Jj S.
Yelp
King's Pizza is great. I've popped in and out of this "joint" for 16 years and never had a complaint. The food's good, when my kids were little they loved the pizza here and we'd carry it to nearby Kelly Park where they'd jump everywhere for hours after eating (getting ice cream from the truck that was usually there all summer). Don't listen to Val L. I'm dubious about the story not because this couldn't have happened, but the circumstances are very odd. Her husband is extremely allergic to shellfish but goes to eat at a very small establishment to get food that could be exposed to aerosol particles due to the smallish cooking area. On a NextDoor post she admits her SEVERELY ALLERGIC husband doesn't carry an epi pen and refused to use one when he got home after his allergy started (seconds count, right?), he crossed the street to the hospital when he could have stopped the symptoms with one shot; is this smart? NO. And we also don't know what they ate or didn't eat in and around this incident. Now she's called, according to what she's threatened, the Health Department and people are advocating she sue the pizzeria--how disgusting. I love this place, it's a part of the neighborhood, and this lady who smacks of privilege, and who made the mistake (her husband also) of picking a restaurant where they sell shellfish is blaming the restaurant for her poor decision making skills. Besides, the contamination could have come from the bread, the chicken, the sauce and a hundred other possibilities and things they didn't make in their restaurant, but used as their ingredients. What Val L. posted here is shameful. Let's get real here, accidents happen, but this place hasn't had a problem like this ever. Their apology, which she takes issue with, was adequate, and apparently she expected money?, free food for life?, some other crazy thing? They apologized without even knowing if it was their fault. Practically, why in the h#ll would you eat at or get any food from any food place that sells the things you're allergic to?? Time to be a grownup here, and think. Look at her other posts, she literally eats seafood in front of her husband at home without thinking, maybe that's not smart. Accidents happen, for sure, but your husband is fine, and you're apparently going towards a vindictive stance to punish a long established neighborhood business because you made a decision as a grownup to eat food from a restaurant that puts shellfish on their menu items. A SMALL establishment, with a small cooking area. Think more clearly next time, and leave King's Pizza alone, your husband isn't suffering, got the treatment he needed at a hospital, without his using the epi pen (why???) which is why he stupidly passed out on the steps of the hospital; that's that. Grow up.