My son and I spent a "Daddy/Son" day together, which we don't get to do very often. He's one of…read moretwins (10 right now), and his brother tends to be more vocal and drives things a little more. So when it's His Day, I make sure that he gets input on everything going on.
Our day was spent at the coast and on our way back, we decided that what we wanted was pizza. We didn't want a chain at all, so we stopped and used Yelp to try and find something new and different.
I had remembered there being a pizza place in Newport that was pretty good, but when we followed directions to the purported location of what I thought was the place (I know, this was super accurate information), we found a dirt lot. We did another search and came upon Cobblestone Pizza as a good possible place.
We followed the directions...and came to an empty parking lot and a closed store called "Rizza Pizza." At this point, we were determined to find an open pizza place. On the way into town, I saw a sign for various Toledo locations and Cobblestone was not only on the sign, but had an arrow pointing in a different way than my map showed me. So we reset our nav system and tried again.
At this point, we found Cobblestone, right on the river, with a nice big parking lot. (Something new I'll note, as we now own a plug-in electric vehicle; there are multiple charging stations in Toledo, but one directly across the street from Cobblestone Pizza, that didn't appear yet on any of my EV Station Maps!) I mentioned the trouble we had finding the location, and the man behind the counter told me that the Rizza Pizza location was Cobblestone's OLD locale. That makes sense! As it was a Tuesday, Rizza isn't open on that day, so all that was cleared up.
We went in and found what looked like a traditional small-town, locally owned pizzeria. There was a small arcade area, two rooms, and lots of tables. We ordered and went with a large stuffed crust pizza with pepperoni and pineapple, as well as half a dozen garlic rolls.
Sodas were from a machine, with free refills. We ordered and sat down to wait. TV was showing sports at the time, so there's something to look at while you wait, if you don't to take in the gorgeous river view out of the huge front windows.
We were warned there would be a wait, due to a large influx of orders, but that was fine. We had plenty of soda and I was spending time with my son.
We got the garlic rolls fairly quickly and devoured them; balls of pizza dough, rolled in garlic oil and covered in parmesan cheese...very good and they went fast.
When our pizza arrived, we went to town. It was huge! There was plenty of toppings, the cheese was bountiful and stretchy, and one of my favorite things was that the stuffed crust did not appear to be just cheese sticks rolled in the crust; it looked like actual cheese was curled around the rim. That was great, because it wasn't dense and thick, but very cheesy and soft.
We ate a little over half the pizza there, with some to take home. It was great! It was good heated up later, too!
I saw reviews for long wait times; that may be so, but I'd rather have made to order pizza that takes a bit than something pre-made or warmed up.
They have GF crust as an option, and my partner is hopeful that she may be able to safely eat here. We'll check out some time, but for this trip, we had a great experience and a great pizza!