Punky's Pizza & Pasta
Laura Blakely · 112 Google reviewsPunky's Pizza & Pasta — italian in Chinatown. The kitchen starts with good ingredients and it shows. Emma “Sean” Sullivan: "Fresh, flavorful salads, creamy, comforting soups and the very best eggplant parm I've ever had" [$$]
What 699 diners keep saying
What 699 diners keep saying
verbatim, from Google
“Authentic Italiano offerings within Chinatown area in Bridgeport without having to travel too far. Free flow of beverages for a thirsty hot evening.”
“Love their Pot Roast Sandwich!!! The best!😋 Hi Vinny & Family 🥰🥰🥰😘”
“Amazing experience the service was great and friendly. The food was so good the panzarotti was huge and so fresh. The chicken sandwich was excellent. All made to fresh well worth the wait.”
“Currently obsessed w Punky’s Pizza. Last week I ordered a Caesar salad, pepperoni pizza, antipasto salad, and their tomato basil soup with homemade garlic croutons…and every single bite was fantastic. You can taste the fresh ingredients in everything. The soup in particular was ridiculously good. I loved it so much I ended up ordering again within the same week. Punky’s Pizza is a MUST TRY.”
“Got delivery from here in a Friday night. Totally average food, people hype it up because it’s tavern style and because of the CCSW (chicken Caesar salad wrap). I didn’t get the CCSW though. I got the eggplant parm sandwich, which was fine, lacked depth, but it was a very simple eggplant parm. My partner got the stuffed gnocchi, and mozzarella sticks. He liked the gnocchi, the mozzarella sticks were fine, frozen to fryer style. We also got the pepperoni pizza, it was spongier than tavern style, cheesy, overall fine. All was just okay.”
“On what planet is this good food. The sauce on the pizza slice was tasteless, the sausage was OK. The grilled chicken with mozzarella and tomatoes was fresh but the balsamic dressing was overpowering. The worst was a poor excuse of a what was supposed to be minestrone. Brownish broth, too big diced carrots, onion and celery, some weird mystery meat, no beans, no pasta or rice, and way to salty. I've had highly rated pizza that lived up to the hype, but This place doesn't come close.”
“#195 in my search for the best sausage pizza takes me to Punky's in Bridgeport. Pizza smelled great the entire ride home but......It always starts with the crust and Punky's has an incredibly hard dried out thick crust with skimpy toppings. Too much bland crushed tomato sauce but that didn't make the pizza soggy as usual because the crust was dried out. The proportions were out of whack with an 8-1 thicker crust to skimpy cheese ratio. Really good sausage but just none to be found.”
“Not sure how a “creamy vodka sauce” rigatoni could come out of the kitchen both dry and wet, but it did. Rigatoni pasta shells were drier than the Sahara desert: meaning it was overcooked and sat under a heat lamp. Vodka sauce so thin I could almost see the tin plate bottom it was dumped into. Did they forget the cream? When you charge $17 for a dish, do better. An unfortunate experience. Definitely better pasta places in the city.”
“I’m very disappointed with my recent order. I ordered the chicken Caesar wrap, but the sauce tasted nothing like Caesar dressing—it was more like Italian dressing. I placed the order over the phone, and when I arrived, the blonde girl at the counter didn’t greet me or acknowledge me; I had to say hello first and was met with a rude attitude. Needless to say, I did not leave a tip. Also, charging $2 for a single small packet of Cholula hot sauce is outrageous. I was already skeptical after reading the reviews, and unfortunately, they were right—the wrap was awful and not worth the money. I won’t be ordering from here again.”
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