Vicino Pizza Neapolitan Style Pizzeria 2385 North Old Mill Loop, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814

"This is now my favorite pizza in CDA. The pizza and meatballs must be tried. The service is attentive, and the owner was running the show and is interactive with the guests at the counter. I don't just give out 5 star reviews, but Vicino earned it."

"This is some of the best pizza I've had outside of Italy. It's VERY good. I ordered a Caesar salad and the pizza with artichoke and Pesto--the Carciofi. Both were excellent. I have had Caesar salads at some restaurants that are about as good as the salad kits from a Walmart. Unfortunately, this is more common than not. However, the salad here was excellent! Very fresh and delicious. Same with the pizza. Perfect crust, quality ingredients, and just overall very good. The service was also great! Very attentive and welcoming. The place was clean and had an appealing interior. I would definitely come back here!"

"We found this wonderful little place when we were out of town. Absolutely loved it! I have celiac, and this is the best GF pizza I've eaten. It was so good that I let my kids have some and didn't tell them it was pizza, and they were shocked that it was GF. GREAT customer service as well. We will definitely be back!"

"Ahh! Literally the best pizza I’ve tried so far! Everything was delicious! We ordered 3 different pies and each was great! For the table, an order of the focaccia and it was devoured within minutes. Was super crunchy at the top but soft towards the bottom and was really good Huckleberry and strawberry lemonade was, also, very delicious Took the slices that weren’t eaten home and there was our dinner Staff was VERY nice and place was kept super clean Very very good and I highly recommend stopping by!"

"Stopped by with some extended family members for dinner during restaurant week. Tried the radicchio salad, meatballs, focaccia bread, Margherita pizza, sausage and honey pizza, and a variety of gelato options. I lived in Naples, Italy for a couple of years. As you would expect, the pizza was incredible and I'm always interested in tasting local attempts at similar style pizza. Vicino pizza was good, but I would place heavy emphasis on the style in "Neapolitan-style" versus bring true to the original. Their sauce does have the sweeter San Marzano tomato flavor, but their mozzarella didn't have the strong flavor, and the crust closer to American style pizza in thickness. Not sure if they use 00 flour, but it didn't seem like it. Therefore, the margarita pizza was ok, but nothing that brought back memories of Naples or anything. By comparison, I would recommend the sausage and honey pizza as it offered a unique flavor pairing that was quite nice. Our entire dinner party tried each others orders and reached unanimous consensus that we would not recommend anything beyond the pizza. The radicchio salad had an unusually bitter after taste, meatballs tasted like meatloaf, the focaccia like toasted burger buns, and the gelato was more like ice cream in texture and it tasted like the recipes needed much more refinement to reach the quality for serving at a restaurant. If I lived in CDA, I would consider getting the pizza on occasion - but otherwise, it's not worth going out of one's way for it. Plus, the service was poor in the ways mentioned in other reviews. The servers were not particularly friendly from start to finish, plus everything took an extraordinary amount of time. As one example, I asked for a beer at one point, reminded the server after 15 minutes, and finally got it about 5-10 min later. Overall, we were at the restaurant for 2 and 1/2 hours because of what appeared to be inefficiency with service versus our desire to be there. Vicino has a lot of potential, and hopefully they'll work out some of these kinks to become the go-to local pizzeria."