Pizza Dynamo

I came here on a whim cause I wanted some food quickly and saw they offered pizza slices. I'm glad I did! Plenty of choices, almost too hard to pick, but settled on a couple slices that were heated up and served quickly. Cacio e pepe, wow, I've never had anything like it and want more of it, creamy and cheesey and peppery. Vodka lasagna pie, yum yum! And the house dynamo pie, solid. The birthday cake gelato was pretty much my perfect birthday cake flavored ice cream too.

This is a great addition to downtown Jax. The pizza was great, though, they only have bottled soft drinks. They should have a fountain drink dispenser. Otherwise, the cost of refills if high. If you are with your family, get a 2 liter. That said, as mentioned, the pizza was great and they have bountiful variety of toppings and styles of pies. They also have gelato. The decor is nice. The bars are technically separate, one of accessible from the outside and the other is a part of a large sport bar. Very cool place with old school video game and pinball machines.

Revised July 25: Stopped by for lunch today. We enjoyed this place past time, but this time we were LOVED it! The slices/pizza keeps getting better and better, and it was awesome to see so many people in for lunch on a weekday. Service was fast, and everyone was very nice. I cannot stress how exciting it is to have another amazing food spot downtown! Original post: We happened across this place today when they had their soft opening. Got several slices of pizza (both for dine in and to go). Was very happy with the food we got, especially for the price. Staff were all very friendly and we had a minimal wait time. We’re excited for them to do their full menu launch next week. As a downtown resident, it’s very exciting to see new restaurants opening up, and Pizza Dynamo is a welcomed and celebrated addition to what downtown has to offer!!

Had a great dinner here tonight. We got slices of traditional cheese and a grandmas slice (which good luck ever finding one of those in Florida. Sicilian sure but grandmas?!), and Caesar salads. I know everyone always describes themselves with “I’m a pizza snob”, “I’m from New York”, etc etc, and I fill those descriptions too but seriously. These guys are doing pizza right. This is the best pizza I’ve had in Jacksonville and it’s not even close. Thin, well-cooked pizzas, flavorful sauce, just enough oil to leave a good shine on your plate, and all the right toppings on the table too. Jamal from the kitchen came out to check on us and chat for a bit, and it was a pleasure getting to do so. I thought he was the owner, but nope! Just a dude that cares about what he’s putting out there and should be proud of it. This is going to be my new pizza spot, I hope you give it a try and make it yours too. Or maybe don’t, that way there’s more pizza for me?

Ordered a cheese pizza, pizza was 9/10, it was huge & came with fresh basil on top, which was nice. Didn’t realize that the pizza shop was connected to the bar on the corner, it was very loud due to the game going on, so we sat at a table around the corner and the noise wasn’t too bad. They had garlic, oregano and parm shakers on the table, which reminded me of up north. Employees were also very nice. Definitely would return to try a different pie.

We stopped here for lunch while walking to sweet Pete's. The pizza by the slice was nice and the pizza was very good. Even the kids enjoyed their pizza. A rarity for sure. $62 for 3 slices, one 7" sandwich, 3 bags of snack size chips, 2 bottled sodas and one order of garlic bread. A bit expensive. The marinara with the garlic bread was super spicy and we all were shocked and didn't like it.

Ate here for new Year's Eve, honestly the pizza it is 💯% damn good!! Probably the best I've had in Jacksonville. Cool atmosphere inside and all employees were friendly. Definitely bringing the family back regularly..

Found this place on the One Bite app and it had a high score and great reviews. Doesn’t disappoint! Pizza has a nice char and flavor is on point. Good thin crust that holds up and doesn’t flop. I’ll be back.

Stopped by Pizza Dynamo again recently for a Too Good to Go offering. We were waited on immediately and they had our order ready to go. Even though they were getting ready to close, it's always a fun atmosphere and I was excited to try some pizza I hadn't previously. Tonight, white mushroom pizza, pepperoni and Jalepeno and cheese pizza slices. All of them hit, really good white pizza and I was truly impressed with their standard cheese. It was fantastic. We'll be back, we did pick up, but I encourage you to dine in. I highly recommend this relatively new pizza gem in Jacksonville.

My actual rating would be a 3.2 First off. This is not NY pizza so just stop with that. A picture of the Yankees on the wall will not convince me. I'd rather they showed some pride in Jacksonville bc for Jacksonville it's pretty good pizza. Don't love the crust but good sauce and cheese. Now the real problem, which is fixable, the service. Besides being super unenthusiastic when taking your order it took over twenty minutes to heat up a slice that was sitting on the counter behind the glass. 20 minutes. Also that would never happen in NY. Second issue; I ordered a beer at the counter bar. The young server looked like she was too young to serve but she sure had no experience to pour a beer from a tap. Think all foam. That is unacceptable. Will I go back? Maybe but I won't go out of my way for sure.

Found this place on the One Bite app, which had a high score and great reviews. Doesn't disappoint! Pizza has a nice char, and flavor is on point. Good thin crust that holds up and doesn't flop. I am a little confused; however, the menu is Italian-inspired, and the decor, with cassette tapes and 1980s boom boxes, creates a different vibe. Then there's the Spanish music throughout, and the sports on all the TV screens. The personality conflict is maddening.

Pizza Dynamo was a pleasant surprise! We decided to go for lunch last minute. It is connected to Pour Taproom. It's spaciou, you can get slices or whole pies. We had their pepperoni. Their slices are big and delicious. I really liked their sauce. Not too acidic. The crust was nice and crisp. Stop by if your downtown.

Slow slow slow and my zillion dollar calzone burned. The cashier was polite. @@@@@&@@&@@&@&@

Legit NY pizza. Great pies, good service, fun spot.. The recipes were brought down south from NY, this is the spot. My new go to pizza place in the city

This place is soooo great ! Wow! I can't wait to go back already ! Pizza was amazing and delish ! For sure in my top favorite now! I love that you can just get a slice so you can get more than one ! Prices were great ! Workers were kind and service was very quick despite being very busy !I was so happy to see they were so busy on a Monday ! The vibes were so cool, fresh but retro ?! I can't wait to try out Pour, that is attached next door !

What a great concept! A pizza joint and a pour your own alcohol combo spot. We went on the alcohol side and were able to order from a QR code which included both pizza as well as additional items. Pizza came out fairly quick. However, all the food came out at different times rather than the whole tables at the same time. I got two slices. The best one being the mushroom pizza, honestly it might've been the best slice of mushroom I've ever had. The hot honey pizza had a bit much honey. Like it was dripping off and I had to wash my hands afterwards. I would definitely go back if I was in the area and needed something quick to eat. Downtown street parking available. No charge on weekends. Place was packed on the Saturday evening we went. Fun vibes!

I did my order online because we were going to be arriving 30 minutes before they closed. It was ready as soon as I walked in. Very friendly service. I love the online ordering option. Took the pizzas next door to Pour to enjoy a few beers and conversation with them. The pizza is definitely the closest to NY style I've had in Jacksonville. Thin but not soggy crust. Tasty toppings. Will definitely be returning. I easily found street parking but it was 8:30p on a Wednesday. At busier times, just park in the Vystar garage.

Ok so here's the skinny one the 2nd day of the soft opening. This place was slammed! The staff hustled as hard as they could to get orders out in a timely fashion unfortunately the unexpected swarm of people overwhelmed them. That said, they kept a positive attitude, rallied and continued to bring out QUALITY food. Jacksonville asked for it and now they have it. A fantastic pizza place located in the heart of downtown. We ordered 4 pies. Cheese, Margherita, Pepperoni and Arthur (sausage and pepperoni w/ ricotta). Each pie was cooked to a delicious crisp. The undercarriage was perfection. The sauce wasn't too sweet or too savory. In my opinion it had the perfect zest. Overall the slices gives the vibe of the original Patsy's on 118th in East Harlem ( IYKYK ). DEFINITELY DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS PLACE!!

It is hard to mess up pizza, but Pizza Dynmo certainly didn't improve on pizza or stand out. The sauce and cheese lacked much flavor.

We came up here to try some pizza. We got here when no one was in yet. As the only customer you would think there was a quick turn over. 30 minutes later I did not have my pizza. People that came in after us did not have their food also. Rhe kitchen is spending so much time making pizzas for the attached restaurant and bar. They forgot about their customers. If this is their business model. They will not last long.

Was kind of disappointed. The pizza tasted stale. The crust was very chewy. I feel they let their slices sit out for too long. I will go back to try a freshly made pizza. But this visit wasn't it.

Walk here for lunch. The wait wasn't long and the service was good. I got one slice. It was very good. Can't say it was the best I have had, but it was good. The crust was thin just like I like it. Not a lot of toppings. I would definitely stop in again for a quick lunch.

I tried to place a large catering order on their website. It was not working... And I could not find a phone number to call them to place an order directly. So they lost out on a $600+ order due to lack of communication.

They ran out of pizza dough! We arrived today at 12:30, sat in the Pour side (which is a different restaurant focused on beer and where you can order pizza from Dynamo). Our order of five pizzas went through at about 1pm, an hour after dynamo opened. The app said it would take about 20 minutes. After about thirty minutes an employee came to tell us it would be another fifteen minutes. We had some little kids with us so that was annoying, but we were a big group so whatever. But about twenty minutes later (so, nearly an hour after we ordered) someone came to tell us that we would not receive our pizza because Dynamo RAN OUT OF DOUGH. But it wasn't even someone from Dynamo who told us, they made a regular employee from Pour -- not even a manager -- deliver the news. To their credit, Pour quickly made (pretty good) food for us and gave us a discount, but it's just absolutely unacceptable for Dynamo to running out of dough an hour after opening, not telling us for over 45 minutes after our order, and then not even telling us themselves.

I work across the street and was hopeful this restaurant would improve, but after eating here four times since it opened, each visit has been a disappointment. Today, it took 32 minutes from the time I ordered to get just two slices of pizza. The toppings were pitiful; although the slices are a good size, the amount of toppings is seriously lacking. They overcook the slices, resulting in what feels more like toast with minimal cheese, a hint of sauce, and four pepperoni per slice. It's simply not worth it. I've finally given up on this pizza place. My recommendation is to walk the three blocks to Casa Dora and avoid this place.

This is the second time we went back as the first time we never got to eat cause they ran out of what we ordered and had to refund us. This time we went in optimistic and ordered a whole pie based on reviews. We ordered the vodka lasagna pie, a slice of cacio Pepe and garlic knots. So here's the run down. The cacio Pepe pie was nothing it described. Tasted just like a plain cheese slice it was crispy tho and hot. More than I can say about the whole pie. Words like vodka and lasagna evoke a certain expectation and none were met. It could have been cardboard honestly and for a 30$!pizza I would expect fresh meat to be used. It def wasn't. We barely finished a piece each. Left most on the plate and left the whole pie on the table.the garlic knots were most flavorful thing we had but they were braids not knots but did have butter and cheesy flavor with a marinara. We left after I finished my split of Prosecco. And left it all on the table. Sadly we won't give it another try. It's sad cause it def has potential but. Considering we did t eat a 1/4 of what we ordered no one asked why or if things were ok or anything. We had to ask for flatware and I could t tell you who was in charge in there if you asked.

Half hot honey pepperoni half sausage. Great toppings but the bottom was badly burned. The service was great but can't eat the pizza

I took my wife there yesterday, a Thursday night, because I'm a fan of NY Style pizza, and so is she. Plus, I have a friend who is from NY, and wanted to see if this might be worthy of his approved list. I think trying by the slice like we did would be better during the daytime where the the slices are not sitting in the case as long. They had some business last night, but we felt re-heating them hurts the texture. My Pizza Dynamo slice's crust (the "pizza bones") was just too hard, and the slice was cooling off too fast before I could finish it. The Stracciatella was cold and was cooling off the pizza as well. Plus, the Mike's Hot Honey; I couldn't taste any heat from it at all. Did they water it down? The NY Pie Slice I also got was not as hard, since I had to wait for that pie to come out of the oven to get a slice. My wife got the Fungi, and the Vodka Lasagna slices. She enjoyed the Fungi much more. She loves mushrooms, though and I don't like them. Though we know Truffle Oil is a scam. Anthony Bourdain once said "is a 'horrible' ingredient that's 'about as edible as Astroglide and made from the same stuff." But she didn't seem to mind. She loves Truffles. Overall, the slices are pretty thin crust, which I like. They had good amounts of char. I think the key is to either ask what's still in the oven and order that so you can get a fresh slice, and perhaps coming earlier in the day instead of almost 8pm like we did. Or, order a whole pie so they have to cook one. But we were just two people. The place is very spacious. There is an upper level, which I went up there just to see it. The music is much louder up there, though, and I like to be able to have a conversation with who I'm with rather than having to yell. And as others have said, they need to expand their non-alcoholic drink menu, as I don't drink alchohol. We both got bottled tea. I'll give the place another chance. Is it the best NY style Pizza I've had, probably not. Price wise, it's still pretty expensive by the slice. 4 slices and two drinks and a 15% tip ran us over $30. We could have ordered a whole pie for less. The staff were friendly. The atmosphere was decent, but there was this ongoing beeping happening near the front that no-one seemed concerned in the least about shutting off, so that was a bit annoying. But I consider the place a welcome addition to decent pizza places that aren't the trash chains.

Very impressed with Pizza Dynamo! For starters, loved the fun vibe inside. So many types of fun and unique pizzas to choose from! They were out of fig and bacon, but luckily I had backup choices - the fungi was delicious and so was the dynamo. Delicious thin crust, tasty homemade sauce, and special dab of burrata - absolutely heavenly. They also have gelato which I wanted to try but by the time I was done with my pizza the line was too long to get back into. My only constructive feedback is 1. Have a separate line for gelato 2. Have more soda options (currently just coke or sprite out of bottles in refrigerated case). Parking is limited to the street so consider walking if you're already downtown or across the river. Price is reasonable (for 2 slices and sprite, $15) Line gets long after 11:30 so come early and get ready to have a delicious experience! I definitely plan to come back for more delicious slices and gelato

Walked over after the rally & protest at the courthouse today. We arrived before the crowd appeared and ordered some slices, garlic knots (twists) and two Coke Zero bottles. Fun and bright inside with tables, booths, and bar seating available. I ordered a slice of Fungi Pie and it was so yummy. Growing up in NY, this slice was perfectly cooked, thin and crispy, with just the right amount of char on the bottom. The owner stopped by our table and mentioned the mushroom is surprisingly popular. I said it's a great option and my favorite topping. I love mushroom pizza, but this one took the mushrooms to an elevated level. The braised cremini mushrooms were so delicious. I would have like a bit more ricotta spread over the slice, but otherwise, it was a perfect slice. My husband enjoyed both his slices- pepperoni and Arthur Avenue. We also ordered the garlic knots, they are braided and very large. We enjoyed them both as they came and dipped in tomato sauce. I am very particular about sauce and this sauce was awesome. Love this new pizza option downtown and will definitely return soon!

Tried Pizza Dynamo Wednesday evening and thought the place looked good - 4 TVs by the bar showing sports and very clean. We ordered garlic knots and a pie - garlic knots left something to be desired (we suspect they were made earlier since we came in the evening) but the pizza we received was very good. As others have mentioned, I do wish they had a soda fountain. The bottle we got was flat but when we let the staff know, they were on it and let us get a replacement (which was perfect) and brought a fresh cup of ice to the table. I have no doubt we'll be back

The pizza was delicious as was the pretzel. We sat in the pour area and ordered from the QR on the table. Family friendly and my kids and I loved it. They put basil on the cheese pizza, but one large piece on each slice, which is easy to remove for any kids who don't want that

Pizza was fresh, crispy, and flavorful. The service was good even though they messed up my order.

Ordered the cheese and it was average and also ordered the Spicy pizza. Spicy pizza was probably down there with the worst five and pretty much inedible. I hope I am wrong but the peppers tasted jarred with an excessive amount of grease. I had one bite of the actual pizza and it was gross and ate no more and a few bites of the crust which was good. Three bites of the entire pizza and I was done. In perspective I would never serve the spicy, let alone charge people for it. This is far from the thought of a dynamo but I guess we can all dream, can't we.

I work downtown Jax and saw this place was open. If I could give this place no stars, I would. My slice of pizza was burnt and hard. The toppings didn't even cover the pizza. I paid $8.25 for one slice (with tip) and could have gotten two slices and a drink for the same price at another downtown pizza place. This place was a complete waste of a lunch break and money. Will not be returning.

10 out of 10 pie! Exactly what I expected out of a NY style pizza. Ingredients were spot on & under carriage was thin & crispy. Going straight to the top of my list for pizza places. You'll regret not trying it sooner after you taste it. Two thumbs up! Bravo Dynamo!

Felt like we were in New York eating this pizza! Stoked to have this spot in downtown Jax.

The service here is great! The pizza is amazing and the vibe is on point! We love this place for lunch and for dinner and drinks!

If you go with no expectations you will be fine. The pizza is ok, thin crust which is good, but it's definitely not close to NY. The slices are not that big, and at time the slices have been slightly burnt, or extra crispy. Staff is nice, but twice I had to ask for the status of my order.

Management was not interested in addressing the issue of warming/ grilling our subs. The sub bun was too thick and cold. When asked can they heat the subs for us, we were told "no we are not going to do that ". The manager didn't come address our concerns and sent another person over to our table to speak to us. The dismissiveness of our request was just that, DISMISSED. We also ordered jerk chicken egg rolls and they were not good neither. It tasted like the oil they used was old and they just opened within the last two weeks. I would NOT recommend this restaurant. Until they/the manager can be more compassionate or at least willing to hear for himself what our issue was. Instead of addressing us he set down and had a bite to eat a few booths down from ours. Cannot speak on the ambiance because without good food or management being in order. it doesn't matter about the ambience. The best thing about our visit was the counter hostess that took our order.

I must say it how I see it. The pizza was great. Easy 8/10. But unfortunately the establishment needs some basic operating principles. How is it that a pizzeria had NO drinks? No bottled or soft drinks and when I asked for water, I was told go to the bar and ask. We were a party of 6 with kids and I only stayed because I was already there. Even though pizza was good, I will not be returning.

Coming from Chicago I'm very picky about my thin crust. (Chicago locals don't eat deep dish) and this pizza is legit. Cool spot downtown and connects inside to the new Pour Taproom.

Pizza undercarriage was good, held its shape and perfect for folding. Liked the staff working. Will return!

If you're not going to stay open until 10 on Friday nights, please don't advertise that you do. Showed up and the doors were already locked.