orlando's italian restaurant

love orlando's!  no matter what i eat there i am never disappointed.  great italian food. they are very friendly at the front door and upon check out as well.  the servers are always friendly and very attentive to your needs.  the carry out is awesome as well. just an all around greatplaceto eat.

thisplaceis disgusting. the only decent part of the meal was the mafia queso. the pasta was flavorless, and the bruschetta was an oily, processed mess. it's extremely overpriced and altogether disappointing.

one of our favorites! it is a greatplaceto take people from out of town to get some unique west texas italian food. the green chili chicken linguine is my favorite! my husband loves the uncle louise chicken caldo- atomic. usually pretty good service but with anyplacewe have had a few bad apple experiences.

i don't think i have ever had a bad meal here but a few things keep thisplaceout of my top tier dirt city restaurants. there are usually hoards of people waiting and there really isn't a goodplaceto wait. the little area where you check in always has 5 or 6 employees mulling around or chit chatting. it just looks unprofessional.
last time we went on a sunday and by we i mean me dofrek and sofrek2. it wasn't too busy and no wait which made me happy. they sat us in the room to the right as you go in. i wonder if the hosteses are trained to judge people and sit them accordingly based on how pretty they are or how they dress etc.
i bet money they do and i probably dont get the best sections because i dont dress that great and i am old and uggo.
oh btw i am writting this from a room at lubbock heart hospital post surgery knee replacemrnt. i am drugged up on hydrocodo and morphine. my good friend dos insisted i have nothing better to do than to write a restaurant review. by friend i use the term losely with all due respect. we have only met once irl and he is afraid to give me his cell numbet and let me follow on snap and fb.

i digress. it was sofrek2 birthday. he and dofrek wanted to start things off with the infamous mafia queso and chips orderve.
yes i speak french. i asked the waitress who was young and pretty and very pleasant to please bring early and not with the meal. frektip 645.
dofrek wanted plain cheese pizza on wheat crust and i split it with her. it was a wise choice and very tasty. sofrek2 chose the cheeseburger from paradise which is also a wise choice. did you know it was rated best burger in texas in an issue of texas monthly magazine in 1999 the year my ford f150 was born?
queso was brought out early as requested. bonus pts. now i am going to get a tad bit picky...the chips were way way too salty. even the queso was really salty or maybe it got that way when the grains of salt poured in as we dipped. there was not as much mafia in the queso also. the garlic bread (2 pieces) were finger lickin good. i think the cost was nine bucks which seems high to me. $7 seems better. i am cheap.
dofrek told waitress it was her brothers bd which was sweet and it totally morified him which made it better. thank baby jesus they did not come and sing a stupid song. she brought a small dessert selection for him meaning dofrek to choose from. i think they chose some kind of cheesecake. i dont know they refused to share with daddy. i want to comme.nd orlandos for doing this. very nice.

overall it was a great meal with very good service and i have very little to bitch about.
less than $40 out the door. 4/5. would have been 5/5 if the chips and queso twernt so salty... its the little things.

449am from lubbock heart hospital on heavy dosages of drugs this is official frekview godbless you and godbless dirt city usa and god bless my new robo knee. shoutout to rva in rehab

awful italian!!. can't believe the positive reviews.. thisplacewas terrible from the moment i walked in. new to lubbock for orientation week at tt and was suckered by these made up reviews. pizza hut (non-italian) would have been a 5 star compared to this place. overcooked bland pasta smothered with tomatoe paste and undercooked vegetables. awful is all i can say about thisplaceand again don't be fooled by these positive reviews.

a little italian and a lot of price!. sorry, let me first start off by saying, i'm not one to whine about paying 50$ for a meal, i understand when going out, it's gonna happen, and i think orlando's food is great, i am a fan of the fire breathing dragon pizza, down and dirt tortellini, and the sizzle shrimp, my wife loves their alfredo, but for some reason when i go to aplacethat i fit in wearing flip slops and shorts, and only get the d&d tort, and my wife gets alfredo, we get a drink and salads, i can't seem to fathom why i spent 45$ on this meal! do we keep going back? yes because i think the food is good, i just usually con someone else into paying the bill! ha!

orlando's was the only italian restaurant in lubbock when i was a student at tech in the 1980s. and to be honest, my recollection wasn't a very positive one. so it may seem odd that this was our final meal on this visit to lubbock. we hadn't originally planned to go here, but after visiting another mexicanplacethat didn't look very alluring (in fact, it was fast food rather than a sit down restaurant), we both shifted gears and decided italian sounded really good. not only had i remembered orlando's from my past, but i did recall recently reading some very positive reviews on urbanspoon. they've been around since 1965, so they must be doing something right! i probably only went to orlando's 3 times in my 4 1/2 year stint at tech. we had always gone to the 24th and q location, but i believe the south location existed back then t

bestplacein lubbock

delicious. we ordered the green chile chicken pizza and the jumbo italian roast beef to go. they were absolutely wonderful!! this is our new favoriteplacein lubbock, can't wait to try the rest of the menu.

best alfredo. my favorite italianplaceby far in lubbock. their alfredo sauce is perfection. it can get a little pricey, but you're paying for the atmosphere and fresh food. i can never get enough of the garlic bread and i am constantly ordering the take out. i have never had a bad experience here.

thisplaceis kind of pricey but it has good food. it was rated number 10 in texas for burgers and they are great!

greatplaceeverything was very good. try the queso