Jerry’s Pizza

Great food for not a lot of cheddar.
They have Killian’s on tap.
Friendly staff and very cozy.
The Pizza is awesome, we get it once a week.
They have a pretty large menu considering they are a pizza pub. Patio is phenomenal during the spring summer and early fall, live music on the weekends is a plus.

Solid pizza at a very reasonable price. Bar was raucous on a Wednesday night, although draft beer selection is pretty weak (only four taps, all super-​mainstream). Great fun place though. A Chillicothe favorite!

Jerry’s pizza is unique. The swiss cheese is part of that, but that is not the only thing that makes this pizza unique. You will have to try it for yourself. I have loved Jerry’s pizza since the 1950’s. How I miss it since we have been transplanted to Maine. However we have often returned to Ohio to Jerry’s pizza. I cannot wait until we return once again.

Had a great meal. Local establishment their prices can’t be beaten. Love their crust its so buttery and crisp. They also have live music worth hearing.

I visited at lunch recently. I walked in and no one greeted me and it took several minutes before it seemed that anyone even noticed they had a customer. The waitress did not welcome me and seemed very tired or stressed. I placed my order. They were getting some call in orders but otherwise the restsurant wasn’t busy. My food was good but my pizza seemed really greasy. By the time I was ready to get a box and pay a few more customers had come in and my waitress was very hard to get ahold of. Not the best experience and if I ever want food from here again I’ll either go to the westside location or call a order on for pickup.

I have dreams about this place. Best pizza ever, and I’m not just saying that as a euphemism. I’m being completely serious.
I have family in Chillicothe, so I try to eat here every time I visit. It is a good old fashioned small-​town street-​corner bar where you can enjoy a beer and feast on their fabulous thin crust pizza. Or two pizzas, nobody’s judging you. These pizzas are so good that I’ve taken one to go just to eat it in the car on the way home. Yes, it really is that good.
Also, Jerry’s has been open since the mid-​50s and has survived the recession. Clearly, they are doing something right because most small businesses don’t survive this long.

Normally not to bad, tonight the food was slow, appetizer came with the pizza, for the first time ever, the pizza sucked, dough wasn’t cooked, soggy and falling apart, service wasn’t really great, nobody asked why it wasn’t eaten and we were taking it in a box, normally eat and then get another to go. Did notice that some of the employees seemed to be enjoying their club music with a friend on the other side of the bar, almost 45 minutes straight, the business was 75%, 40 plus patrons, not early twenties, would have to say my worst experience here or any where ever. Will definitely not be coming back here for a long time.

Another evening eating the best pizza in town. The only thing I can wish for is that they would put one in circleville.

Cool place if nothing else for the nostalgia factor. I would say people are really being generous with the pizza reviews. My expectations were very low based on the fact the entire 10 block radius around the paper factory that this place sits next to smells like shit. I enjoyed the pizza, it was tasty and certainly better than any national chain but if this is the best pizza you’ve ever had you need to get out more. The crust is thin but ours was not in anyway crispy, I would describe it as floppy and chewy. They cut the pizza in long strips so it makes it a little difficult to eat especially considering they don’t give you any plates, just a stack of paper napkins. The waitress messed up our order but to her credit it was extremely loud as it was karaōke night. Overall probably the best you;re going to find in Chillicothe and worth a visit if you want to feel like you’re going back in time.

Could be the best pizza I’ve ever had!
Crispy, thin… cheesy
My mouth is watering writing this
Old school bar with a few tables and chairs… best prices in town as well
This place is legendary and I see why
I’ve also had the wings, poppers and subs too–
All fantastic but nothing compares to the pizza

Step back in time to when the nearby factory workers from the old paper factory stopped in — for a beer, cigarette, and some delicious pizza. No frills, just friendly hometown service. The pizza is what we’d consider a flatbread in some more fancy times. That crispy thin crust? Rumor has it that they crunch cheez-​its into the dough. I believe it. Those little mashed (canned?!) toppings and Swiss? This ain’t no place for your snobbery.
Try something different, breathe in the nostalgia, and rest assured nothing has changed here in decades… except for the factory workers inside smoking their cigarettes. Now they do it outside.

Many others cite that Jerrys is a Chillicothe landmark and I have to agree. But to get the best Jerrys pizza you have to eat it there so it is hot and fresh. My mom rarely wants to eat anywhere downtown so Jerrys is truly remarkable to get her to go there for their pizza.

Old, dark, funky, cool bar/​pizza/​house made food joint. I had a freshly chopped iceberg lettuce salad, with just the right amount of cheese a diced tomato, and croutons, The Italian Dressing was well balanced, not too oily. Had a Portsmouth Ohio long neck beer, sampled a Pepperoni, Cheese, and a Sausage Mushroom., The crust is thin crispy, the sauce and toppings are good, but the cheese flavor sings out above the other flavors. In my opinion not in a bad way, it is unique…
Some say they use Swiss cheese I am not convinced, I am guessing aged Provolone is in the blend
All in all the place is funky, the staff friendly, the food is good, and the prices are reasonable. I plan to go back and visit soon. They have been in business since 1954, The burgers and subs look great as well !

We had home fried chips and fried mac and cheese. Both were pretty good. We then ordered the deluxe pizza. It came out and for the first piece, was pretty good. Nice and crisp with a pretty good flavor. My friend didn’t share my enthusiasm for her first slice. But the second piece started getting soggy with soaked in grease. We ordered two pizzas and when them came out they were on two different sized plates. When we got the bill, she had taken the smaller plate away and we asked if maybe we got a medium. She said that since the pizzas are hand tossed, the are sometimes smaller or larger. However you would think if they turned out a pizza that fit on a medium plate, we might be charged for a medium pizza. My recommendations are to stick with the pizzas with fewer toppings and go for the chips and fried mac and cheese.

im a chicago gal, and ill have to admit this place is charming! my boyfriend and i were hungry and walked into a true gem filled with townies, exceptional food, and a unique atmosphere! please visit here if ur in town:))
We went here on a Friday night and let me tell you, it was one of the funnest times I’ve ever had in a dive bar!
I was also surprised at the cheap and may I say ICE cold beer. This place is a true Chillaiothe gem!

I don’t know what is so good about this pizza institution. I had three varieties of the pizza and two of the items, chicken and mushrooms, were canned. I didn’t mind that it was minced, but there wasn’t much else on that pizza. Not much of a sauce and other only point was the cheese blend. I would compare this more to a party pizza you get out of a grocer’s freezer. Definitely better pizza to be had in Chillicothe.

Yay! I’m a fan. That is what it said when I gave Jerry’s a 4 Star rating. I would say that is correct. Chillicothe is only a 50 minute drive from my hometown and I went to Jerry’s last night with my sister and a couple of other friends. I have some kind of unique history with Jerry’s. My parents went there when they were dating about 35 years ago. I went there on a date with my then-​boyfriend about 10 years ago. Now I go back with the desire to have local flavor to write about.
When we pulled up, we noticed that the garage across the street hadc a full parking lot at 9 pm on a Saturday night. We parked there and trotted across the street. Upon going into the older building we see the bar. Now, I am a fan of local bars. Jukebox, old barstools, a TV-​the perfect bar. I don’t need disco lights and a stage for a bad local band to complete my drinking experience.
The small place was about packed and we set out for the seating in the middle room of the ‘deep’ building. The nice waitress finally came over and took our drink orders and we purused the menu. We ordered mozz sticks and mushrooms and a «large» pizza.
When the apps came, we asked for plates and silverware. The lady told us that they were out of plates. Out of plates? I gotta be honest. In am a little picky about having a plate and some silverware! I don’t as a rule like to eat with my fingers. She said she would go back to the kitchen and try to put a rush on some plates. We started in on the apps because we were hungry!!! We had all kinda starved for the outing. Might have been a mistake.
She brought out our pizza. Large? Oh boy. It was about a 12″. FOR A LARGE? This needs to be noted on the menu. And fast. If we would have known… we would have gotten two! But lets talk about that pizza… it was… delicious. The crust… oh the crust. It is what homegrown pizza should be. Thin… crisp…a buttery golden color… I strive for the texture when I make homemade pizza. The toppings were in the perfect quantity. Not too much cheese… and I know… some people think that there is no such thing as enough cheese but I think you can go overboard with cheese and it is a bad thing. I don’t even order «extra cheese» anymore. We ordered a pepperoni with half with mushrooms. The canned mushrooms were minced and I like that. They don’t fall off as much and you don’t have to bite through a huge piece of schroom. Although other reviews have sighted an obscure cheese mixture, I didn’t recognize anything out of the ordinary cheese-​wise. On another trip I will ask the waitress, but as shocked as we were with the tiny pie, it slipped my mind.
BOIL IT DOWN– fantastic pizza. thin crispy crust, adequite toppings. Decieving description on the menu (a large is by no means large!) the large is about enough for a couple… but not more than three will be sated. Cheap, strong drinks, good waitstaff-​they will split the bill any way you want. Go. But don’t expect fancy surroundings or high-​brow snooty gourmet food. Down home pizza.

The potential of Jerry’s inside my stomach has at times been my only reason for treking down to Chillicothe… and my family lives there.
I’ve been going here since I was wearing diapers. It was a dive bar but in recent years they have replaced two of the four lightbulbs in the establishment and added some bigger TV’s which has brightened the place up signifigantly.
The beer is cheap and the pizza, oh my lord the pizza!
A few word that come to mind:
Thin
Crispy
Just enough cheese
Amazing
They also have a mango topping option which I’ve been dying to try for years but no one will venture there with me. You can feed an entire family for under 20 bucks and still have some leftover for the oven the next day; which is even more amazing I might add.
Jerry’s is a family memory, it will always hold a place in my heart.

I’ll join the growing chorus here and say that Jerry’s is a unique pizza. I can’t quite put my finger on what’s different about it, but I’ve certainly never had another pizza like it. That said, Jerry’s is also as good as any other pizza I’ve ever had.
The crust is thin and crisp, but almost buttery and flaky. I think it’s really the crust that sets Jerry’s apart. I grew up eating thicker crust pizzas in North East Ohio. I’ve spent a good chunk of my last 10 years in Central Ohio convinced that thinner crusts were inherently inferior. Jerry’s may have finally dispelled me from that notion.
The rest of the pizza was well done, though, too. The cheese was lightly applied (which is a plus in my book) and not at all greasy. The toppings were generous and seemed to be pretty good quality.
This being the only pizza I’ve ever had in Chillicothe, I can’t speak to whether or not it’s the best pizza in town but it’s hard to imagine it’s not. If there’s better pizza in Chillicothe I just might have to move there.

I’ve never been inside Jerry’s Pizza, but I’ve had their pizza at home. I’ve heard Jerry’s Pizza is really a bar (their pizza was a bar food offering that gave them their name – and it is probably what kept them going). The pizza isn’t New York style. It is more like snack pizza – thin crust with tiny square pieces. It is most similar in style to Donato’s, but Jerry’s Pizza is better than that.
The pizza is very tasty, and it has a good sauce. They mince up the toppings (like mushrooms) very finely, which actually makes it a lot easier to eat because you don’t have toppings falling all over the place. But I think the real differentiator is the cheese. They are not using just mozzarella. I’m not sure what the other cheese they are using is, but it tastes pretty darn good.
Another note is that the pizza has changed slightly over the years, and it feels like they are making improvements without getting away from what makes the pizza unique and great in the first place.