Master Pizza

My boyfriend and I try to go to Master Pizza whenever we are in town. The Specialty Pizzas are the best. On our last visit we had the Big Kahuna and it was incredible. I was reluctant to try a pineapple pizza but it was delicious. Also, we ate the whole thing which is ridiculous. We’ve had the Bacon Bleu Sirloin too, which was great. We weren’t crazy about the Buffalo Chicken — it wasn’t very buffalo-​y. My mom always gets the Popeye. We’ve seen other people order the wings, pasta, subs, and salads, and they all look amazing (although we haven’t tried them yet.)
Master Pizza is a really, really tiny place. Sometimes that has a neat charm, but sometimes it just feels cramped. I’m pretty sure there is only ever one server so you can wait for a while. What Master Pizza could really use is a good drink list; They have a cooler with a few drinks up front, but it’s mostly pop and that’s where people wait for carryout orders so it’s near impossible to get to. It is not a fancy place — plastic drinking cups and paper napkins wrapped around your silverware, so only go here if you are looking for a good, casual meal. Not a ton of parking but, like I said, not very many people could fit inside anyway.

My co-​workers treated me to Master Pizza this week for lunch. They even called our order in ahead so it would be ready when we got there. Upon arrival, we were promptly seated and a few minutes later, our salad arrived. The salad and dressing were very tasty and there was a lot of it. A few minutes later, the pizza arrived. It looked and smelled wonderful!
The pizza was not too thick and it had the right balance between dough and toppings. The pepperoni was fresh and the pizza was delicious!
The service was excellent. I am looking forward to visiting again to try a calzone and other pizzas.
Recommend!

I was amazed when I found positive reviews on Unilocal for this pizza joint. What first turned me off was that my fork and knife were not entirely clean and I had to request a new set. The «house salad» was a mound of lettuce, cheese, and 4 pepperoni slices, which I took off, so basically cheese and lettuce. The pizza was nothing great either. But to make things even worse we sat across from the kitchen and I could see people preparing food with NO GLOVES on and that it what I disliked the most. Will never return

You are not going to find pizza delivery better than this place anywhere. The prices are pretty reasonable as well.

This place has gone downhill. Overpriced food and careless staff. There are many better options.

Been here multiple times and the food has been outstanding each time.
I believe they have some of the best wings in town. They are crispy, meaty and cooked to perfection.
The pizza is light but filling. The sauce is sweet but not overpowering. And the toppings are the right amount to provide a wonderful balance.
When dinning in I recommend placing your order before arriving.
The service is pleasant and attentive.

It’s been an hour and a half since we ordered our food for delivery. our food still isn’t here. I called when we were waiting for an hour and they said they «got backed up and your order is on its way“the guy couldn’t wait to get off the phone and hung up on me. after 30 minutes, it’s still not here. This isn’t the the first time this happened but it sure will be the last. Poor service and so SLOWWWWWWWWWWW.

One of my favorite pizza joints on the eastside! It’s consistently good. Fresh toppings, good sauce-​not too sweet, not too much, mozzarella slightly browned, and the dough-​not burnt or too doughy. This is a solid pizza place. My favorite topping here is pepperoni. We usually eat at the restaurant. Sidenote it’s a good next-​day cold pizza!

It’s amazing that everybody raves about Master Pizza as though they invented pizza. I’ve tried it a few times and was less than impressed, but raving reviews from locals led me to give them another try. A mistake.
The last and final visit, I came to pick up my carry out pizza and when I opened the door there was smoke from burning pizza and people lined up to the door. You couldn’t move or breathe inside. It was hot, with people waiting to pay, waiting to eat, waiting to pick up, all in thick smoke. Awful environment.
I finally got to the register and paid, happy to get out in the fresh air and breath deep. When I got home I found the burnt pizza was actually sold to me! Seriously? It was BLACK on the bottom. I had never been sold a burnt pizza in my life until visiting Master Pizza.
Anybody who thinks this is the best pizza has not been out very much. It literally stinks. The worst pizza I’ve ever had anywhere.
Try Compola’s Tasty Pizza instead and don’t go to Master Pizza.

This place is a hidden gem and one of my favorite pizza places in cle. I love the house dressing and am a huge fan of the buffalo chicken. What a great quick, casual pizza spot!

Got the spinach artichoke. Good pizza for Ohio. I would like more toppings and less cheese.

I was thoroughly impressed. I called in an hour before my party of 8 arrived. I gave them my order over the phone. I’ve never been to this place before but this place is adorable. They had pushed 2 tables together and our pizza and drinks were set ready on the table. The pizza taste great if you like thick crust with perfect amount of toppings. I will definitely be back.

Great home made pizza, all the ingredients were fresh! Great staff, made me feel at home.

Good, but not great. I went here after my friends and I saw this pizza shop had received national attention on
. We ordered the master Popeye and master deluxe pizzas. They were okay, but not worthy of national recognition, from our opinions. It could have been that we had anticipated this pizza to be so amazing, and then it was sort of a letdown. We stayed there to eat. There was a large party in the dining area. One of the party members was throwing spitballs, that I had been hit by accidentally. When I looked up to see what happened, he started talking about how I was staring at him, pretty loudly. This knocked the experience down another star for me. I know this place has multiple locations, so maybe the pizza and experience could have been better a different location. I know I won’t be going back.

Ordered here for the first time a couple days ago. I ordered a small double cheese pizza. That’s it.
Ready in 40 minutes. Ok.
Stopped in to pick it up and first was surprised by how small a small pizza actually is here. It’s literally about the size other places call a «personal» size.
Then there is the price. $ 9.25. What?!! Holy cow. A VERY small double cheese with absolutely no toppings…$ 9.25! Yikes!
As far as the taste goes, it tasted fine and I liked the cheese ok. The dough was just ok. I was still hungry after eating this thing. Way too little for the price paid.
Considering everything, I would much rather purchase a large 1 topping pizza at one of those $ 5 for a large pizza places. May not be quite the quality of Master Pizza, but I would be paying half the price and walking away with a full gut.

Yes one star. Trust me I was shocked as well. Master Pizza once upon a time had the best pizza in Cleveland. Sadly that is no longer even remotely the case. We have given this place lots and I do mean lots of business, but after last night that has ended. We ordered at 4:30 and when the pizza arrived in a rather timely fashion the large half pepperoni — half mushroom was not even warm plus the pizza was doughy, The wings which we asked for well done were also not warm and were anything but well done. This is not the first time this has happened, but we kept giving them another chance hoping things would get better. They haven’t. It is pretty clear now that the kitchen is just churning out the food and could care less how it is served. I believe they are taking out the pizzas before they are completely cooked hence the doughy texture. And for the wings well they’re also not fully cooking them because hey this way they can, I guess in their minds, make room for more orders and make more money. Well that is until faithful customers like myself say enough is enough. So I called back to tell them about the awful food. They were nice enough to offer to resend. I called at 5 and it took two entire hours before the food arrived this time more cooked, but again cold. They are using warming bags, but they obviously do nothing. I believe this is in part because they wait to deliver the food until they have lots of deliveries so either the food is getting cold while waiting at the store or while in the car as they deliver all of the other orders before yours. Either way Master Pizza obviously doesn’t care because they are making lots and lots of money. Imagine yourself just wanting to eat dinner and it taking nearly three hours and the food the second time around is still way below sub par. Yes they once were very, very good, but somewhere along the way they stopped caring about the food and it became only about the money. Time to find another pizza place. One that actually cares about their customers.

My boyfriend’s and my favorite pizza place in Cleveland. Really friendly workers, really delicious pizza that is seasoned well.
We’ve gotten the Master Popeye with pepperoni and the Meat Lover’s with tomato slices and spinach. Both were baked to perfection! I especially like that their sausage topping doesn’t just consist of flat, gray hot-​doggish-​like disks… these are more like crumbled or torn sausage pieces packed with lots of flavor.

The best pizza in the Cleveland area! Great crust great cheese. Be sure to try the meatballs?

Several people have made the statement that this is best pizza in Cleveland. Although I cannot confirm that, I can say without any hesitation that this is on the list of top 3 best pizzas I’ve ever tried anywhere, period. The double pepperoni with artichoke was extremely flavorful, you could taste the quality of ingredients. Freshness, quality and exquisite preparation. I will now be a regular here.

I have been eating this pizza my entire life, more than 30 years. It is hands down my favorite pizza in the entire world, and I have eaten pizza in Italy! The crust is real crust, not this crazy flat, no edge crust Columbus, Ohio people seem to love. The cheese is delicious and they do not skimp on it. I almost only get pepperoni and the pepperoni is my favorite pepperoni. This is a greasy, mouth watering, wonderful temptation.
I have lived in Columbus for over 12 years and EVERY time I am visiting Cleveland (which is several times a year) I get a pizza from here. I sometimes get one to take back home also. This pizza also reheats amazingly well in the oven. My husband sometimes likes it better reheated (only in the oven! no microwave!)! I should also mention my husband has never lived in Cleveland and this is now one of his favorite pizza places also!
The restaurant itself is very small and there is not enough seating. Pizza is something we almost exclusively get to go so that doesn’t bother me but if you do want to actually eat there, be aware that it’s not the easiest place to snag a table at.