Restaurant Review: Paisanos Pizza N Pasta
Denis Baldwin | May 05, 2009 | Comments 1
I’ve been on a real pizza and pasta kick lately, so I decided to have a business meeting with one of my clients at Paisano’s Pizza and Pasta (6000 4th Street North, St. Petersburg, FL 33703, 727-521-2656). Paisanos is known for their excellent Italian Buffet, so I decided to make this an opportunity to try everything they offered.
The building itself is a bit difficult to find if you’re not aware of where it is. It’s on a busy road running into St. Pete and I passed it a few times before finding it. Once I found it, it was packed. This was a Wednesday night at 6PM and every parking spot was full. Any place that is that full on an average week night has to be doing something right.
I walk in and am immediately seated. Despite being very busy, they were accommodating and friendly. After a moment, the rest of my meeting showed up and we all headed to the buffet. At $8.00, it’s a bargain. All of the food is prepared fresh and nothing is left out to get leathery or stale, as I’ve seen in other buffets.
All of the food I tried was better than average. For my first plate, I tried buttered noodles, stuffed shells, pepperoni pizza, eggplant parmesan and a bread stick. The buttered noodles were good, if only a bit too oily. The stuffed shells were excellent. They tasted like the ones my grandmother used to make, stuffed with cheese and with a thick red sauce. The eggplant parmesan was my favorite thing. During following returns to the buffet, I ended up eating more egg-parm than anything else. The breadsticks were uninspiring, but it was mostly because I was getting full by the time I got around to eating them.
The pizza was quite good. Even after having my fill at the buffet, I ordered a Philly Steak pizza to go (which was eaten over the next few days).
Paisanos is definitely the best pizza buffet that I’ve tried since I moved to Florida. The price is reasonable, the quality of food is on the better side of average and everyone was very friendly and helpful.
Related posts:
- Restaurant Review: ABC Pizza
- Restaurant Review: D’Italia Pizza- Local Delivery to Ybor without the high cost
- Restaurant Review: NYPD Pizza
- Restaurant Review: Antonios Pasta Grille
- Restaurant Review: Roma Pizza
- Restaurant Review: Grande Pizza Largo
- Restaurant Review: Pizza Uno
- Restaurant Review: Not Your Average Joe’s Pizza
- Restaurant Review: Primo’s Pasta and Ribs
- Restaurant Review: Johnny’s Pizza & Restaurant
Filed Under: Food & Drink • Italian
Who are you to rate a resteraunt??
Paisano’s
s u c k s !
Go to paisano’s for lunch buffet sometime and get their just abit past prime lunch hour and then see what you can find to eat thats not OLD and leathery.
Best pizza buffet ever?
LMFAO even with limited options pizza hut beats these guys to death unless you like cardboard crust!
Go down to bradenton and try hungry howies new buffet. Now thats clean and good! but people please go there as I said just abit past the peak hour and see whats left for you. Service was nothing special either. I guess if you live on that side of the tracks and don’t want to travel far I can see what type of business they have. I bet they really BEER it up and night too.
YUCK!
0 stars