were respectful and attentive.
— — — — — — — — — — – En arroz y habichuelas ahora — — — — — — — — — — — — -
***Rica pizza en ambiente familiar.***
En este sitio, me gusta mucho la pizza, más que nada por el queso que usan. No sé si sea un queso comercial o dónde lo consigan, pero la pizza Margherita que ordené hace un par de días no decepcionó. La ordené en tamaño personal, o «pibe» como dice el menú, que es como se dice pequeño en español de Argentina.
Lleva mucho tiempo de pie este sitio — más de 25 años. Esta localidad es la original, aunque actualmente tienen 10 otras en Caguas, Escorial, Isla Verde, Dorado, Guaynabo, Sierra Bayamón, Rexville, San Patricio, Mayagüez y Plaza Las Américas.
Solía vivir cerca cuando era pequeña, así que mi familia y yo comíamos de ahí con frecuencia. Sin embargo, no recuerdo haber comido pasta nunca, y apenas hace unos días fue la primera vez que regresé en muchos años, así que no puedo evaluar lo que no sea pizza; ¡pero me encantó mi pizza Margherita! La salsa no es ácida, la masa era crujiente, pero no blanda, y de nuevo, ¡el queso! Usaron albahaca fresca y tomates, y me gustó que los colocaran debajo del queso, para así evitar que se caigan los ingredientes.
También ordené una cerveza tipo Pale Ale de draft – (¡era uno de esos días en que hace falta!) En lugar de postre, pedí café con leche, y estaba súper rico. En resumen, disfruté mi almuerzo.
La cuenta:
1 pizza Margherita personal de $ 9.15
1 cerveza de draft Old Harbour de $ 4.95
1 café con leche de $ 2.39
impuesto municipal de 16
+ impuesto I.V.U. (6%) de 99
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= $ 17.64 más propina
El servicio fue amable y bueno en tiempo, aunque me senté en la barra, así que no sé cómo trabajan los meseros en general; pero Gilberto el cantinero, y el dueño (¿o manejador?) con quienes interactué, fueron atentos y respetuosos.

After a disappointing visit a couple of weeks ago to the Faccio’s Mayaguez location, the opportunity to attend a business lunch with a group of friends at their original Cupey location seemed like just the right opportunity for Faccio to redeem itself and live up to old memories of years past. It didn’t.
The Cupey location is indeed larger and more fashionable than the new uninspired locations and its large, well-​stocked bar makes it more an adult hangout than a family restaurant. The overly ambitious menu includes their signature pizzas plus a variety of Italian dishes, sandwiches, soups, and desserts. I selected their «Combination» pizza that included Spanish sausage, ham, shrimp, and peppers. Their smallest «pibe» size is about 12 inches of unremarkable flavor. The «Spanish sausage» is thinly sliced — not crumbled — and is totally lacking in the flavor and attitude that you expect from a real Spanish chorizo. The ham and shrimp were equally bland.
Another guest sent back the ordered $ 4.49 «House Salad» which turned out to be little more that what you might get for free in a classier restaurant. A quick poll around the table brought back similar equally disappointing comments about the pasta with meatballs, tomato soup, and the chicken salad. In general, the menu seems outdated and assembled from precooked frozen meats. Not surprisingly, my request to visit the kitchen was declined with a curt «Maybe some other time when the owner is here». Keep your expectations low and you will not be dissatisfied.

Faccio’s was at some point an innovator, one of the first Pizza establishments in Puerto Rico. That was 30 years ago. Today Faccio grips on to its reputation like a washed up celebrity clings on to past laurels, without every revisiting their craft. Perhaps the lack of fresh ingredients, toasted dry herbs and copious amounts of cheese were once viable solutions for the absences of quality ingredients. But today there is no excuse for perpetuating a stale, greasy, and bland formula and on top passing it off as one of Puerto Rico’s most treasured institutions.

Cheese balls!!! The best!

Good old times. A simple cheese pie that always hits the spot. The large size pie is the best, in my opinion. Its crust is slightly thinner and crispier than the medium, which seems a little doughy.

De las mejores pizzas que he comido, la Faccio Especialisima es exquisita, la sangria de la Casa es rica y tienen una gran variedad de cervezas…