Talayna's Italian Restaurant

This restaurant is owned by a great man who treats all of his employees with dignity and respect. If you look at the one star ratings you will see someone named Madison who left a review mentioning a woman named Michelle, playing as if she was an innocent victim. I would like to clear that up, Michelle along with other employees were caught on surveillance stealing money and that’s why she was fired. Medhi is a great boss, and anyone else who works there and respects just basic decency will have no problems with him. All he expects is for his employees to work hard, be honest, and respect one another.

We visited Talayna's on a Sunday afternoon/early evening. We started with drinks. The lemonade was fantastic! The beer was cold, served in a frosted glass. They brought out the bread which was crusty and very dense served with good old fashioned butter. Great extra treat. I'm a big fan of free food before the real good. The appetizer we chose to get is started was the Jumbo Toasted Ravioli. Fantastic! I loved the sauce but it could have been meaty. We ordered a house salad to split between the four of us (and we had some left). Roped provel cheese. Homemade croutons! Double thumbs up. And then came the pizza... We order a kids pizza and the pizza was PLENTY BIG for a kiddo. The big 16" large we chose was the New York Style with half Deluxe plus bacon and half meat. The pizza was wonderful, plenty left over at all. All in all the services what made it worthy in the five star rating. They were attentive, friendly and accommodating.

Hand tossed pizza is good. St. Louis style pizza was good as well. Salads used to be so good here, but ordered a house salad last Saturday for take out @ $8.95, & it was disgusting. Some of the lettuce was brown (spoiled), there were big chunks of lettuce, which I had to cut up myself, & the core of the head of lettuce was included! Nobody eats the core of a head of lettuce! I was appalled that I paid almost nine dollars for something that was not really edible.

I was in the area for a doctor's appointment, and I asked a local for recommendations to eat and he told asked if I liked Italian. I wasn't in the mood for Italian, but his and 2 others comments saying I won't be disappointed convinced me. Let me just say the food was phenomenal! I even ordered some food to go as well for my 3.5 hour trip home. You won't be disappointed in this place.