OVERALL: 7/10 (Yelp Converted Score: 3.5/5 - rounded to 4/5). This place opens until 2am, so if you want a late night bite, this is the place to be. The late night happy hour (10pm to close) is nice since the small 2 topping pizzas are more than enough to feed two people. I will give a "plus" that this place is open suuuuuuper late (think 2am, or later), but it doesn't open until around 11am or noon.
I would recommend this place as a late-night drinking spot, since a lot of places will close around 12am-1am, but even still, for Belltown, it's not a bad place to grab a drink and watch a sports game with friends.
1) VARIETY/SELECTION: 7/10. The primary item this place is known for (hint: it's in the name) is pizza, but this place has options for calzones, as well as some sandwiches, appetizers, and salads.
I don't fault the lack of options on the establishment - it's meant more as a bar/pub/pizza joint; if you're expecting a full-fledged restaurant menu, you came to the wrong place. For what they have, it's decent. The midday happy hour / late night happy hour menus changed a bunch, but they've seemed to settle nowadays; the daily specials are somewhat arbitrary, but the late-night happy hour seems consistently good.
2) FRESHNESS: 7/10. The hot food is made "fresh", but I can never tell if the source is from a freezer (frozen chicken before being fried, or pre-made calzones that are then heated before being served). I know the pizzas are generally fresh as the small pizzas I usually order are custom (bacon and pineapple on the two-topping happy hour special), but they take a while to make (roughly 10-20 minutes).
3) VALUE FOR MONEY: 7/10. Slices are a bit more expensive now at $3.50/slice (used to be $3/slice in 2018, but I haven't seen it that cheap since). Typically speaking the late-night happy hour, and the general happy hours are relatively well-priced, especially for individual small pizzas ($8, decently filling).
This rating would have been 8-8.5 back when the slices were $3, but nowadays, I don't think the regular food menu prices are worth getting unless you're not worried about price, and even then, I don't think the value is amazing for the portion size (it's *roughly* as expected, or smaller).
4) SERVICE: 7/10. The food can take a while to come out since it's typically two people working - one working the bar, and one in the back making the food. This typically results in long-ish wait times for personal (small) pizzas or food that requires tedious preparation; for the most part, slices are the fastest (obviously - they're in the display case), and any hot food is probably the slowest.
Sometimes it can be hard to locate the person at the bar, or order, since, as I said, there's typically only two people working (that I can tell). During busy periods you could end up waiting up to 15 minutes to order a slice, since the clear instructions at the front are "ORDER AT THE BAR" (which results in the bottleneck).
5) CONSISTENCY / FIRST IMPRESSION: 7/10. Ambience is great since they have two individually-controllable TV's for which to watch sports programs on. I watched the Leafs lose spectacularly to the Bruins last year in game 7 of the playoff series...
That was not a fun night, but that's more due to the game result than of anything the store did. Pitchers of beer were great - selection is awesome, since the choices are all worthy of trying at least once (except for the light beers, but honestly I don't like light beer *anywhere* so yeah).
Generally speaking the atmosphere used to be nicer, but I attributed that to the pinball machines along the side wall (which have since been removed in favour of adding more tables).
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