First of all let me say that Beggars is the best pizza you are going to find anywhere. I lived overseas for years and the Beggars in Alsip/Blue Island was always my first stop after stepping off the plane. This Beggars on the other hand is a disaster. The service sucks. The woman 'manager' was completely inept. I phoned in an order for a pizza and they said 30 minutes. I arrived in 25 minutes and paid for my pizza. It was not done yet and I waited (as they were fairly busy). After about fifteen minutes I saw my name come up on the board. No one said anything and I waited patiently against the wall. 30 more minutes go by. I walk up to the counter and pointed out that my name had been up on the board for a while. The woman (who was apparently a manager) began to walk around looking for my pizza. Ten minutes later she walks back up to the counter and says 'we gave your pizza to someone else....here you can have theirs'. I asked 'do you even know if this is the same pizza that I ordered ?' She then began to give me attitude explaining to me that 'I can take this pizza, wait for another one or get my money back' in a very rude tone which was not warranted or appreciated. I asked 'well what are you going to do for inconveniencing me?' She said 'I guess you want your money back'. She then gives me back my money, I count it and she gives me the wrong amount. I pointed it out to her and she got more frustrated. I withheld calling her what I thought of her. I will never set foot in this Beggars every again. read more

twice as many toppings as other places and the pie is *chef's kiss*

I ordered a large $37.00 pizza and had it delivered. The pizza had some kind of freshness spoiled quality issue going on and after a sleepless night from partially eating a bad pizza, I called the management to report it. The manager did nothing and but offer a $3:00 off coupon and after being a 20 year loyal customer, I will be ordering my pizza's from elsewhere from now on. read more

I've had Beggars pizza before, but only takeout from the Orland Park location. This time, however, we were meeting a friend for dinner who was staying on Cicero, so this seemed to fit the bill. The in-house experience didn't disappoint, though you shouldn't expect serious fancy here. It's your basic neighborhood pizza place/Italian joint. When I asked for water, the waitress set down three cups, stacked, three straws and an almost-overfull pitcher. Service was overall friendly though not over-the-top so. We started with two orders of fried ravioli (one four-cheese, one sausage & cheese). It wasn't that easy to differentiate, actually; the sausage was really finely chopped/ground and mixed with the cheese well. Tasty and served with ranch and marinara. Then, a large pepperoni thin crust. Beggars does not skimp on the cheese or toppings, and while both were tasty it's a little hard to remember what the crust tasted like, because I mostly recall cheese and a little sauce! All in all, though, a tasty pie and we ate every last bite. read more

My family and I have been eating Beggars pizza for about 12+ years. It has always been good. Sausage and spinach, pepperoni and giardeneira, cheese only...no matter the topping I always love their pizza. Thick cheese with the toppings underneath, on top of a chewy crust...yum yum yum! Definitely one of my all-time favorite places to get my pizza fix! I've been to the locations in Blue Island, Markham (or Harvey, whichever), Richton Park, Oak Lawn and of course in Oak Forest. The pizza is pretty much the same everywhere but I frequent the one in Oak Forest more because it is closer to where I live. Between Uno's downtown (which is sort of in another catergory since it's deep dish) & Beggars, I'll choose Beggars everytime ;-). read more

Ordered through Doordash because we had a gift card. Order didn't go through correctly tried calling Beggars and the girl Stephanie was nice trying to help me but the manager was very inconsiderate and just said he's here and hung up. Not a sorry, nothing . Doordash options were keep order or cancel WITH NO REFUND. I offered to pay beggars the difference fir the correct order and started that offer 40 minutes before the driver was there. Not happy with the customer service from Beggars at all read more

Ok, I have tried the downtown location since discovering it online a few months ago. The pizza is still very good, but for some reason the individual slices taste different, not as good... or maybe its just me. I picked up whole pizzas twice and it was delicious. I was downtown one day and walked to this location and ordered a slice to go and it tasted very different. Maybe its in my mind, but I don't think so. read more

We brought company from out of town, and the place was relatively empty. Our food came out at all different times ex: pizza came out 30 minutes ahead of pasta and sandwich. We didn't have enough plates or cups. There was no getting her attention. When we asked to speak to the manager, after 2 of our entrees came out after everyone else was finished eating. A gratuity was tacked on that was most certainly not warranted. When asked about it waitress played dumb and manager wasn't much better. Absolutely will not make that mistake again. read more

The pizza is fantastic. Fresh toppings, great sauce, crisp crust...thin crust or deep dish, you're getting a great five-star pizza. The problem comes in with the pasta. It's bad. Really bad. As in "I think they swapped our pasta with Chef Boyardee" bad. But no worries. The appetizers are good, so grab one of those, sit tight, and wait on your pizza. read more

Very poor customer service. Put me on hold and could not figure out if they delivered to my hotel or not. Took a long time to get past that then get my order in and delivered. Asked to spell every word. I'm staying in a Marriott how hard is this? Pizza not great. Very disappointing all around! read more

I love this Pizza. We try to eat one every chance we get. And left overs are great the next day. The sauce is so good. And lot of cheese. read more

How in the world does this place get 3 1/2 stars???? Had lunch with a client. We both chose the buffet.....BIG MISTAKE.. terrible presentation of offerings in comical sized pans. Pizza that was put out were 10" in diameter cut in pieces. Set up of entire buffet is borderline deplorable and could have a much better presentation. The pizza here is nothing special. Crust tastes like it is pre purchased from their food supplier. Only good thing about the afternoon was that my client bought lunch. Here's hoping someone reads this within management and takes a look at the critique to better the experience for others. No one wants to see a business fail and go out of business. My intention is solely to make this a better place. read more

Ordered The Godfather for takeout. Paid $1.20 extra for for giardiniera and they only put a few little carrots on it. Also there was little to no red sauce. Sandwich was $11.20 and tasted like a $5 sandwich. I will take my business elsewhere read more

Beggars Pizza - Pizza Near Me - Oak Forest, Illinois

OMG!! We were in Chicago visiting family and had one of your pizzas. We had the this crust cheese and sausage. First, I wish we had gotten the deep dish, secondly, I have thought of nothing else since returning home to Pennsylvania!! I have been calling my family asking them to please buy me pizza, freeze it, then mail it to me. Your pizza has definitely spoiled me against any other pizza. I can only dream that you had one pizzeria close to here. NOTHING IN PENNSYLVANIA COMES REMOTELY CLOSE!!! read more

The service from everyone was great, except for the assistant Manager. I would like to thank the store manager Shanna and our server Kim for stepping in and assisting with our large party. The pizza was as expected of Beggars and came out in a timely fashion. read more

Kim was the absolute WORST! She lacks customer service skills & is extremely rude. She gave me a bogus number for corporate when I asked for the number to complain about her service. She seems like a miserable lady & i hope someone removes her from dealing with people. They are definitely losing business with a person like her. read more

Went with family group to Beggars Pizza and all three thin crust pizzas were unanimously agreed, awful crusts. Difficult to cut through crust with metal tableware. Flavor and texture were that of bad frozen pizzas. Our table watched othe customers also having a hard time cutting their pizza slices into bite sized pieces. Managers (2) were told of the bad crust pizzas and responded with little empathy. The first manager told us all pizza crusts were made on site. The second manager explained that the dough comes pre formed in balls and then rolled in the restaurant. (Which is it?) On a scale of one to ten, we give the pizzas a three and the server a nine. read more

I feel like they're getting worse and thats why they had to start the big cheese club to bring back customers that they have lost. I could be 30 minutes past the expected pick up time or an hour and I'll still end up waiting 20 minutes for my pizza. read more

I used to love this location but my love has turned to hate. The employees are rude and careless and they don't seem to take pride in the food anymore. I ordered a pizza last weekend because I was having company over, it was pouring rain all day on Saturday and my friend was kind enough to pick up the pizza on her way to my home. When she gets to us, we're all starving. We open the box, and low and behold we open up a burnt pizza. Well I'll be damned. Not only is it embarrassing that I've spoken so highly about the food I'm serving my friends and family, but now I got a nasty pizza. Have you ever eaten burnt deep dish? Don't!! The sauce that was once sweet and tangy is now bitter and tart. The spinach tasted wilted and the crust tasted charred and was very hard. I can't believe any business owner was send such a monstrosity out of their door. When I called the restaurant and asked to speak with the manager, she seemed totally uninterested and unsympathetic. I asked if someone could come and bring us another pizza and this unprofessional woman told me no... And wasn't even going to offer any sort of compensation for my hardship or gas or time wasted!! I had to ask if I was going to refunded or something. This woman told me that the most she could do was give me a "partial refund" which was $10 back. Which I never got! Beggars, if your goal is to provide awful customer service and lose loyal customers, congratulations... You freaking succeeded. I won't be back. read more

This is my favorite Beggars out of all the locations, I really like the thin crust pizza it's really delicious! The deep dish is alright, nothing special but nothing bad. read more

I will not patronize Beggers at 156th and Cicero in Oak Forest ever. I guess African American dollars not green enough. The cashier was requesting identification from customers which is ok, if she asked for EVERYONE'S id. She only asked the African American customers. One Young Lady did not have her id and she told her she had to go to the cash station .Really? !?!?!. But as the white customers was paying for their orders, did she request identification? Not at all. This is bad business. You should treat all customers the same because you never know who's patronizing your establishment. read more

The pizza gf pizza is good but greasy. The service sucks. You have to search for the server to get a drink refill and the check.

This is for the restaurant part of Beggars. Food is always so good. One of my favorite deep dish pizza. Server seemed to not even care about us. Not sure if she was just having an off day, but it was pretty awful. Barely gave us a chance to ask for things before running off. Our whole pizza needed to be sent back and remade. 45 minutes for each one to be cooked. That would have been ok i guess if she bothered to keep the drinks coming, but she kept disappearing. Oh well crappy experience. Probably will never dine in again. They need to work on hiring efficient and happy servers. read more

Service stinks! Pizza is poorly made! There are so many other places that deliver on service and product quality!! What the heck happened Beggars? It's obvious you don't care anymore! You used to be the best!! read more

Beggars is a south suburbs institution and has some of the best pizza around. From Oak Lawn to Orland to Blue Island, it's consistently good where ever you are at. And the Oak Forest location is no exception. This was my first time there and I was very pleased. The dining room was open and comfortable, the service was really friendly and attentive, and of course the pizza was excellent. Oh that pizza, a sturdy tasty crust absolutely covered with just about the thickest layer of cheese you can get anywhere, and a nice savory sauce that's surprisingly complex considering the laid-back neighborhood joint atmosphere the place has. So what's there to say about the Oak Forest Beggars? Well, if you find yourself south on Cicero Avenue and want a damn good pizza you would be hard pressed to do better. read more

I go here for my 'fix' of fine Chicago-style pizza, and they never disappoint. Granted, the dining room experience can be less than thrilling, but at least this business hires teens from the community to give them some experience, so, you take the good with the not-so-good. But the thin crust (not so thin, really) here is fabulous! The deep-dish pie is also a winner, although I have to say that Giordano's in Orland Park will give them a run for their money on the deep-dish style 'za. The pasta is the same story as with every other pizza joint I've ever eaten at, and I've had a career eating at restaurants, so listen up. My experience is that great pizza restaurants make so-so pasta, and when they do make truly fabulous pasta, the pizza suffers for it. I have not yet found one place which can do both with excellence. Not even Papa Joe's, whose New Lenox location should be closed for crimes against the culinary arts! Although the Orland Papa Joe's has really good pizza, Beggar's of Oak Forest surpasses them by a furlong; although in the pasta department, Papa Joe's Orland wins hands down. It is just this kind of anomaly which makes dining out so interesting sometimes! Beggar's in Oak Forest is a benchmark for all the other pizza places in the Chicago Southland because of their service, their staff's great attitudes, and their 'za, which truly deserves the moniker, 'Chicago-style pizza.' I have been to the Palermo's, the Guardi's, all the Mom-and-Pop places and of course, I avoid the commercial crud like the culinary plague that it is! Beggar's has a rich, spicy sauce,their thin crust is thicker than some (but it has to be - to support the giga-loads of ingredients Beggar's puts on their pizzas, like that mountain of cheese!), they are always cooked to perfection, and have the tastiest sausage and highest quality pepperoni I have had yet. The veggies are top-flight, and they don't ever skimp. Suffice it to say, Beggar's makes pizza the way a true pizza-lover would make it in their own home, if only they knew how! Not to disparage Aurelio's, but the stuff they are using just doesn't compare to Beggars' quality and taste at all. Aurelio's may load on the ingredients, but Beggar's loads on the sauce and cheese, and you get plenty of sausage, for example, if that's what you order, even when other ingredients are added. Aurelio's uses a cheaper, lower-gluten flour in their crust, and somehow when they pile on a bunch of ingredients, it never tastes as good as a Beggar's pizza does. So, if you like your pizza with 'abbondanza' then go straight to Beggar's pizza, and get what you are paying for: highest quality ingredients, plenty of them, and fast service. Bravo, Beggar's of Oak Forest! Order online! http://www.beggarspizza.com/oak-forest/ read more

Great pizza, good service. I sometimes go up here for Monday Night Football 10 dollar domestic buckets of beer and free food at half time. So for 25 bucks you are buzzed, full, watched a football game, and you left a a tip, now that's not a bad night!!!!! read more

The best thin crust and deep dish pizza in the Chicagoland area. They put so many toppings on the pizza, that you have sausage in every bite of the pizza. My favorite is sausage, cheese, onions, and Canadian bacon. Their deep dish has Pizzeria Uno beat and Geno's East doesn't stand a chance. I have eaten at all the locations except Frankfort and Marionette Park. I think that they are opening a new store in Plainfield, which is close to where I work in Romeoville. Good pizza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! read more

Their pizza is good and the service is good. Management is quite rude. I had a problem recently and asked to speak to the manager. Shanna approached and was confrontational. She had a condoscending, patronizing tone and it was quite unprofessional. I will not be going back to this particular location. read more

I tell you what , Beggars pizza is very underrated . I tend to go here quite a bit even though it's not my favorite place but it is very good. My kids just love the pizza and ask for it nearly every day. I can't find fault with it at all either except it's a touch pricy, I got a family pepperoni last night for about 27$ . That's kinda high of you ask me but they do use a ton of ingredients and it is always consistent . I have been to some of the more famous south side pizzerias and to be honest they are often hit or miss and they skimp on the ingredients . Beggars always is good. You know what you are gonna get. I do wish this location would make the dining room nicer . It needs a revamp so we usually just get take out. The bar is pretty good to wait in if you go there and order and wait for it . I can usually gulp down a bucket of beers and they will deliver the pizza boxed to my bar stool . One last thing though Beggars, you ought to offer cheese and pepper to those taking away pizzas . For 27$ I think we deserve it. I hope to see that offer next time I go in which might be tonight ! read more

The server was rude and tried to rush us in and out. The pizza was adequate, not bad, not good, I liked the large cups they give for drinks. The mozzarella sticks had a bit of a strange taste to them, again neither bad nor good. I did like the atmosphere, it was a clean place and fairly large so you're not cramped in. The prices weren't too bad, in the end I guess you get what you pay for. This could've been a 3 or 4 star review with a different server. read more

Pizza was ordered as a delivery, Pizza was cold upon arrival and also was not fixed correctly. Call was placed to manager (the only one in the store) per Shaunda. Manager refused to fix the concerned and after getting frustrated hung up on my co-worker when she tried to call and fix the issue. I've never experienced this with Beggars. Horrible management team read more

We ordered a deep dish pizza last night and it arrived in a timely fashion but it was as if the driver had the pizza on its side the cheese and sauce had all dropped out of the pizza. We also had ordered the beggars breadsticks with garlic dipping sauce which they also forgot. I called them up and told them the issue I spoke to a manager I can't quite remember his name but he was very nice and apologetic and said they would send out a replacement pizza in exchange for the old one(which I thought was kind of tacky) and send the garlic breadstick dipping sauce out and I'll be honest we had waited a long time for this and it was a late dinner so we ate some of the original pizza. The second delivery guy showed up with the replacement pie and said no exchange was nessecary. I went back outside a few minutes later to take my dog out and the pizza delivery guy was still there and it turns out they were adamant about getting that original pizza back (again kinda tacky) and he had given me my dipping sauce which turned out to be garlic dressing that you would put on a salad so definitely not the same thing. Overall pretty bad experience but the manager was nice and made it right (but not quite) oh well you get two stars beggars of oak forest read more

Beggars Pizza - Mess of a pizza - Pizza Near Me - Oak Forest, Illinois

They lay it on thick!! Love the pizza, sauce, and my favourite is the tomato bread!! Go on Thursdays to see Raeann in the bar for friendly service. read more

Beggars Pizza - Pizza Near Me - Oak Forest, Illinois

Just really really bad pizza, no flavor in the cheese and the appetizers were even worse. This really should be zero stars but I didn't have a choice. read more

Delicious pizza again tonight, I enjoy this location, with friendly workers and they get the order correct. But it's about the pizza, delicious and as they say they lay it on thick. read more

Just wanted to give a shout out to the staff that took care of us Saturday night on a carry out that I thought was missing something and found out after I called to let them know...they apologized and was in the process of making it for us...and it wasn't missing...I called back immediately to let them know that my daughter was on her way and we insisted on paying for OUR mistake when she gets there...my daughter came back home with the food item and said it was no charge because of our honesty...thank you and sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused you all..we will be back..especially for your pizzas! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! read more

My wife remembers getting this pizza as a child. On a recent visit we decided to try it and see if it was like she remembered. OH MAN WAS IT GOOD. We got a medium thin crust with half pep and sausage, half cheese. It was classic chicago style pizza, thick and full of cheese and toppings. Totally worth it! read more

I've been going to Beggar's for the past 10 yrs...and i've NEVER had a bad pizza!!...over the years the prices have risen TREMENDOUSLY...but the quality has remained awesome...my fave is the deep dish sausage & cheese!!! read more

Excellent service and a GREAT value for the lunch buffet. This location in particular takes time to make sure it is kept clean and full. Same cannot be said for the location on 127th St. read more