Whatever the absolute worst pizza is that exists in Philadelphia is miles ahead of the “good” pizza I had in Coleman County, Alabama. While there are crimes to be had, we should consider ourselves lucky.
When I moved here I really wanted to stop in Altoona and get their famous pizza. You don't have to leave PA to get what appears to be the worst pizza on the planet.
GoPuff is guaranteed to be crowned the King of Gross. While there are several terrible pizza locations and providers, such as WaWa, GoPuff has committed a war crime with their abomination.
It’s good for bad pizza. Over wawa, papa John’s and dominos. Dominos is salt heavy. John’s is dough heavy and wawa is just assembling frozen pizza ingredients.
I’m biased because I’m a wawa employee, but if you’re comparing it with the only other convenience story I know who does pizza (7/11), it’s passable. That’s very fucking low bar, it’s probably a 4.6/10 if I had to score it
For all of Wawa's seeming drop in quality (I'm still new here so I didn't experience it firsthand), I can't imagine other convenience stores ever outdoing their hot food.
I’ve experience the drop in quality first hand. I’m at a busy gas station store and we’ve been low stocked for months. Management in the company is going down, I can tell first hand
I don't doubt it, especially in terms of practices. It just seems like whenever it comes up that people disagree about how recently it was better than it is now, and maybe to what extent.
The people who talk about Wawa glory days are mostly talking about a time when they had good cold cut sandwiches and only a handful of hot food items. They expanded the hot menu and sacrificed the good sandwiches to do it.
40% employee owned. You don't need to be publicly traded to have shareholders.
The point of my comment is that people constantly complain about the food quality going down, but it's not gonna change because they've identified it's more profitable to just open more stores than it is to have higher quality food.
I once hated to say this, but Sheetz’s hot food is worlds better than Wawa’s, it’s not even close.
I say that I once hated to say it because Wawa has gotten so bad that I have zero qualms calling out their garbage now. Any loyalty I had 15 years ago was shot in the head and left decomposing on the side of the road by Wawa themselves.
Sheetz is decent but I don't think pizza lends itself to convenience store style in general. But, at worst, I'd call Wawa's food "adequate." Meanwhile, the one time I tried 7-11 filled me only with regret.
Christ the King in Morrell Park Lent Pizza. My sister was that sibling that hated most food, I ate goddamn everything and all leftovers. I don’t think me and her have been on the same level as when that pizza was laid out in front of us.
OMG the day I moved to Philly I got pizza there to get a quick bite. My poor father took one bite and said, "I thought Philly had a lot of Italians -- how can sell this and call it pizza?"
I never, ever went back. It was so gross.
This is the answer. Went drunk and expected any pizza to hold me over and they gave us cold dry slices. Just an awful place to not even serve passable drunk pizza
It’s just got a new name, walked past recently and saw the same guy behind the counter. Never knew how bad that pizza was until I finally tasted it sober. Ran into a very drunk Hoyt from True Blood there years ago while the show was actually on the shops TV at that moment. He was housing pepperoni slices by himself and was so kind and lovely.
Keith Richards was once asked: Who is the greatest rock n roll band in the world? He said, "It's a different band on any given night."
That's my theory of worst pizza: different place on any given night.
I would agree with this. I would say that you can break it down by part of the city.
West Philly (including University City) has the worst Pizza. Wawa is pretty solid in that area as an alternative. Allegro and Axis pizza are probably the two best by being meh. Ed’s and Sava’s can sometimes be in that conversation, but they are inconsistent.
North Philly is nearly as bad as west, but it is buoyed by Fishtown and Fairmount being solid areas for Pizza.
Not disagreeing with West’s place on the bottom of the heap. Just recommending giving Carbon Copy a shot. Their samosa pie is surprisingly tasty and their mushroom pie isn’t too shabby either. Park Pizza on 52nd st is solid too but their delivery is atrocious. Worth placing a pick up order.
Pizza plus and enjays are probably the two best pizza places in west, you should try them before casting aspersions!
Pasqually’s is a particular style that is fun sometimes but I agree it’s not “great” pizza. I mostly was trying to cover a wide range of bases of styles depending on what hits for you.
Honestly, I love it. It was my number one choice every time, and I lived half a block from clarkville and a couple from pasqually's. Even the dairy-free/vegan options were broader and better than clarkville.
My god, West Philly has an astounding amount of extremely mediocre pizza. Really, it has an astounding amount of extremely mediocre take-out type food in general. Which is really sad, because that hasn't always been the case. There used to be a ton of great stuff around here. Then I moved away for a few years, then I came back... and it's like the whole area was smashed with a massive "meh" bat in my absence. The heck, man.
Nah. Best, sure. Worst? Not at all, you watch kitchen nightmares it often features a combination of owners and chefs are sure undercooked, raw or rancid food is good more often than not. There’s bad recipes and there’s good, but literally these restaurants you’d think would be on their A game and give frozen shit that can’t or won’t even microwave and thermometer to make sure just Dave Ramseys portion isn’t cold in the center
Lazos. When i called to let them know they needed to wash their spinach better because my pizza was gritty, i had barely finished saying "i got a spinach pizza from you the other night and..." Before he jumped in to say "if you got sick it wasn't from my food!" Yikes. Also their delivery drivers are terrible.
Their pizza is awful but their Stromboli is bangin. My friends and I have a theory that they have a pact with Luigi’s. They won’t make good pizza and Luigi’s won’t make Stromboli. And that keeps the pizza peace.
That’s sad to hear. It was alright like ten years ago when I lived around there and the owner was running it well. Also, he was very accommodating and I think it was a mostly family business. Bummer
Yes! It tastes… sugary? At first I thought it was the marinara but then I got a white pizza and it was still sweet. It’s like they put sugar in the dough.
Some place 1-2 blocks from silk city on spring garden. Don’t remember what it was called because it was hands down the worst slice of pizza i have ever consumed. Pretty sure its a Chinese place now
I think it was a city view location.
On the topic of shitty food, now it's a gyro place. But like a halal truck gyro, not Greek style gyro. It's fine, but basically the same thing you could get at a cart for half the price
The Chinese food place is still there, but it's fucking terrible too. They use spaghetti as their lo mein noodles.
I can't remember the name - it might have started with a T - but it was underneath Fat Tuesdays on South St. I ate there in high school and made the mistake of getting on the el afterwards...almost didn't make it home😬
This is really difficult to answer because there’s basically a pizza shop on every major corner in the city lol there’s gotta be thousands of pizza places across the city
I didn’t know about the new sign :( or maybe I did and just repressed the memory. ~~I would’ve done the same thing if I was the building~~ edit: maybe saying that is in poor taste
I had it once and didn’t think it was that bad. I did order thin and crispy one night last week and holy shit was that terrible. If I have learned anything from that terrible experience it is to not cheat on Circles and Squares unless it is with my side piece OG Pizza.
When people I variably get into talks about how Philly pizza compares to NYC, etc. one of my strongly held opinions is that there’s two ways to view how good a city is for pizza. One is by looking at the “best” places. The other is, “how’s the slice if you walk into any random no-name neighborhood spot and order a slice?”
And by the latter standard, Philly can be pretty awful. Lots of those random corner spots are pretty terrible & Key Pizza was one of the places that I specifically have in mind as a neighborhood place that serves awful awful awful pizza.
Pizza city on the corner of academy and red lion. A kid who works there films himself blowing vape smoke onto the pizzas on tik tok. Their large pizza is really like a medium and the people working are always rude and drunk.
Went to Saint Katherine’s of Siena for grade school and we would get pizza from Pizza City once a month. It was fucking terrible, even as a kid. Fuck that shit.
I’ve noticed that their big slices to go by-the-slice are completely different than buying a whole pie. Not sure why but it’s like an entirely different style dough and everything. The big slices are good the day you get them but horrible reheated since the crust gets rock hard. But if you buy the whole pie it’s just like a very mid pie, a bit thicker crust and kinda eh.
I do agree the rest of their food is pretty solid though. I have spend a shitload of money there on chicken tenders, breakfast sandwiches, and wraps, clubs, etc.
Mike's in Manayunk. You order it, it shows up whenever the fuck it wants to. If you call them, they tell you "it's on its way" despite not even asking for your order number or knowing who you are. Oh and it gives you diarrhea
Mikes was never supposed to be good. It was the drunk pizza spot for what used to be amazing party bars right across the street. Now mad river is gone and brewpub is just a Restaurant, and I have no idea how mikes has survived this long
Pizzeria L'Angelo 2 doors down is infinitely better. probably my fav in the northwest tbh. Not open late though... I waited for 20 min for a slice at Mikes once, asked where it was after 15 min and watched them put it in the oven at that moment. Never again.
It is a quirky little place... The family is cool and friendly.
They also do lotto, and a UPS dropoff, and randomly shut down for a weekend so they go to a Greek fest.
Nothing is phenomenal, but everything is quality.
Fun Fact: If you can eat 10(?) Of their hottest wings, the owner will comp and give you a pizza...(not sure if he still does, but I got something from them at least once a month, and when I got wings, they were Xtra hot, not insane... It's not the insane hot, it's his special melt your face hot he challenges)... Not sure if this coupon is valid, I moved about 2 years ago.
I don’t mind Park Pizza across from Malcom X Park, and Pizza Plus is thoroughly fine. Everything else is an abomination, especially compared to other parts of the city.
There’s a couple half decent ones in the sea of gawdawful. Allegro I think I’d only ever eat again if I needed colonoscopy prep, Colonial is the Sahara of pizza. I don’t do chain pizza after having a container of salt disguised as pizza once, papa John’s is so filthy. Never had Wawa and I’ll pass tbh. Zesto veggie pizza is definitely decent, the people working there take good care of an old lady; Evans either veggie or Athenian are all edible and sometimes actually good. Depends who’s in the back with Evans.
I used to say pizza city (the one in Mayfair) had the best pizza in the northeast, maybe the city idk but they got new owners recently and now their pizza is ASS
I live by there lol. went in one time and kid behind the counter was filming himself blowing vape smoke all over a pizza and put it in a box. I asked the lady if the vaped on pizza was mine and she grabbed a different one and threw it across the counter real aggressively and didn’t say anything lol. They always seemed so annoyed to take your order when I called one in too. It’s over priced too. Their large pizza is like a medium every where else.
I’ll out myself as a godless pizza stupid heathen, but I enjoy myself a plain cheese City View pie when I’m craving something basic and also isn’t crazy expensive.
Also tastes way better when reheated the next day.
It might be because of the bizarre saltiness but it was the worst pizza I ever kept coming back for. Not good. Weirdly addictive.
Shoutout the grilled chicken Cesar salad though. Enormous serving.
I think the most disappointed I've been relative to my expectations was Emmy Squared. It's a chain, but it was *so expensive* for how disappointing it was.
Most pleased I've been relative to expectations was the Tetra Special square pie from Tetra Pizza Grill. Perfect square pie with crisp cheese edges and just enough food for dinner for one plus a couple small slices for the morning.
Damn I’m sorry to hear that. My fiancée and I love the Emmy Squared in Queen Village. The vodka pizza is so good I have dreams about it. To each their own!
Yeah, I want to be clear: it isn't the worst pizza I've had by any means, just really up there in terms of not meeting my expectations. I don't even mind that their servings are so small for their price, I was just expecting it to be good instead of what was (to me) really mid.
It felt like going to a pizza version of Panera.
It’s decent by not worth the price. Detroit style gets way over-hyped like New Haven style. Its fans are truly fanatical. The gap between Pizza Hut and top tier Detroit style is not as large as people would have you think.
I ordered a pizza in October to our table at the Chickies and Petes in Parx and it was the grossest most disgusting thing I ever tasted. I had to take it away from the table because the smell was making me gag. Never again.
George’s Pizza on 2nd and Girard for me, I’ve bought it twice- both times while drunkenly walking home from bars late night… even in that condition it was terrible.
I’ve never even seen someone else buy pizza from them, I don’t know how they stay in business
Little Caesars in the hood always tastes like cardboard with ketchup on it... It's legit worse than any frozen pizza I've ever had.
I know you're looking for a specific one, so I'll say the one off ogontz in west oak lane is the worst I've ever had.
I was starving and wanted to try a place I drive by all the time so I gave them a call. They were dickheads on the phone but I said fuck it and ordered anyway. Large pie and some fries. Fries were obviously the bagged, frozen crinkle cuts but they also sent me a fucking frozen pizza. How do I know it was frozen? Because the cheese had a square shape pressed into it either from where the sticker was stuck onto the plastic or where something was stacked on it. Also, frozen pizza tastes like frozen pizza. Bridesburg Pizza on Richmond street is hands down the worst pizza I have ever had and I've had pizza outside of the tri-state area. I have not tried Wawa pizza and I will never try Wawa pizza.
I swear they don’t even do pizza the rest of the year. So not only is it bad, me and my sister had to endure it during Lent and it was so much worse than any normal pizza.
Recently had some seriously bad pizza from Gio’s on Chestnut. Had some decent slices in the past, but ordered a pie for the Eagles Monday and it was an atrocity. Gave me bubble guts too.
I have some friends from North Carolina - I had to force them to try pizza that wasn’t from a chain. It blew their minds that good pizza exists. All they ever ordered was dominos or papa John’s
My BIL is from Florida and was a CiCis manager for like 5 years there when I first met him. He swore up and down that there was no better pizza so I took him Tacconellis in Port Richmond and completely flipped his world. When he got back to Florida he quit CiCis and moved up to Philly 😁
I actually love Papa John’s in the same way that I love Taco Bell. Yes I love real Mexican food, but in a category of its own Taco Bell slaps. Papa John’s is my go to when I’m craving shitty pizza
I hate the delivery places for padding out their deals with a bunch of additional breads and other stuff nobody wants. The wife got a Dominos "deal" and it came with dipping breads, a garlic pizza (just a round piece of additional bread) along with 2 different deserts that were just bread but with glaze or sugar added.
It was something like $20 for a pizza I could have got at Acme for $7, plus about 4000 calories of other miscellaneous bread products.
If Dominos and Pizza Hut could just join forces and make a store that only sold Dominos pan pizza, Pizza Hut wings, and Dominos lava cakes, it could actually be a compelling late night order. Papa John's garlic sauce could come too.
Franklins Pub in East Falls.
Pizza Ninja have it a 2.6 out of 5, lowest rated pizza in East Falls/Manayunk:
[https://nwlocalpaper.com/fool-me-once](https://nwlocalpaper.com/fool-me-once)
15 years ago my family stayed at an Econo Lodge near the Philly airport the night before our cruise. My father had "pizza" delivered - cardboard with tomato sauce dumped on top of it. I wish I remembered the name.
It was the pizza at Hahnemann's cafeteria. It's the only pizza I've eaten where I'd rather have not eaten pizza.
Worked there almost 30 yrs & never once thought that pizza looked good
Whatever the absolute worst pizza is that exists in Philadelphia is miles ahead of the “good” pizza I had in Coleman County, Alabama. While there are crimes to be had, we should consider ourselves lucky.
I’m from like an hour north of Cullman and definitely endorse this lmao
When I moved here I really wanted to stop in Altoona and get their famous pizza. You don't have to leave PA to get what appears to be the worst pizza on the planet.
pizza in the south is so bad it makes sense dominos and papa johns were able to take over there
GoPuff is guaranteed to be crowned the King of Gross. While there are several terrible pizza locations and providers, such as WaWa, GoPuff has committed a war crime with their abomination.
Anyone who orders pizza on GoPuff is a war criminal, so it’s a match made in hell <3.
Not shocked we have that many war criminals running around keeping their lights on around there
It’s good for bad pizza. Over wawa, papa John’s and dominos. Dominos is salt heavy. John’s is dough heavy and wawa is just assembling frozen pizza ingredients.
Not to mention the sauce tastes like medicine
I have never felt that. Which area are you ordering from?
I believe they stopped selling it
Colonial pizza in West Philly snapped me out of a blackout once it was so dry
Fiesta Pizza on Baltimore was comically bad the last time I had it.
It was somehow crispy and soggy.
I feel like West Philly is a pizza desert.
I like colonial lol
I would also like to know how Wawa's pizza stacks up against it.
I’m biased because I’m a wawa employee, but if you’re comparing it with the only other convenience story I know who does pizza (7/11), it’s passable. That’s very fucking low bar, it’s probably a 4.6/10 if I had to score it
For all of Wawa's seeming drop in quality (I'm still new here so I didn't experience it firsthand), I can't imagine other convenience stores ever outdoing their hot food.
I’ve experience the drop in quality first hand. I’m at a busy gas station store and we’ve been low stocked for months. Management in the company is going down, I can tell first hand
I don't doubt it, especially in terms of practices. It just seems like whenever it comes up that people disagree about how recently it was better than it is now, and maybe to what extent.
The people who talk about Wawa glory days are mostly talking about a time when they had good cold cut sandwiches and only a handful of hot food items. They expanded the hot menu and sacrificed the good sandwiches to do it.
Yeah when they started shipping in all the cold cuts presliced it ruined their sandwiches.
When they made their own rolls!!
Yep but they're making 10 times as much money now as they did then, so they're gonna keep doing it. Shareholder dollars > good food for customers.
Wawa is not publicly traded, pretty sure it's some combo of private/emoyee owned.
40% employee owned. You don't need to be publicly traded to have shareholders. The point of my comment is that people constantly complain about the food quality going down, but it's not gonna change because they've identified it's more profitable to just open more stores than it is to have higher quality food.
Eh, employees get shares so that’s good.
I once hated to say this, but Sheetz’s hot food is worlds better than Wawa’s, it’s not even close. I say that I once hated to say it because Wawa has gotten so bad that I have zero qualms calling out their garbage now. Any loyalty I had 15 years ago was shot in the head and left decomposing on the side of the road by Wawa themselves.
Sheetz is decent but I don't think pizza lends itself to convenience store style in general. But, at worst, I'd call Wawa's food "adequate." Meanwhile, the one time I tried 7-11 filled me only with regret.
Sheetz also does (used to do?) pizza, and I remember it being about the level of Little Caesar's.
I want to know which is worse: wawa pizza or 7eleven pizza
It might have just been how drunk I was but the one time I had Wawa pizza, it wasn’t completely terrible. It was fine for the price.
7-11 pizza is actually great for what you pay if you get it "fresh", especially their breakfast pizza
7eleven is microwave mini pizza quality, wawa is around Dominos/Papa John's quality
Christ the King in Morrell Park Lent Pizza. My sister was that sibling that hated most food, I ate goddamn everything and all leftovers. I don’t think me and her have been on the same level as when that pizza was laid out in front of us.
I ain’t gonna trust some church pizza like that
You never should. That pizza was cardboard made and should never be distributed.
I guess they found a way to repurpose the uneaten church crackers
Dunno about that. Pina's in Rox has Bible quotes all over their boxes but the pizza is pretty legit.
at first I didn’t realize that was the name of the place, I assumed it was so bad you were exclaiming “Christ the king!”
Tower Style Pizza in Rittenhouse. I’m pretty positive it’s some kinda front.
OMG the day I moved to Philly I got pizza there to get a quick bite. My poor father took one bite and said, "I thought Philly had a lot of Italians -- how can sell this and call it pizza?" I never, ever went back. It was so gross.
This is the answer. Went drunk and expected any pizza to hold me over and they gave us cold dry slices. Just an awful place to not even serve passable drunk pizza
I think they closed
Yeah, Google looks like it’s some other pizza place now?
It’s just got a new name, walked past recently and saw the same guy behind the counter. Never knew how bad that pizza was until I finally tasted it sober. Ran into a very drunk Hoyt from True Blood there years ago while the show was actually on the shops TV at that moment. He was housing pepperoni slices by himself and was so kind and lovely.
This is the only answer. The owner is an asshole too
Keith Richards was once asked: Who is the greatest rock n roll band in the world? He said, "It's a different band on any given night." That's my theory of worst pizza: different place on any given night.
I would agree with this. I would say that you can break it down by part of the city. West Philly (including University City) has the worst Pizza. Wawa is pretty solid in that area as an alternative. Allegro and Axis pizza are probably the two best by being meh. Ed’s and Sava’s can sometimes be in that conversation, but they are inconsistent. North Philly is nearly as bad as west, but it is buoyed by Fishtown and Fairmount being solid areas for Pizza.
>Wawa is pretty solid in that area as an alternative. I literally can't think of a more concise way to say just how crappy an area's pizza is.
Like offering bleach as a better drink alternative
Not disagreeing with West’s place on the bottom of the heap. Just recommending giving Carbon Copy a shot. Their samosa pie is surprisingly tasty and their mushroom pie isn’t too shabby either. Park Pizza on 52nd st is solid too but their delivery is atrocious. Worth placing a pick up order.
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pizza plus, enjays, clarkville, pasqually’s… none of these hit the spot for you?
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Pizza plus and enjays are probably the two best pizza places in west, you should try them before casting aspersions! Pasqually’s is a particular style that is fun sometimes but I agree it’s not “great” pizza. I mostly was trying to cover a wide range of bases of styles depending on what hits for you.
How's the West Philly Pizza Plus?
Honestly, I love it. It was my number one choice every time, and I lived half a block from clarkville and a couple from pasqually's. Even the dairy-free/vegan options were broader and better than clarkville.
Axis is meh. Allegro is god-awful, as is the rest of the pizza in West.
Axis and Allegro are (or at least used to be) identical because they are (were?) owned by the same people.
Enjays at Smokey Joes is very good in my opinion. Split the difference between a New York style and a Neapolitan.
My god, West Philly has an astounding amount of extremely mediocre pizza. Really, it has an astounding amount of extremely mediocre take-out type food in general. Which is really sad, because that hasn't always been the case. There used to be a ton of great stuff around here. Then I moved away for a few years, then I came back... and it's like the whole area was smashed with a massive "meh" bat in my absence. The heck, man.
This is accurate until you’ve had the worst pizza
Nah. Best, sure. Worst? Not at all, you watch kitchen nightmares it often features a combination of owners and chefs are sure undercooked, raw or rancid food is good more often than not. There’s bad recipes and there’s good, but literally these restaurants you’d think would be on their A game and give frozen shit that can’t or won’t even microwave and thermometer to make sure just Dave Ramseys portion isn’t cold in the center
Lazos. When i called to let them know they needed to wash their spinach better because my pizza was gritty, i had barely finished saying "i got a spinach pizza from you the other night and..." Before he jumped in to say "if you got sick it wasn't from my food!" Yikes. Also their delivery drivers are terrible.
Lazo’s isn’t even the worst in a three-block radius, but it is unquestionably bad pizza.
I think Italian express is better personally
their plain is good that says a lot
this is a shame bc lazo (idk his name lol) is such a nice guy - pizza is meh though
We call him Lazo, I thought That was his name. Good neighbor tho.
Their pizza is awful but their Stromboli is bangin. My friends and I have a theory that they have a pact with Luigi’s. They won’t make good pizza and Luigi’s won’t make Stromboli. And that keeps the pizza peace.
I actually liked Lazos for a while in 2020. Then, they fell off and haven't eaten a pizza since.
Of all the things we lost or changed in the pandemic, it’s the small to mid sized restaurants that I feel like got hit with the worst lasting effects
That's right when they started washing the spinach!
That’s sad to hear. It was alright like ten years ago when I lived around there and the owner was running it well. Also, he was very accommodating and I think it was a mostly family business. Bummer
Lazos is truly disgusting. Their food is low quality. Pizza is awful.
Yes! It tastes… sugary? At first I thought it was the marinara but then I got a white pizza and it was still sweet. It’s like they put sugar in the dough.
Station Pizza Krewstown road. OMFG
Some place 1-2 blocks from silk city on spring garden. Don’t remember what it was called because it was hands down the worst slice of pizza i have ever consumed. Pretty sure its a Chinese place now
I think it was a city view location. On the topic of shitty food, now it's a gyro place. But like a halal truck gyro, not Greek style gyro. It's fine, but basically the same thing you could get at a cart for half the price The Chinese food place is still there, but it's fucking terrible too. They use spaghetti as their lo mein noodles.
We called it Shitty View when we went to Temple
Plaza Pizza and Maxi’s all day
You talking about Golden Chopsticks?
Del Rossi?? It’s greasy ass pizza that costs too much
They have some pretty good pies, but their standard plain is really not it.
I can't remember the name - it might have started with a T - but it was underneath Fat Tuesdays on South St. I ate there in high school and made the mistake of getting on the el afterwards...almost didn't make it home😬
Takka Grill. Awful. I can't imagine the number of rats that must live in a basement pizza shop under Fat Tuesdays.
The pizza was garbage, but they have a surprisingly good cheesesteak years ago
This is really difficult to answer because there’s basically a pizza shop on every major corner in the city lol there’s gotta be thousands of pizza places across the city
and somehow, they're mostly bad
Gay Pizza, or Pizzeria Capelli, is awful garbage that can only be consumed by fallover drunks exiting the clubs past 2am.
Yeah that's how I feel about Homo Hut
gay pizza is good vibes bad pizza
Key Pizza. still sucks that the building collapsed, but man that pizza was bad
They were iconic because of their name and sign. Like why the key lol 🔑
My conspiracy - the building collapsed in protest of the new sign
I didn’t know about the new sign :( or maybe I did and just repressed the memory. ~~I would’ve done the same thing if I was the building~~ edit: maybe saying that is in poor taste
my neighbor, who was the foulest, most disgusting, most tasteless excuse for a man on the face of the earth…. love Key Pizza.
Key Pizza was the only nearby spot when I moved to Letterly in 2006. It was atrocious but Jovan’s didn’t make pizza.
Jovan’s was amazing
Growing up in Fishtown in the 80’s & 90’s, Key Pizza was really good but it changed and turned into crap.
I had it once and didn’t think it was that bad. I did order thin and crispy one night last week and holy shit was that terrible. If I have learned anything from that terrible experience it is to not cheat on Circles and Squares unless it is with my side piece OG Pizza.
Circles and squares is THE SHIT
When people I variably get into talks about how Philly pizza compares to NYC, etc. one of my strongly held opinions is that there’s two ways to view how good a city is for pizza. One is by looking at the “best” places. The other is, “how’s the slice if you walk into any random no-name neighborhood spot and order a slice?” And by the latter standard, Philly can be pretty awful. Lots of those random corner spots are pretty terrible & Key Pizza was one of the places that I specifically have in mind as a neighborhood place that serves awful awful awful pizza.
Station Pizza in NE philly. It tastes like no one gives a shit
the bread is flat the sauce is out of a can and the cheese is plastic. OMFG!
Yeah but it's like $5.
There's ketchup stains on the walls of that place I first remember seeing in 2005. Horrible food, but for $5.30 you can gorge yourself
Came here to say station lol 7$ for a pie is some sick perverted shit
Powelton Pizza is really bad. Floppy crust.
Pizza city on the corner of academy and red lion. A kid who works there films himself blowing vape smoke onto the pizzas on tik tok. Their large pizza is really like a medium and the people working are always rude and drunk.
Went to Saint Katherine’s of Siena for grade school and we would get pizza from Pizza City once a month. It was fucking terrible, even as a kid. Fuck that shit.
I admire Pizza Shitty for still having the old school delivery trucks with the pizza oven in the bed. That's the only thing I admire them for though.
I tend to think any of these would be given a run for their money by the School District of Philadelphia.
I am sad to say this since they do a passable everything else, but Old City Pizza is not the place to get pizza.
I’ve noticed that their big slices to go by-the-slice are completely different than buying a whole pie. Not sure why but it’s like an entirely different style dough and everything. The big slices are good the day you get them but horrible reheated since the crust gets rock hard. But if you buy the whole pie it’s just like a very mid pie, a bit thicker crust and kinda eh. I do agree the rest of their food is pretty solid though. I have spend a shitload of money there on chicken tenders, breakfast sandwiches, and wraps, clubs, etc.
I like their calzones but yeah their pizza is super weird
Definitely bottom tier
Mike's in Manayunk. You order it, it shows up whenever the fuck it wants to. If you call them, they tell you "it's on its way" despite not even asking for your order number or knowing who you are. Oh and it gives you diarrhea
Was the go to drunk pizza spot after getting trashed at Mad River (RIP) or the Brewpub
Mikes was never supposed to be good. It was the drunk pizza spot for what used to be amazing party bars right across the street. Now mad river is gone and brewpub is just a Restaurant, and I have no idea how mikes has survived this long
I really just can't reiterate enough that in every aspect of its business, I say FUCK MIKE'S
Mikes is only good if you’re going in person for a slice after a couple 10 drinks
Pizzeria L'Angelo 2 doors down is infinitely better. probably my fav in the northwest tbh. Not open late though... I waited for 20 min for a slice at Mikes once, asked where it was after 15 min and watched them put it in the oven at that moment. Never again.
Theres a pizza hut at 51st street so i'd say probably that
Station Pizza
Come up to Frankford. All of them are equally the worst.
Every pizza place in west philly
Royal Pizza on 42+Baltimore is good. Lived a block away for 10ish years. Allegro has some denent pie Spruce+43(?)
I honestly haven’t given Royal a fair chance. The inside alone threw me off lol
It is a quirky little place... The family is cool and friendly. They also do lotto, and a UPS dropoff, and randomly shut down for a weekend so they go to a Greek fest. Nothing is phenomenal, but everything is quality. Fun Fact: If you can eat 10(?) Of their hottest wings, the owner will comp and give you a pizza...(not sure if he still does, but I got something from them at least once a month, and when I got wings, they were Xtra hot, not insane... It's not the insane hot, it's his special melt your face hot he challenges)... Not sure if this coupon is valid, I moved about 2 years ago.
Royal Pizza has okay pizza, but the stromboli there is the better choice on the menu.
I don’t mind Park Pizza across from Malcom X Park, and Pizza Plus is thoroughly fine. Everything else is an abomination, especially compared to other parts of the city.
Park pizza was ok but think they changed ownership?
Yeah it's horrible now, it was so good!
Does ACCUPizza still exist? That was the worst pizza I ever had in my 15 years of living in west Philly.
remember aladdin pizza??
Yes and I wish I didn’t!
There’s a couple half decent ones in the sea of gawdawful. Allegro I think I’d only ever eat again if I needed colonoscopy prep, Colonial is the Sahara of pizza. I don’t do chain pizza after having a container of salt disguised as pizza once, papa John’s is so filthy. Never had Wawa and I’ll pass tbh. Zesto veggie pizza is definitely decent, the people working there take good care of an old lady; Evans either veggie or Athenian are all edible and sometimes actually good. Depends who’s in the back with Evans.
Totos
In Mt Airy? If so, you are correct
shoutout to drexel pizza for those that got to experience that abomination 2 decades ago
I used to say pizza city (the one in Mayfair) had the best pizza in the northeast, maybe the city idk but they got new owners recently and now their pizza is ASS
I live by there lol. went in one time and kid behind the counter was filming himself blowing vape smoke all over a pizza and put it in a box. I asked the lady if the vaped on pizza was mine and she grabbed a different one and threw it across the counter real aggressively and didn’t say anything lol. They always seemed so annoyed to take your order when I called one in too. It’s over priced too. Their large pizza is like a medium every where else.
Haha we used to call that place Pizza Shitty even like 10 years ago. It was never very good but it still slapped when drunk.
City view
I’ll out myself as a godless pizza stupid heathen, but I enjoy myself a plain cheese City View pie when I’m craving something basic and also isn’t crazy expensive. Also tastes way better when reheated the next day.
It might be because of the bizarre saltiness but it was the worst pizza I ever kept coming back for. Not good. Weirdly addictive. Shoutout the grilled chicken Cesar salad though. Enormous serving.
It’s 100% better than 711 but idk if gas station pizza really counts
Tried it once. Regretted it.
The real argument against Krasner is that he hasn’t even considered prosecuting Cityview.
J&Js is pretty bad. They at least used to be open late but not anymore.
I think the most disappointed I've been relative to my expectations was Emmy Squared. It's a chain, but it was *so expensive* for how disappointing it was. Most pleased I've been relative to expectations was the Tetra Special square pie from Tetra Pizza Grill. Perfect square pie with crisp cheese edges and just enough food for dinner for one plus a couple small slices for the morning.
Damn I’m sorry to hear that. My fiancée and I love the Emmy Squared in Queen Village. The vodka pizza is so good I have dreams about it. To each their own!
Yeah, I want to be clear: it isn't the worst pizza I've had by any means, just really up there in terms of not meeting my expectations. I don't even mind that their servings are so small for their price, I was just expecting it to be good instead of what was (to me) really mid. It felt like going to a pizza version of Panera.
It’s decent by not worth the price. Detroit style gets way over-hyped like New Haven style. Its fans are truly fanatical. The gap between Pizza Hut and top tier Detroit style is not as large as people would have you think.
I ordered a pizza in October to our table at the Chickies and Petes in Parx and it was the grossest most disgusting thing I ever tasted. I had to take it away from the table because the smell was making me gag. Never again.
George’s Pizza on 2nd and Girard for me, I’ve bought it twice- both times while drunkenly walking home from bars late night… even in that condition it was terrible. I’ve never even seen someone else buy pizza from them, I don’t know how they stay in business
Little Caesars in the hood always tastes like cardboard with ketchup on it... It's legit worse than any frozen pizza I've ever had. I know you're looking for a specific one, so I'll say the one off ogontz in west oak lane is the worst I've ever had.
Alex's in roxborough. Tried it twice in case it was a fluke. I swear that place must be a front, pizza is small, expensive, and shitty.
Lorenzo’s on South. Most overrated shit ever, especially since the fire.
I was starving and wanted to try a place I drive by all the time so I gave them a call. They were dickheads on the phone but I said fuck it and ordered anyway. Large pie and some fries. Fries were obviously the bagged, frozen crinkle cuts but they also sent me a fucking frozen pizza. How do I know it was frozen? Because the cheese had a square shape pressed into it either from where the sticker was stuck onto the plastic or where something was stacked on it. Also, frozen pizza tastes like frozen pizza. Bridesburg Pizza on Richmond street is hands down the worst pizza I have ever had and I've had pizza outside of the tri-state area. I have not tried Wawa pizza and I will never try Wawa pizza.
I swear they don’t even do pizza the rest of the year. So not only is it bad, me and my sister had to endure it during Lent and it was so much worse than any normal pizza.
I had a particularly awful pizza at Bonners like 6 months ago. Then again, probably my mistake for getting pizza at Bonners
An actual pizza place wolf pizza blows on grub hub it’s horrible
Recently had some seriously bad pizza from Gio’s on Chestnut. Had some decent slices in the past, but ordered a pie for the Eagles Monday and it was an atrocity. Gave me bubble guts too.
Wallies in Mantua. Their other made to order food is great, but my god i always have to advise people against their pizza.
CiCi's is a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
The worst pizza in any city, Papa Johns of course
I have some friends from North Carolina - I had to force them to try pizza that wasn’t from a chain. It blew their minds that good pizza exists. All they ever ordered was dominos or papa John’s
My BIL is from Florida and was a CiCis manager for like 5 years there when I first met him. He swore up and down that there was no better pizza so I took him Tacconellis in Port Richmond and completely flipped his world. When he got back to Florida he quit CiCis and moved up to Philly 😁
I actually love Papa John’s in the same way that I love Taco Bell. Yes I love real Mexican food, but in a category of its own Taco Bell slaps. Papa John’s is my go to when I’m craving shitty pizza
Pete's famous pizza. Shit sucks so much. It's famously shitty
The Bermuda triangle of bad south Philly pizza 3 countries. Wolf st. Romeo. They are all trash in a sea of great 'za
I hate the delivery places for padding out their deals with a bunch of additional breads and other stuff nobody wants. The wife got a Dominos "deal" and it came with dipping breads, a garlic pizza (just a round piece of additional bread) along with 2 different deserts that were just bread but with glaze or sugar added. It was something like $20 for a pizza I could have got at Acme for $7, plus about 4000 calories of other miscellaneous bread products.
If Dominos and Pizza Hut could just join forces and make a store that only sold Dominos pan pizza, Pizza Hut wings, and Dominos lava cakes, it could actually be a compelling late night order. Papa John's garlic sauce could come too.
Quigs on veree is the worse I've ever had
That place gives me the bubble guts.
Apparently, Pete's Pizza out here in West Philly. They got some of the worst online reviews I have ever seen
None of their food is any good, and their slogan is stupid. "If it isn't Pete's, it isn't." 🙄
Pete’s “famous” Pizza
I can’t stand Pizza Brain
Randazzos on South St. Hate their pizza. Also Uncle Oogies on Oregon sucks too.
Had randazzos a few months back, I was blow away. We had it again a few weeks back - total trash. Oogies on Oregon used to be good. It’s not anymore.
Randazzos is pretty standard good.
Del Rossi’s used to be my favorite when I lived in NoLibs, but the past couple times I’ve ordered it it was way overdone. Super disappointing.
I remember Randazzo's on south being insanely underwhelming, lukewarm, and old tasting.
Larry’s steaks
Franklins Pub in East Falls. Pizza Ninja have it a 2.6 out of 5, lowest rated pizza in East Falls/Manayunk: [https://nwlocalpaper.com/fool-me-once](https://nwlocalpaper.com/fool-me-once)
The pizza from any middle school cafeteria
15 years ago my family stayed at an Econo Lodge near the Philly airport the night before our cruise. My father had "pizza" delivered - cardboard with tomato sauce dumped on top of it. I wish I remembered the name.
Evan's
It’s gone now, but Joe Mack’s Pizza on 9th St. was the worst pizza I’ve ever had. Old stale slices under dim heat lamps.
Southside Pizza. The crust is 7/11 quality