Barnaby's Family Inn

We saw this restaurant and had to give it a try for nostalgic value...my Hubbie visited the Rockford location often as a child. We arrived before 6 on Friday evening. There was no hostess stand or table service. Tables had menus, so a bit confusing. There is apparently one area to pick up phone orders, another to place orders, another area to pick up drinks or order beer wine. Pizza comes up in one area, everything else in another area. There were people standing everywhere, criss-crossing into one area or another. Before our food was ready, the lines were getting longer and longer... stretching past our table. There was a brisk takeout business and a steady stream of door dash drivers. The entire time that we were eating, there where groups standing by the edge of out table. It was very loud and not relaxing at all! The food came fairly quickly, with them calling out numbers over the speaker for pizza, for other items, etc. After 6 PM there were small children everywhere...screaming,

A good friend recommended Barnaby's for their delicious food-and my friend was spot on! While they have a very nice variety to choose from, I ordered a small pizza with sausage, pepperoni and mushrooms and it was delicious! The atmosphere is definitely a warm and inviting and certainly a place to take the family. This is not fast food, it takes time to cook real meals-and it's worth it!

I loved Barnaby's growing up and a couple of them have closed up. For some reason this location in Arlington Heights was never really good and was different. I heard that they had new owner's and went to try it again. Same old atmosphere was great to see, friendly staff quick service and the pizza was better than I had there in the past. The pizza is close to what other locations but the cheese had a little funny taste to it, I'll go back again and try it again to see if it's any better...