Leone's Original snuck under my radar! This was right across the street from where I worked for a couple years, and somehow, I didn't realize it was here! I met a friend here for lunch on a beautiful autumn Tuesday. Arriving at 11:00, we easily beat the lunch crowd, which did arrive, right around noon. They've got a large menu with lots of different options for pizza, calzone, stromboli, pasta, salads and more! Many pizzas were pre-baked and ready to serve right on the ordering line, and my friend picked two of those slices! I, on the other hand, wanted to make a slightly-custom stromboli. After putting in the order and having a seat in the large, open dining room, my order was called within 10 minutes - SUPER fast for a calzone! As my man Project Farm would say: "Very impressive!" In an age where it seems like everything costs more and more, the value here is really strong! ...which is probably why it filled up pretty quick at lunchtime - we saw a few dozen folks come in, order a slice or two to go, and head out. A pretty affordable lunch when you need pie in a pinch! As we conversed, we scarfed our food. My buddy's pizza looked good, and I definitely enjoyed my stromboli! Fresh, hot, crispy crust, thick-cut ingredients...MMMM! The hipster vibe here is exactly zero - this is an unassuming pizzeria, with drop-ceiling, self-serve fountain drinks, 80's-style tables and seats, and curmudgeon-y fellas working the ordering line and ovens. The focus is on efficient, tasty, affordable Italian fare, and it shows! If you know, you know... Food = 5/5 Facility = 2/5 Service = 2/5 Ambiance = 2/5 Value = 5/5 read more

Leone Original Pizza - Couple of slices! - Pizza Near Me - Overland Park, Kansas

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I got 2 pepperoni slices and a salad. salad bar is good value, but lowish quality ingredients. Salad leaves were not as fresh as they could be. pizza is very average to low quality. very greasy and too much flour on the crust. crust taste is pretty good. way too much cheese! the cheese was falling off the slice, but not in a good way, not drippings---like half the pizza slice of cheese coming off. I'd say many could make a better pizza at home. for a place claiming "New York style" pizza, the service was good and ambience was cool with the arcade machines, but the food was low quality. and even though the value is decent for midwestern pizza...it doesn't compare to the worst of NYC $1 slices. If you want good pizza I'd recommend Pizza Tascio in KCMO. read more

Leone Original Pizza - Salad garden - Pizza Near Me - Overland Park, Kansas

The pizza is really good! I bought 2 large pizzas, one pepperoni $26 one sausage, half side with black olives $27. The prices on the website are not the same as in-store. With tax & tip, it was $63 for 2 pizzas. That's a lot for 2 pizzas!! You can buy by the slice. There's a few old school video games. Lots of tables to eat there. Looked clean. People working there were friendly enough & it was well staffed. read more

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Pizza is delicious. It's so nice that they'll take your slice and put it in the pizza oven to warm and crisp up. Staff is very friendly. Food is very reasonably priced read more

Basic but dependable. Salad slice combo at lunch is a good deal. New York style pizza.

We love Original Pizza. We've been coming here for years and always get perfect pizza and service. The restaurant is clean, and the staff is so nice. I miss working close by so I could come more often. The reviews being below 4 starts surprises me, as we've always had amazing experiences. read more

I'm gonna start by saying i am an east coast NJ/NYC native who worked in pizza for a few years and moved out here recently. when I left I thought I'd never be able to get a good slice of pizza anywhere in the Midwest. this is the closest thing you'll get to the NYC slice in KC in my opinion. great work guys! read more

I cannot believe it's taken me this long to write a review for these guys. And I absolutely am dumbfounded by their overall score being so low. As y'all know I'm a bit of a pizza snob. Coming from NY, home to the greatest pizza in the world (that's right Naples, I said it) I set a high bar. And this place meets it. Is it exactly like home? No, but no place outside the Tri-State area will be. It's all in the water. NYC water may be dirty, but it makes for tasty pizza. And Leone's also makes a tasty pizza. This place ain't like the other Original Pizzas in the KC metro area. Everyone assumes that the Original Pizzas are a chain. While Jack Leone started out partners with Vito and Sal, at some point the three split and each pizzeria is its own. Walking in to this pizzeria and it feels like walking into one back home. You can order a whole pie or just a slice. They have sandwiches and cannolis. All the comforts of home are right here. And the counter people are always friendly and provide great service. read more

Great NY style. Like the cheese and pepperoni particularly. Large menu. Could use a bigger beer selection though.

A native NY'er here...and I have to say, this pizza is pretty close to NY pizza. I would say it's slightly doughier and the crust under the cheese could be a little thicker and crusty/crispier, but overall it would have fooled me! You can also buy it by the slice... which is how we roll in NYC! Needless to say, this is a nice slice of home, and is where I will be getting my pepperoni pizza from now on. I also think the inside of the shop feels really authentically New York-y. S---y table and chairs, and old ass shakers, which is really like home, but you gotta let people take em' to their tables, bro....plastic shakers, salt, pepper, and oregano are pretty damn cheap. Usually people in NY will stop by, grab a slice, eat in and go. You can do this here, but the mall that this shop is in is not very busy like a pizzeria on a NYC street, so I would recommend tremendously sizing down.... and saving that money on rent. That way it'll be a small hole in the wall just like we've got in NY and you can stop spending your profits on all that square footage that doesn't really get used anyway! read more

Had never stopped before, great pizza, and great service. Had a large variety of options, spacious restaurant. Can't wait to come back and try more pizza! read more

Pizza was a bit old, but we got there 45 minutes before closing. We got a few pieces to eat there and some to go, paying full price. When we offered to buy their leftovers that would otherwise be thrown away, their unbelievably rude manager started yelling at us, stopping just short of cussing us out. Avoid this place at all costs. read more

This place is pretty good. Not amazing, but it's good. I personally would prefer more sauce. A lot of the slices didn't have hardly any sauce on them. So next time, I might just order extra sauce. The mozzarella sticks and fried ravioli were good as well. Overall, didn't blow our mind, but it arrived hot, and was decently good. read more

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My favorite place for pizza in the greater KC area. Lots of choices. Fast service. Quality pizza. Best NY style pizza outside of NYC and Jersey that I've had. read more

Worst experience! I put a carry out order in and guy helping has no place in any retail environment. He had no clue what was going on and couldn't help me with any questions and was very rude. Another kid came over and same thing. Nobody knows what's going on. I wasn't the only one shaking my head. Not sure what's going on over there! F- read more

Leone's has been almost my go-to lunch location since I started working nearby. I'm hardly a block away from there! Their pizza is one of the best I've ever eaten and beats a lot of the local places - better than average joes like Dominos and Papa Johns; better than Papa Kenos and Minskys. I usually order their pizzas since their salads are good but not great. I prefer the preparation to Panera's which has a further location and uses plastic packaging - I would prefer Leone's to help the environment. I do have the salad occasionally and have also tried their spaghetti. There's also a great atmosphere with plenty of seating and several pinball and arcade machines. Since I've been coming regularly, the employees are polite and recognize me whenever I come. If there's one thing I would change, which isn't the place's fault so not to affect the rating, it's the intersection by the place. It's easy to turn into the area where it is from Antioch. However, the intersection between Antioch and - search - Mackey Street lacks turn signal lights so one has to pay attention to which cars are coming from the opposite direction. It's a little more congested since I first started coming since they opened a big QuikTrip in the same area. But the place and above all the pizza is worth the trip! read more

Original pizza is a nice neighborhood pizza joint for when you don't want to deal and of the big guys. Dishing out New York style pies the slices are huge and they even offer Sicilian crust for when you want a change of pace. It's by no means the greatest pizza you'll ever have but it's a pretty solid pizza option. read more

If the pizza was square, most of the experience here would seem like 90s high school cafeteria. The lunch attendants are less than thrilled to be working there, just slap the pizza on a paper plate and keep everyone moving down the line. Got the cafeteria seating; some tables with only a few chairs for the emos over here and then the nerds over there, then some long tables with a bunch of chairs for the preps and jocks. High School is so boring, sometimes you have that inattentive gaze off to the side of the room and day dream of playing video games. Was that the bell? I gotta get to class, I didn't even finish my lunch, but whatever... read more

Leone Original Pizza - Menu - Pizza Near Me - Overland Park, Kansas

Worst wings I have ever had. They were overcooked, under seasoned and had what I believe was the wrong sauce. If that was the buffalo sauce, it is also terrible. Very disappointed in the wings. Pizza was solid though. read more

Best New York style pizza in the metro. Crust has the perfect chew, great toppings. Huge fan!

Pizza I got today was alright alittle bland , kind of gross for pizza actually nothing wow for me. I used to like this place but the pizza I got today was not so tasty had to put it in the air fryer cause they barely warmed it up. It's the pizza they leave on the table and they just rewarm it up... fresh is better or frozen pizza would of been way better . Two okay sized pizzas for 13 bucks with a large drink kind of pricey ... read more

I got persuaded into ordering from here tonight for my family. The reviews looked ok, if not good, but I was pretty disappointed. There's a lot of hype for this place, nostalgia I guess (I also remember eating at the mall when I was a kid!), so I thought it was going to be better. Really though, It's pretty much what I would expect for Mall pizza. There was nothing special about it. I got a single slice while the rest of my family all got their own small pizzas. Theirs obviously spent more time in the oven than mine, the vegetables and the cheese on mine were barely melted/cooked. Even the kids thought it was just ok, and they're pretty easy to please when it comes to pizza. We did get a lot of pizza for the money vs other places, but I would choose pizza elsewhere next time. read more

This is the best pizza in the metro. New York style, giant slices, phenomenal taste.

Stopped here for lunch and it wasn't bad. I got a salad with a roll and my husband got their philly. While the salad was good the rest of the food wasn't that impressive. I will say his sandwich was way better than the roll I got. My roll had been sitting out as it was kind of dry and the chicken was hard unfortunately. read more

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Sadly I keep forgetting that his place is there! I have enjoyed Original pizza since is was in Metro North Mall next to the Theater that was IN the mall. Yes that was a really long time ago! Original Pizza makes this thing called a Stromboli... which is reminiscent of a calzone but they don't put sauce in it. Just the meats and chesses! Then give you a cup of sauce to dip in. It is glorious! This place is old... expect that. It has been serving pizza for a long time and it is way more cafeteria than even a pizza hut or dominios. It is perfect to stop in and grab a slice for lunch. Or if you have the family that can't agree on the type of pizza to get. The slices are the big New York style floppies that you fold over and eat like a pizza roll. Take time to try this one out... then hop on and give your review! read more

After moving from Long Island New York to Topeka we spent the first year trying to find a decent pizza place. After we finally gave up with my daughter in tears that she will never have good pizza again she was determined to find a NY Pizza and found the reviews for originals. I drove from Topeka to Overland Park to try their pizza and let me say it was worth the trip. I think I may be the only customer that drives an hour for their pizza but that first bite I say ahh it's the closest thing to NY we have found. read more

Pizza was good but the sauce is very limited and there was a lot of crust on the edge. I would eat here again, but I wouldn't drive across the city to do so. read more

Great food love the old school feel back again and again best pizza in town 10/10 love it

First time here. I really enjoyed the option of picking a slice and there were several options available. I had a slice of sausage & pepperoni and a slice of pepperoni. Really like the size and the crust was very good. Tad lite on the sausage but the overall flavor was very good. I also had a side salad which comes with 3 toppings (olives, peppers, pepperoni, 3 cheeses, cucumber salad , croutons and bacon bits) and Italian dressing . Definitely a great place for lunch at a good price. Service at the counter was good. read more

Leone Original Pizza - Ham and ricotta - Pizza Near Me - Overland Park, Kansas

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Regular customer disappointed by negative attitude of staff. Have lunch there 5 times a month. Not happening again. First time I've ever selected the no tip option, still feel bad about that action. Needed to happen, going to miss you guys! read more

Pretty good NY style pizza ruined by a rude little prick young manager with gauge earrings. The guy acts like he's doing you a favor by taking your order. What a detriment to your place, Mr Leone! Oh, and they're really proud of the ONE shaker of crushed red pepper -generic brand - with a broken lid that looks like it's 17 years old. As for the other seasoning, "Don't take shakers to the table!" read more

The pizza is great but we were just turned off by the workers not being able to keep their masks on properly and pulling them down to talk to each other. One even kept his below his nose. read more

We wanted pizza for dinner on National Pizza Day, because who wouldn't want pizza on the day meant for pizza eating? The only time we had ever had original pizza prior, was from the food court at the mall. We knew we liked their pizza so we decided to try their actual restaurant location. They have the options to get single slices, or a whole pie. We ordered a cheese pizza, and I also got a side salad. I was able to choose what toppings as well as the dressing for my salad which I was not expecting at all. Our total was right around $20, which is pretty nice for an entire large pizza! About 5 minutes after we checked out and sat ourselves at a table, our pizza came out. Overall the pizza is pretty good, but we found the cheese on the pizza extremely chewy rather than melty. They also have a variety of arcade games in the back of the place, so there is something to keep the kids busy while you wait for your pizza. read more

Simply true NY Pizza. Everyone else is just a wannabe. This location is my favorite of all of the Original Pizza's. Not just cause Tony's Brooklyn accent makes you feel nostalgic of NY. but simply because the ovens are almost 40 years. And everyone knows old ovens make the best pizza. The cheese pizza alone in my opinion destroys any pizza with any toppings anywhere else. Not to mention the Gyro sandwich, although not the most authentic one out there, for some reason taste strangely addictive. My wife regularly craves them. she's also a huge fan of their veggie pizza. Also a thing of beauty is the wonderful crust the pizza here has. I mean to get crust any better, you might need to literally cut Lombardi's out of the ground and ship the whole building to KC. Don't be a stranger and try some mind-blowing pizza. FYI, they also have pizza by the slice. (And they have cannoli's!) read more

Leone Original Pizza - Ham & Cheese - Pizza Near Me - Overland Park, Kansas

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This is a hidden gem. It is hands down my favorite pizza in Kansas City. It's is the closest to New York Style that you can find locally. It's simple and delicious every time. The staff is friendly and warm. I would order to go if you are not coming in for lunch. The ambiance is a little lacking, but it's ok because you don't usually eat pizza in the restaurant. read more

Leone Original Pizza - Cheese Pizza Slice and Hawaiian Pizza Slice - Pizza Near Me - Overland Park, Kansas

The lunch special, which included a large slice of pizza, a large salad, and a drink was $6.99. The combo pizza slice was delicious! The toppings were plentiful, the cheese and sauce were flavorful, and the crust was not too doughy, not too crispy, but just right. The salad was substantial, and the ingredients were fresh. The employees were friendly, and the interior was clean and spacious. read more

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Lives up to the hype. Loved it! Crust, sauce, cheese all right on for ny style. The main reason I can't give this place 5 stars is cleanliness. Yes I know it's more of a local dive and floors get dirty in a busy restaurant around dinner hour. However see a large hole in the wall and huge spider web in the ladies room was really what put it over the edge for me. I can't not see those things and really wonder how if the kitchen is really clean. There's certainly room for improvement in this area. I do think I'll be back because the pizza really was that good. It was obvious this place has a following as almost every other person who came in while we were there knew the guys behind the counter. So that's respectable in my mind. Be sure to visit their website for a $3 off coupon read more

Leone Original Pizza - Pizza Near Me - Overland Park, Kansas

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Pizza was good. Just not enough sauce in my opinion. Delivery was prompt and hassle free.

Best pizza in Kansas, hands down! Been eating it for yearsssss and even though I moved away I still come back and make sure I have it once or twice while I'm in town. Never change or leave! read more

As all reasonable people know, New York-style pizza is the best pizza out there. Original Pizza makes New York-style pizza, and it is easily the best pizza in KC. Get the Combo. It won't disappoint. read more