"'Tell us what you've seen In faraway forgotten lands Where empires have turned back to sand" (Moody Blues) Connecticut has a longstanding reputation for having some of the best pizza in the nation, and it seems that every town in the state, be it large, small or middling, has plenty of contenders for the best pizza in their respective town. I just popped "Pizza" and "Berlin, CT" into Yelp's search bar and guess how many pizza joints jumped out at me? There were thirteen of them. One of them was Empire Pizza, just over the New Britain line. They have a very large diner-like menu with wraps, fried dinners, pasta, Italian entrees, burgers, club sandwiches, salads, wings, calzones, strombolis, specials, catering, and of course pizzas. Their New York Style pizza has 22 red-sauced and nine "white pizza" varieties. Some of their more interesting choices include moussaka, Fra Diavlo, clam casino, and chicken alfredo pizzas. We enjoyed our cheese pizza which was a pretty good rendition of classic NY pizza with a very thin crust and nice cheese and sauce toppings. Service was great and the gent that waited on me was very pleasant and friendly. read more

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Empire Pizza is very generous with their portions and the prices are reasonable. In this respect they stand apart from other pizzerias in Berlin, which charge more, but offer less. The food is good and they try to accommodate special requests. May God increase their fortune and family. read more

Ordered a meatball pizza and a gluten free sausage pizza. They were excellent! Thank you! Our delivery driver was a sweetheart! First time ordering here and will definitely be ordering again! read more

Empire Pizza - Small meatball pizza - Pizza Near Me - Berlin, Connecticut

DO NOT ORDER FROM HERE! The person on the phone was Incredibly rude and disrespectful. He wouldn't even let me finish a sentence without cutting me off saying" anything else?" I specified that I wanted extra sauce on the wings and sauce on the side as well. I asked for no mushrooms on the supreme pizza I ordered. I thought he had noted my requests despite feeling rushed off the phone and dismissed. When the food arrived the wings were the most dry and disgusting wings I ever had in my life . The pizza was disgusting, had mushrooms all over it and was cold as an ice cube . I called them to ask if they could rectify it and he gave me more attitude! Rushed me off the phone without offering any refund . I will never order from this place again and I am warning you to spend your money elsewhere. Surprised this place is not out of business yet read more

Ordered the Empire Wrap. Lettuce, bacon, grilled chicken and ranch. It came with the French fries! First time ordering delivery. Amazing! The service over the phone, the delivery service was great. The food was fresh and tasty. I was amazed by the quality, flavor, freshness of the food. Definitely want to order from them again. read more

House pizza and garlic parm wings are the best!! Service is fast and delivery very decent!! Perfect crust and good balance for ingredients. The wings have just enough seasoning and fried perfectly! Never disappoints. read more

Empire Pizza - the new york style pizza - Pizza Near Me - Berlin, Connecticut

Sunday Funday! Did not feel like cooking, decided on pizza, salad, grinders, fried clams and a hamburger club. The pepperoni pizza was loaded with pepperoni and plenty of cheese...decent crust, greasy as any all pepperoni pizza is...lol. The large garden salad was good sized and enough for 4 people to have a side salad which was perfect. The hamburger club was good...hamburger cooked but not overdone...fresh tomatoes and lettuce, decent amount of bacon. The roast beef grinder was good I was told. The fries were steak fries and they were cooked but soft...i like my wings and fries crispy but I hadnt asked so not their fault. The clam strips as you would expect were just frozen clam strips thrown in the fryer. No tarter sauce....ma heart!!Just as expected from a pizza place, they tasted pretty good...nothing to write home about. All in all the food was pretty good...a 3.5 for food but the staff was friendly and efficient on the phone, they got the order right, and it came in 40 mins. A record for my area. Give em a try. read more

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Empire pizza just made me one of the best pizzas! I ordered a medium White Chicken Pesto Pizza, minus tomato, due to an allergy, but added spinach. They hit the nail right on the head! I am so pleased to give them 5 stars and wish I had of ordered from here previously. The whole pizza is full of items so you get a great taste in every bite. He told me that after today I would only order from them, I think he's right!!! See ya soon!! read more

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Great people and excellent service the food is really good and they do have delivery which is great I really recommend it i've been ordering for the past two years and nothing change excellent service each time read more

My go-to place to grab food! I've tried multiple things from their menu, and everything is always good. From their pizza, wraps, burgers, grinders, etc! The service is also very good there, everyone's always nice. read more

Ham grinder nothing on it 3 pieces of meat .i go there all the time but no more for grinders.

First time ordering from this location. I ordered a small calzone which to my surprise was pretty big! I wish the calzone had more flavor than it did though. The veggies, cheese and crust were pretty bland. The sauce seemed watered down and had no flavor. read more

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Honestly do not understand the low star rating. Pizza was excellent, tons of cheese and pepperoni, it was crispy, hot, and reasonable. I will be back that is for sure! read more

Empire Pizza - Pizza Near Me - Berlin, Connecticut

I have driven past this pizzaria countless times over the years without an urge to stop in, but today I was running late and hungry so I was vulnerable. I pulled into the lot and soon discovered a little hole-in-the wall with nary a single Italian within 500 feet. Since my options were nil, I bellied up to the window and ordered 2 slices of cheese pizza to go. Quick as a flash I was on my way back to the car where I opened up the box and discovered industrial crust overloaded with cheese. The crust could not stand up to the sauce and cheese even when folded in half. Taste-wise it was blah. In a town known for its lousy pizza, this restaurant just may be the worst. read more

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I order a small pizza with 2 items on it for delivery. According to there meue on there website a small cheese is $6.95 and each item is a $1.50 each. They charged me $17.30. This doesn't add up but I still got it. When the driver came I handed himi a $20.00 bill he just took off not giving me my change back. WTF. DO NOT GET DELIVERY FROM THIS PLACE ITS A RIP OFF. By the way the pizza was ok. read more

Blizzard of 2017 - that unexpected March Nor'Easter where we got like a foot and a half of snow. Everywhere else closed because, ya know, it was snowing in New England. And his dyslexcellency Dannel Malloy declares a travel ban every time a snowman gives him a nasty look... But Empire was open. Figuring they would take advantage of the public service freakout, they made pies in a time of need. And ya know, it's good junk food pizza, wings, and grinders at reasonable prices. Nice guys too - they deliver to us often, and practically know us by name and address when we call. read more

Great pizza and very friendly workers! Best deal is the take out large cheese during the week!

We ordered 2 pizzas. They have a $8.95 large cheese pizza pickup only Sunday to Thursday. Plus we ordered a gluten free pizza. Both pizzas were very good. And 20 minutes from call to pickup was a fair amount of time. So it's nice to have another place on our list as they are one of the closer ones to the house read more

This is our unofficial third pizza place on our pizza review. This pizza was wonderful. We ordered a small cheese and a small Margherita. The sauce was flavorful, the cheese was of average quality not too greasy. The tomatoes on the Margherita pizza were reddish and not pink-white. This is a good place if you want flat crust pizza in Berlin. read more

Empire Pizza - Margherita pizza. - Pizza Near Me - Berlin, Connecticut

It was a rainy day at work, so I went on GrubHub to find delivery. I ordered a burger with a side Cesar salad and garlic bread to get the $10 minimum. Estimated arrival was 1:15 - 1:25pm and the office can be confusing due to two entrances. It came to my surprise at the office at 12:48pm. Very satisfied, order is exact, including added pickles. read more

This is a convenient, clean little place where the people who work there always seem happy to see you. The main attraction for me is their pizza. The sauce is delicious because it's not overly sweet, like it tends to be at a lot of pizza chains. The crust is not too thick, not too thin; the toppings were generous. I also had the grilled chicken salad, which was tasty. My fiancee had the Chicken Parmasan which he enjoyed, noting the chicken was tender. We finished off with 3 deserts..the chocolate cake, the chocolate mousse cake, and the cheesecake. All three were good. If you are looking for friendly, efficient delivery of quality food at reasonable prices, you should give this place a shot... you won't be disappointed. read more

Best pizza in town !!! Can't explain how good is this pizza !!! They have also fast delivery ...people's who works in there really friendly ..love it !! read more

I was excited as Berlin finally got a second pizza place in town that delivered. I live on the second floor so I asked them to call me when they arrived so that I would know that they were here. I don't hear all that well, i guess its the years of loud music. Anyway my pizza never comes. After a while i call them and they tell me I never came to the door. The next day I ask my downstairs neighbor if she ever got a visit from the pizza guy. she asks "is that who it was?" She just got dropped off from a wedding and was in a drunken stupor sleep when a man starting banging on her doors and her windows yelling "you order pizza? you order pizza?" Not thinking clearly she actually called the police thinking that someone was going to break into her house. Sadly if these people actually followed directions and gave me a phone call I may be actually writing a review of their food. On a side note the next week i called them to make an order and was told that i was banned for not answering the door. When I said i asked you to call me when you got here, the man on the phone told me "it was not his problem." Empire Pizza of Kensington is like the soup Nazi of pizza ...no Pizza for you!!! read more

sorry folks, thought $8.50 for a large pizza was a good deal, but not if it's completely flavorless. Like eating air.

I had ate here years ago and stopped eating here because the pizza was mediocre and come to find out several years later nothing has changed. Last night My parents got a pizza from here and after they ate it they told me it was nothing special. I got a stuffed shells dinner and it was nothing to write home about, the shells were fine but the sauce was crap, the garlic bread was a grinder roll toasted with a garlic spread and the lettuce in the salad was iceberg, exactly what one would expect from a place like this. I will not bother going back here again. read more

This pizza place is reasonably priced and quick to deliver. With that convenience they are certainly the best local place around. After some time looking at their whole menu and ordering they are good at almost everything they do. Funny thing is my wife and I love this as an affordable good pizza place for the family but also as a place to get a high quality Gyro or wings! I wish much success on you empire pizza! read more

I have been a customer for years. Quality has always been great. Meatballs are to die for! Love the choices from pizza to wraps to dinners. One of the few who deliver to your door. read more

I live in town my wife and I tried their musakka pizza sauce is amazing crust is yummy,,, that place our favorite in Berlin

Dammmn have u ever tried their chicken ranchero pizza its amazing... These guys are so cool.. Ill be back definetly

Worst grilled chicken wrap ever! It tasted & looked like they dropped the inside of the wrap on the floor - picked it up & served - not edible. Owner didn't disagree - a typical complaint or a busy night - will never go back AVOID THIS PLACE read more

This was an eatery that I tried to like. The concept is good, although it is just another pizza restaurant, the promise of 'healthy' options drew me in (whole wheat Pizza dough, part skim mooch ended up actually being regular mozz (fine) and very dry dough. When trying it the second time around and offered to pay for extra sauce, thi was not only charged, but it seemed as thought there was actually LIGHT sauce. Not to mentioned the additional $1 charges for petty items, such as dipping sauces, even ketchup. Salads aren't worth it-water soaked iceburgs that could be wrung out with a towel. This 'nickel and diming' could be over looked if the service was anything close to professional, or 'good' for that matter. Rude, rushed people on the other end of the phone line doesn't exactly convey a friendly, happy to have your business attitude. Its quite unprofessional, and does not encourage trust in a business when you are quited a certain price, but charged significantly more, which happened to me, more than once unfortunately. There was also stickers left on the soggy produce, and I regret to say, a body hair in the salad! Yuck! When I called to inquire amout the additional charges, I was told by the self proclaimed "supervisor/owner" who wouldnt disclose his name (shady?)That he "didn't need to deal with this, or our business!!" And also cursed (F***ing!!") Professional? Far from it. I believe the only thing that is keeping this business afloat is the convenient location and delivery service, however sorry to say, it not worth it!! read more

Worst service ever! I ordered 3 cheeseburgers with fries. Burgers were ok but the fries were disgusting overcooked grease chunks! 25$ for nothing! Never again read more

The pizza is alright but the management is why this place deserves 0 stars. They took over an hour to deliver 1 pizza and gave us the wrong pizza upon arriving, which happens. But the problem was when we called the manager to tell him of the mix up he got angry and actually hung up the phone and upon calling back he actually began to yell at my female friend who was being very understanding of the whole situation. Empire is clearly run by selfish, ignorant people who could care less about their customers, all they care about is the money. Worst delivery experience of our lives. I will not support business owners like this and I don't think anyone else should either. Plus there are honestly many way better options in the area read more

So careless with the food.i ordered 2 lasagnas a d they came squashed one on top of the other. I could eat the food because the lasagna had cane out the containers into the bag and the sauce wag on the breads. The salad smelled old and it was brown. This was a waste of $25. I will never order again from this place. Disgusted by EMPIRE PIZZA. EWWWWW read more

Never tried pizza, but I ordered wings once which you would assume would be decent from a pizza place. Not this one. They were so dry and hard to chew I tossed them. Would not return and I work right down the road. read more