Pizza King

Really good Pizza here at Portland’s Pizza King. But what is really great is their noon special Monday through Friday from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. All you can eat pizza and salad and even some vegetables and sides of meats for only $ 4.99. The food is hot and the place is usually packed so get there early. Free refills on drinks.

Contrary to the other Unilocal review I like PK. Yes its expensive but its really good. Never did the buffet. They deliver too and it tastes good the next morning. Don’t go to Geneva PK, stay@ this one.

First of all, I’m in Portland Indiana for business reasons. Far as I can tell, there really isn’t much to come here for unless you like rural settings and low income white folks. This town is so isolated that there isn’t even one lousy Unilocal review… not one!
Rather than sit in my hotel room, which reeks of bug spray by the way, I decided to take a chance and see what the heck is out there. Hotel clerk recommended a couple of chains, a Buffalo Wild Wings ripoff named Buffalo Wings and Rings, (I decided against this as Tuesday was Biker Night), and a couple of local pizza joints including this one.
King Pizza is kind of a small chain. I guess the owner lives in the Muncie area and is pretty well thought of. I decided to give their pizza a shot.
Except for the signs, it’s kind of hard to tell if the building has a pizza place or not. Building looks like one of the strip office buildings featuring dentists and accountants. One of the cooks stepping out for a smoke from a door marked Employee’s Only kind of clued me that this was indeed a pizza place. Inside of the place was kind of small and a bit funky, if you dropped anything smaller than a dollar on the floor, you would let it lie rather than pick it up. There were about 10 tables and benches, they all came with laminated menus and red phones so that you can call in your order from the table. God help you if you are hearing impared. Table, bench, phone and laminated menu had some kind of sticky film on it. The fact that it was 95 degrees out and humid didn’t help much.
I ordered the ultimate veggie which has the standard mushrooms, green peppers, onions, black olives, etc. It took about twenty minutes to prepare. There is a flat screen TV in the corner to keep the customers from having to talk to each other and there was a juke box as well. I didn’t want to play it as the only other customer in the place had kind of a Jeff Dahmer look about him. Also took a look at their «buffet» which had to be the worst excuse for a buffet I ever saw, some dried up sausage pizza, some kind of fish, and some other crap I couldn’t identify. Place doesn’t serve alcohol… soda only.
Pizza came and you know what? It wasn’t bad. Sauce was acceptable, lots of cheese, generously topped with veggies as well. Crust was nice and crisp. It wasn’t head and shoulders above a doctored up DiGiorno’s but it was good. I can imagine being shit faced drunk and thinking this stuff was the bomb if I was a college kid. Unfortunately, my college days are behind me and this joint doesn’t serve alcohol so being OK will have to suffice.