Kevin W.
Yelp
Pizza is in the eye of the beholder. Copy/pasta from my previous reviews on pizza places: I'm the type that goes for wood-fired and either full flat bread, or high-gluten, chewy, and with fluffy crust (kind of what Costco serves --- yes, judge away). Pizza dough/crust also easily makes up 50-75% of my pizza rating, especially if you're not a flat-bread pizza. If your dough or your crust sucks, no matter what you put on your pizza, it's not going to save it.
Picked up some garlic cheese bread, mac and cheese, chicken alfredo pizza, and supreme pizza after visiting Minnehaha Falls during the pandemic.
Unfortunately, the pizza resembles pizza from LaRosa's in Cincinnati, which I developed a significant distaste for when I lived in Cincinnati for 8 years, and I thought I had escaped that type of pizza style once I moved away from Cincinnati. Oh well. So, just to be upfront, this review is probably heavily biased because of that.
The pizza is sliced in a grid pattern, as opposed to the typical triangular pizza slice, which means the slices are very inconsistent in size. The sauce (dipping and as pizza sauce) is more tomato paste in consistency and flavor, so a bit acidic with some sweetness. The cheese is plastic-like in consistency, but might have been due to cooling off driving home. The toppings aren't bad. The chicken alfredo was pretty much chicken alfredo without the pasta. The supreme pizza was a bit heavy on the green olives, though the sausage was pretty good. The crust is thin (but not cracker thin) but doesn't have much flavor or developed gluten to add to the pizza, so the crust ends up mostly a topping delivery vehicle. Some portions of the crust edge was actually scorched, which imparted a very acrid/bitter flavor to the pizza and doesn't help with the overall pizza experience.
The mac and cheese is as advertised -- penne pasta in alfredo sauce with cheese covering the whole thing and then baked. The alfredo sauce was also pretty watery. While mac and cheese is technically an alfredo, this pasta dish wasn't bad.... but it didn't really hit the mac and cheese spot for me, unfortunately.
Probably the best item ordered was the garlic cheese bread, as there was a good amount of garlic flavor. However, it's just thickly sliced toast (about 2 inches thick), so not much crust to enjoy the bread with, and it's fairly pricey for what is offered.
Sorry guys. The Pizza is more or less passable, but there's better to be had in the TC. The only difference between the pizza here and LaRosa's is that the tomato sauce doesn't give me major heartburn after eating the pizza or the sauce. 2-2.5/5 stars