Ponticello Baybridge Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria

Friendly and food is fresh and tasty. Staff is friendly and fun. Freddy and diana always helpful. Try it you will enjoy it. Pizza is thin and tasty. I don’t know j Ow Rocco does it.

I’ve been coming here since my youth, heck, I’m still in my youth, but regardless of that, I’ve been coming here for a very very long time.
I’ll admit, for the first few years of coming here, I never noticed anything special, I thought the pizza was average, a bit off tasting, nothing to write home about, but my father saw its charm from the beginning, and you know what they say, like father like son right?
Fast forward a few years to 2014, I tried all of the Italian places in the general area, and none piqued my interest (though fiamma is very good). I came back for a slice, a quick slice and nothing more… Omg, it was a complete change from what I had experienced all that time ago, what was I missing? It was absolute perfection that I had to have another, then another, and then another, I must have had 4 slices that day, but it was worth it.
Fast forward to the present, and I am a huge fan, their pizza remains the star, the perfect NY slice. I’ve also dined at the restaurant portion of the establishment, and it is not for those who only dine at Michelin star restaurants…
Great, right up my alley!
The food is heavy and creamy, but it tastes homemade, you can tell that it was made with love and care. The tortellini Alfredo has an amazing sauce that we just had to dip the bread into and the tortellini was texturally perfect, the chicken parm is delicious, their mozzarella cheese is very high quality! Their steak and onion parm hero is out of this world. I really want it now.
Wouldn’t be too hard to get, as I live like 5 mins away.
Amazing restaurant, and as a last note, the owner is the best guy you could meet. He’s always happy and cheerful and remembers my family by name. As an example of his kindness, he gave me a free slice during New Years Eve, no one does this anymore, and for that alone, you should come see what this place is about!

GET THEIR WHITE PIZZA!!! I love this place! The service, the food, all of it! Great place to eat with family and friends and it’s right off of Cross Island Pkwy, very convenient!

How is this place 4 stars???
The food is terrible
The service is terrible
Its messy inside with boxes and cases of soda stacked in the window.
I would eat store bought pizza before this place.

As a long time Bay Terrace resident, I love to support the restaurants in the neighborhood and for many years would order food from Baybridge. Their food was terrific but it stopped being terrific a few years ago so stopped ordering, however, I will drop in for a slice or two and find their pizza okay. Okay pizza in NY is really not okay considering how good pizza in NY is but when you’re hungry and on your way home from work, pizza of convenience wins.
Recently, I decided to try their food again and ordered chicken parmigian with spaghetti and also baked clams. Both were awful but the worst part was how blah and bland the chicken and spaghetti was. I don’t even think the quality was terrible, it was just that there was no flavor. It was so bad that I made a note on the menu that no matter how desperate or how close they are, DO NOT ORDER from them. Sometimes a hungry stomach needs a reminder.

First time customer, and I really enjoyed the pizza i ate the sicilian slice and then came back for another. Cheap prices and good service too ;-)

Pizza is okay at best. Never been a fan there are tons of other places in the neighborhood that are much better.

Love their pasta, pizza and of course the service. Very friendly and family like. Love to end my dinner with their cappuccino!

Authentic Italian food~ home style cookin’ and the food hits the spot all the time. Best pizza in town!

Top notch slices honestly, I’ve been to quite a handful pizzerias in NYC and i would have to say you can’t get more Italian than this pizzeria.
The people are actually Italian, speak Italian, reminds of being in Italy.
Pizza slice, crust is very nice and Smooth, the sauce is on point, cheese is very good quality.
I’m looking forward to eat more from here.

This is the best pizza in Bayside. They deliver, but it’s easier to go pick it up. And its a little more expensive than other places in the area, but you get what you pay for. YUM YUM. They do have seating and a small dining room, but I’ve always been a to-​go customer. The only negatives are that they need to enter the 21^st century with having a website/​online menu and working through one of the online delivery services, like Seamless. The business would be booming if they made those upgrades.

The worst pizza ever… got delivered COLD and the delivery guy nearly made his way inside my house. I literally live a few blocks away. No reason why my pizza couldn’t have at least been warm. This isn’t my first bad experience. Just the first review. I believe people OVER rate this place. It isn’t all what it’s cracked up to be. Maybe it’s just my luck but the pizzaria on main street between parsons and Roosevelt Ave has MUCH better pizza. Unfortunately it’s a bit too far. My last experience with bay bridge also sucked. I asked for extra sauce with peppers and onions and got just the onions. They’re cheap with the sauce. Even times when I went to eat ther, their customer service was terrible. The best thing about this place is that they have pepsi as oppose to coca cola products. Excuse me while I re-​invent this tasteless cold pie.

Eating there for almost 20 years the best pizza in bayside good service and fair price

Ordered a pie here, i wasn’t thrilled. But the best part is when I asked the old man behind the counter for some paper plates and he took out a used tissue from his front pocket and blew his nose, put it back in his pocket and handed me the
not sure if he saw the look of horror on my face but someone else fixing the pizza told him in italian to wash his hands, he did And he got me new plates. So yeah, pretty much won’t ever go back there «.

I’ve been coming here for years with my kids and wife. Very friendly staff, delicious traditional italian food. Can’t ask for a better place than this.

Don’t know how this place got anything but 1 star. Just ordered a pie half sausage and onions. Arrived ice cold and the pizza wasn’t even cooked enough. Lost my appetite and can’t even eat this monstrosity. Don’t bother. I can’t recommend a better place because I usually don’t order pizza delivery.

One of the worst pizzas I have ever had…
Not enough sauce on the pizza and doesn’t taste fresh.
Chicken parm was a TOTAL DISASTER!
So blend! Water down marinara sauce!!!
Very thin and tiny chicken… will never eat pizza from here again…
They used to be good but I wonder what happened to them.

I ordered the cold antipasto plate and there was a pile of anchovies on it. It made the entire plate taste like fish — the cheese, meat, and veggies. The rest of the food was good, not great.
The service was great. The restaurant is pretty and you can hear each other talk which is nice.

Living in the NYC area all my life and coming from Brooklyn originally, I think I know good pizza when I taste it. I can confidently state that their Grandma Pizza is the best I have ever tasted. Others are not even close.

Decent slice. Kind of pricey. Nice outdoor eating area. Don’t buy the fountain soda its a complete rip-​off.