Victorio’s Pizza Shop

This pizza place has the potential of becoming a 5 star place with some changes. The sauce is too tart and they need to use a better quality cheese. It has a good taste but why settle with good when you can be excellent. The service was good. The people were friendly I asked for extra sauce and it had a good quantity.

Great pizza, it’s hard to find, wish they delivered. They would get all of our business, and that’s a lot. How do you not deliver in a college town?

Again i am bias, and miss this place immensely! This is one of the BEST Pizza’s you will ever have! :Seriously!” Iv’e had their pizza’s since i was little and my parents since hell forever! LOL This place is authentic Italy in a Bag. Literally! No Pizza Boxes they puff the Beg over the pizza and you carry it home Their toppings are i believ anything you could want in a good THin crust Sicilian pizza, the smell the taste you swear you was in a little café in Venice hearing the locals singing LOL, but seriously its Soooo Good! It had been a while since having it but i was home not too long agao and we ordered to family size which is HUGE and all my family ate and was full and satisfied! Thier dough is flipped and their ingredients are fresh. Nothing has changed since they opened too many many years ago, the only things is faces have changed but they carry on the ethics of the original Owners and family! Well Done Victorio’s You can never be duplicated nor outdone. The only point that would be a consideration is the pizza is not cheap but i say this its well worth its pricing for quality and freshness, and above all the service!

Best pizza for 30 yrs! I live in Brecksville and miss it terribly. Perfect spices, mushroom my fave. Usually thin enough I can eat a lg by myself.

The best pizza in Alliance. While all the chains are falling all over themselves to find a trendy gimmick, Victorio’s keeps it simple: thin crust pizza. If you don’t like thin crust try it anyway. The combination of herbs and seasonings along with fresh toppings is the greatest ever.
I’ve been in the area 20 years and their pizza has stood the test of time-​consistently delicious, and done on time.
Victorio’s is in a neighborhood that has seen better days. Don’t let that get in the way of picking up a fresh pie. They only do call in/​pick up and there’s no place to eat there unless you want to eat in your car!

A great pizza shop. Alliance is lucky to have it in the forest of chain pizza places around here. Second best in my opinion only to Napoli in town, and maybe third best when the former Pisanello’s was in operation under the late Mafalda Pisanello. Victorio’s is just about the oldest family-​run pizza place still open in town (though not under the original family anymore, but the Italian-​American Marazza family now). It is a round pizza served with a cracker-​thin crust with square-​cut pieces in the St. Louis/​Chicago style known as party-​cut, so everyone grabs for the edge pieces first. The paper bags the pizzas are served in are nostalgic. Carry-​out only though. All in all a great value for the pie.

I’ve been eating Victorio’s pizza my entire life. It’s easily the best pizza in stark county, perhaps northeastern Ohio. Whenever I come home to Alliance, the first thing I do is order a Victorio’s pizza, unless of course there’s already one waiting for me.

I enjoy finding new places that I’ve never been, especially quaint unusual shops and such. In a online search I came across a pizza place called Victorio’s… now to be completely honest the info I found was mostly posted by locals and yahoo reviewers– but sounded promising. The info I found claimed that the joint had classic brick ovens and AMAZING pizza. After making the trip out– I found the truth somewhat different…
First off, when deciding to visit this pizza shop– I strongly recommend you bring a weapon of your choosing to give you that «safe» feeling. I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Alliance, but there are certainly some neighborhoods that leave ‘something to be desired’ to say the least. We followed the map off the beaten path into a seedy little neighborhood– certain that I had the directions wrong. However when rounding a corner, little Victorio’s peeked bashfully out from under an awning, complete with two parking spots right on the street in front of it’s doors. We drove past thinking that there must be an additional place to park, and eat– maybe a second building or something… no. With the dark looming and sure that yellow eyes of all the zombie movies I had ever seen were leering from behind dilapidated houses, we parked and went in.
The inside of the pizza shop was warm and cozy, so cozy in fact that there were 4 whole chairs to sit on while waiting for your order… I had come with the impression that there was at least a few tables to eat at. Three boys hand tossed the dough to a perfect round on the right and the owner watched the counter and manned the very modern stoves. Now I must say the interior was cute, and homey… and the toppings selection they offered was quite good. We placed our orders and took a seat to wait, since waiting in the car in this neighborhood seemed to be tempting fate. Several people came and went, all seemed to be upstanding citizens and really nice people, nodding and smiling or carrying on small talk with us while they waited. The pictures of the original owner (I assume the current owner’s Grandfather) and the Vicorios family adorned the wall. We sat and watched the boys tossing pizzas, filling orders and listening to a ball game on the tv perched precariously above their heads.
Finally our pizza was complete and we paid (cash or check only). The owner packed the pizzas in paper bags, and we stepped out the door– into the waiting presence of one smelly greasy man. He asked for change through yellowed teeth. Keeping our heads down and quickly unlocking the car, we told him we really had no cash… having just paid for the pizza with our last check. We got into the car as the owner came out and in a typical Italian manor stood up to the junkie and told him he could not stand out front his shop and harass his customers. As we drove away, watching the owner go back in, and the dirty little man saunter off– my heart went out to the owner and his family. A family owned business that has treated people to their trade in this same location since 1956. The filth of this neighborhood grew up around them! I’m sure in it’s day this was a working class neighborhood, complete with mom and pop who worked for an honest living. Suffice to say– it is that no more! I would never take my kids there, even just to pick up a phoned in order!
Back to the food… we had a 40 minute drive home, which proved to be challenging balancing two pizza’s on cardboard rounds packed in paper bags. I watched helplessly as the pizza’s rapidly cooled, knowing that first steaming hot bite is what makes or breaks a pizza! Once home we tore into the wrapping and uncovered beautiful thin crust pizza’s that still smelled divine! The generosity of the toppings and quality of ingredients shown through… I just wish it had been at least a little warm.
All in all, great pizza, terrible packaging and a very sorry location made the decision for me… My quest for great pizza will not be completed by Victorio’s. The acid indigestion I would get from the fear of having to go pick up my pizza while carrying a weapon for safety, ruins any great tasting concoction!