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Cates Italian Garden

Cates Italian Garden

4952 Lake Shore Dr, 12814, BOLTON LANDING, United States

Pizza • Pasta • Italian • Delivery Services


"As a 25+ year seasonal customer who frequents this establishment often, I had to comment. Particularly in response to the recent review by someone named D. I must call you out. Shame on you to leave all 1s on everything across the board when you yourself admit you had takeout. So how bad could the atmosphere be!? Apparently you have zero appreciation for small mom pop businesses. Your review is unfair. This business has a great atmosphere and has been a staple in this town for almost 30 years! Do you have any clue how hard it is to remain successful in today's world let alone in the food business? Clearly not. You sound as if you get a guaranteed 40 hr paycheck every week, 3 weeks paid vacation and possible health benefits. Please. You ordered take out in a summer vacation town during one of the busiest weekends. Restaurants like this have 12-16 weeks to make enough money to support their staff and family for the entire year. Your review speaks volumes to your character. Do you realize you never mentioned the food? Btw the name that starts with a K and rhymes with Nellie is Kelly. Kelly has been the main bartender there forever. Taking your take out order is just 1 of her jobs there. I wasn't there but know the worker she is and know her attention to detail. I doubt the scenario you described is true but so what if it was!? Maybe she had an off day? Maybe they were swamped? Maybe you being on vacation should chill a little and leave your self important attitude at the door? Just a thought. Although I am positive your business is important to any restaurant you patronize, you are nobody's only customer. Your review was unfair. I hope people will ignore your silly unjust review and give more weight to the fact this same 1 owner business has survived for 30 years. The food speaks for itself. It's consistently good. Service is excellent but can at times be a bit slower depending on the weekend. It is afterall located in an extremely busy tourist hot spot. I suggest people skip D's review. Don't give it another thought. Just check it out for yourself and see what has kept it thriving for all these years."

Pancoast Pizza

Pancoast Pizza

1516 South Main Street, Walnut Creek, 94596, United States Of America

Food • Wine • Pizza • Italian


"Walnut Creek has its fair share of tasty restaurants and quick spots to choose from. But it doesn't have a lot of pizza places, especially if you're in the mood for just a piece of pizza. That said and done, this leads me to PanCoast Pizza, which focuses on her New York pizza. Located directly on S. Main St. and parallel to Highway 680 on the southern part of Walnut Creek, this place has served its piping hot East Coast pizzas from 2012. What makes this place great is that the owner Bob Pancoast originally comes from the area of Philadelphia/New Jersey, which means that he brings many of his ideas to the west. I came here in the evening of Sunday 9/5/2021 at 20:30. Although this was 30 minutes before the closing time, they still had a very generous number of customers who were ordered for one and one order. Since I live out of town, I decided to dine outside and use the warm late summer evening. The interior of this place is quite small, but still allows indoor seats as well as TV 's, a self-service fountain ham station and a single room. After looking over the menu, I went with a piece of her sausage, olives, red onions and cheese, while my 1 went with a piece of her paprika with jalapeños. Prices here for the discs are quite reasonable as you can get a fairly generous layer between the $5-7 range. In addition to the slices, they also make whole pizzas as well as Huagies, salads and Strombolis. They also carry a fairly decent amount of artisanal beers on tap. Since it was quite busy on a Sunday night, my pizza took about 5 minutes to finish. Overall, this definitely has a beautiful unique New York taste, with the crust is thin, while still packed in a ton taste. The only real case is that since this pizza sat for some time under a hot oven, it did not have that 100% fresh from the oven taste. If I could criticize one thing in this place and that's not to have that cracker crust tastes. Otherwise I enjoyed my pane from the beginning to the end. But it was still tasteful, filled, had a lot of fat while it was generous with the blows. The outdoor area was also well lit and spacious; perfect for the comfortable Bay Area evenings. All in all, panCoast Pizza is definitely one of the better mom and pop pizza joints. You have quite generous hours open Sunday to Thursday from 11:00 am and Friday Saturday from 11:30 am to 10 pm. decent prices, a very large range of special pizzas to satisfy all taste buds, and above-average customer service. My rating, an above-average four stars."