Richard Wheeler
Google
Restaurant reviews are tough, so many people have so many different palates and cultural tastes that are vast and varied. I've known cultures and tastes from nearly a dozen forms growing up. I've had amazing Jewish Deli food, Chinese, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and a vast amount of samplings of European, classic Italian and varieties of Indian, American Indian, etc. etc... So when I hear of a place that is the "best pizza I've had in Denver" that's a place I have to check out.
We arrived at Redeemer Pizza on a Thursday evening around 6pm, we were seated immediately. The bar is unusual with small batch and family distillery libations, definitely a plus with me.. Within 3 minutes a server came over and filled our water glasses and placed a menu on the table.
We decided to see what the pizza's were like since that's their claim to fame. My wife ordered a basic cheese with spinach and kalamata olives; I ordered a sausage and peppers pizza to see how well those flavours blend. After about 20 minutes of prep time the pizza's arrived, on the table there was parm and red pepper flake and the server then brought over their dill ranch for dipping the crusts. We dug in, the pizza's were cooked but the crusts were just a little over done with black areas contrasted with perfected brown. Usually this is indicative of an oven that is too hot, 800 deg or more, and it's a bit of a fad lately to "quick cook" pizza's in ovens of this type somewhere around 3 minutes or less. Traditional New York style pizza ovens run about 600 deg and cook time is about 4-6 minutes, this temp and time gives a very even cook with little chance of the charring that was apparent on these pies.
The cheese was quite good, and had just the right amount of flavours of each of the 4 cheeses. The crust was exquisite and I had pretty much expected that since these dough's were slow risen in a chamber with a sour dough "mother". The crust was flavourful, light and had the right amount of crunch on the bottom with a very beautiful bread chew above the crust line. Definitely one of the finest crusts I've had on a pizza since leaving New York City 30 years ago.
The sausage on my pizza was quite good, high quality, and had the Italian spices in just enough subtlety to give it the right amount of Neopolitano feel. When I tasted the peppers I was a bit surprised, I had basically expected a yellow pepper that had been either long term pickled or at least given an extensive vinegar bath, what it turned out to be was classic Greek pepperoncini. In all honesty I was a little disappointed that it wasn't really spelled out as Greek Pepperoncini on the menu, it almost seems a little disingenuous to give it such a name when it's really just basic pepperoncini. They seemed to be good quality though. On my wife's pizza was the kalamata olives and spinach, the spinach presented itself as fairly fresh but the olives were strange, I couldn't put finger on it at first when my wife said, "these are NOT kalamatas" and indeed she was right. The olives had all the taste of a good quality black olive but they were certainly NOT kalamatas. Another disappointment and to be honest really took away from our experience. The best flavour besides the crust was the dill ranch, it was delightful and would make an amazing dressing for any good classic salad.
Our meal for two pizza's and a glass of wine for my wife came to about $75.00, overall I have to say I was fairly disappointed in the experience despite the positives of the good service, the dough/crust and the amazing dill ranch. While the crust was amazing, the cheese was good and the sausage was excellent the rest of the toppings were quite a bit less than expected.
I honestly can't really recommend this place for a good pizza.
Updated August of 2025. I've noticed that there are a lot of answers from the owner on some of these reviews. I've also noticed that the items on the menu that weren't as suggested on the menu have changed. It would be nice to see the owners response to this.