Let me start with after almost thirty years of trying, I have finally found an outstanding pizazz…read morepizza that I actually enjoy. It would be more like forty and some odd years, but I didn't know anything of pizazz until I was about ten or twelve years old. Even to this day, the entire concept bothers me, and I will not order it when I see it on a menu, and am actively averted by it and its presence when at an event or someone's home when ordered. Until I went out on a limb and had the opportunity, and the fortitude to try the pizazz from Pizza Shack. If you do not know what pizazz is, it is unique to South Philly, and involves hot banana peppers, and usually American cheese. I have had it a few times in the past, and have found it horrifyingly off-putting due to the sole cheese element being American cheese, but being assured by the friend who ordered from here, that a blend was used to really take it up a notch, I capitulated, and boy, was I happy I did!!!
We also had a cheesesteak square pizza and some delicious medium hot wings which were also cooked wonderfully, and were outstandingly crispy, yet juicy and full of moist flavor from the fryer. While the pizazz was definitely the star of the show; (something I can honestly say I would never have thought I'd ever say in this lifetime), everything was just perfect. It was all delivered and arrived extremely quickly considering this was the evening of a major event going on in the city, causing restaurants, especially those delivering, to have very high order volumes. The quality and speed is a testament to the care they are putting in here in providing great, simple food to the neighborhood, and if I am in the area, and ordering this kind of stuff, Pizza Shack will be at the top of my list.
All that said, I did not have a chance to go to their actual location or interact directly with the staff, other than the delivery person, because my friend had ordered the food over the phone. But he has been going there for years, even before the restaurant had changed hands, and he has been telling me about it for years; for as long as I have known him, in fact. Bottom line is that you should definitely try Pizza Shack if you are in the area, and if you've never had pizazz, or the whole concept has turned you off, this is the place to give it a shot. You won't be disappointed.