Fat Slice Pizza

I don’t know if it’s really wise to review this place, because every time I go here I am totally wasted. I do remember their slices being pretty big. They let me use the bathroom once. which was awkward, stumbling by the cooks who were just hanging out in the back by the bathroom. I hope you didn’t watch me pee.
Anyways, I would probably hit up Escape from New York first, but if I’m not in the mood to walk the 4 blocks there, being drunk and heels can cause laziness, I will go to Fat Slice.
P. S. I love the name… ya I want a fat slice… of…

Fat Slice is definitely not on my list of restaurants to visit again. I came in for a slice around 8:00 PM one night, the place was empty and awkwardly quiet. There were no fresh pizzas cut for slices, just a few stiff cold pieces that looked entirely unappealing. Since I was short on time, I decided to get one anyway. It took about 5 minutes for the kid to come out from the back of the kitchen to take my order. The pizza was very generic and bland, I’d be better of reheating a slice of frozen pizza in the microwave back at work.

Fat Slice did used to be a hell of a lot better. I used to stop here almost everyday in high school for cheap yummy pizza. Maybe ive gotten older, or maybe this place just got crappier but the prices dont really reflect the pizza anymore.
Still not bad for a quick bite but negative stars for lack of selection and sometimes bad crowd (homeless or smelly or both).

This was my favorite pizza place for years. YEARS. A slice of cheese, a Mr. Pibb and a package of ranch. It usually made my day. And was usually all I could eat that day, anyway!
I recently went back after a long hiatus and what do I see? They changed EVERYTHING. The pizza isn’t even the same anymore.
What the eff, Fat Slice?

In all fairness I think the reviews should be broken into 2 separate categories.
Everything before roughly ⁹⁄₂₀₀₇ was Fat Slice Pizza. Love it or hate it, that was Fat Slice.
Some time around ⁹⁄₂₀₀₇ it was closed and then reopened, without any of the Fat Slice signs, Fat Slice Menus, or Fat Slice pizza. From ⁹⁄₂₀₀₇ to roughly ²⁄₂₀₀₈ it was a completely different pizza place in the same location as Fat Slice and pretending to be Fat Slice. I tried the pizza at that place and thought it was paper thin, WAAAY to greasy and not all that great.
Now it’s a falafel type place.
Just saying, love it or hate it Fat Slice was one thing. Later it was replaced by a mysterious no name pizza establishment and I don’t think it’s very fair to post a review of a mysterious no name pizza establishment under the Fat Slice page.

For a slice a pizza in SF, there is nothing better. Period. Anybody who thinks Blondie’s is better is crazy. Blondie’s is WAY overrated.
My suggestion, go with a simple slice here. Go for a slice that has no more than 3 toppings because they pile the toppings mile high. I would recommend a slice of sausage, mushroom and pepperoni. This place is AWESOME! If you are looking for quick, comfort, and cheap pizza. Go here! If you are looking for an overrated tourist attraction, go to Blondies.

I realize that pizza joints tend to make up a few pies, then keep them under hot lamps throughout the day as they sell them. But usually they’ll pop the slice in the oven to heat it up a bit before they give it to you. That didn’t happen here. I had to ask for my little cheese slice to be heated up and luckily the woman behind the counter didn’t roll her eyes. She didn’t make me feel like an over-​demanding prima donna high maintenance dolly.
In truth, it’s raining today, it’s really cold outside, I was really hungry and my stomach was feeling odd from drinking too-​strong tea – twice. I wanted something hot and the look of the cheese pizza was glazed over and hardened cheese, something that could be fixed by throwing it in the oven. Even after it had been heated up (and the kitchen guys sneaking looks at all the hot people coming in from Haight), it was still old looking. Like it needed to retire and move down to Florida because being a pizza was too much for it.
I prefer the Fat Slice in Berkeley over this one. This one seems to have just been renovated and maybe after the extended time away from food service, they need to work out the kinks in business operation, much like a new restaurant. The crust was not as good as the one in Berkeley though the sauce is not as sweet. It’s really the sauce that makes or breaks the pizza. Cheese tastes like cheese especially at these quantities, bread is bread unless you really eff it up. But the sauce holds the two worlds together. It should be subtly herbed, not sweet, not too salty. A good sauce brings out the flavor of the cheese and the earthy quality of the dough. The sauce here was unremarkable and I wouldn’t have noticed it except for it was not as sweet.
I just wanted a piece of comfort food.

So it’s not just me that this place is just way too greasy and not worth it?
Oh good… now go have Zachary’s in East Bay or Blondie’s in SF downtown…
Cheap-​bad!

HUMONGOUS pizza, and when they say fat slice, they really mean FAT slice. Share a slice with a friend because if you finish one, you are going to feel like a globe. It’s thick and greasy, and heart-​attack inducing.
It’s rarely opened anymore, and is covered over with graffiti — what’s up with that?

So the pizza might be greasy and you might think theres too much cheese but if you don’t like cheese or grease then WHY are you eating pizza?
I love this joint. The pizza slices are HUGE and the pizza is INEXPENSIVE and that is important to me. An extra large is still less than 20 bucks and it must weigh 3 – 4 pounds. The pepperoni is extra greasy and delicious. The pesto pizza I LOVE and has a good flavor to it. The veggie is pretty good too.
So all in all I am one of the folks who has to stop here and eat as well. I have never left here hungry and I’m all about thick crust and cheese so me and this place are like pb and j.

I love Fat Slice pizza… just wish it was healthier. Good price and great taste. Plenty of cheese. They do not delliver. =(
Way better than Domino’s, Mr. Pizza Man, Pizza Hut and just a tiny bit better than Round Table Pizza.
Fat Slice is almost identical to Blondie’s Pizza. I also love Blondie’s, just so you know where I am coming from.

To fully appreciate Fat Slice, I think you need to spend some time being broke, unemployed, and paying rent by the week. From that perspective, you can understand why the absence of flavor does not factor into evaluating the quality of a massive slice of pizza that costs so little. (Under four dollars with a drink!)
Comparative logic puts Fat Slice in an unfairly negative light: It is best evaluated by sequential statements of being. You think to yourself: «I am hungry.» And you think to yourself: «There is Fat Slice.» There is a conflict and a resolution, and even a moral to the story. Isn’t that enough?

How can this place not get 4 stars automatically for havin potato and garlic cloves on the pizza? mmmmm.
It’s called Fat Slice because it’s a pile of greasy nasty pizza with lots of random toppings. If you are craving something extremely unhealthy, come here. Heart attacks are included in the price. Unless you have the one with garlic, cause then the garlic is good for people with clogged arteries right?
Also, they reheat each piece before they give it to you so even though it may not be fresh, it’s hot which makes you think it’s fresh. Hooray fake freshness!

I am on board with Sasha. I am a Fat Slice camper!
Slices are thick. Crust is lightly oiled with olive oil, and almost spongy. Their cheese slices are usually gigantic and their sauce has a garlicky flavor (which I love). The place is always dingy, and the bathroom is for emergency only, but the slices are well with the money.

If not for unsuspectingg tourists and the Bridge and Tunnel crowd this place would have closed long ago.
Pizza by Chef Boyardee, cooked in a microwave, that’s how it tastes at least.

SMELLS LIKE ROTTING GARBAGE. HORRIBLE SERVICE.
uhg. I hated Fat Slice when I lived in Berkeley and I hate this one in Haight even worse. I only went in there to give them a chance, thinking that they surely could be better than the Berkeley one.
My big problem with the Berkeley one was that it smelled like foot. Literally. I think they use the same uncovered Parmesan cheese year round. The Haight location is no different.
My other problem with both locations is the service. Some bitch (yeah you with the red shoes and baby doll dress) wouldn’t get off her god damned cell phone to take my order. I tried to make it difficult for her by saying, «excuse me» over and over again until she put it down, but it never happened. She won that one. Burn in hell!

Pretty much everything about Fat Slice is disgusting. But I can’t completely hate (ew saying ‘i can’t hate’ is sort of disgusting too*) because one time I was starving and I think that one slice of the veggie pizza brought me back to earth and gave me at least 15 servings of vegetables. The origin of those vegetables is more than questionable… but I enjoyed myself. Please don’t tell anyone.
*but I can’t think of anything else
**Yes I have been reading a lot of Chuck Klosterman

I’m going to go ahead & add insult to injury… join the dogpile, if you will.
I made the mistake of getting a pepperoni slice a few weeks back, & it was so bad that I was kinda beating myself up afterwards for not walking the extra few blocks to Escape from NY.
Really godawful pizza.

I’m always amazed at how much rubber taste they get into each and every one of those itty bitty paper thin slices of pepperoni.
This stuff isn’t even good after a night at the Gold Cane. Go to North Beach Pizza, it’s worth the walk. Or Escape from NY if you must. Just… don’t get Fat Slice. I mean it. Seriously. I know, I know, some night you’ll be at Martin Mack’s and just be craving a slice, so you’ll think, «Hey, Fat Slice is across the street!» You’ll remember this review and think, «Oh hell, it can’t possibly be that bad, especially with my brain lubed up with Guiness!» And then you’ll go over and get a slice and when you’re done, you’ll think, «Jesus, that dude with the glowing tampons on Unilocal was right.» And then you’ll come to Unilocal the next day and write a review just like this one, and you shall understand. Just you watch.

Cardboard is the laymans term used to describe a heavy, wood-​based paper with a relatively high strength and sturdiness. The high strength and durability makes cardboard especially well suited for shipping and packaging purposes, and ever since 1812, cardboard boxes have become synonymous with moving material goods across the globe.
Fat Slice pizza has a lot in common with cardboard. Wet cardboard that is, because the slice I recieved was so soggy from the vast amounts of grease seemingly poured upon the wholly unremarkable cheese and pizza sauce that the paper plate had become translucent.
Folks, don’t go here, the pizza isn’t even suitable for an after-​bar snack. Go to a 7 – 11 and buy a frozen pizza, or better yet, walk further down Haight and go to Escape From New York Pizza instead, your tastebuds will thank you afterwards.
Unless munching down on a wet cardboard box appeals to you, skip Fat Slice.