Aldo’s Pizza & Pub

Hidden jewel. You have to try out their ribs on Thursdays! Highly recommended. And pizza is great too!

This is a small neighborhood restaurant/​bar, and I asked for a beer recommendation; the beer I received was wonderful, and made in Michigan. We had dinner there, and ordered the daily special which was All You Can Eat spaghetti — it was excellent! The staff was pleasant and attentive. My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed our meal.

My sister and her hubs are fairly new to the G –town scene, and quickly realized there are not a lot of great dining options in the area. However, they happened upon Aldo’s and have been raving about the pizza ever since. Wondering if their love for it was simply from the restaurant deprivation they are experiencing in their new locale, I decided to check it out when running errands recently. As it was lunch time on a Monday, I pretty much had the place to myself. However, the wait staff were friendly and attentive but not overly so. I ordered an Italian Beef sandwich and I was mightily impressed! The bread was perfect — soft and decadent. The tender, thinly sliced beef was piled high, and tasty to boot. The whole sandwich was placed open faced under a broiler and browned to perfection. It was coupled with a delicious cup of Italian Wedding Soup and I was perfectly pleased. I’ll be back — next time with my favorite sister and brother-​in-​law — to check out this pizza they’ve become so enamoured with.

It is unclear if you are supposed to wait to be seated or seat yourself. We sat ourselves after asking the bartender what to do. The bartender was also the only server. Service was extremely slow due to the lack of help. The pizza was so-​so. They could use new cups, because they were old, scratched, and dirty plastic cups circa 1990. We sat in a booth in the bar area. I did peek into the larger dining room where I found a disarray of tables and a pool table.
It seems that they are unsure of what they want to be. If they want to be a bar and restaurant then the pool table should be in the bar with a couple tall tables and the restaurant patrons should be in the dining room. There should also be at least one server for the bar and one for the restaurant.
I also need to mention that a member of the kitchen staff came in and the bartender/​server was suprised to see him. She said something like «I thought you were sick?» and he responded something like «I am, but no one else would work.» He should NOT be in the kitchen and the customers DO NOT want to hear that!
There are better places to visit than Aldo’s.

This location has changed names and hands 3 times in the 10 years I have lived in the area. There was a time when the restaurant was called Fazzari’s and the pizza was mind blowingly good, but under the Aldo’s name I would suggest that the pizza is just good. The dine in experience is not at all fancy, but the bar is a fun place to hang. They typically have a few micro brews from either new glarus or sprecher on tap and they pour a pretty nice mixed drink.
I give this place 4 stars instead of 3 primarily because there are so few good pizza places in this part of town and the hosts are very friendly.

We have ordered multiple pizzas since I originally wrote my review and I am so sad to report but they have been TERRIBLE! I am absolutely boggled as to how can a pizza be as amazing as the first experience and then fall so horribly short the next three times? A friend of mine said the very same thing. I don’t know if we can give it another chance after the multiple we already have. So so bummed!

Have ordered carryout from here several times and decided the Pizza is not a specialty here. The sauce was runny and very sweet; and the crust seemed doughy. Due to our carryout experience, we have decided not trying the eat-​in.
On the upside, they made some improvements to the décor and seating since the previous restaurant. They also had fast and friendly service at the bar.

Great Pizza, Great Service can’t beat that combination