Capri Pizza & Pasta Downtown

I eat here all the time, while it’s not the cleanest and doesn’t have the most advanced technology, the food is really good. Their pizza is awesome and so are their home made rolls.

Food was ok. Soup tasted like it came out of a can. Sandwiches were mostly bread with little in between. Service was ok. I might try again for take-​out and get a pizza.

Dingy décor, good pizza: thin crust, real mozzarella, generous with toppings.
Have an all-​you can-​eat lunch buffet for $ 4.99 (not a typo) that includes two kinds of soup, salad, bread twists, and three or four different kinds of pizza.

OK so when I was growing up in Johnstown in the 80’s the absolute best pizza on the planet was made by Capri. At that time there were two locations. One in the Richland Mall, right across the hall from the Duke & Duchess Theaters and the Time Out arcade (could it have been in a BETTER place???) and the other was in the Westwood Plaza.
So many memories of the pizza at the mall. Pizza. Donkey Kong. Pizza. Return of the Jedi. Pizza. Spy Hunter. Pizza. Ghostbusters. Man those were the days!!!
Both locations are gone (the Richland Mall is long gone and someone bought Capri’s in Westmont and still serves pizza there — which is still good, I think they even have Capri’s equipment and tables in there), but I found out that the Capri on Main St. bakes the pizzas in the ovens from the Richland Mall!!! There is something spiritual about that!!!
I still think that this is the best pizza in the world. Plain cheese, or maybe pepperoni. If it blows you away in it’s simple form like that, you know it’s damn good. It’s still the pizza that I compare all others to.
I now live in San Francisco but when I’m in Johnstown, I try and hit Capri, along with Coney Island and the other Johnstown favorites.