Bongiovanni's Italian - El Cajon

The food seems okay in my opinion, except for the obvious cheap cheeses that they use. Although they do use a generous amount on your pizzas. But the absolute worst thing about this place is that they outright lie about the prices. Go on Google maps, and the posted menu, and you will see that a small pizza with one topping is listed for $13 and change. You can expect to pay at least $4 more than what is listed. To me, this is enough reason not to patronize this place. It's obvious they want to fool you with a bait and switch scheme. If you're okay with being a stooge for their games, go ahead and patronize them, they're looking for exactly your type.

Food was not good. Lacks flavor and takes forever for basically nothing

Service is great. The family meals aren't too expensive. This is a great Italian restaurant.

Really go Italian spot to eat at family own been around for a long time

3rd time picking up food, each time the order was not correct, nor was the food ready to go when promised.On Mother's day I phoned in my order for a #14 a #19 large pazza, plus a large antipasto salad. I intend to feed 6 adults and 2 young children. As always the order was not ready 30+ minutes after I called it in. The girl who took my order had difficulty on the phone, so I had her read the order back to me, as I suspected she was not on the ball. She repeated my oder. When they finally presented the food it was one #14 pizza, one small antipasto salad one order of marinara sauce spaghetti. The pizza was ok, the salad had ranch dressing dumped all over it, (I wanted Italian, the bread was just a plain roll cut in half and the spaghetti was just industrial Italian noodles with unseasoned, flavorless canned crushed tomato sauce.I was under a time constraint so after trying to get a resolution I finally paid and took the most disappointing Italian meal I've had since the 6th grade school cafeteria.I ended up buying a 2nd pizza in Campo to feed my family.When I mentioned to the people I was providing the food for how poor my Bongiovanni's experience was they were not surprised and said Bong's had gone way down hill and the wait staff kitchen staff were the new norm for incompetence.These seasoned East San Diego residents suggested Marechiaro's Italian Restaurant.I will not be returning to Bongiovanni's ever again.