Rafael's Italian Restaurant

Exploring Fayetteville and found this place. I feel torn with my review. The food was fantastic, but the building seemed pretty dirty once you started looking at it. We had a spinach and feta cheese calzone and Italian chicken with salad. The food had fantastic flavor. The sauce tasted homemade and the breading was delicious! The staff seemed friendly, and I did see someone wiping off tables after people left. I don't know if I would have stayed, if we had not ordered first though. The building is very unkept. The ceiling tiles are yellow, sagging, and have water stains. The air vents are coated in dust. The floor is a little slick with years of grease.

Nice and quiet little place.they anywhere from Italian to Mexican to hamburgers. The employees were very polite and the restaurant was clean. The food was awesome. If ever in the area will eat there again.

It was cold in there, just need to turn the heat up a bit. I did get my birthday discount card from them, however my birthday is the next to last day of the month, so its naturally late when I get my card, and then the discount card part of the coupon was lost in the mail, so I was even later getting it. So, it was the first of the next month when I tried to redeem it and they would not honor it. ????

If you want delicious wings you HAVE to stop here! They make amazing Buffalo wings and even better pizza! This is our go to for some late night wings! Definitely a great place to eat here in Fayetteville!

My parents like this place because it's cheap. The last five times I've gone in with them on an order from here, they've messed my order up. Every. Single. Time. Three of those times, they didn't even include what I'd ordered! The other two, they added extra ingredients, like onion on my calzone. The food isn't nearly good enough to make up for it. The gyro meat tends to be dry. The pizza sauce is weirdly sweet and tastes jarred. The pizza crust has a strange, bready consistency to it. The salads are pretty decent. The calzones are good, if you can get them to make them with what you requested. The service is awful. Goodluck finding a manager to talk to; the place is staffed entirely with kids from the local high school.