Greek’s Pizzeria

This location of Greek’s Pizzeria, a chain of independently owned, «local» restaurants with about 18 locations statewide, is located in a small strip center on Fox Road in the Geist area on Indy’s Northeastside.
I have to be honest with you. That’s about as specific as I can get. I’m not really sure I could find this place again, not because it’s hard to find but because as I was driving around I made a wrong turn and got completely lost.
I was lost. I was hungry. «Oh look, there’s a Greek’s Pizzeria! Let’s try it.»
So, I did.
Unlike many who seem to try it, I’m not overly familiar with the chain. I’d tried the Broad Ripple location before it closed and I’d tried Muncie, but that’s about it. There’s a new one that has opened up near my home, but since I was lost anyway I decided to try this one first.
I did eventually find my way home.
This is a pretty small location that does offer dine-​in, take-​out and free delivery in a limited area. The dine-​in area consists of a one-​room open concept with a few wooden booths and some tables and the familiar red/​black Greek’s colors. There were two televisions on the wall — I say «wall,» because both televisions were on the same wall.
I arrived at about 2 – 2:30pm, an odd time that likely explained why I arrived to an empty dining room. I chose a 4-​top near the cash register. The room is pretty wheelchair friendly. The single glass door opening was light, though the server was also friendly and helpful.
Greek’s offers daily lunch specials and additional daily specials; it seemed like they offered diverse enough options that someone single could easily find a decent option. I opted for a pasta dish — $ 6.99 for pasta with meatballs, marinara and sticks. I also ordered an iced tea, though was disappointed that they only offer sweet tea. My entire meal came in at just under $ 9, though if you opted for appetizers or one of their beer/​wine options you could easily see a higher bill. However, I always appreciate when restaurants have menu options at varying price points. They also offer pizza (Duh!), sandwiches, shells, appetizers, etc.
My server was super friendly and helpful — I got the sense that’s how she always is, though it was likely easier given I was the only customer with the exception of a couple carry-​out orders that showed up.
I will admit that I hesitated with the pasta — there’s not much worse than a spastic paraplegic fooling around with a fork trying to twirl spaghetti, get it in the mouth and not look like a 2-​year-​old gorging on a birthday cake. Yeah, it can get ugly (Admit it. You’re not only picturing it, but you’re hoping you never see me at an Italian-​themed Elite event).
My impression of the meal was that it very much looked like a «sale» dish. It was a decent, lunch-​sized serving for the price, but the serving size screamed out «daily special.» The pasta was good, though I do think you’re stretching to say it comes with meatballs when you get exactly two meatballs. The two breadsticks, or mini-​sticks, were tasty. I actually really loved the marinara — it was the one part of the meal that felt rather generous.
I did get my always desired iced tea refill. That’s a plus.
I enjoyed this meal, but it wasn’t the kind of meal that would cause me to try to pull up Mapquest so that I could actually find it without getting lost. The food was good, though certainly not the best pasta I’ve ever had. Truthfully, I never contemplated anything but a 3-​star rating. The difference between 3 – 4 for me is that a 4 usually means I’m going to be making plans to go back, while a 3 is an above average meal that met my expectations but didn’t blow me away. The service? A 4. The food? A 3. The atmosphere? Probably a 3 (though they almost got a bonus point for the Ms. Pac Man machine in the corner!). For now, it’s a 3-​star experience with the possibility it may improve if/​when I get lost in Geist again and try the pizza.

Thankfully Greeks seems to have worked out their issues. We’ve ordered 2 pizzas in the past month, one for delivery and one for carryout, and both were great. The ordering experience was perfect, the pizza was ready on time and most importantly, tasted wonderful.

I’m really surprised to see so many negative reviews! I’ve ordered twice from this location, and both were good experiences. Staff was friendly, delivery was fast, orders were accurate, and although it may have tasted a little different from the Fishers location, the pizza was good! No complaints.

Best breadsticks in town! Light, fluffy, pure heaven dipped in nacho cheese. Dough made fresh daily and can taste the difference in the pizza crust! Yum!

OK so we have been going to Greeks for over 10 years including college days. First call at 5:35pm on a Monday and said our order would be delivered in 45 minutes (Oh and I had to spell our address 4 times and give my number 3 times). So we called before 6:45 PM. And I quote «Oh the driver has left with your order and it will be there very soon.» called back called again at 7:15. Didn’t put us on hold, just set the phone down so we could hear everything. Wife was mad and decided to call back. I could hear the phone ring. Ignored my call and put her on hold by setting the phone down as well. So 2 calls just set on the counter. My wife’s call that was placed 5 minutes after mine was answered first. I told her that I was on the other line waiting. She asked that I wait for a moment again and then asked me for delivery or carry out when she picked up the phone. I was finally given to a manager and explained that my dinner was NOT on the way and he explained the girl that took my call at 5:35 didn’t write anything down correctly at all and they were not able to call back.
On a positive note the manager did say that I would be able to get an order in 30 – 45 minutes for free. Although we appreciate it, we will go to Goodfella’s for a while. They are much closer but your pizza is better in my opinion.
FYI We have loved the Fishers location for YEARS and my wife went to BSU so no issues there either. Food is great but I am so disappointed so far in the Geist location.
So food is by far 5 stars 6 if I could rate it truly, but the issues so far in the Geist location. It is in need of some help, so zero stars. And this is the first review of any local restaurant due to my frustration (I reset my old Unilocal Account to write this…) but not the first issue with this location. For the love of Greek’s Pizza Please help!!!

Ordered 2 pizza’s for delivery tonight at 6:30 p. Were told they would arrive in 45 min. An hour and 15 minutes after ordering, they still had not arrived. Called the store back. Were told the pizzas were out to delivery and to call in 15 – 20 min if hadn’t arrived. 20 min later, they had not arrived. Called again to report we were still waiting. The manager got on the phone and apologized profusely. Said it was a crazy night. Said my pizzas were out for delivery with 2 others and should arrive. Said he felt terrible about the delay and would offer me 2 free pizzas with my next order. An hour later, the pizzas had not arrived. Assumed perhaps they were making fresh pizzas for us. Called again and the manager said they were now closed and he had no idea what had happened to our pizzas.

I am basing my review on tonight’s visit. Like the others, I visited a while back when they first opened to pick up 2 orders of breadsticks and had to wait quite a while among what looked like a chaotic operation. However, tonight was different.
My husband came in around 5 PM (Saturday) and decided to dine in. Seating is open so we picked a booth on the side, somewhat away from the door to avoid the draft from the door. We were greeted quickly, and our (very young) server was cheerful and helpful. I really appreciated her! If this is her first gig, she’ll be successful wherever she ends up!
On to the food. We ordered breadsticks with cheese to start. These are without a doubt my favorite breadsticks in Indy (out of town is another story)!!! The nacho cheese is actually spicy which I appreciate since a lot of places seem to call any cheese sauce «nacho» when it really isn’t. The garlic butter on the soft, apparently handmade, sticks is wonderful if you’re a garlic lover like me! It didn’t take them too long to arrive.
My husband and I each ordered a small pizza. It took about 20 minutes or so (I didn’t time it) to get the pizza, but that’s what happens when you have to wait for a pizza to bake. The crust is awesome! Very similar to the breadsticks, and I happen to love fluffy crusts! I always use the end part for more nacho cheese. However, the toppings were less than impressive. The roma tomatoes on mine had almost disintegrated. The jalapenos were obviously pickled and came from a jar, which is normally fine since a lot of places do that, but it seemed these somehow avoided even appearing cooked, and there was zero kick to them. It was strange. The tomato sauce also tasted very generic. My husband said the cheese on his seemed different from the cheese at the store in Fishers. It wasn’t stringing from the dish to the plate so I think he found the consistency unusual. I thought it was fine.
They have a selection of some local drafts as well as bottled beers. They only have 3 kinds of wine, and at this point, they should maybe just do beer. I had a glass of a random chardonnay they had, and there wasn’t much to it. I should have known better — pizza & beer is a better combo.
As we dined, the place quickly became incredibly busy (again — Saturday night), and I saw at least one person standing around for what seemed like forever for her order. It could be that she came in right after calling or ordered at the counter. I’m not entirely sure. However, our fantastic server that I mentioned earlier, kept following up with us and got us our check in a timely manner.
All in all, a decent experience, but to be completely honest, I think the toppings at Papa John’s taste a LOT fresher, and that’s saying something. I will at least be back for the breadsticks.

It was a 2 star visit but they get an extra star because it was opening weekend. The crowd was crazy but my wife wanted to go there so we tried it anyway. We found a seat pretty fast because a lot of the people there were getting carry out. We went 10 – 15 minutes without anyone taking our order, when the manager finally saw me waving my hand at every server that walked past he came over. He asked if anyone had taken our drink order and I said no, he then let me know that I should have gotten a waitresses attention (that statement pissed me off, what was I doing for the last 15 minutes). We ordered 2 salads, breadsticks, and one pizza. At that time we were notified that the pizza would take 45 minutes and we are ok with that. We got the salad and breadsticks pretty fast and both were good. At the 45 minute mark we told them to make the pizza Togo because we were running out of time. We finally got the pizza after 1 hour and 15 minutes, and the manager comped our pizza because of the long wait. When we got home we found the pizza was over cooked and burnt on the bottom in some places. I will not be going back because there are to many good pizza places around.