Metro Pizza

Its a family friendly pizza parlor. Always has a gimmick on their calendar for a discount. Nuke/​atomic fries are a las vegas institution at metro pizza. With the plethora of pizza to go places nearby, this place makes it fun to dine out and eat pizza with your friends or family.

Went here on a Wednesday afternoon. The waiter was nice, but never told us his name. We ordered a large hand tossed pepperoni pizza and two dinner salads. When the pizza was served it was cut but NOT served onto our plates. Usually, when we go to pizza restaurants the first piece is always served. The food was not bad, but the service was pretty slow. Throughout our meal dirty dishes continued to stack up on the table. Then after we finished eating the dirty dishes remained on our table for another 20 – 30 mins while we waited and ate dessert. I don’t think I will return to eat there again. Service all around needs improvement!

Love this location! Staff consistently friendly and the pasta salad is da
! I recommend

I am never disappointed with this Metro Pizza. The service is always good and the food is delicious. The meal starts with bread, which for my family is one of the most important details. The salads are very inexpensive and easily feeds 4 or 5 people. I love their house Italian dressing. I almost always order The Gotham but all their pizzas are really good. I can’t say they’re the best in Vegas but you’ll always get a really good pizza here. My wife is a much tougher customer than I am and even she agrees 4 stars.

The food is okay, nothing special.
The service is slow.
But this is what got me. I went in for lunch with a friend on Tuesday. My friend and I split the bill. We each paid around $ 15.00 with tip. The waitress took at least 20 minutes to bring us our check.
The next day I checked my back account and noticed I was charged twice two different amounts.
I called and spoke with Chris (manager) who told me it might have been because the waitress pressed the wrong number and tried to cancel the transaction and it should be reversed by Friday. I called Friday to tell him the charge was not reversed. He looked into it and told me the waitress charged we wrong because she forgot to take off the free cannoli for our birthday.
So she charged my card again after removing the the cannoli.
Before I could get my money back j had to prove to him that my friend paid (thanks corporate), which she did.
So after a week in a half since my original visit I finally got my money back.
Chris did a wonderful job handling this situation. He stayed in contact with me for every step and was sincerely apologetic. He’s the only reason this store didn’t get one star.

We eat here every Friday. So sad i feel this place is going downhill. First off when Jen P works service is great. Was there yesterday, they had no silverware so we had to use plastic ware. Never enough napkins. They ran out of salad bowls or they were getting washed. Brain was our server just seemed like this place was to busy for them to give service. We had to ask for drinks, napkins, dressing for our 50 wings we ordered. Hope service gets better or we will have to go else where.

I’ve had several items from the menu and it’s all been good. This is a local run business. The stuffed pizzas are very good and what I’d recommend most here. They have individual pizzas ans larger ones and if you are ordering an appetizer then try the meatball sliders they are really good and the garlic knots they use for them are made fresh to order. The staff has always been friendly and attentive. Check the website or ask your server for a monthly calendar to see what specials are going on it’s something different each day. inside there is a good sized dining area with tables, booths and there is a bar also. There is a door for the restaurant and for pick up orders but you can go in either one depending on what side of the building you park. If you do order garlic knots keep in mind they are best eaten fresh from the oven at the restaurant because the couple of times I ordered them to go they didn’t taste the same when I got home. The pizza on the other hand tastes good even left over for lunch the next day.

This use to be one of our favorites. Honestly, lately it hasn’t been so good! Whenever we order for delivery for the past several months has been mistake after mistake. Today is just icing on the cake, our order amounted to $ 50. Now I will admit the pizza is usually great, but we ordered chicken fingers and they were burnt beyond belief! The worse part was that they tried to hide them below some wax paper so no one would see until it was to late! We also ordered regular wings that had no sauce on them! This use to be a weekly place that has become a bimonthly, and now I don’t think ever again!

Food is good, but service was slow. Being able to walk in on a Friday and not have a wait, you would assume that the service would be quick and on point. We waited about 45– an hour before our food came out. and by that time both my kids had been finished and ready to go home. The kitchen was way to slow for how «busy» they were…
Tip the kids menu pizza is enough for dinner for 2 it’s a 10″ pizza and worth the $ 5.50. Order your kids meal first!

Everyone’s a big fan of pizza now a days! So we decided to order take out for our monthly poker night at the house. If we’re in the mood for pizza it’s usually one spot at the top of the list.
I called them to place an order and to my surprise the lady stated they delivered as well. I gave her my cross streets and she stated it was an additional $ 5 so I placed my order and loved the fact that I didn’t have to pick it up.
Our total was $ 140, for 4 large pizzas, 40 pieces of wings and 2 orders of their Romano fries. As usually we took great care of our delivery man.
… Sadly, our pizza was cold and over baked. Our fries were stale and drenched in oil. The center of our wings weren’t cooked throughout. Hence, we had company I decided to work with what we had. The dining experience is worthy of 4 – 5 the delivery service is awful. I’m definitely steering away from ever ordering out again.

Consistently delicious! We love to get the Gotham minus sausage and beef add ham! A large pizza and domenico salad feeds 4 perfectly!
The complimentary bread to start is delicious and I often wish I could go just for that!

Yum. Yum. Yum. Great staff, great food! Will be returning again and again! Had the large stuffed Loop pizza… It was HUGE!

Serving Las Vegas for 35 years and continuously evolving the concept while slowly growing the brand it would be difficult to say anyone has contributed more to Sin City’s love of pizza than John Arena, and invited in for a special history lesson on Friday night it was with friends both new and old that a group of ten was enthralled by tales dating back centuries, the owner of Metro Pizza’s almost encyclopedic knowledge served up alongside several styles of pie in the bakery named after his mother attached to the pizzeria on Sky Pointe Drive.
Now in the business of baking since his pre-​teen years, a childhood in Brooklyn giving way to the launch of a pizza career in Las Vegas shortly after relocation and the time-​honored skills that have made him a veritable legend amidst many of the best Pizzaiolos from around the globe, it was with a warm introduction that John welcomed us to the universe he has been exploring for more years than the majority of our party have been alive and dotting the experience with several tastes of Metro signatures as well as off-​menu specials while fielding any number of questions with unparalleled candor the nearly four-​hour experience passed almost too quickly, the information offered far more than one could have ever hoped to absorb.
Truly a generous host, the entirety of the experience free-​of-​charge with wine and soft drinks provided for those choosing to enjoy, it was with the assistance of Lulu’s Chris Decker that nine items were rolled out during the course of the evening and beginning with Metro’s golden garlic knots wrapped around tender meatballs there was nary a bite not to be savored, the pizza sauce a true work of art that tastes only of fresh milled tomatoes with the slightest bit of herbs, a far cry from other ‘chains’ looking to suit the American palate by adding sugar or too much salt.
Taken back to the times of Pompeii through pictures and stories discussing misconceptions of Pizza’s origins, taste two featured a freshly stretched flatbread topped only in chopped herbs, olive oil, plus sliced sardines and explaining how it was not until trade brought water buffalo and tomatoes from Asia and Spain that ‘modern’ concepts of pizza truly existed, the next bites of pie were offered in the form of Metro’s Sicilian-​style with 4-​days cool leavening allowing the crust to come across crisp and robust with a wispy air-​pocketed interior that appropriately resembled the cross section of a sponge.
Getting creative with the toppings as the group was invited to enter the kitchen, course four featured a grilled pie topped with peppery arugula and razor clams whose sweetness was beautifully accented by the lightest bit of char, and showing off his family’s baking heritage with slices of sesame studded semolina the nutty bread proved quite the treat beneath a ragout of roasted vegetables, though perhaps even better when smeared with butter and fresh preserves hot from the toaster on a loaf given to each of us as a gift to take home.
Onward to some of Metro’s more eclectic signatures, some in the group beginning to fade under the weight of so much food, items six and seven spoke to the fact that there is no one ‘right’ way to make a pizza, the pasta filled iteration having roots dating back hundreds of years in Italy while my personal favorite bite of the evening arrived in the form of Eggplant Parm wrapped in a crispy baked shell, the whimsical wink to Seinfeld just one more reason to love a dish that could have easily come off as gimmicky or far too oily and unwieldy to sell.
Rounding out savories with the thin crust Modesto while fielding more questions from the crowd, each answer speaking to years of travel, research, and the sort of passion most only dream they could have for the way they make a living, it was with two trays of ‘sliders’ that the evening would end, and although the intensely nutty gelato is sourced from a company in California it was the housemade brioche buns that made all the difference, each lightly sprinkled with sugar and nuts to make the best ice cream sandwich served in the Northwest suburbs, not really a surprise given the quality of the baked goods offered from Arena and Decker during daytime hours at Lulu’s Bread and Breakfast.
Obviously a special experience, but one that is at least somewhat accessible to the general public by way of courses offered at UNLV, suffice it to say a lifetime of experience and a fervor for his craft has made John a true legend amongst the pizza community while cementing Metro as a fixture of the community — the sort of place easily overlooked or dismissed as a ‘chain’ in reality using top-​tier ingredients to please everyone from families to aficionados while embracing a culture of learning and evolution, no one style of pizza considered to be the only ‘right’ way.

For about three hours, ten or so of us got a lesson on the history of pizza making along with a live demonstration of how to do some by Metro Pizza chef/​owner John Arena. He teaches a semester course at UNLV in this same subject so we got the condensed version. During the time we were there, he shared with us some history, methodology, good stories, and great food.
Food items we tasted:
Meatball sliders
Pompeii pizza
Sicilian pizza
Grilled pizza with razor clams
Bruschetta with sausage, peppers, and caramelized onions on Semolia
Pasta pie
Steinbrenner calzone
Modesto pizza with sliced mozzi
Brioche gelato – pistachio gelato in brioche buns
There was not one thing I ate that didn’t register a high mark from me. The meatball sliders were moist and the buns were topped with garlic. Learning how the Pompeii pizza was made thousands of years ago – pre-​scoring the dough before baking and then topping it after baking – was very informative and the pizza was quite good.
If I had to pick standouts for the evening, I’d go with the Sicilian pizza and the Steinbrenner calzone. I like thick crust pizza and the Sicilian here is a thick crust that is soft and not crunchy like some I’ve had. Chef Arena described the fermenting of the dough and the twice baking so the dough is soft and the ends are blistered. The calzone was one of the lightest calzones I’ve had. It had very little dough and a proper amount of filling. This was not a lot of dough with a little filling but the opposite.
Our group had this private lesson and pizza tasting in the Lulu’s Bread and Breakfast section of the building. Helping out with the breads was Chef Chris Decker.
This was a wonderful evening. While our selection of foods and Chef Arena’s lesson are atypical of the normal customer at Metro Pizza, I know that the food is excellent. It’s excellent because of the years of experience Chef Arena has making pizza. With that experience, he has learned a great deal. His passion for his craft comes out in both his class and the taste of his food. We had the good fortune to be taught by a master pizza maker!

This was my first time eating here and I have to say it was some darn good pizza. I can’t wait to go back and have some spaghetti and dessert which I had no room for because the stuffed pizza is super filling. I stuffed it and had two slices. Chill atmosphere and nice people working here. I’ll be back ;)

Went Saturday 7−4−15 around 5:45 pm. They were running a 4^th of July special of ½ off pizza for military! Our server Jenn was so nice and attentive and I ate the best caesar salad I’ve ever had there. My go-​to pizza is the gotham. This time I tried the fried mozarella… it was pretty tasty.

Now… the size of this place, the waiter service, the bar with TV gives Metro 4 stars. The food gives it 3 stars. This place sure can get loud when there are big groups eating. I came here for a romantic anniversary dinner and I would say that Metro is not the place for that. My most recent visit was with 8 family members and I think that is more Metro’s style.
The wait staff has a way about them that is efficient and thorough. They get the job done.
I love the spaciousness of the restaurant. The décor helps promote the Italian feel.
The food was just ok for me. I’ve had pizza, garlic fries, salad, and canolis. I would say that it is good food, just not wow or amazing. I see myself coming here again for family get togethers but as far as for a quiet night at home, I have other choices for tastier pizza.

This place is always great. great service, best pizza
Bartender behind the bar always a happy guy, tons of sports talk. n good times. I would call this the best pizza place in town…

It was time for another pizza outing, and for this one I selected this Metro Pizza location. Once again, it did not disappoint in any way.
A small Dinner Salad with lettuce, tomato slices, cucumbers, onions, Peperoncini, croutons, and zesty scratch-​made red Italian Dressing got me off to a fine start paired with great chewy Pizza Dough Bread and butter. And a «small» but really medium-​sized bowl of homemade Minestrone Soup with cauliflower, carrots, zucchini, onions, and pasta rings in a hearty tomato-​based broth rounded out the preliminaries before the main event.
When it arrived my large 16-​inch Pepperoni, Roasted Mushrooms, Sausage, and Tomatoes Pizza looked fetching and smelled great. Both saucy and cheesy, it was a great New York-​style pizza. My only slight disappointment is that the circular slices of cooked tomato were rather small in circumference. I also sampled a slice of Diane’s Large Ham Pizza with Extra Cheese which was really tasty, as was an excellent, large and chewy Garlic Knot ordered by friends, after it was dunked deep into a small tub of heart-​warming Marinara Sauce.
This was a memorable meal that was savored for lunch the next day, as well as during the initial dinner. Service was praiseworthy, and booth seating comfortable.
Five stars all the way!

Decided to stop in in a whim. The price wasn’t too bad for the portion. The pizza is good if you don’t mind all the grease. In my opinion the pizza was way too greasy and upset my stomach. However their anti pasta salad was the bomb. I will be back to get the salad.
My second visit was a take out order. Double check your order because the gals tend to forget to give all your items and aren’t the nicest people there.
I would recommend sitting down to eat instead of taking out.