Illiano's Pizzeria - Colchester

A decent place for a meal. The price is reasonable. The service is pleasant, although it can be a bit slow. Dinners are well prepared, but mostly quite bland. Your pizza is actually quite good, most of the time, but this is the catch. For me, the problem with Illiano's from Colchester is inconsistency. If they do well, meals are a bit better than average and the pizza is excellent! Other times it can be under par. Consistency is one of my main criteria for rating restaurants. If I am not sure what I will get when I place an order, how can I recommend it? For example, McDonald's is barely gourmet or even very fast food BUT if I have an order at McDonald's 99% of the time I expect. On a bad day this place hardly prices 2 stars yet on a good day it simply prices 4 stars based on pizza and other related bakery. So I give them three stars, but take it with a few grains of salt.

Unfortunately, it's one issue or another each time. Try to give this place chances for redemption, but this time it was under cooked, doughy, lacking sauce to the edge. Just a sloppy pick-up pizza.

Driving thru Colchester.. Stumbled upon this great restaurant. Google reviews were good decided to try.. No regrets!!! Yummy food.. Great service!! Had a meatball grinder and chicken cutlet grinder. And mozz sticks... Very good. Wish I lived closer!!! Excellent!!

Came here after a long hike which should say something about how our expectations weren't too high given we were starving. The mozzarella sticks definitely had that frozen quality and weren't fried enough. I give it a 5/10 because the flavor was still decent. The chicken parm was lackluster. I thought the sauce was very good. 7/10 The pasta was cooked fine but lacked a lot of flavor even with the sauce. The chicken reminded me of cafeteria food. Cheese wasn't melted enough, it was hard and rubber like. I also found a thick piece of plastic halfway through. 3/10 The woman who served us was very nice about it and apologized. She was very prompt and lovely. Overall, it was not very good compared to other Italian places I have been and I won't be back even if I were starving.

Very friendly staff. Reasonable prices but there was hardly any veal on the veal parm. Either get smaller rolls or put on more meat. The roll was super crusty and yummy but it was a WHOLE lot of dry bread. I've been to another location and only ever had pizza which was really good. I think I'll skip the grinder if I go back.