Il Forno a Legna
With Neapolitan-style wood-fired pizzas, hearty Italian dishes, and a great selection of beers, wine, & cocktails. Starting with the spicy olive oil, fresh homemade bread to our delicous pastas and perfectly cooked steaks to finishing with our house-made Desserts and espressos, Il Forno a Legna will be your new favorite Italian restaurant in the entire Rio Grande Valley.
Popular dishes
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Lobster Thermidor
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Great food. And victor was awesome
Always great!
Table seated after us was served before we were and it took a while for someone to come after telling us they’d be right with us.
Walter is a gem.
Food was fantastic. Pasta was cooked perfectly.
Thank you for being the best Italian restaurant in town.
We really enjoyed the food and service on Valentine's Day! The sous vide strip steak was excellent. The expresso cake was a joyous surprise.
Thank you for joining us on Valentine's Day! Looking forward to serving you again.
Everything was great. Had a fantastic time there to celebrate my birthday
Thank you for your rating, looking forward to serving you.
Our reservation was at 8:45, we were told that the table wouldn’t be ready. At the time, that we had to wait 15 additional min. After we were seated we didn’t really have a server all we got was water and bread, it took 30 to when we were able to get someone to order a drink. Drink sat at the bar for an additional 20 min. Nobody came back with drinks or to take our food order. We left and told the hostess why.
Hello Marissas, We apologize for the inconvenience you experienced while dining at our establishment. We hope we have the opportunity to make it up to you in the near future. Stay Safe, Il Forno, Your neighborhood Italian Restaurant
The pizza is good and that’s about it. We ordered several pasta dishes and they were ok, nothing worth coming back for.
Hello Daniel, We apologize for the inconvenience you experienced while dining at our establishment. We hope we have the opportunity to make it up to you in the near future. Stay Safe, Il Forno, Your neighborhood Italian Restaurant
Food was delicious as usual and the service was great.
We had a wonderful evening.
The food was amazing. Loved the music!
Thank you!
Best Italian food in McAllen! They worked hard before the pandemic and continue to work hard to provide quality food to their customers!
Thank you for your review! Look forward to serving you again.
It was the birthday of my fiancé and his son.
Was expecting more due to anniversary was requested at the end it was just regular dinner.
Wonderful, as always. Not crowded, which was nice, and the service was great tonight.
Thank you for your review! Look forward to serving you again.
Food was great as always! Except the service was a bit lacking as our waiter would take long breaks from our table, and was noted on his phone at the entrance multiple times.
Great food. Clients loved it.
Food looks nothing like the menu. The pollo ala parmigiana was drenched in oil and the pasta as well. The dish was served cold and almost makes me wonder if it was made fresh.
The pictures on the menu and online look nothing like the actual food served. For the price I expected a better dish than one would find at Olive Garden. That is the saddest part.
The positive? Great hostess, great waiter, nice place, nice atmosphere. Everything was perfect except the dish.
The pizza my wife ordered was incredible and saved the meal but would not return.
Great service. Food/flavor is not worth the price in my opinion
Large wine menu. Appetizer and entrees were all very good. This was our first time here but we will absolutely be back.
Pizzas were amazing!! Good service
Everyone and everything was amazing! Food is so fresh!
Great service and food was excellent! Was able to have conversation because of the noise level was low. Had some great music in the background. Highly recommend.
Another wonderful evening.
Food was great. Temperature and seasoning.
Thank you!
Never disappoints.
Thank you Miguel, Tony and the rest of the team.
Tony, always a pleasure to have you for our waiter.
The rest of the team are wonderful.
Our favorite restaurant chain.
Thank you for all you do.
Es uno de los pocos lugares que crean experiencias... es un lugar que visito una y otra y otra vez y cada vez lo encuentro mejor y lo hago más mío!
Me pasa que lo recomiendo y quien lo conoce le sucede lo mismo...
Es una GEMA ESCONDIDA, pues puede pasar desapercibido entre todas las franquicias pero es SUPERIOR A TODOS en TODOS LOS SENTIDOS!
Gracias por la calidad y la calidez... siempre es un placer regresar a Il Forno!
Buen día, nos da mucho gusto saber que su experiencia en nuestro restaurant fue de su agrado y consideramos un privilegio el ser parte de sus recomendaciones como restaurant. Muchas gracias por su visita y esperamos que nos dé la oportunidad de seguirle sirviendo como lo hemos hecho hasta ahora. ¡Nuevamente le agradecemos y que tenga un excelente día!
Tried Il Forna with a friend of mine, we loved the small pizza we ordered. Staff was ultra friendly and the food was divine. Easily plan on returning sometime in the following weeks to try the proper Italian course. Can’t recommend it enough
Hi Delcio, thank you for your positive feedback. We are glad that you enjoyed your visit to our restaurant. We hope to see you again very soon - Have a nice day!
Fantastic as always.
Hi Sylvia, thank you for your visit and kind review, we hope to see you again soon at the restaurant, have a wonderful day!
Terrible service. The Mayor was there at the same time and he consumed the entire staff. I guess the people that actually pay there Bill don't count with the staff. Never go there again. My money is just to precious to us to waste on a very high priced low class establishment.
Fantastic!
Staff are always attentive. Food, amazing.
Thank you for the best Italian restaurant in town.
Hi Sylvia, thank you for your 5 Star review - Have a nice day!
This was my second time going and I was very excited to go back, but was ignored most of the time. Was happy at first but both service and food quality slowly went downhill. After being forced to go through with the valentines special menu, they ran out of the only dessert I was looking forward to. Food was definitely overpriced for the portion and quality of service (cold food). The only thing on the “special” menu that was Italian was their meatballs.
Would have been nice to know that there was going to be a $24 gratuity charge for a party of 2. Unfortunate experience since I really enjoyed my first visit.
Smelled like sewer when we walked in. Initial reception by young lady was fine then manager came and wanted to change our seating to back of restaurant and was quite vocal about it front of other patrons and we were embarrassed. We left. He said thank you. I’m assuming he needed the table for someone else who was complaining. Happy Valentines Day!
Hi Ruben, we are very sorry to hear about your experience in our restaurant and we are sorry that we missed the mark. Please give us another opportunity and we will do better in your next visit. Have a nice day.
They almost sat us at the wrong table and made us walk all the way back to the front where we were supposed to sit. They took forever to take the order and an eternity to actually bring out the food but before that, they brought out food only to take it away 10 secs later because the food was meant to go to the table next to us. I mean, if I was paying $40 perhaps I'd let it slide but I paid close to $200 just to get unacceptable service. Next time I'll go to Peter Piper Pizza instead and get better service 💃🏻.
I think that what I paid it should of been a little more better, but it wasn’t so i thknk they should work on that!
The portions are huge. Staff very friendly.
Hi Alejandro, thank you for your positive review - we hope to see you again at our restaurant!
Really enjoy this restaurant. Have never had issues with the food or with the service.
Hi, we appreciate the positive feedback and we are happy to see that you like our dishes and service, we hope to see you again soon at the restaurant!
The meal are good however the taste it’s for one time only! The desserts look good but the taste did not make a impression on me or partner!
Good day, we are very sorry that the taste of our dishes were not up to your expectations. We are very good about cooking out dishes with the best taste and we are very proud of our desserts. Please let us know which meal and desserts you ordered, we will let our Executive Chef and Pastry Chef about this message and double check the ingredientes and do test and flavor quality control on what you ordered. Our e-mail is: info@ilfornoalegna.co m
Great menu and wine list! Very reasonable prices on both. We will return.
Thank you for your 5 Star rating, have a nice day!
Great food. Great service.
Best Italian food in town.
Hi Sylvia, thank you for wonderful review, have a nice day!
Excelente comida! La atención rápida, les faltaban 2 vinos de la carta pero el que elegí al final igual de bueno.
FAQs
Il Forno a Legna offers takeout which you can order by calling the restaurant at (956) 688-9528.
Il Forno a Legna is rated 4.7 stars by 252 OpenTable diners.
Yes, you can generally book this restaurant by choosing the date, time and party size on OpenTable. Due to local restrictions, this restaurant may not be accepting reservations at the moment.