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Telly's Restaurant & Pizzeria
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
4 reviews for Telly's Restaurant & Pizzeria
I agree Tellys was a pleasant surprise. I ordered a takeout Hawaiin Calzone and it was huge and awesome. It was delicious. They have a wide screen tv you can watch while you wait for your order or sit down as well. They have a great variety of food from Pizza-Calzones to Seafood, a kids menu, sandwiches, cold subs/wraps Steak, Sirloin, Chicken, BBQ Beef Tips, Veal, Italian food , Lobster Ravioli, Soup and Salads and a variety of Appetizers. Prices are reasonable and its on an easy location halfway between manchester NH and Hampton beach off the 101 on route 125. I happened upon Telly's By Chance and now they get another five stah review on http://yelp.com :)
Check out Telly's today :)
I was actually under the impression that Telly's would be more of a family owned-and-operated place with a Southie Transplant named Bob in a pizza-greased white T-shirt behind the counter. So my surprise was the decor and the staff!
There's lots of dark wood, stone, trendy accents and mellow lighting. It reminds me of California Pizza Kitchen inside. A more modern upgrade for this rural area :)
Our waitress was totally cool. We offered her some food for her hard work and she said she couldn't because --- she dances when she eats! (So naturally my husband and his buddy immediately grab the bread rolls and offer them to her!!) haha!!
The food quality is equivalent to a chain like the 99 or Ruby Tuesday's. Not bad, but nothing's made-to-order so it didn't taste "fresh." That was a bit disappointing.
A bit more effort on the wine list couldn't hurt - especially if they're trying to pass off as a trendy/modern place. I understand that wine isn't real huge out here, so I ordered a beer. No Sam Adams Winter. Ok, so no good wine, no Sam Winter.... I'll take a margarita!
The first one was 7/8 ice and very conservatively liquored. So I ordered another and requested "no ice." The waitress came back and said the bartender couldn't do it. So I bargained: "how about Less Ice." A strange request, but it got me a more potent drink!
Overall not a bad place, and a much needed improvement for the area. We'll go there instead of Applebee's next time we're in the Epping for sure.
Telly's is a hit or miss. They used to be a subshop only, burnt down a few years back now and reopened as both a takeout and restaurant. It's a beautiful restaurant inside, modern decor. The food is a hit or miss though. Some things are GREAT, some things are OK and some are VERY VERY BAD. I do not recommend any of the fried seafood. Some of the worst I've ever had. The pizza is good, I love the asian style starters, and the steak tips were very good. On a negative note, we don't go that often because service is usually slow.
I've only gotten take out but the pizza is one of the best around, namely because it isn't the awful "Greek/House of" style that you can only seem to get around this area (maybe it is me, I'm originally from the NY area). Take my five stars with a grain of salt, it is a excellent pizza joint, not fine dinning.
Nice thin crust (not too doughy or cracker-like), sauce actually tastes like it has spices (shock), and the toppings were just right (I don't want to eat a pound of mozzarella or an entire package of pepperoni).
Granted I like the "classics" (straight up cheese, maybe half pepperoni) so I haven't tried any of the specialty pizza. I always think if you start getting too crazy with your toppings you risk a bad pizza anywhere.
I like how the take-out is separate from the main dinning room which is nice because it can get busy on a Friday (oh yeah, parking gets tight).
The only negative is I stopped at the bar to get a Guinness while I waited for my order once and the Guinness was ice cold, so cold it had no flavor. It is a crime to serve Guinness that cold.
