Classic Crust Pizza

Almost a year since my first review of Classic Crust — and they’re better than ever!
Had the 2 slice special with my favorite slices (spicy meatball) for lunch today. Yum!
Let’s see, since they opened, ticket times are way down (efficiency!)
The staff is great.
New food items every once in a while as they try new things (try their pasta)
Did I mention I’m in LOVE with the spicy meatballs?
My boss was in town — he’s from Jersey — he gave it two thumbs up, so it’s not just southwesterner approved.

Ok, Alex here it goes… let’s see if it stays up!
Had the beefy Italian grinder. DELICIOUS! Didn’t expect the fries, but they were outstanding as well, the au jus was a perfect dipping sauce for the fries.
Best Philly style cheese steak I’ve found in Phoenix to date. (21 years)
Thanks for the zepolli! That was awesome!
Your new best customer!

This place hasn’t been here all that long and now that I’ve got a few pizzas from the place it’s becoming one of my favorite pies. The ingredients seem to be of high quality and I really love the crust. It’s just the right thickness and chewiness for me. My favorite pizza is meatballs/​ricotta/​basil. Just killer. Plus they get brownie points for having a handful of local craft taps as well. I hope they stick around for a while.

Best. Pizza. Ever. My fiancé and I got the Italian Stallion and it blew our minds. The lady that served us was kind enough to let us try the Zappoli… More like little balls of crack. So delish!

I would give them a zero rating if I could. They kept putting me back on hold and I never got to order before they hung up on me…
Won’t order from here if they can’t even take my order…

I wonder if the great ratings are from friends of the owners because I cannot fathom this place getting that many great reviews. The 4 star review this place was rocking here made me think I’d give it a chance — the place that was there before it was terrible and I felt like I got suckered into trying that one. This place is a step up, but ultimately not worth the calorie count. If I’m gonna tuck into some pizza and wings and spend those hard earned calories, I want it to be worth it. Or at least warm.
So, we ordered for pickup. I tried to order online, but the website is ridiculously suck-​tastic. Both the listing of food and the actual program to be able to order online are not set up well. When I told the person on the phone, she defensively stated that lots of people have said that and the website wasn’t her thing. No apology, no assurance that the correct people would be informed. YIKES.
When I called the place and the wait time was 35 minutes I thought that was a little on the long side, but it was Saturday at 6:30 so I figured maybe I was being too hard and they were busy. My husband picked up right on time and we live 3 minutes away. They were not busy. Upon opening the boxes, I found that everything I ordered was cold. The Asian wings were a bit over-​fried, but the sauce was good. The garlic knots were over-​fried chewy balls of dough. If that’s your thing, then they were great. I think if the pizza would have been warm, and it was the only thing we ordered I might feel differently about this place, because the meatballs on the pizza were good. Since it was cold, the crust was tough. I’m not expecting piping hot because we picked up, but I don’t expect it to be cold either.
I won’t be going back, nor will I be recommending to any friends — the food was MEH and I probably won’t even save the leftovers. I hope the next pizza place that goes into that strip mall learns from its predecessors.

Not an ideal location, but Classic Crust does have great pizza. On second thought, the location is not all that bad. If the line is out the door at Carolina’s (next door) and you are not in the mood for Noodle & Rice (across the street), Classic Crust Pizza is a great choice. Mexican, Asian and Pizza! All the major food groups in one spot!
What to love about Classic Crust? The pizza crust! Wonderful consistency. Not at all «yeasty». Small, basic, modern, comfy dining room. Tables that can be rearranged for different size groups. Big screen televisions. Reasonable prices. Local ownership. Local beer. A Unilocal deal for free garlic knots or free zepolli, light bundles of bready joy.
We ordered two signature specialty pizzas on this visit. Both were great. We used a paper coupon and the staff still kindly honored the Unilocal bonus, even though they could have easily denied one discount or the other based on the fine print. We’ll be back due to that treatment alone. They were also very patient when a six year old insisted on helping place the order for our party of six. Very nice. There’s also a great two slice lunch special.
The brief history of the restaurant, quickly progressing from a portable brick oven to taking over a failed pizza parlor location (early 2015), might suggest the owners are getting a bit ahead of themselves. This is not the case. Unilocal reviews have been very complimentary and an Arizona Republic write-​up was outstanding. All well deserved.

Favorite pizza in the area! They use quality ingredients on their pizzas, the crust, the sauce, and the toppings, which is rare for restaurants. They have a great local beer selection too. My fav pizzas are the buffalo chicken and the veg out.

Love this place! Delicious wings and pizza that delivers. What more could you ask for

We will never go back again. Pizza small even though we ordered a large — mediocre taste — wings just OK and we got free garlic knots and they were gross and oily. Went because of all the good reviews but don’t trust them.

I agree with Christina that the garlic knots should really be called pizza donuts. Yummmmm.
They have some local beers on tap and a good selection in bottles (including Angry Orchard for the cider lovers and/​or gluten free people).
We started with the knots (free from the Unilocal offer — woo hoo!) and mild wings. I love wings and Classic Crust’s did not disappoint! The sauce was perfect, and even though I usually don’t like going too spicy, I feel like I could have done medium on these ones. The mild is very, very mild, but very good.
We had a spicy meatball pizza (minus the red pepper flakes) which was also delicious. It’s definitely thin-​crust pizza without being a crunchy crust. This particular pizza had a lot of ricotta on it, which my husband liked, but I wasn’t the biggest fan.
We finished up with the Zepelini (sp?), which I’m pretty sure is the same bread as the garlic knots except fried a little bit more and covered in icing and powdered sugar. Which is amazing.
Overall, great service and great food! We’ll be back :)

Perfect crust, perfect sauce, well-​cooked. Definitely coming back. Really cool that they take Bitcoin too.

Tried it for the first time. The pizza was kind of dry and lite on toppings. Disappointing. The wings were great!!! I would go back just for those. Overall experience was ok.

So this being my first time in I decided to try the hot wings. That was the perfect choice for the hop shock beer! Then a patron offered me a zappolli. It’s a little doughnut hole looking thing that must be filled with crack… Because I couldn’t stop eating them!!! Great place!!! Top notch food and great service make this a great neighborhood pizza joint!

So far I have tried the hot Italian and the pizza and most of the fried delights and really liked the food. I don’t know why I didn’t want to like this place, but I ended up trying the food and was pretty blown away.
I can see how some people might think the staff is a bit … casual? I don’t know, just not much professionalism, but its’ a «cities style» pizza place with great food so get over it, order it, and eat it already.
The place is very clean and the bar looks to seat about 6 with a decent sized dining room. It feels fast foody inside kinda, but the food brings it up a notch.
Try the stupid good fried garlic knots and dessert knots and then double or triple the order you just made, they are amazing when made right. I only say that because the first two times I had them they were crispy puffy delights of pillowy goodness and once when I ordered delivery they were soggy but delicious wads of garlic dough. I still ate them in record time mind you, but totally different.
Enjoy!

Pizza donuts. I seriously think they should rename the garlic knots to be «pizza donuts.» They are absolutely delicious and the portion is ridiculously huge… which is OK with me! Imagine the texture of a slightly crispy cake donut with a slight hint of garlic complemented with the delicate tang of a sweet marinara… pizza donuts!
The pizza is good too… we had the meatball which is a house specialty and they boast that it is spicy. It is indeed! I thought perhaps a little too spicy… but the quality of the ricotta on the pizza was perfect! Still firm and delivering a mild, milky flavor.
There are some good beers to choose from on draft to wash it all down.
This is NOT your run-​of-​the-​mill strip mall pizza place! Definitely worth checking out!

We really, really wanted to like this place. The food looked delicious, however we never got a chance to taste it.
Went in last weekend (¹⁰⁄₃₀) at 7:00 pm. Starving! There were a couple of people in line, a few people at the tables, and four people at the bar (4 bar stools total at the bar). We browsed the menu and decided to order take out and have a beer while we waited. Two seats opened up at the bar, and we got our beer. Tried to pay then, but the cashier said he would cash us out once our food was ready.
I had Kiltlifter, my boyfriend had Scottsdale Blonde. Beer was nice and cold.
From where I was sitting, I could see right into the kitchen, watching them hand toss the dough and make everything fresh. Getting a bit more hungry now, after about 8 – 9 minutes I heard them call out our order in the kitchen «take out — Italian (sandwich), baked ziti, garlic knots». Yes! We were up next. Then, that’s when it all seemed to fall apart.
After 20 minutes, our beers were finished, another couple had come in, ordered, sat down next to us. In the kitchen I kept hearing «I need those garlic knots,» about every 3 minutes. After another 15 minutes, the couple next to us got their wings. The kitchen counter had a few pizza boxes lined up that the staff kept opening, peeking in, and leaving sitting there. Seemed to be some chaos in the kitchen. The delivery guy was wandering around between the kitchen and the bar. «I need those garlic knots,» yelled again.
By this time I’m starving and the man tossing the dough in the kitchen kept looking at me, pretty sure he could sense my frustration as I’d been sitting there watching them for nearly an hour. And still had no food and no explanation. The curly haired cashier didn’t even check back to see if we wanted more drinks.
At this time, my bf stepped outside for a smoke. I noticed the cashier grab the wings from the people next to me, take them to the kitchen and pour some kind of syrup all over them, bring them back out and plop them down. The customers said, «wow, he is angry». Meanwhile he is 4 feet away from them completely ignoring us. They looked at me and asked if we were getting food. I said, well, it’s been an hour. An. Hour!!! And we had no food. Still, the cashier ignored us. Even though he was standing right in front of us. The other customers said they’d been there before and usually it was very good, but tonight was not.
A man came in to pick up carry out, the cashier grabbed a to go bag from one of the warming bags on the counter, handed it to the guy. The guy told him he’d ordered three pizzas, not pasta. The cashier went back to the kitchen, came out and told the guy that they had burned his pizzas and they were making new ones. He then put the to go bag he tried to give that guy back into the warming bag.
Then for some reason, the cashier grabbed the to go bag from the warming bag, the same one he tried to give to the other customer, and slid it in front of us, saying, your food is ready. I sort of chuckled saying how he tried to give another customer my food, no reaction. Ummm… but where are the garlic knots? He went to ask the kitchen, but by this time we peeked at our food. The lettuce and tomato on the sandwich were all wilted and warm, the bread was soggy. The garlic knots were nowhere in sight.
Absolutely no apologies or sense of urgency or even acknowledgement from the staff. We said, know what? We are out. It’s been an hour now. My bf said let’s pay for the beers and go. The cashier offered nothing. No apologies, no beer is on the house, he did absolutely nothing to keep our business or smooth it over in any way. In fact, he snatched my bf’s debit card, swiped it, slammed the receipt and pen down for him to sign. Not a single word.
And we walked out, starving.
Like I said, the food that was coming out of the kitchen looked good. I’d like to like this place as it is so close to my house, but the staff made absolutely no effort to let us know what was going on with our order. The cashier, the delivery driver who was hanging around, the guy in the kitchen tossing the dough, all of them clearly saw us sitting there empty handed for an hour and did nothing. Very disappointing.

Tried this little place out last night. What a nice surprise! Quant little neighborhood pizza spot, looks nice & clean.
Beer was FREEZING and came in cold glasses just the way I like it.
As far as food… We LOVED the pizza! Crust was just perfect, thin but enough to hold pizza together, VERY TASTY and enjoyable. We ordered the classic pepperoni for the kids and a Veggie pizza. Both were great!
We ordered a salad, defiantly not the place for salad. It was just ice berg lettuce black olives and tomato, pretty bland. But it’s okay cause the pizza made up for it!
Service was great and they even gave us free dessert! The Zeppoli was YUM! When we got home I sprinkled some cinnamon and WOW even better.
Glad we have a new neighborhood pizza joint.
I highly recommend this place, will defiantly be back

Let me start with cleanliness; floors and restrooms were clean. I had a lunch special, which was two slices of pizza and a drink for $ 6. Good deal for lunch at a reasonable price. The place is kind of small but the food is good. The pizza was advertised as oven pizza and was very good. My friend had the Meat ball sub which he let me try, it was magnificent. If I had a do-​over I would order the sub. I will definitely come back and try the sub.
This is a good 4 plus place good for small groups.

Do you want fresh? Do you want a damn good pizza to melt in your mouth. Then get your butt here. Wow, just wow! Garlic knot rolls MEWOW! Oh my oh my oh my the Zeppoli are little clouds of heaven. We order the a white spinach, ricotta, mushroom and olive pizza. Mmmmmm!
Check in on Unilocal and you can pick. Free garlic knot rolls or Zeppoli.