I'm guessing based on other reviews there is a lot of mixed service and quality, but I have had almost all good experiences at this location. I have eaten here numerous times in various ways. I've had delivery, picked up take out and eaten in. Every time food was tasty, the right temperature and arrived in a reasonable amount of time. I like that they have a wide variety of pizza and wing options. So many unique flavor profiles. If you ever want to try a larger variety of wings, they have an all you can eat wing special on Tuesday evenings. I will say that can take some time, but that is because wings can take awhile, especially if you order them crispy like I do. I also love their Cluckin' Hot Rolls which are bread filled with buffalo chicken, hot sauce and are served with homemade ranch. My mouth is watering a bit just thinking about them! The inside of the restaurant has two sides - the bar and the regular restaurant. They are very divided, so you don't get any bar noise into the main area. It does get a little loud, though, in general. Overall, though, a great place that I really enjoy. read more

Don't EVER order delivery from this store. I wouldn't give 4 (probably not even 2) if I was considering delivery experiences from here. Caliente is becoming a Pittsburgh staple.. with shops in most local sports stadiums and such. They have great promos and always keep up with the latest trends. This store has great staff. Very attentive. Dedicated spot at the bar for takeout orders. Even when they got hosed by the corporate mandate to use third party delivery drivers, the local staff refunded, refired, and even made corporate send me a gift card. I grabbed the Chicken Ranchero Medium Pizza and the Pep-Tastic Cheesinator. Both were phenomenal. Great spread of quality toppings. Delicious crust. I would honestly consider getting more of the cheesinators. It was only $12 while the medium pizza was $22... meanwhile the cheesinator was the same size, if not bigger. Like I said, never order delivery from here... go in, talk to the local staff, and enjoy some delicious food read more

Caliente Pizza and Draft House - Chicken Ranchero Pizza (Medium) - Pizza Near Me - Monroeville, Pennsylvania

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As the manager/owner you need to hear this. I've literally never left a review of any restaurant in my life. I ordered a mee maw pizza for pick up. The pick up service was literally non existent. I had to keep asking multiple employees how I even check on my order which I was supposed to be done before I got there. I was ignored essentially. Finally someone spoke to me and I waited another 20 mins. Every person walking in for pick up had the exact same experience. We were joking amongst ourselves about it. Pizza finally came out, and when I got home it was not good for several reasons. The topping appeared to be thrown into the pizza very haphazardly to say the least. It wasn't cut properly or even close. For a FORTY dollar pizza this was profoundly disappointing. Winning awards in Italy shouldn't result in resting on your laurels. Apathy maybe? No clue but I will never go back to this location. Do better. read more

Picked a pepperoni Brooklyn up for dinner on Sunday. We enjoy this pizza. Sundays the pizza is $7 off but dine in only, we were out of town all weekend so we just paid regular price and took it home. The pizza was hot and ready when we arrived. I was waiting on immediately upon walking in. The dining room wasn't very full but it was Memorial Day weekend. They usually have a good draft selection and nice daily specials. read more

Caliente Pizza and Draft House - Pepperoni Brooklyn - Pizza Near Me - Monroeville, Pennsylvania

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The staff were friendly and the pizza was good. We had the motor city madness pizza and a few drinks. We enjoyed our afternoon there. We will be back to try some other menu items but it will be hard not to order that pizza again. read more

The worst when I tried it before and still the worst trying it again. I can't get into Caliente as much as I want to. Not good service not good food sorry. read more

This place was so disappointing last Sunday. It took forever to get waited on there was one other table and 3 people at the bar. The pizza came out hot however, it looked and tasted reheated. It was so dry, the cheese was dark. The chicken on the Buffalo flatbread was cold in the middle. For award winning pizza this was a huge disappointment . The place could use a good cleaning too. . read more

Here's a slice of my medium pie from Calienete in Monroeville. It was burnt and cold and took more than 90 minutes to receive. Never again. read more

Caliente Pizza and Draft House - Here's a slice from my medium pie from Calienete. It was burnt and cold and took more than 90 minutes to get. Never again. - Pizza Near Me - Monroeville, Pennsylvania

Bloody burger .. undone food your food will not be at the right temperature. Steak salad no fries Bacon cheese burger rolls with no burger meat Pepperoni pizza with no pepperoni Steak hoagie with no meat The chef is confused I have order from this location multiple times and never received a complimentary item . For every fux up. There chef made to my order .. don't eat here you will get sick and not refunded . read more

Disappointed combo lunch meal - not enough meat on The Godfather- too much bread no filler. If your scaling out meat don't use a large hoagie roll. On the whole the restaurant is not bad. Slow service due to many factors but good service dispute the restaurant always being empty when we visit. read more

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Traveling for business in Pennsylvania. Multiple sites said this was the best pizza in the area. I would agree. I had a great experience and found the pizza to be exactly what I was looking for. It's not a chain pizza. It's a robust pizza with a plethora of toppings, crust is fantastic. The sauce is just seasoned right. I can't ask for a better pizza when I'm traveling. I love non-chain restaurants. See pics read more

Caliente Pizza and Draft House - Pizza Near Me - Monroeville, Pennsylvania

I'm baaaack! This time we had a pizza with cup and char pepperoni, red peppers and some of that delicious hot honey. Yuuuuuummmmy!! Had a garden salad too with nice greens. read more

Ordered 2 mediums. Which were more like slightly large smalls. About 12 inches across. A white with chicken and a regular pepperoni. Pepperoni- Under sauced, barely any pepperoni and slightly dried out. White- No chicken except a couple crumbling dried out pieces I'm guessing scrapped from the bottom of a 6-pan. A few super thin soggy tomato slices and barely any cheese. Neither pizza has any flavor at all. The red sauce was bland and I couldn't taste the olive oil or garlic on the white at all. And to top it off it was 50 bucks for these shit pizzas. This place makes pizza hut look good. And the local news that suggested this place, I won't be trusting again. The owners of this place should be ashamed of the quality they are serving. read more

Waaaaaay overpriced and not great. Wouldn't recommend. Go anywhere else, you'll get better pizza and save 20 bucks probably.

Absolutely terrible service here from the bartender, if you can even consider these people that. Got there on an empty Friday night looking to get some pizza and maybe a drink. Bartender just ignored me for 15-20 minutes. The crazy part, other people walked in and they were served right away! From the couple times I've been here, I knew the service was poor. This was the worse ever though, and I just walked out of there and went elsewhere. Not sure much is going on in these people's heads, but they certainly don't care about their customers. DON'T come to the Monroeville location. read more

The pizza was mediocre at best--definitely not worth the wait or the price. I placed an online order, but when I showed up, they told me the total was higher because something "wasn't charged properly." No apology, just a shrug. I'd already been waiting 45 minutes, so I reluctantly paid the difference instead of walking out. I should've trusted my gut and left. Disappointing experience all around. read more

Love their pizza I'm allergic to tomatoes and I love the white sauce on their pizza Delivery is quick! We also eat in my husband and I like the style of the restaurant it's not real loud but everyone is so friendly! read more

Okay Caliente! Thanks for satisfying our Saturday pizza fix. My husband ordered the pepperoni and the Rocky Balboa and both were excellent! I previously reviewed Caliente's a few years back for a bad wing experience however; you have redeemed yourself with this second chance pizza order. Not ready to try the wings again yet. Baby steps. Pizza was very good! read more

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Got a Chicago thin crust. Could not even bite through the crust. It was like eating pizza with a leather crust.

We ordered delivery from here and it was so good! The fried perogies are a must! We also got the Buffalo chicken pizza, and while I'm not normally a fan of Buffalo pizza with regular pizza sauce, this was delicious!! The food was delivered hot and fresh! We will definitely be adding this to our list of pizza places! read more

Love the gluten free pizza way too much! Pretty pricy though so I can't go as often as I'd like . My kids even try to take it from me.

If you like beer and pizza then you would love this place. Plenty of pizza styles and toppings to choose from. Dairy free cheese available. Tastes amazing. Great for dine in and takeout. Reasonable prices and sweet daily specials on pizzas, sides, and drinks. Friendly service. Strongly recommended. read more

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Excellent service - pizza and salads were ready good. Food came fast and hot. If you like sports bar entertainment-TVs around it's for you!

Used to be my favorite pizza joint but recently both dine in and takeout has been disappointing. Don't know if it's the "hard to find good help" issue or they are expanding too fast but hope it gets better. For the price you'd except better. Good luck. read more

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Honestly terrible service. Told a 35 minute wait for my food, waited over an hour. Staff consistently messing up orders. If I hadn't already paid I would have walked out without my food. read more

So, my daughter Muff and I were starving last Friday and I had absolutely no plans to make dinner. Besides, even I did plan to make dinner, I'm not great at making pizza crust from scratch. (I only say that because we both wanted pizza and even if I tried, I could never beat a professional pizza parlor's pizza.) Anyway, I recently read an article discussing Caliente and noticed that there was a Caliente near me. Yay me! Off I went to the nearest Caliente. I ordered one of their "Lent Specials"...The Spinach and Shrimp Pie. It came with the Chef's chive infused garlic butter, fresh gulf shrimp, tomatoes, onions, spinach, mozzarella, ricotta and provolone cheeses. I also had mushrooms added to the pizza. In addition, I also ordered the "Mardi Gras" wet sauce wings and the "Chef's Rub" dry rub wings. The taste of the pizza was spot-on! All of the ingredients from the Lenten Spinach and Shrimp pizza melded together well. My only complaint is that the pizza crust intruded a little too much on the pizza toppings. (By the way, I am a crust lover.) However, with this pizza, the toppings were just a little too sparse. With regards to the wings and fries, I didn't even have to give special instructions on how to cook my wings (I hate gummy flaccid skin wings. I like my wings on the crispy skin side.) Both wings and the fries were tasty! I now have to add Caliente into my monthly rotation and I didn't read more

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Chubby Chasers Unite!! I was right at home - it's not a fitness club. Delicious food, Cool Bartenders- Jen was Awesome and knows her beer! Jason also a great personality and both Thick Awesome People!! A good variety of Pizza-Like food: Quack Attack is UNBELIEVABLE- Outstanding and Delicious. I had a dinner salad to start- very good bitter greens, homemade dressings - I had the Italian and was the Best! Somewhat friendly crowd - 3 Uber Beasts sitting to my left. The small guy said Will an entire XXXL pizza be enough Lol. My only con/question is the date on when the IPA's were made. Best within a month of and these were very good/ better than most Burgh Bars, but a little malty aka 2+ months old. The Dads Pub place is 1 of the few spots that the beer tasted more on the fresh side. Both excellent venues for good beer. read more

Probably my absolute favorite pizza. Their gourmet pizzas are ridiculously good. Anyone that likes pizza should absolutely try this place out. This location specifically is clean, the staff is kind, and the service is always quick. Highly reccommend. read more

We had a good experience eating here with my family and parents. We ordered a couple of different pies. (White, bacon topped). We also ordered buffalo chicken breadsticks. Everything was good. My wife ordered a Chicken salad that she enjoyed. The atmosphere is small but updated. There is a nice bar and lots of TV's. The service was pretty good as well. There was one server so she was busting. read more

Caliente Pizza and Draft House - Buffalo Chicken Breadsticks - Pizza Near Me - Monroeville, Pennsylvania

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So, we visited this place twice. The first time I ordered a pep pizza with bacon. It was really good and hit the spot. The crispy bacon was on point and much better than I have seen at many other pizza spots. Then I came back to get the same pizza again. This time the pizza was not as good and the bacon was now thickly sliced ham that they tried to pass off as bacon. I did let the waitress know that it wasn't bacon to which I received the excuse that their bacon is thick cut. The problem with that is bacon and ham are completely different cuts of pork. It doesn't matter how thickly you slice bacon, it never becomes a ham cut. So they tried to make it right but frying up some more ham and telling me that it was bacon........ again.... I'm shocked and scratching my head, like why??????? I let them know again that frying ham does not turn it into bacon. So they didn't charge me for the "bacon" (nice job, y'all did the right thing there!) I don't know about the rest of you, but I always appreciate honesty. If you're a restaurant that is out of a topping, be honest. Don't try to trick me, because it won't work ;) All in all, Caliente's has potential, but they need someone with a deep desire for consistency to be running the kitchen. Getting vastly different quality pizzas every time I show up doesn't instill a lot of hope when I'm in the mood for a great pizza. read more

Ordered the XL Grandma Honey, a whole Godfather hoagie, and hushpuppies last night. Order was done in estimated time. When serving, we found the pizza dough to be raw mostly the whole way through. The hoagie tasted bad, which we narrowed down to most likely spoiled salami. But as the hushpuppies go, they were good. Tried calling the restaurant 2 times, no answer. Tried last night and today. We really liked this place too. Sucks. read more

Caliente Pizza and Draft House - a closeup of a piece of pizza - Pizza Near Me - Monroeville, Pennsylvania

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The best white pizza around!!! And in the month of MAY. It's on sale!! Can't beat the prices!! read more

Caliente Pizza and Draft House - White Pizza - Pizza Near Me - Monroeville, Pennsylvania

Been there twice at the Monroeville location for pizza and it was excellent. Good selection of beer also. Recently had the Mediterranean pizza loaded with toppings. Excellent. As you can see by the photo. My only complaint is plastic eating utensils. read more

Caliente Pizza and Draft House - It was delicious Mediterranean pizza. - Pizza Near Me - Monroeville, Pennsylvania

Pizza is pretty good, I prefer the thin crust Brooklyn. Based on the pizza alone I would have rated them a 4 star...however service is important, many times it can be the deal maker or breaker for me. In this case I deducted 1 star for poor service. Our service was extremely slow, many customers who came in long after us left way before us. This was the second visit we were not offered refills at any time throughout our dinner and could not find our waitress to request them. It was literally like being waited on by Houdini...she vanished into thin air. read more

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Always excellent. Haven't been disappointed yet. The selection of pizza here doesn't disappoint!

Stopped by with the hungry lad as he'd heard the pizza was great and we wanted to try a new spot. Go figure...he didn't order a pizza. Zero covid precautions seen with staff. The place looked clean and well-kept. We ordered bacon cheesy bread to start. He tried to order a steak hogie...but they were out of buns? Okay...cheeseburger and fries it is. I tried to order a pizza with anchovies...and two other toppings...but no anchovies, so pepperoni and banana peppers it is. Hmph..."waiting for a big shipment of supplies" to come in. Okay... On this cold winter night the heat in the dining area was sub-optimal. It was a bit chilly inside. The cheesy bread came out and it was excellent! His cheeseburger and fries next, also excellent by his report. It took a bit longer for the pizza, but when it came it was also super. The food itself - really great! The restaurant itself - a bit chilly. The server was very pleasant, but busy. I'd have preferred the burger and pizza delivered to the table at the same time, but that's on the cook, not her. The bill was reasonable - a bit over $40 bucks. read more

Ordered pizza...pizza came...it was burnt to a crisp and extremely hard. I've powered through some bad pizza in my day but this was not even safe for my teeth. Delivery guy was nice though. read more

Caliente Pizza and Draft House - Worlds award winning pizza? This is burnt af! (Who ever reaches out to me about making this right your email is invalid) - Pizza Near Me - Monroeville, Pennsylvania

It never fails when I order food for carry out or delivery something is wrong or it takes hours or my order is even forgotten. This last time, we ordered 3 orders of 10 wings, all sauce on side, all with Bleu and Ranch. The website said orders of 10 were $8.99 Our receipt showed that each order of 10 was actually $17, which I understand maybe not being able to update your website, but that is a HUGE difference. And on top of that, We received: One order with the sauce on it and no dippers One order with only ranch One order with only bleu And the orders that actually came with the sauce kn the side, it didn't matter, because the cups all broke and spilled everywhere. It's so frustrating to continually give somewhere chances and constantly be let down. Sorry caliente, but i think this was the last time. read more

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One of my favorite pizza places. Their pizzas are somewhat inconsistent in quality-sometimes it's missing toppings, sometimes it's cold. I know the pandemic probably is the reason for some of these inconsistencies. But when it's good, its REALLY good. Topping combinations are great and plentiful. And the crust is amazing! I suggest you give them a try. read more

First time my husband and I came here. They did not disappoint. Very nicely decorated rooms, big bar. Clean bathrooms. Menu had numerous choices from different loaded fries, pizza, calzones to dessert. Huge list of beer. Daily Specials. Food was really good and the pizza crust was amazing! Thick but light and airy. Only downside we went on a Sunday at 4:30 and the noise volume from other guests was deafening! Took a little while to adjust and block the loudness out. read more

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