I've been meaning to try this place for soo long and I finally did! And I wish I had tried it sooner. It might actually be one of my favourite pizzas in the city! The restaurant is cuter inside than I thought. There are some window seats for people-watching on bank st. There are also some hanging lights by the windows. The pizza crust has the perfect crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside texture. It's so good it doesn't even need any dip. I tried both the nerd pizza and the mushroom pizza. The nerd pizza had pickled onions, black pepper molasses bacon, cheese and chili Basil honey. I loved the tangy pickled onions, with the salty-sweet bacon, and the spicy honey. The combination was just perfection. I could use a little more chili though! The mushroom pizza was a white pizza with portobello mushrooms, parm, and truffle oil. The salty parm and the meaty portebello mushrooms were a good combo, but I didn't really taste any truffle oil. I felt like this pizza was good but missing a little something to take it to the next level. Overall, the food was delicious. The drinks are reasonably priced (beer, local kombucha). However, the service was mediocre. I think they only had one or two servers working the entire area on Friday night. read more

Pizza Nerds - Lyon - Nerd Pizza - Italian Near Me - Ottawa, Ontario

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Ordered 2 of their rotating menu pizzas tonight and was not disappointed. I'm not the type to deviate from my usual order once I find something I like, but I'm glad I did. The pizzas were light, airy and packed a lot of flavour into each bite. Super full now and I regret nothing read more

Pizza Nerds - Canadian pizza (rotating menu) - Italian Near Me - Ottawa, Ontario

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IT WAS SO GOOD !! I love an apple/pear pizza so the maclaren was perfect with its apple and prosciutto combo. and adding the chili garlic sauce was really fun. the crust was really airy and thin but still held its shape really well which is quite impressive. honestly a pretty perfect pizza all around. really chill and casual ambiance inside the restaurant which is great. the price point though was a little more than desired. $25 for a personal pizza seems a bit steep? and $3 charge brought my pizza dinner to a $30+ total. read more

Pizza Nerds - Maclaren pizza with chili garlic dip - Italian Near Me - Ottawa, Ontario

As a huge pizza fan, I heard great things about this place. It was incredible and did not disappoint! We ordered two pizzas for take out , the spicy garlic & donair sauce as well as the chocolate chip cookie. The pizza was hot and fresh with a wonderfully airy crust. The spicy garlic dip was delicious! Legitimately an awesome dip!! (I personally wouldn't get the donair dip again, it was too sweet for my liking). The cookie was okay, a good dessert, but make no mistakes, the true star of the show was the pizza!! I can't wait to be back!! read more

Pizza Nerds - Italian Near Me - Ottawa, Ontario

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Ordered takeout from here because it was highly rated. Loved the sweet and savory taste from the honey. Really thin crust. read more

Pizza Nerds - Italian Near Me - Ottawa, Ontario

This is easily the best pizza I've had in a long time. We will be back for sure! Such a great place. Food 5/5 Service 5/5 Ambiance 5/5 read more

Best pizza in the city, just fantastic love everything I've had from here i've only had delivery a few times read more

I think this is one of my favourite pizza spots! The pizzas, then cross with just the right amount of crust, and taste as if it is baked in a stone oven The flavour profiles are truly exceptional. There is a large variety of vegetarian options which I thought was amazing. The roasted broccoli pizza was delicious and taste a lot like kale chips if that is something you enjoy. The kimchi pizza with something bad I thought I would never order, but I tried it because someone else had got it. It was truly one of the best pizza that I have had MV acidic taste of the kimchi really a nice compliment to the cheese. It is more expensive than your usual pizza, but it is well worth the money if you wanna treat yourself to a nice pizza after a long week read more

Pizza Nerds - Italian Near Me - Ottawa, Ontario

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Love love pizza nerds/city goose !! Is my go-to place when I'm ceaving some high quality pizza . My go to is their classic margherita that is called the Queen Elizabeth , it has everything you need , so simple yet so good ! If you ever eat at this place once you open that door the smell of pizza in the oven is just amazing , I'm obssesed with that smell (but weird, but one you go you'll understand what I mean) . Staff are super nice and chill and I never had a bad time at this place . If you are planning on a date , or a chill night with pizza and wine this is definitely the place . read more

Pizza Nerds - Italian Near Me - Ottawa, Ontario

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Best pizza in Ottawa that I've had. Toppings aren't traditional but love how they use some local suppliers for their toppings. Dough has a nice chew and I would polish 3 of those pizzas in one sitting. That's how good it is read more

Pizza was good. Place was really nice whit the open window. Service was fast and perfect. Music not too loud

I've walked by this place so many times and have been wanting to try it. Luckily for me, I had a team dinner here. I think this place is also called City Goose...? I don't know sorry! Anyway, it's really chic! The interior is super cozy and the tables are all spaced out nicely. The menu is found by scanning a QR code. They had so many pizza options! Price wise, it's about $18-22 depending on the pizza you get if I remember correctly. They have some other options that aren't just pizza, but I would go for the pizza if I were you! I ordered the Pam Pam/Queen Elizabeth (Goat Cheese Pizza). As you can tell by the pictures, it was super good. The crust was AMAZING. Light, crunchy, fluffy, perfect! The flavour of the pizza was immaculate. I am a sucker for goat cheese, and when paired with honey, you can just take all of my money. It is a combination that does no wrong. Sometimes simple is better. Less is more. Pizza Nerds does that concept extremely well. None of their pizzas seem to overdue it on the toppings, they all have great flavour and crusts! My friends ordered the Donair Pizza, Jalapeño Popper Pizza, the Deluxe, etc. They all looked delicious too! I'm definitely coming back to try all their other pizzas. read more

Pizza Nerds - Goat Cheese Pizza - Italian Near Me - Ottawa, Ontario

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Update! Today I ordered their pizza for the third time in ten days. I'm staying at my parent's place and asked my mother to pick it up at the 5:40pm pick-up time. She apparently had a fugue-state moment (not really...) and went for 4:40pm. She arrived at 4:35pm and said, without irony, "I'm a bit early". They didn't bat an eye. The guy said "Just about to put it in the oven, it'll be ready in five minutes." And it was! If you're reading this, Pizza Nerds, you're awesome. I will now go warm up my pizza... read more

I thought I would never eat pizza again after two decades of being gluten and dairy free due to chronic illness. Da da-da dah, Pizza Nerds to the rescue! This was the FIRST and only gluten-free, dairy-free pizza that I have ever had that ACTUALLY tasted like pizza!! I couldn't stop celebrating! The service was also amazing - genuinely kind, helpful, attentive. I also enjoyed the cozy ambiance. New favorite restaurant in Ottawa. read more

This place was highly recommended to us. The pizza and service were both excellent! I had the Gladstone/Calabrese pizza and loved it.

Okay, so I don't really know the real difference between Pizza Nerds and City Goose, and it still confuses me why the two of them exist, but I think they're actually the same thing - same location, essentially the same menu other than different names for the pizzas (or at least that's all I've noticed). I haven't been to the restaurant and have only ordered for delivery, so not sure if there are other differences in person. *Edit: I just saw on their website that they do mention they're the same place, but it sounds like Pizza Nerds was created during the pandemic to focus on pizza, of course, whereas City Goose was/is meant to be something more. Looking forward to seeing what City Goose will offer post-pandemic. I've been wanting to try this place for awhile, but it's a bit out of the way and the delivery fee on third-party apps is quite high, in addition to the seemingly higher prices for their pizzas. I had a promotion code, so I thought this was the perfect time to give it a shot. We ordered the Gladstone - Calabrese Pizza (Arnold on the City Goose menu) and the Bank - Mushroom Pizza (Rupert on the City Goose menu), kale Caesar salad, two chili garlic dips, a bottle of lemon ginger Artizen Kombucha, and a can of grapefruit Bubly. The boxes are GreenBox pizza boxes, which are super cool. There's an eco tip on it to turn the box into plates and a storage container, with directions on the front of the box. But the pizza didn't last that long :) To our surprise, there was a third pizza box with "Bonus :) Enjoy :)" written on it. We opened it up and OMG they sent us a free pizza! My husband thought it's almost like they knew they were sending it farther and made up for it with the free pizza. Maybe that was the case, maybe not, but we were very grateful for their generosity nonetheless. My husband even said he would rather eat their pizza than go to a fancy restaurant because it was that good and even felt fancy. The pizza ended up being the Queen Elizabeth - Goat Cheese Pizza (Pam Pam on the City Goose menu), which I really wanted to try but my husband wasn't keen on it. It had local cheese, goat cheese, baked and fresh basil, and spicy honey. My husband's not a fan of honey, or even fresh basil, and is only sometimes in the mood for goat cheese, so he wasn't really into ordering it, but WOW, I'm so glad they sent it to us because it totally changed his mind! It was so good and was his second favourite of the three. The spicy honey was perfect with the goat cheese and super addictive. If you think honey on pizza is weird, just try it, especially spicy honey! My husband's choice was the Gladstone, with "slightly" spicy Calabrese sausage and fresh arugula. The sausage was in small slices rather than the crumbles that you expect "sausage" to be from other pizza places. It truly was just slightly spicy, a little crispy, and the arugula was really great as a touch of bitterness and something to balance the bit of grease in the sausage and freshen it up. The Bank was my choice, a white pizza with marinated portobello mushrooms, cracked blacked pepper, parmesan, and truffle oil. I find truffle oil can seem pretentious and people tend to add it to food to make it seem fancy, but this wasn't at all the case here. It was just tasty! Cheesy and salty, and everything I craved, though it was tied for my favourite with the Queen Elizabeth. Even though they weren't super hot when they got to our place, the pizzas were still so good and just tasted fresh and homemade. They are very thin crust, which is my preference. There's still crust, but it's light and airy. They're also only one size, I think a medium-ish? but with six slices. The chili garlic dip was really good as well. It seemed to separate, with more of the oil on top, but not sure if that's just because it took awhile to get to us. There's a mystery ingredient, but it's vegan. Not super spicy and a big punch of flavour. Went well with all of the pizzas. I'm not sure they have the kale Caesar salad anymore since I don't see it on the menu, but it was better than many of the kale salads I've had at other places. The kale was tossed in olive oil rather than plain, which I despise, so the texture wasn't as fibrous and less laborious to chew. There was a generous amount of parmesan, plenty of salty pancetta, and crunch panko breadcrumbs instead of croutons, which I really enjoyed. I love so much that instead of pop, they offer carbonated soda and local, small-batch kombucha, which also happens to be one of my favourite brands. There's also wine and beer if you're feeling extra fancy. Psst.. you may also find the "Secret Pizza" on the menu, which is a jalapeño popper pizza with tomato sauce, local and goat cheese, pickled jalapeño, and pinko breadcrumb mix for crunch, with a side of tomato dip. I was tempted to order this one, too. Next time! I could write about this place forever. Amazing. Worth the hype. read more

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Pizza is good but sometimes mediocre ordered 4 pizzas the other day 2 of them were really cold when we got them and another one had a topping we didn't not ask for or want so that kinda sucked Huge huge fan of the argyle steak pizza it's super yummy but stuff here is just weird like we ordered the spicy chili dip sauce and it was good but it's not even spicy and then we ordered the Hawaiian pizza and it was more spicy than the chili sauce and online it doesn't even say it's a spicy pizza not a huge deal but just weird I feel like they could put tons and tons more effort than they do pizzas good but not great and it could be great read more

Very flavourful pizzas. Thin crust that is fragrant and delicious. And well paired toppings.

Great spot with excellent service. Perfect spot for a relaxing dinner date. The pizza was awesome, a very nice Neapolitan style with great flavor and fresh ingredients. Also plenty of food for a good price. read more

Pizza Nerds - Margarita pizza and Hawaiian. - Italian Near Me - Ottawa, Ontario

Hands down recommend both of their spots! Get the Pam pam if it's still on the menu. This pizza is named after the owner's partner. I love the Arnold too (my dog's name is Arnold). read more

Everything was perfect. The pizzas were delicious. The waitress was very professional and always with a smile! Will definitely come back again when I'm in Ottawa. read more

Best pizza I've ever had. Really gosh darn good. Recommending to anyone passing through ottawa. I reinstalled the yelp app just so I could praise this restaurant. Prices aren't bad either, especially for what you're getting. read more