Pizza Parma

My friend is about to have a baby, and we have been ordering a ton of pizza for pick-​up in Shadyside lately. Since I have ironed through most of the places in Squirrel Hill, it’s fun to try the other pizza places. Maybe my friends and I hit Pizza Parma on an extra good night, but we thought the pizza was better than Pizza Perfecta just down the street. Even better, Pizza Parma has a parking lot!
We ordered an extra large cheese pizza ($ 13.99 special) and an order of breadsticks ($ 4.99), and we were told the pizza would be ready in fifteen minutes. They totaled $ 17.10 (lower than we expected from menu prices), and I threw a couple dollars in as a tip because the people working at Pizza Parma were so nice! The man behind the counter was so friendly and everyone working here seemed to be happy. Plus, our pizza was ready in ten minutes so score.
This was a pretty standard cheese pizza. There was lots of cheese, which was great. It wasn’t overly spiced sauce nor was the crust special, but we enjoyed the pizza. The breadsticks were good, but I wouldn’t order them again. They were the circular pizza crust kind, and I prefer the fluffy kind of breadsticks. All in all, we will probably keep ordering takeout from here.
Other reviewers seem to have other stories about here, but I suspect they have similiar issues to Pizza Bellino in Squirrel Hill. Some pizza does not survive the delivery process very well. This pizza wasn’t so good once it sat, but it was yummy fresh out of the oven!

Since I’m in a bad mood, I figured that i would turn to Unilocal and write another review about pizza Parma!!! You see kids, My last review was removed, it was a two star (ha, now you lose a whole other star, smarty pants turn me inner) because I spoke about how horrible the pizza was. How utterly disgusted I was with it.
For your sensitivities, I’ll be less graphic this time around, okay kiddo?
I spent days on the toilet after eating the pizza. My gut was a mess and calling a spade a spade, the pizza is overpriced for the quality or lack of quality, that is.
The hoagie was no better. Even my six year old thought it was horrid and that kid almost eats anything.
I still recommend eating at other pizza places because I feel it’s my Unilocaling duty to save others from a gross, distrusting dining experience.
Plus, it took forever for us to received said pizza, as if some master mind spent quality time, assuring it’s rancidness.
Whatever. Go ahead and turn me into the Unilocal police for being honest and your bad, awful, terrible pizza!

I always order from Pizza Parma on Friday nights and receive great service for delivery but this evening I received the wrong order. Giving 3 stars because the pizza is always good but disappointed in the mix up.

Pizza was ok. Good for drunk food at the end of the night. My friend ordered mushrooms on hers, and they didn’t tell her that they don’t have mushroom pizza until they handed her a slice of pepperoni.

We ordered their supreme pizza (Parma Pizza). It tasted like a frozen pizza, but with less flavor (which is an impressive feat). The crust was hard and flavorless. We also had the chocolate cake. This was a mistake. Avoid this place at all costs.

I ordered a large pepperoni and gyro. Delivery was quick for a Saturday night in the rain. I unwrapped the gyro and was very happy to see gyro meat that was freshly sliced (from an actual spit), and pita that was nicely toasted. Pizza Parma’s tzatziki (cucumber sauce) was a little thin and runny, but the flavor was good. The pizza was well composed with small, crisp rounds of pepperoni evenly covering the surface. The cheese and sauce on the pie was balanced nicely and not too saucy or cheesy. Crust was quite thin, not too bubbly or voluminous. All in all I was very pleased with my Pizza Parma experience. The pizza I had tonight was tasty and a little above average but the gyro was a true delight.

This has been my go-​to pizza place for years now — I’m a fan! Basic quick pizza, but if you do pick-​up, it’s a great deal. I usually get feta cheese and a veggie and have never been dissatisfied.

Terrible pizza. Just plain gross. The crust was all gummy and the cheese tasted like plastic. I would never order their food again. Gross, gross, gross.

I ordered 3 extra large pizzas for my family and friends who helped me move over the weekend.
We were pleasantly surprised that the 3 pies fed all 8 of us (and some of us twice!).
The pizza was sliced thin, which I personally like, and tasted good as well! I also liked that the pepperonis were small.
I almost forgot. The delivery man was really friendly too!

I am not a mean person, not a vindictive person. I bear the friendly people of Pizza Parma no ill will.
But their pizza was remarkably terrible.
Went there, hungry, a bit past midnight, looking for a little something before going home to sleep. They don’t have slices – this seems to be a (terrible, stupefying, egregious) trend in these parts. Fine. The smallest pizza, a «personal» pie, costs $ 7 and is 7″ in diameter. The cashier and I agree that that’s a very small amount of pizza, and since I’m hungrier than one and one half mouthsful, I get a «small,» which is 10″. I add a mushroom topping. I pay my $ 11.21 and wait.
There are two seating options inside the store: a small wooden bench, and two fold up chairs around a little table. Conveniently, they were using the wooden bench to store a rolled up carpet that laid across the whole thing, and they’d also elected to fold up the two folding chairs, probably because they were tired from a long day of being used as chairs. So I waited outside the store on a bench.
The friendly cashier and the friendly patrons waiting for their order indoors called me over when my pizza was ready. I took it outside, sitting in the cold to eat it, thinking, «I hope this $ 11 pizza is pretty good.» Opened up the box, saw how pitifully small a 10″ pizza is, and started eating.
Let me say something about pizza: if you have decent cheese, decent tomato sauce, flour, water, and a hot oven, you can make a passable pizza. I will eat it and think, «well this isn’t the best pizza I’ve ever had but it’s fine.» That is not what I thought when I ate Pizza Parma’s pizza. I thought, «it would be too rude and insulting to ask for my money back. I’ll just try to eat as much of this as I can.»
I ate three out of the six «slices.» (One sixth of a 10″ pizza is a total of *25/​6 = 13 square inches. That sounds like a lot of pizza, but in fact is a tiny amount of pizza.) I couldn’t stand to eat more than half. The mushrooms were fine; I fished them out and ate them. The cheese was actually terrible; it had a strange chemical taste and plasticky appearance. The crust was poofy and not crusty.
Ashamedly, I threw half of a pizza away tonight. Folks, I am not a food destroyer. I eat things I don’t like, and expired foods, because I don’t want to waste. It takes a legitimately terrible pizza for me to actually throw the thing away.
Went home, made some eggs, and guess what? The terrible cheese taste from an hour and a half ago? It’s still in my mouth. I’m not making this up.
I know there’s good pizza around here. Ordered two back to back slices at Spak Brothers – delicious! Tasty! Reasonable price! But whoaaaaaaa whoa was this terrible, overexpensive pizza. Sheesh.

Some friends and I ordered a couple of pizzas for delivery from here tonight. We’d bought a few growlers of hard cider from a local establishment, and we were looking for some fuel to help us soak up the booze. My friend suggested getting pizza from here, and I didn’t object, since I’d never had pizza from here before, and I’d heard the pizza from here was consistently decent.
The pizza showed up about 45 min. after we ordered it, right about at the time estimated, so no complaints there. As for the pizza itself, it was solidly A-​OK – nothing special, but nothing horrible, either. It was a bit on the greasy side, and I could tell from pulling the first piece away from the pie that the crust wasn’t crispy. Biting into my first slice of pepperoni pizza confirmed my suspicions about the floppiness of the crust. As for the flavor, it was your standard pizza flavor – again, nothing special, but nothing horrible, either. It was more greasy than I’d like, but not to the point where I felt it necessary to dab off the grease with a napkin (though I was tempted to do so).
As the bottom line, the pizza was fine for our purposes (to soak up alcohol). It was better than Vocelli’s, and about on par with Papa John’s. I wouldn’t go out of my way to order from here again, but I wouldn’t object to it, either.

Service has definitely improved. I have over the last 6 months had a consistently pleasant experience ordering over the phone and with delivery. Very nice people there now both on the phone and on delivery. Quality of the food remains superior compared with other pizza delivery chains. I haven’t been back to order in person and I’ve been reluctant to try the online service again though but that would be nitpicking. Totally noticed a positive change.

When my boyfriend and I were down with the flu, we ordered some food here through Eat24. I got a chicken noodle soup and he got the seafood calzone. When I unpacked the food and tried a sip of my soup, I found that it was cold and had bubbles in it, as if there was soap in it. I couldn’t really taste anything, but my boyfriend said it smelled like dishwater. To say the least, I was disappointed in my soup. When my boyfriend cut into his calzone, he said the cheese was barely melted. We thought it was undercooked and touched the outside. It was cold, as if it was sitting out in the open for a long time. He tried to take a bite, but the dough was barely even cooked and the contents of the seafood calzone was cold and tasted sour.
This was our first time ordering from here and it was such a sad experience to have, since our food was inedible. I heard this place was good and had great calzones and tasty soup, but what we received was the complete opposite from the praise I’ve heard about this place.

Take out and delivery only. Good pizza and our go-​to for delivery. Love the hungry man special– cheese pizza, breadsticks, hoagie, and a two liter for $ 23. Pizza is good– cheesy and delicious. I like the sausage pizza here as well. The steak and meatball hoagies are our favorites. Service is fast and friendly.

I have to say, I maybe (/​definitely) had these guys programmed into my phone when I lived over in Shadyside. I term this branch «Good Olé Faithful,» as they have come to my aid during many times of need, which possibly includes Saturday nights at 2am (sorry for having to deal with me, guys). The pizza is freakin cheap and pretty damn good, especially for the price. I maybe (/​definitely) use to call them every Monday when they had an extra-​large one-​topping pizza AND an order of bread sticks for only 9.99… 9.99! I’m not sure that they still run this deal, but I could generally get a large cheese for about 10 bucks, and you can’t really beat that. Not too greasy, just enough but not too much cheese, their pizza (and actually other food items, which is surprisingly quite extensive) is better than average and tasty for a night in alone or stumbling in with friends after a night out. I usually just walked over, where’s it’s perfectly nestled in the shopping center across from Mad Mex and Buffalo Blues on S. Highland– however, they deliver too– and both options are surprisingly quick. Enjoy!

Great friendly service and my order was done fast, which was amazing since I was a walk-​in. Lots of toppings piled high but I wish there was more cheese. They did have small bottles of vanilla Coke, which is a rare find these days.

If you find yourself craving pizza on a Saturday night, you can’t beat $ 9 for a large cheese pizza. I also enjoy the hoagies as they are lightly toasted for a nice crunch.
I can’t speak for the pastas or appetizers, but the Pittsburgh style grilled chicken salad is a dependable choice.

Pizza Parma delivers through GrubHub, which is the primary reason I ordered sandwiches from them. BBQ chicken was ok. The bread is a little more on the burnt than toasted side, leading it to be dry. The value is good. The 20″ sandwich was about $ 11.

Good food

I’ve should have known better than to order a salad from a pizza joint. I also should have known that I shouldn’t have cheated on my diet.
I figured I’d choose today to be my cheat day and order with everyone else at work for take out. I opted for the Popcorn Chicken Salad. Sounds tasty, looked tasty, and yes it even tasted tasty. Iceberg lettuce, grape tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, french fries, popcorn chicken, and three types of cheese.
I have to say that even though I was saying yes, my body was saying, ‘OH hell no!‘
I’m regretting this decision now as I am sitting here in discomfort. Not sure what on the salad made me feel this way. But I’m not liking the effect I’m getting right now. Could just be karma turning around and kicking me in the ass for eating what looked healthy but was really nothing more than the equivalent of a fried chicken sandwich combo meal from a fast food joint.
I’ll think twice before the next time rolls around to order from here.