Sutera’s Shawnee

The Sutera’s in Westwood closed and we were big fans. My girlfriend had a pasta craving and we wanted to go somewhere with great food. I remembered this one in Shawnee and we tried it. Great flavor, great sauce, cheese is baked on to dishes for a great finish. We sat at the bar and had a chance to converse with Mgr and staff — all nice people. The pizzas coming out of the service window looked amazing too — we intend to go back soon for the pizza!

Very good pizza. They make the pizza the way YOU want it. Great pasta dishes. Wonderful salad dressing. Overall, excellent Italian food at modest prices. I highly recommend this place and love this restaurant every time we dine in.

We continue to give them chance after chance. Today will be the last time we go there, my wife and daughters went there and we all ordered, after a while they brought my daughters and me our food and told my wife her pizza would be out shortly and if not out soon they would remove the price. After 15 minutes of our waiter looking at our table and I assume talking to the manager (guy behind the bar drinking and talking to customers) who looked our way, she comes over and said she doesn’t know what happen to the order and has taken it off the bill and is there anything else my wife wants to order, we explain to her we have to go and we just need our bill. She goes away for about 10 minutes and brings the bill, pizza is not on there but they didn’t have the decency to give us a discount, bill was $ 40.00. While waiting for change my wife starts eating my daughters chicken wings and notice they are raw. Did I mention the waitress didn’t come over once for water refills or pick up dirty appetizer plates that were stacked during the whole meal. Done with this place!

Pizza is average at best. Very little sauce and not much flavor. Crust OK. Hot wings are dry rub and were mild. Ordered online and 2 of the pizzas were not made they way I ordered them. Don’t think we’ll go there again.

You know, the pizza is still decent, but I had a terrible experience using a Groupon there last time that really left a bad taste. I paid a certain amount (don’t recall exactly but let’s say $ 22) for two pizzas and an app, that was the groupon. I get there, and the fellow insists the deal is to just take $ 22 off the tab and I pay the rest. Of course that makes no sense, but he insisted until I really started to politely explain it to him. Then he huffed and said «fine, take it» or something along those lines.
I didn’t appreciate being made to feel like I was trying to rip them off. Hard to justify going back with Minsky’s not far away making a better pizza with always friendly service.

Love the pizza. Great fluffy and crisp crust. Toppings are good and plentiful. The salad is about average, nothing fantastic. We have had the chicken noodle soup before and it was excellent. The pastas always look great, but we have not tried. They always have a good drink special. Check it out!

I purchased a Groupon for Sutera’s a couple of months ago. I’m fairly new to the area and had never heard of it, so I went based on the reviews here. Tonight we finally decided to use it and I’ll Just say it was an experience.
I’ll start with the positive:
— the pizza was really good. The sauce was good, the crust was chewy on the inside and crispy on the bottom. The toppings were chunky and plentiful. It was a really good pizza.
The negatives:
— The man who took my order on the phone was so rude I almost didn’t go through with the order. He cut me off, sighed when taking my order, and then asked if I was done like I was an inconvenience. When I got there a very nice young lady started to ring me up. My pizza total was under the $ 20 my Groupon was for so she asked if I wanted to add a soda or something to get it over that limit. I said sure and the man who had taken my order came over and said no, just change the price of the pizza. He messed around with the register some, adding things until the price was over the $ 20 limit. I was shocked. It was so shady and rude. I essentially paid more than anyone else would have for the exact same pizza simply because I had a Groupon. The whole experience was shady and uncomfortable and bad. It’s not something I will be repeating, Ever.

My first time at this Suteras, I ordered spaghetti and meatballs. I have had better meals from a box. Salad was wilted and the house dressing is bitter. The garlic bread was not very good either, will not be back.

I normally don’t have any issues but this evening I placed an online order. When I got there they said that someone has already picked it up. The new owner said that they can cook another pizza for me but I really could not wait for another to be made so I asked that my money be returned so that I could move on. She told me that she was not able to refund my credit card and that I would have to wait. She never offered to make amends for my inconvenience. When the pizza was done she just handed me my order and did not say anything. When I brought up the fact that she never offered a drink while I waited or anything all she could say was sorry. Well sorry, but you will not be getting my business again. The Sutera family would never have treated their customers that way.

As good as the original. The Italian sausage casserole is something special. Great staff and quick service.

Food was great and so was the service. Will probable take out rather than dine in though. They dont have changing tables in their restrooms so if you have a toddler that needs changing, you’ll need to improvise.

One of my two top Italian places in KC. I normally just make Italian at home — but nothing I make is as good as their food! Meat lasagna is my favorite. Also like the meatball casserole and the chicken Parm.

Always great food and service. Have used them many times for take out and they have accommodated special needs. Their house Italian dressing is wonderful.

Great pizza at a decent price. A hidden gem in Shawnee

Suteras is an awesome place to go for cheap and delicious Italian fast food. The pasta noodles are as al dente as that KCP&L power line going into your house.
Their sauce however is the stuff of legend. Apparently all of the locations have different menu items as they are all run by different family members. Grandma’s sauce though is the one constant and for good reason. It’s one of the few sauces in town that I would compare to Garozzo’s or Carmen’s Café (Which is of course, Garozzo’s sauce with a different name)
The cheese bread is ultra garlicky and cheesy. Their baked pastas are decent and their Meatballs /​Italian sausage are also pretty awesome. A favorite of my wife is the Spaghetti & Meatballs with a side of Italian sausage. The Alfredo’s pretty awesome as well. The sad part is again, the noodles can be a little too tough.

Good food, we have it catered at work often and it’s always pretty solid. Nothing exciting though, I like Pizza Shoppe or Minski’s better.

Good pizzas, ingredients are very high quality. Bit pricy, but worth it if you want some good pizza. Beer selection is a little weak, just the standard domestic/​local beers.
Has a sports bar feel, lots of good TVs.

I had taken the family to this Sutera’s a few years ago and had not been back since that time. My memory was vague on the pizza, which probably meant it was nothing special, but I did not recall anything bad about it. So for a location to meet some extended family on a Sunday evening over Labor Day weekend, I suggester this establishment.
We rolled in a little after 6 PM. The place has a bit of a sports bar feel to it but is really mainly an eat-​in or take-​out pizza restaurant. They feature a thin crust pizza, mainly of the Midwestern/​Chicago thin style that I have written about in reviews of previous pizzerias. Our family ordered 3 medium pizzas (I sampled 2): 1 cheese, 1 combo, and 1 ham with pineapple. My wife and I ordered salads (probably from a bag); the dressings were a little better than average. The pizzas came in a reasonable amount of time. LIke the Chicago thin-​style, the pizzas at Sutera’s are cut into squares (i.e., tavern or party cut). The cheese was plentiful. The sauce is not real spicey but is on the sweet side. The toppings (I had some combo and h & p) were all of good quality. Overall the pizza itself seems to be lacking something. The taste is okay but only a base-​hit, not a homerun. I think a combination of the sweeter sauce with their crust is the issue. The crust, although it resembles a crunchy thin/​crackery style, is actually rather limp. I was surprised it did not have more crunch or snap to it. I suspect they either use more shortening in the dough than average for this type of crust and/​or their ovens are not hot enough to generate a crispy texture. In any case, the pizza overall is okay, maybe worth a stop, but not something you need to go out of your way to try. The staff were courteous and overall did a good job.