Lonzalos Pizzeria & Restaurant

THE BEST ‘NY Style’ pizza in West Central Florida.
And the homemade mozzarella sticks … Yummm!!!

Love this place! Best chicken parm around!

Love the garlic knots and pizza. Its so good, we haven’t tried anything else yet.

I love the fact that this place is a family owned and friendly neighborhood place. The server was not top shelf but was friendly and competent. The first clue that I won’t make a second visit was the dirty bathroom. The second was the grease on the pizza.
I hope the owner sees this and cleans the restrooms (maybe spring for some paint for those filthy doors) and orders higher quality cheese to avoid the greasy pizza.

Great pizza on a good day, but often when you order to pick up, it is not ready. I’ve waited almost 30 minutes, and no apology. If you hit them on the right day, it could be 4 – 5 stars, but as you can see by the reviews, no consistency.

Good service. Pizza was good. Not great. Not a lot of flavor. Bacon was hard. Atmosphere was good, casual. Prices were good.

Decent pizza, okay menu, and generally mediocre to poor service. This is the kind of restaurant that can get away with average to below average food and service because Trinity lacks many food choices.

Moved to Florida about 6months ago from up north and have been looking and looking for good pizza! It has been a struggle. Nothing could compare until we had pizza from here. It is awesome!
The garlic knots and wings are amazing also. So happy to finally found a place with good Italian dishes too!

Our favorite pizza place in Tampa Bay, hands down! We always seem to bring out of towners and everyone enjoys it. They have the most amazing crust and lots of toppings. Be sure to get the fried eggplant on your pizza… you won’t regret it. Great service as well. We have tried many other pizza joints in Trinity and Tampa, but Lonzalo’s continues to be our go-​to.

A pizza that invokes nostalgia.
How close is Lonzalo’s to real New York pizza? Read on and you’ll see my answer!
I’ve had their pizza before when my company had it delivered a few times and it was excellent.
After deviating from their delicious neighbor, Havana Dreamers, my colleague and I decided to give them a shot for lunch.
At 2 slices and a drink for $ 5 (toppings extra), you can’t go wrong! The pizza is very close to my childhood in New York and my colleague and I end up forgetting about work and arguing how Lonzalo’s pizza is closer to either Long Island, New York or New Jersey Boardwalk pizza. (Obviously, it’s Long Island)
It is hard to choose between the two restaurants on Town Ave, now. It’s a tough decision, but we’ll survive.
I brought my parents there for lunch this afternoon. My father is a hard man to please when it comes to Pizza. Living in New York for close to 35 years, he knows pizza.
After the first two bites, he began talking about the old pizzeria by our old house in Long Island. My mother began reminiscing on how she took me there to meet the Ninja Turtles and get a slice of marshmallow pizza.
As we ate, my parents and I took a trip down memory lane of my childhood and their teenage years at that same pizzeria. We barely noticed the waiter come to check on us as we ate a simple pepperoni and extra cheese pizza.
Needless to say, any pizza that can bring nostalgia to a 31 year old man and his (ahem) sixty something year old parents is pretty amazing in my book.
That is the closest to New York we’ve come to in Florida.
The smile and laughter it brought my parents was well worth a $ 14 large pizza.

3 stars due to one great experience and one bad one. Went here with family and had delicious pizza and a great time. Came back a few months later for a date night with the husband and when the waitress was serving us our pizza, she pushed her ungloved fingers into the air bubbles in the crust. Very weird, grossed us out.

This is a great neighborhood restaurant! Great service inside and out. I had a party of 20 and Tony the waiter did an excellent job all dishes came out hot and delicious!!! I wish they would put the penne ala vodka back on the menu!!! The last time I was there the place was full of New Yorkers. That says it all! Keep up the good work and quality!!!

Where do I start? This will be one of the hardest reviews to write. Lonzalos is a neat little community restaurant in Long Leaf… and I love the fact that it is family owned.
We stopped in on Friday, April 25 at about 9PM… it wasn’t too busy and we sat at a table in the bar. Except for the food taste, it went down hill from there.
I hate saying this, but it was the worst service we have had since moving to Florida. Our server came over and was friendly, but got absolutely nothing right.
There were three of us and she brought over two napkins and silverware. One menu offered Pepsi products and two offered coke… We ordered drinks and a dozen knots. When she brought the knots, she brought six… when asked for the other knots, silverware, and napkins; she went back behind the bar to check her phone. A bit later she brought out the other knots and said she forgot them. We asked again for napkins and silverware… but she went back behind the bar again. The server walked by a bit later and offered drink refills… a few minutes later she brought two but forgot the third.
Just then our pizza came out… we again asked for napkins and silverware, as well as some parmesan cheese. Even though dinner was there we waited another five minutes for silverware and that was only after asking the kid that brought the parmesan. After that the server never came back… we flagged her down only to get the check… guess what — it was wrong… not just and item or two… it was the completely wrong bill.
The food itself was good… just terrible service. I hope it improves, because I would hate to see a family business fail because of a server.

Good food, good prices. Great little place catering to the locals. The pizza is one of the best around!

For a local restaurant away from the hustle this place is great. The Italian meals are great and the pizza is the best. We have been coming here for the last year and each time has been great.

I came here with family for an early dinner around 4 pm on a Saturday. There was a group of 5 of us and they had a table ready for us right away. The server pleasantly greeted us and handed out menus. We all ordered different things from the early bird menu which was a selection of 5 – 10 items for $ 10 including salad bread and a drink. I got the chicken parm. It was tasty and the chicken was a large size considering the great price. I had enough for leftovers for the next day. My family ordered the chicken Marsala and veal Parmesan and said it was all very good. For dinner for 5 it only ended up being $ 60 which is a great deal. The environment was nice, the food was tasty and service was good. Overall enjoyable

Let’s be honest, if you live in the NPR/​Trinity area you already know that there aren’t many good places to eat around here.
Lonzalos has some of the best pizza around, and the closest I’ve had to pizza from NYC. I’m a big fan of their white pizza, but all the pizzas I’ve had have been great! The crust is perfect, hand-​tossed and crispy. They’re the go-​to pizza joint in our house.
If you’re in the mood for some good Italian food, they have all those classic Italian dishes you’d think of. Their eggplant rollatini is delish!
They’ve recently expanded, so now they have a pretty nice bar area. One of these days I’ll get to check it out.

Excellent, authentic NY style pizza with great service and pricing. I am VERY picky about my pizza, and this is as close to NY pizza as I have found here in Florida, The service has been friendly and efficient. We did have to wait quite a while for a table once, but that speaks more towards how popular the place is than any sort of deficiency.
Stop in, you’ll like both the place and the food.

This is the only place my boyfriend and I order pizza from. It’s like being back in NY… Soooo delicious. I highly recommend it to anyone who loves GOOD PIZZA.

Finally, a great slice of NYC has arrived in Tampa Bay! Gorgeous hand-​tossed perfect crust pizza that tastes as good as any pizza joint in the Big Apple. Lonzalos uses excellent cheese and the sauce is like something mama used to make. They’ve recently expanded and now offer a even larger section of craft beer on tap and wines. If you’re not in the mood for pizza or calzones, their menu also offers a variety of your favorite Italian dishes. I highly recommend the Eggplant Rollatini, but my husband loves the Chicken Francese. The place is always packed at dinner, but they happily take reservations. Lonzalos also offers lunch specials, early bird specials as well as happy hour specials.