Gia Pronto Review

Pizza, soup and salads are all excellent for a quick lunch spot. Good selection of cancer and bottled drinks. The berry cobbler muffin is one of my favorite breakfasts.

I have to agree with the previous reviews. I was really unhappy with the food and cleanliness. I ordered a Chicken Parm sandwich it was very dry and chewy. There were ZERO clean tables available for me to me eat at.

I love Kitchen Gia. It's at Pereleman Building and convenient to medical offices. Everything is freshly made. The soups are delicious and the salads are made to order. The employees are friendly and knowledgeable.

Love the food but their a little expensive and the staff is wonderful.

This is THE most disfunctional restaurant I have ever been to. The lack of signage forces everyone to wander about the establishment confused. The prices are high and the employees are (at best) indiffernet, verging on rude. It takes forever to pay for your meal, once you manage to find it and the registar (again because the lack of signage) because the lone cashier is also expected to be the "coffee barrista." The tables and chairs are left dirty after each last customer's visit, as everyone is expected to deposit their trash and recyclables in the same location that the incoming customers must visit to pick up their napkins and condiments. No one wipes down the tables after the customer leaves! The worst part of this is that it is located in a hospital. Other than employees of the facility, the customers are folks that are there for cancer diagnosis or treatment who are enduring enough pain and stress and probably have compromised immune systems due to the treatments they have just undergone to save their lives. Stay away from this place!

The pizza was really quite good for a quick place. However, the place needs to be cleaner.

Very good pizza and salads. Place is disorganized though.

A busy place, but the food is decent and they have healthy choices. I would have liked more GF selections.

It nice a little pricey but nice. The food is pretty good.

Food is AMAZING, the staff are wonderfully friendly, and the whole experience was absolutely AWESOME!!

The pizza was delicious, all different kinds like spaghetti and alot of pizza

Best salads ever. Super fresh with a variety of options! Soup, sandwiches and pizza also never disappoint. The coffee is top tier. Highly recommend

Great staff. Service always great whoever at the desk. Loved the almond croissant

This is a shocking and unhealthy experience for me and for my wife. Both of us patients at UPenn. We are suffering from hypertension. Doctors at Upenn recommended low sodium diet. We shared one sandwich for launch. We have never tested anything so salty. After eating half of the sandwich I became sick and started having breathing difficulties. The sodium content in the sandwich is probably 100 times more than the daily recommended value. This is unfortunate that a restaurant in a teaching hospital serving unhealthy food. The hospital should remove them or ask this restaurant to provide healthy food.

I have been to Kitchen Gia a few times and the food is really good in my opinion. They are pricey but what food establishment isn't pricey when located so close to hospitals. The only thing I don't like is that the lines are long when paying, but then again I do go during lunch hour rush. So I take the good with the bad. I think I might head over there now to get a bit to eat since I'm so close.

Great pizza... Lived the crust... Great prosciutto panini

This place blows!!! Way, WAY over priced for food that is made in the early am, like the pizza, then sits in the back, waiting to get reheated for lunch. They cut so many corners here, Im surprised they have not ended up with a circle yet. Terrible food.
Way too pretentious. There is nothing "authentic Italian" about this place at all. If it was not for PENN, this place would have closed years ago, like I heard of the place a few years back that the owner here tried to open on a regular street in downtown philly. Just look at the other location on spruce st...it's dead when PENN classes are on break. Ask yourself why this is??? Because plain suck, and they are riding the coattails of PENN to survive.

Great food awesome soups and salads and great pizza and sandwiches too...

So happy to find a conveniently located place with excellent food and wonderful service. We happily made this place part of our routine.

This is the best spot on campus for good coffee and amazing panini/pizza. I am Italian and I have to admit that the food is pretty authentic.

Kitchen Gia' has also been a generous sponsor supporting local charity activities.

It was an interesting place to say the least. Good good.

I work in the complex in which Gia is on the first floor. I eat salads there for lunch every now and then, and while they're overpriced, they tend to be decent if I forget to pack a lunch. They are also very inconsistent. For example, today I requested an avocado on my salad, which ended up being so hard I couldn't cut it with the plastic knives that are available. Two things are wrong here: 1) the person making the salad put something that inedible on top of my salad as a chunk of avocado, since she too couldn't seem to cut it, and 2) the person I talked to at the front counter when I returned made me feel like it was somewhat unreasonable that I should want the cost of half an avocado refunded. The staff has gotten worse over the years I have worked here, and I urge you to think twice about paying as much as you will for the food that you get while spending time at the medical center.

The best salads and pizza in town. Stop there whenever I go to perelman center. Love it.

Very good place and I recommend everyone to visit it for a meal and rest

Salad, soup, pizza and an assortment of sandwiches hot and cold as well as magnificent cakes and pastries and designer sodas and bevy.

Decent paninis. The layout is weird - you order from stations on both sides and pay in the middle. First time I was there, I didn't see the soup station until after I paid.

Very good food. Really busy so pick the right time.

Terrible service and terrible attitudes. Good thing they have a captive audience or they would be out of business. Tried to order a breakfast sandwich at 9:00 am and they were out of eggs and cheese for a bagel so i asked for a turkey and cheese on a bagel or croissant. I was told "that's lunch and we dont serve until 11:00." What idiots! No soup until 11:00. Did i hear the soup nazi in the kitchen. NO SOUP OR FOOD FOR YOU!

Good menu for soups, sandwiches and salads. Fast and excellent staff.

Had breakfast and lunch here yesterday before a doc appt at Perelman Center. Reasonably priced, especially for its location. The food was fresh and delicious. Wish there were a place with this style of pizza closer to home!

Timely service, but pretty stingy with vegetable in the panini..

I eat here more than i care to admit. You won't go wrong with any of the food- everything is delicious. The only downside is that it is super busy at lunch time and the room is a bit chaotic- so unless you are a person who reads every sign you see or you are familiar with it you might feel a bit lost. Also, you can make a delicious custom salad, but you will wait for it to be made.

Amazing soups. Expect a long line during lunch time

Coffee is good and the danish too good quality food

Great place, nice employees and amazing food! I highly recommend the chicken pesto panini and a create your own salad from the salad bar!

Whoa! Always plenty of different kinds of fresh Pizza ! Plain is perfect , too. Best Lattes ever too.. Plenty of room. Make it a stop to complete your visit to Pearlman!
Price is fair. Salad made as requested.
You really can't go wrong for a quick bite .
Not your average hospital eatery .

Great food in a healing environment! We really enjoy the pizza and panini. Always good and really healthy food. Friendly service.

Friendly and very accomidating clean fresh food quick and efficient

A little pricey, sandwiches could be better, salad is good.

The place is good have coffee, croissants and sweets. Main food starts at 11 am soup salad and may pizza.

Good place for soup, salads, coffee, & tea, the breakfast sandwiches and pizza aren't great.

Quick service. Well labeled for food allergies too! Celiac friendly

Very disappointed! Gia does not have non-dairy milk for coffee and tea:(

Every time I go to Gia for lunch, I swear it will be the last! However, they are the closest place go grab food if you are pressed for time. The place is dirty and DISORGANIZED - not to mention extremely over-priced. Keep your distance and your cash.

The staff is happy to be there, the food is delicious, everything about this place makes you feel warm and welcome. When you come back, the people you saw will remember you too!! Overall low turn-over so you're always walking in to your family home while you're there!!

Very delicious Tuna and cheese sandwichs , good service. Very good location

Big ray of sunshine in an otherwise depressing place. Excellent latte. Nice pastries, muffins and cakes. I don't like the bagels, hence the 4 star rating

First time visiting. They have a nice selection of pastries. Had a peach danish and a hot chocolate. Peach danish was delicious. Danish was flaky. Peach was nice and sweet. Hot chocolate was good, too. Prices seem comparable to other coffee shops. Will return to try their other items (they serve soup, panini, and pizza and other items).

Way overpriced mediocre food. Slow and indifferent staff.