scuzzi's italian restaurant

disappointed.madereservation in the morning of our first visit, which they gladly accepted. waited about 10 minutes to be seated and then was walked to patio, which we did not ask for. when i told greeter we had a reservation for inside i was told only patio was available and should have been told that when imadethe reservation. waited approx. 15 more minutes and were seated inside. food was fine, but prefer other places. waiter was unfriendly and snooty, but did serve the food adequately. don't plan to return. there are much better italian restaurants in san antonio.

lunch: we (3) arrived early (11;00) and seated at a 4 top.  atmosphere is beautiful and tables are spaced pleasantly so no bumping other chairs.  food was good. italian wedding soup could have more flavor, maybemadewith a stock instead of water? bruschetta topping was so great but crustini underneath was really thin & soggy. bathrooms need a little maintenance, ie; securing toilet seats, sweeping corners. the italian margarita was most excellent.  best part of the whole experience: alex, our server. very attentive, courteous & helpful with our selection. would recommend this place on him alone.

i have onlymadeone visit to scuzzi's and was very pleased with it. excellent food, i had veal marsala with pesto pasta, everything was good, and fair prices. i highly recommend a visit if you have not been, for some excellent italian food.

the food is great. we had read the reviews and even went in and tried the food which is outstanding so i met with the manager mazi to set up dinner for 110 people. our event is a by invitation only each member is checked in and then checked off of the list at the end of the night when we received the bill we were charged for an extra 12 people. we showed the list that had been verified by three of our staff members with no avail. after about 30 minutes of discussion we decided to pay the bill rather than continue to argue because we did not want to have a debate in front of our guests. the evening up until that point was wonderful the service was outstanding however being overcharged for 12 people did not leave a very good taste in our mouth's. we attempted to rectify the discrepancy however he said that his staff could not havemadea mistake. i am writing the review in hopes that agreement can be made. i would hope that the restaurant and it's owners would value the reviews of it's patrons

good if you like bertolli. i was hugely disappointed for what tasted like something i could havemadeat home from prepackaged meals. the portions were reasonable for a single sitting. at most places, you can expect a pasta dish to have enough leftovers for a second meal, but not so here. if there had been more leftovers, i may have felt better about the price. we were all disappointed, so we won't be going back again.

amore. i love the food here. we return every 4-8 wks. it seems like this is one of the few italian restaurants that has a good variety of seafood dishes and definitely many dishesmadevery tastefully without tomatoes - red sauces are good but you can get them everywhere. what aren't as prevalent in this town are wonderful white sauces, especially like they have here.

valentines day. i took my sweet-thing to scuzzi's last night for valentine's day. it was our first visit. i hadmadea reservation a few days before so we were seated right away. it was a very good thing imadethe reservation because they were loaded with customers. it's a nice sized place but i would recomend reservations if going on any "big" night or weekend. i was very pleasently impressed with the decor. it's a little surprizing when you get inside as the outside is some what plain. but it is very nice inside. our food was very good (eggplant parm)! and our server (daniel) was fun, knowledgable, and very attentive. we throughly enjoyied our meal and evening! thank you for a great night scuzzi's! we will be back!

i went with a party of 17 celebrating two birthdays on 1/13/13 and our server was excellent, he was very attentive andmadesure we were all taken care of!! the food was excellent and for a large portion of the party it was some of the best food they ever had! we all were very pleased with the entire experience. the wait staff even offered to cut and serve the birthday cake to the party, this is something i have never had any restaurant ask! i strongly recommend this restaurant not only for the food but the great service!

best martini in town. we love scuzzi's! the dirty martini is fabulous, especially if it ismadeby dennis...he is a great bartender. another favorite is the shrimp appetizer (gamberetti) with the delicious hot bread. my favorite dishes are the pollo alla griglia and pollo alla saltimbocca. my husband really enjoys the linguini alla vongole with butter garlic sauce and we always share the caesar or scuzzi's salad (both are delicious). prices are very reasonable and the waitstaff very efficient and knowledgeable. nice wine list too. highly recommend this restaurant to everyone. we go weekly...see you there!

scuzzis rules. i have eaten at scuzzi's multiple times and have always enjoyed a nice dinner with good service. however, a few months ago, this restaurant did something that i will always remember, as lame as that sounds. it was me and my boyfriends anniversary, he took me to the symphony downtown and we rushed back to make it in time for our 10:30 reservation. (they close at 11.) of course the traffic was horrible, and wemadeit at 10:47. okay more like 10:50. the staff welcomed us anyway and were exceptionally friendly andmadeus feel at home, even though we were 20 minutes late and it was 10 minutes before closing time. our server was fabulous and our food was delicious, and we were the only two customers in the whole place. we tipped the server fat & still talk about the wonderful evening we had :)

forget all of these bad reviews, scuzzi's is daaa bomb

food great, poor customer service from management. manager was extremely rude when there was a mistakemadeby himself. instead of being polite and simply apologizing for his mistake he told us that we did not arrive on time for the reservation we made. this was unbelievable as there were 6 of us and we all arrived for a 6:30 reservation by 6:25! later we found out that it was the owner who was so rude. the waitstaff and the hostess continually apologized for his behavior. it is pretty bad when the people who work for him know he messed up and he won't admit when he is wrong. simply for the rudeness of this man we will never be back. as long as you don't have to deal with him you might enjoy your meal!

only previous reviews left a bad taste in our mouths. i read all the reviews below about an hour before we set out for a late sunday lunch with family--our first time to scuzzi's. needless to say we were set for a lousy time and lousy food based on the reviews. boy were we surprised. my husbandmademe write this review just because of all the bad things i reiterated to him on the way there. he had smoked chicken lasagna, i had the chicken napolitana and both were to die for--would order again in a heartbeat. my sister-in-law had the shrimp dish that is like shrimp paesano and she said it was as good if not better. the service was great and we ate off the lunch menu and still brought food home. if i were going to complain about anything, it would be that one of the waiters was constantly trying to refill our tea glasses--finally had to put our hands over our glasses to keep him from doing so. but, give him a gold star for being conscientious. the apple tort dessert was only average, but then i never met a dessert i didn't like. we will return to scuzzi's again some time in the future when we are willing to make the 35 minute drive from our home. for us, scuzzi is a doozie!!!

wonderful experience. wemadereservations for lunch sunday, october 24 to celebrate our daughter's birthday and our son-in-law's return from afghanistan - 4 adults and 1 pre-teen. since they live in sa and we don't , our daughter chose the restaurant. our table was ready when we arrived and elias, our waiter, was very informative and attentive. the drinks from bar were excellent and we were allowed plenty of time to peruse the menu and make our choices. our granddaughter chose a plain caesar salad (her favorite), others had chicken marsala, eggplant parmigiana, beef tenderloin and ribeye. both steaks were cooked to perfection and the italian dishes were scrumptuous.
we had told them when wemadethe reservations that there was a birthday being celebrated - the waitstaff sang "happy birthday" in italian and presented a huge piece of italian cream cake without charge.
we enjoyed after dinner drinks and visited - no rush to clean off our table or get us to leave.
we have owned restaurants in the past and appreciate the attention the waitstaff and kitchen crew gave to us. it went a long way to help make this celebration very special.

"rules are rules . . .". my guest and i went to scuzzi's with a restaurant.com coupon for $25 off. what a deal! restaurant.com makes it clear to the restaurants they do business with that our part of the deal is to present the coupon before ordering. their part is that if there is a problem with the order not complying with the restrictions, we will be told up front. so, we ordered off the lunch menu, which was a mistake on our part because it clearly states "dinner only". yes, wemadea mistake. we finished dining. by the way, the shrimp sauteed in butter/garlic sauce is to die for! the chicken lazagna is dry and tasteless. the salads look like a child's portion and are wilted. anyway, our waiter cooly and nonchalantly presents our check with a smug look and states that he can not honor the coupon that we presented from the beginning because we ordered off the lunch menu. we expressed that it would have been nice if we had been told wemadea mistake before we consumed our food! he left and came back with a new check reflecting the dinner prices for our meals and with the coupon deduction, and smuggly told us that that is the best he can do, even though he admitted that we got the smaller lunch portion, but were being charged for the dinner plates . . . but he gave us the deduction.

now, this wasn't about money--$25 off is a great deal, and i know it. this is about principal. we asked to speak with the manager, who we found out is the owner (maci? or something like that), who had an identical smug grin on his face as he told us, "rules are rules, and we all have to follow them". he obviously felt that since we were getting such a good deal to begin with, he shouldn't have to budge on the fact that we were charged for the larger portion but got the smaller portion, or the fact that theymadea mistake too accepting the coupon from the beginning yet letting us order off the lunch menu without mentioning the faux pa (we sat down at 3:45 p.m.).

a serious wtf moment. i was born and bred in new york city and i'm very critical about italian food. i have yet to find a place in san antonio that even comes close to anything remotely resembling an average place back home.

that said, a very good friend of mine visited scuzzi's recently and told me i absolutely have to try it. admittedly, i was very excited about this potential find. so, last saturday wemadespecial plans to eat there. we even held back on having lunch and snacking in order to have a strong appetite for dinner. since there was a short wait for a table, we decide to glance at the menu ahead of time to be ready once seated.

on the top of the menu we saw that there was a charge for sharing a plate...$2.99. honestly, that has got to be the most ridiculous and obnoxious thing i have ever seen on a menu. in a restaurant where they charge $14 for a 65 cent bowl of spaghetti, you would think something like that could be absorbed. are they going to charge additional for electricity for air conditioning for parties of 4 or more?
or, how about if you use 2 napkins?

i can afford $3, but this is a complete insult. this is the kind of nickle and diming that will put an establishment out of business. especially if you consider that there are 5000 other restaurants in san antonio including paesano's right across the highway. we got up and left immediately.

i don't care if the food is good, or even great. the ratings here could be perfect...i would never patronize a place that practices such an outrageous thing. additionally, i will go out of my way to tell everyone i know, not to go there. now, how much did they make in plate sharing that they wont ever see as new business...unbelievable.

i'd much rather see all the trees that were sacrificed and torn down to put this place up, returned to their original lives. it was a much more productive use of the land and overall contribution to life.

p.s. we went next door to willie's ice house and had an absolutely wonderful dinner.