Papa Ray’s Pizza & Wings

My husband and stepson tried their rib tips with fries lunch special and I had the Greek Islands grinder. Everything was ok, but nothing special. The men didn’t particularly care for the smokey flavor of the rib sauce so we probably won’t be back. It’s a shame, because their prices are reasonable and I felt the staff was very frendly.

Love getting lunch from this place.
They do delivery and with in an hour, but worth it.
We have orderd their famous rib tips, pizza, chicken wings and the beefy cheesy calzone. The cuality of food is really good. It always tastes fresh and of great flavor. This is one of the our favorite places to get our lunch from.
Portions are quite generous.
Prices are average.
Definitely recommend.

This place rocks! Ordered a cheese calzone and rib tips. The rib tips had a lot of meat and arrived piping hot. The calzone box was wet with grease, but ohhhh so good. They put tons of cheese on it, and the large is HUGE. Both the guy who answered the phone and the guy who delivered were also really nice, I’m not used to placing an order to somebody who genuinely seemed happy to be there. We will be back to try those wings!

Pizza was OK. Skimpy with the cheese. Payed for extra cheese. Didn’t see it. Asked that the pizza be uncut. They cut it anyway.
Hot wings were tough and very under cooked. I shouldn’t have to cook delivery food.
Customer service? Their «order now» web site has no place for coupons. The nitwit I spoke to on the phone made me repeat everything 3 or 4 time. Then the price was $ 5 more than my estimate. After reviewing the order with the nitwit, I was transferred to a manager who started over. Suddenly the bill was within a dollar of my estimate.
This was our first order from them. If they had the best pizza in the history of food I would not order again just because of the aggravation. Get your act together or go home.
I see no reason to ever
call again.

Have a serious update with the MONSTER slice deal.
Been to the city and had the slice deal when out there a few times since and the quality of the pizza at the Carol Stream location is just better all around. They also charge 50¢ extra for the Fuze iced tea that is so damn good with the slice. The times the slices weren’t on point as they usually are should not detract that the slices are damn good when done right and with the consistent standard that I’m used to at the Carol Stream location. It’s not as big as before and then you needed to buy an extra pop. But it’s still fairly big slice even though I might have to head back later for another slice.
This location is easily the best of all the Papa Ray’s locations in Chicago and the vicinity. And by far has the best slices and slice deal in the far western suburbs when done to their usual standard.
If you need a good slice. This is the ONLY place around 10 mile radius that the slices are good enough to warrant selling slices and not having to commit to a whole pie.

The wings get thumbs up from all my boys! We used the trusty Unilocal app to locate some wings when everyone here was dying for some. Of course we had to get a pizza too and a salad for me.
The pizza was good but still didn’t beat our favorite spot. The wings were FABULOUS said the boys. Good size and plenty of flavor. I got a salad with feta cheese, olives and artichoke hearts. It was big and great.
So not a home run here but a great triple and we will be getting more wings soon!

I was attracted to try this pizza place after receiving a coupon in the mail.
Today I found my self driving in the area with a friend and I told him that I had just received a menu with coupons and noticed that this place had a few locations in the city.
I also informed them that the place had pretty good lunch specials. So we gave it a shot. The food was ok nothing special and too hot, must of been straight out of the oven. However, the problem wasnt the ok food, but rather the lady working the front counter. Let’s just say she has absolutely no customer service skills. She doesn’t know how to affectedly communicate with customers. She would swear and simply act like their was no customers in the building. While we were eating our lunch she approached us and said are you guys done with this trash? I guess that was our clue to leave so we said yes and left. Will I return back? Probably not unless they have a really good deal and its delivery.

Great pizza. Dough was perfect, ingredients fresh, and the cheese melted to a golden brown. Both the cashier and delivery driver were awesome as well. I would recommend Papa Ray’s to anyone. Can’t wait to try their wings on Tuesday!!!

The slices of pizza here are so big that you could use to as a Jedi cloak.
I was in the area one day & was not quite sure where to eat & some how I ventures off of the beaten path & ended up here at Papa Ray’s. This restaurant is in a little strip mall center in the middle of a neighborhood.
Pulling up I noticed that they had a few little benches set up outside so that you could have the option to eat outside. When I walked in the first thing I noticed was that the inside of the restaurant was very clean & updated. They had a big selection of drinks & sodas in the cooler & they even had some of the best hot sauce for sale. I was recommended to try the $ 5 slice of pizza. I have had a $ 5 slice of pizza at other restaurants & it was just a normal slice of pizza. However the slice of pizza that they give you here could possibly be used as a blanket because it was a gigantic portion & then some. The most important part though is that the pizza was awesome. It wasn’t just a big slice of pizza, it was a big slice of pizza that was good.
Another one of their weekly specials is they discount their wings. The wings here are also delicious. They say that the wings are award winning & I actually believe that because they were very good. The staff here has always been nice & friendly when I have come in.
Overall the food here was delicious, the service is good & the place is clean. I would definitely come here again if I was in the area.

Delicious pizza! Huge and inexpensive… :)

I enjoy there pizza but, I prefer there slices they taste the best. They have a good deal giant slice for 5 and a pop.

I have never had such horrible customer service. Our pizza was supposed to be delivered at 1AM it waa not delivered till 3AM the pizza and the breadsticks were cold. We had to call multiple times to make sure it was still coming. Then when it took two phone calls to get ahold of someone to let them know the food was cold and i wanted a refund he told me only the manager could Morgan. I called the next day twice Morgan was not in and then Paige told my husband he would refund the card on monday. It is now Thursday the card was not refunded and I have called everyday this week asking for the manager and leaving a message. This is the worst business and management I am so fed up with their lack of service. Never again !!! The manager has yet to call back or apologize for this service or refund.

My cashier Roman was awesome. Great sense of humor. Food was great as well. Definitely recommended.

Decided to try this new place out with my daughter sick with the flu, and needing some food for the weekend.
Even for the $ 20 Grubhub special, it was terrible. I can”t remember the last time I ate food this bad. The cheese pizza tasted like cardboard, and I barely made it through 2 rib tips before throwing them in the trash. I can’t even come up with a comparison for how awful they were.
Maybe you’ll have better luck, but I wouldn’t count on it. I’ll never order from here again.

My office received a flyer in the mail this week. On Fridays we place a large group order so we took a chance on Papa Ray’s.
The online ordering system is one of the best I’ve used. Very intuitive and easy to work with. Another plus is that you can request napkins, paper plates and forks/​knives. That’s a nice touch.
We had originally planned for delivery but opted instead to pick up the order. Our driver said that he went to pick the order up and was called back into the restaurant three times for items they forgot to include. Upon reaching the office and unbagging, we find we were short a lunch special, sauce for the boneless wings and bleu cheese for that same wings order. We called and reordered the missing items which we received within 30 minutes along with a frozen small chocolate cake.
Overall the impressions of the food we ordered was marginal. The mac & cheese (small portion) was enough for two and was the highest rated item we ordered. This was the only item that any of us would order again. The grinders were fair but greasy/​wet and drippy, the ribs tips ok, the monster pizza slice (when it finally arrived) lives up to its name and was really big, but unfortunately the comments I heard were bland and ‘like Little Ceasers’. We cannot give a good review of the boneless wings since they didn’t come with their needed accompanying items. The chicken fingers were dry and cold. The lunch special prices were decent and included fries and a can of soda (coca-​cola) which was awesome, but the fries weren’t too warm when they arrived.
Unfortunately, this is not a place that has earned our business or probably even another try based on this experience.

Pizza, wings, and ribs were amazing. And Pam’s customer service is amazing. She makes this place a hit!

Delivered to me in west Chicago. People were nice pizza was awesome. And in all great first experience.

I received a flyer in the mail from Papa Ray’s a month or so back and the food looked so good I had to try them out. So I ordered a large pizza online recently and requested extra cheese and peppers. The order arrived in a reasonable time though the delivery guy forgot to include the extra cheese and peppers. In the grand scheme of things, it’s a minor detail but sometimes it’s those little things that you remember that may make tip the scale in your favor or drop it down.
The pizza itself was okay but it didn’t completely wow me. Maybe the peppers and extra cheese might’ve made the difference. Lou’s has nothing to worry about just yet. I may one day check out the ribs but I’m not in any hurry to do so.

This is a good option for pizza in Carol Stream, especially if you’re interested in a pie-​cut hand-​tossed style pizza that isn’t from a gross commercial chain. They are relatively inexpensive compared to other places and offer some great coupons. My favorite topping to get here is sausage. The service is fast and friendly. The pizza itself is delicious and reminds me of a pizza place from college so I keep going back, great buttery crust, a nice tasty sauce, and generous portions of cheese always cooked perfect.
I docked one star because there’s always teenagers and/​or sketchy characters hanging outside of the pizza place and a few times I feel like I’ve walked into bad situations going on.

On a frosty Monday afternoon at my office, it was so cold that de-​icer spray used to get ice off my windshield froze upon application. It was so cold many people at my place of work were unable to come in due to car problems or having been inadvertently frozen like the main character in that Pauly Shore movie called Encino Man. Rather than wait for everyone to defrost or even attempt to go somewhere for lunch, the few of us brave souls who managed to be productive enough to come in opted to order out for Pizza to be delivered. Our first choice was not open, so we had a menu for a new place called Papa Ray’s and decided to give it a try.
Now I’m quite familiar with places with the name of Ray’s pizza. Be it «Original Ray’s Pizza», «Famous Ray’s Pizza», or even «Not so famous unoriginal Ray’s Pizza» places with names including the words «Ray’s Pizza» are extremely popular in another part of the country. So my expectation of this place was that it would be like New York style pizza from one of the many «Rays» without all the rudeness, pompousness and giant rodents everywhere. We placed our order and it arrived in a fair amount of time, in fact quite quick considering the awful weather conditions.
We ordered 3 pizzas, a vege only pizza for people with bad taste and/​or pork free dietary customs, a meat pizza with sausage and peperoni, and a sausage, green pepper and mushroom pizza. The style of pizza here is a hand tossed thicker style, more like New York style pizza than most Chicagoland Pizzerias, but at the same time bearing a reasonable similarity to the pizza at Domino’s or Pizza Hut. So how was the pizza you might ask? Well I tried one slice of the meat pizza and one slice of the sausage, mushroom and green pepper pizza. The good news here is the quality of the ingredients particularly the sausage was excellent. The bad is that the sauce was sparsely applied and watery. The dough wasn’t bad, not particularly flavorful but held together well. The cheese was a little greasy and thin after cooking.
Overall my thoughts on Papa Ray’s is that it’s different than a lot of other Chicago style pizza places. I wouldn’t recommend it over your favorite place, but it’s better than most of the big national chains and isn’t specializing in deep dish, stuffed or super thin Chicago style varieties of pizza. I’ll rate it as average and while I’m not in any rush to order again, I wouldn’t be opposed to it.
Dough, in here, in pizza here
Ray, is Papa to his son.
Me, I ate pizza myself
Far, deliveries they run
So, so worth trying so I said
LA, is it fantastic no
Tea, goes well with «za» and bread
And that will bring us back to dough