The Original Clover Bar

Great pizza. My parents drove from Grand Rapids to Grand Haven for Clover Bar pizza for 25 years. Sometimes the pizza is slow coming due to the place being so busy. One reason for this is that one oven is now for people with special diets, I heard. We order the pizza ahead and then arrive. Clover Bar Pizza is a Grand Haven institution.

My wife and I went to Clover Bar because we heard they had good pizza. My wife ordered a meatball sub, again good. We ended up going back for dinner getting spaghetti and lasagna, it was good. However when we ordered an Italian beef sandwich she went in to get her order and the guy who swiped her card kind of threw her card on the bar in a whatever kind of atitude, then just kind of tossed her sandwich to the bar when it came out. We get home and the sandwich had little meat on it, they did not put the peppers on it, i was like well call them and tell them she did… they said they would give her credit next time. Well the nex t night the atitude was back, they weren’t crediting her and the guy was rude about it. When we asked to talk to the manager we were told the manager was busy. We said we could hold, but no one ever came back on the phone. At the end of the day, beware of this place. If there is atitude one night there’s atitude another, no one needs that, especially with someone preparing your food. My advice is to steer clear of this place, and that’s what I’m going to tell everyone. Thankfully I work with the public, so hopefully word gets out and we can save some people on confrontation, and possibly their food being messed with.

I have been going to this restaurant for 25 years, the food is really quite good, but it is not the food that is warranting this review. The service is deplorable. The staff is snarky, arrogant and rude. I ordered 4 pizzas to bring to work in September of 2015. I work an hour away and late at night. I picked them up and brought them in, when we went to eat them we noticed 2 of the pizzas were completely wrong. I emailed the restaurant the following morning and called them in the evening. The bartender refused to let me talk to a manager and when I told him what happened he would only offer me half off one pizza and no apology. The next day I called back again and talked to the same guy, again he refused but I did not tell him what it was about. I demanded to talk to a manager and finally he relented. The manager was a very snarky female and she reiterated that she wouldn’t do anything. I asked politely to speak to an owner and she would not let me. She then told me I should have said something the night it happened. I said that I was an hour away and that they were closed. I also said I immediately emailed them the following morning. She informed me, in her most patronizing tone, that nobody checks that email address. She then asked «do you want half off a pizza or not!?» I replied no thanks, I will just not order from your restaurant again. She replied emphatically, «good!!!» And hung up.
The old saying goes, you go to a restaurant for the food and return for the service. Well this patron is not returning to a restaurant that has consistently made some of the best pizza around for 25 years. This was about the worst customer service I’ve ever experienced.

5 stars for the Pizza, the pizza is so good it’s the only thing I have ever eaten from there!

Highly recommended — these pies are Delicious!!!
There are many good pizzas out there, this pizza is on the great side. Though, I find the medium size to be the best choice no mater how many people are chowing on it. Just order multiple pies of medium size.

Has the best pizza Grand Haven has to offer. Although I always get carry out. So I can’t comment on the restaurant itself. It’s a little pricey but if you really want the best it’s worth it.

Great pizza! One of the best places to get pizza in west Michigan.

Good pizza, but really awful service. They can’t figure out how to seat people in a half empty restaurant. The pizza took an hour to get to the table. The bill was never delivered, I had to speak to the owner to get the bill.

Avoid at all costs! Slowest service ever. Don’t care how good the pizza is if we have to wait an hour and a half for It! No refills, no update on wait time. No apologies until we complained.

If pizza is what you are after then this is your place. Menu is rather limited. Not a real family friendly restaurant-​leave your kids at home or prepare for a long wait. Just beware… the service is horrible. We waited over an hour and pizza was still not ready. I recommend calling order in ahead and picking up and taking home.
Rather pricy too.
Not sure if the horrible service is the staff or poor management.
I’d rate 0 stars for service but 4 stars for thin crust pizza.

The pizza was OK, but what I liked was the retro 1970s layout and décor. It’s like being a kid again. Nothing fancy, but good for seating large groups.

The pizza is pur favorite in town and its a tradition to go there. But now the place needs updating and better waiting and hostess service. Ive waited 40 minutes for a drink

When we walked in there was a curious smell. Turned out to be the stinky attitude from the hostess who was in no hurry to serve us and didn’t really care that we left because we didn’t want to wait a half hour to eat.

I love this pizza. Perhaps because I have such fond memories of growing up in the 1980s when a video arcade was really special. The pizza is pretty flavorful, thin crust. The inside of the restaurant has started to go to seed and could use some new carpeting if not a total update. I was however, fairly annoyed that the take out prices on the web site were not correct and I was charged more when I arrived to get a to go pizza.

I have been going to The Clover Bar for pizza for at least 30 years. My step-​father grew up on the same side of town, and I would ride my bike there every Friday night in the summer to play video games, and pinball, and have pizza with my parents and grand parents. The ‘za is the same today and I have cravings for it every couple months. It can be a long wait, its not always perfect (last time we ordered we got olives by mistake. Mom said «meh», and we ate it anyways!). I like Fricano’s but for me The Clover Bar is the only pizza I crave in Grand Haven. Owners are awesome and remember me everytime I come in!

If your thinking this is like Chicago pizza, its not. The mushrooms are canned and you can tell. The cheese is good, the sauce is OK… its just that, OK.

The pizza looks better than it is. Bummer for the cost $ 24 for a large and $ 3 for each soda I had higher expectations. The service was not good either it was just us a few people at the bar and our waitress only came to check on us once after we ordered.

Very good thin crust pizza. There’s something special and the sauce and the bird seed sprinkled on it. The deluxe is a must for meat eaters. The veggie pizzas are very as well. There is a small game room for the kids. Our family has been going to this place for decades. The pizza is 1000 times better than Fricano’s.

Delicious. The only pizza I’ll have in Grand Rapids.

Meh.
Doesn’t compare to the Congress in Ishpeming.