Amici Brick Oven Pizza Staten Island, Ny

Didn't care for the pizza and the Meatball roll. No taste. Gave it to the birds

Love this place. Penne Vodka with Chicken Cutlets is amazing!

The place doesn't look like much but the pizza has been consistently good. Spinach roll had plenty of filling.

Good food all the time. Pizza, dinners, rolls calzones. I have had it all. It's always delicious!!

Amici's pizza has always been the epitome of cheap, but mediocre to me. I would say on average, the prices are cheaper than average. I specifically remember a special where you get two rolls of your choosing that was cheaper than what I got at El Fanono(Il Forno) by about a few dollars. Eventually when I got it again after having the buffalo rolls at El Fanono(Il Forno) I simply couldn't go back to Amici's. Historically when I got their pizza, it was always stale. However, in this case I can give them the benefit of the doubt as I historically came at later hours where low foot traffic all but guaranteed stale pizza. On normal occasions, I would say the pizza is overwhelmingly average. I never had a very positive opinion of it but found that it was at least cheap and had some reasonable deals behind it. Their pepperoni and black olive toppings are perfectly fine albeit greasy with regards to the pepperoni. Their buffalo chicken historically was one of the worst kinds I've tasted, characterized by a hairy texture that El Fanono(Il Forno) briefly adopted at one point. I do however think this is not the case anymore at Amici's either.As for pasta, it's also nothing to write home about but it is fairly cheap. I'm not a fan of penne style pasta but that was what I initially got there, it didn't really change my opinion on it. Eventually, I realized that rigatoni: my favorite type of pasta, actually is in fact an option and that was definitely better. Not at the same tier as other places I've gotten it in, but perfectly fine as a cheap meal. Their garlic gnots can be hit or miss at times, being either really greasy, really dry or just right.My personal experiences with Amici's itself are highly mixed, they were arguably there for me when I briefly had little money to my name in the midst of my parents being hospitalized which is far better than I could say for how Palermo Pizza handled that. Nonetheless, before that, they had a bit of a history of withholding parts of my order. The first time I explained this on the phone, they quickly and gracefully handled the whole thing which I was deeply impressed by. After the second time, they simply made me pay a second time whenever I called so I gave up going to Amici's for a while.Ultimately, Amici's is a mixed bag to me: A place with mediocre food and good prices that I have both good and bad memories of. If I really had to go here, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world but I wouldn't walk 5 miles or even half a mile just to go here. If I could make this review 2.5 out of 5 stars, I would do it but I can't so I'll round my score up to 3 stars out of 5 here.