Steve’s Pizza Palace

Steve’s pizza is my favorite place to eat in Platteville. The cheese bread is a meal in itself but the pizza has always been fresh and hot. I can also highly recommend the Daquiri on a hot summer day. The only reason for not giving 5 stars is because their is always room for improvement

Steve’s pizza is probably the best pizza and atmosphere I have ever had across the nation. I may be a little bias, as I went to college in Platteville and have some great memories at this place, but the pizza and booths looking out at Main Street are awesome. We always get the Steve’s original pizza, some Spotted Cow beer and have a great time. The service is always great and the staff very friendly. I can’t say enough good things about Steve’s, and probably could go on and on about how great it is. So, long story short, if you are in the Platteville area, hit up Steve’s Pizza, and you will not be disappointed!

I love this place!!! It’s a tradition that whenever someone visits me here in platteville, we eat at steves. The pizza is delicious, and the appetizers (especially the cheese bread) are fantastic.

Cold gyro and bad service is not good. Too long to get a beer. It was more important for them to stock beer and screw around. Stuff is too high priced anyway.

By far the BEST pizza in Platteville! Amazing food, great beer selection, outstanding atmosphere and friendly employees. What else could you ask for?! This rates as my favorite place to eat in Platteville. Wish they were open during lunch!

The food is overpriced for the quality that it is given. The crust is not that great, and for being the go-​to local pizza place, it really is not that great.
Service is not that good. I’ve been there several times, and the last time I was there I had brought my parents. Service was so bad and slow that we watched other tables walk out or send food back several times. We didn’t even leave a tip, which I hate doing, but I can assure you it was terrible service and deserved little to nothing. After waiting for a half hour to get our bill paid for we eventually just took the bill up to the counter so we could leave. If it counts for anything, I did feel bad… it was incredibly busy and the staff seemed incredibly unorganized. It might just be management, because I do have friends that work/​worked there and a majority of them claim management isn’t that great.
Hope this helps. I would give it a «three strikes, you’re out» chance, bit I won’t be going back for a while. Delivery is free, though!

A Platteville favorite! When ever we travel back to visit family we either make a stop to eat or take a take-​and-​bake with us to go.
On the weekends some nights there is live music and the bar is a great place to grab some drinks. The only thing I would change is the hours since the don’t open until late on Saturday and Sunday we sometimes pass through and would stop, but they aren’t open yet.

Decent Pizza and Drinks. Fairly expensive for what you get.

I am new to town and decided to try Steve’s pizza. I tried a thin crust pepperoni pizza which cost me about 12.50.
I was shocked when the pizza arrived. It was so small and bland looking. The pepperoni was cooked under the cheese and lacked flavor and texture. All the pepperoni did was make it hard to bite the pizza without pulling out the other half of the pepperoni.
The crust was shameful. It was as dry as a desert. It reminded me of the jewish matzo crackers (in both texture and taste). I didn’t get much flavor from the cheese or sauce. No joke, I get much better 6 $ frozen pizzas from walmart. 12.50 is way too much for this quality of pizza.
My lady server did a good job and the overall cleanliness of the restaurant was fine.
The quality of the pizza from this pizza restaurant left so much to be desired that I will not be returning to try other food.

Over the past six months or so, the service has continued to decline. My «after work» group doesn’t visit here as often anymore.

I came in and ordered spaghetti with beef sauce. I wasn’t such a big fan of it; the spaghetti noodles looked like it has been sitting out for awhile and the spaghetti sauce was a little salty. I would not order this plate again. However, the waitresses were extremely friendly and bubbly. The decorations in the restaurant is super adorable and attractive. I would definitely still come back and try their pizza!

Booths and tables, side rooms for groups. Good beer selection and drinks because it is a college town. Food is adequate. Hit and miss. Way over priced for what it is. Paying for his extensive remodel of old store front. But again as with anything in Platteville not a lot of options. I guess college towns do not have to cater to sophisticated palettes. A medium pizza and Two drinks with tip will run you about 45.00. Thank God you can get good vodka!

Décor: pub style
Sercice: 5 stars
Food: 3.5 stars
I can’t write this review without first commenting on the town itself. I was in town speaking at an event and relied on Unilocal as always for food choices.
Platteville is a neat little college town, and downtown itself is very clean, quiet, and just feels like a perfect little town in the heartland.
The mixed reviews almost kept me from coming here but I took the risk because there were both good and bad reviews to balance things out.
Glad I did.
Service was super. The lady was genuinely friendly and fielded my menu questions with grace. Food came out in a reasonable time. No problems whatever. Very clean and well kept resturant. Huge high backed booths and granite tables.
Perhaps some of the bad reviews were likened to people who unfortunately just got bad waiters.
I went on a Friday night in the summer and it was very quiet. I’m guessing that during the fall and spring when college is going on that this place is hopping! Summer visit was quiet and relaxing for me.
Pizza was good. No complaints there at all.

Like it so much. I’ve been there three times and ordered once online. Good quick service. Recommended

Great go-​to restaurant for good pizza, cheese bread and sandwiches. A bit pricey but still worth it!

Steve’s Pizza is essentially one of a very small number of reasonable places to hang out in Platteville at night, in that they offer food as well as drinks. The pizza here is okay, nothing special but generally tasty and you get plenty. Appetizers are pretty good – I am in particular a fan of the garlic bread. Drinks, also, have been pretty great for me. I like to sample a lot of different cocktails, and they have some pretty creative ones that are worth trying. The Klondike Bar martini, for example, tastes just like a Klondike bar. My friends are more beer drinkers, and they are typically happy with the offerings. The restaurant itself has a laidback atmosphere, and sometimes there is live music (typically singer-​songwriter guitar types) which can be overpowering if you’d rather have nice conversation.
This is the problem: the service is incredibly bad, on average. I can’t say I’ve ever had GREAT service at Steve’s – I’ve had acceptable or okay service, but not great. But I have definitely had godawful, horrible service. The worst service I’ve ever had, anywhere! For example, the last time my group of friends (five of us total) hung out at Steve’s, we popped in on a pretty slow Friday night around eight (this was over Thanksgiving weekend) and were seated at a booth in the front, where the bar is (so far so good). Our waiter took our initial drink order pretty promptly, but then the waiting started. We all got our drinks after about fifteen minutes, and a few of us ordered appetizers. One of my friends asked to have a glass of water along with her beer. Twenty minutes later, we got our appetizers, but still no water. I ordered another martini, everyone else got another round of beers, my friend repeated her request for water. Half an hour later, I finally got my second martini, and he still forgot her water! We ordered chicken wings and asked for water again. The water finally came, but over an hour passed and no chicken wings, no check-​up (I would have ordered another drink, as would most of my friends), nothing. This guy could have made so much money off us, a group of 20-​somethings catching up on a holiday weekend having drinks and ordering food, yet he left us alone for ages, hanging out at the bar on his phone, texting. At the end of the night, we had to go request our check from the bartender as our waiter had vacated the premises. The only saving grace was we weren’t charged for the chicken wings which never came.
The thing about Steve’s is it’s really our only option when we’re all in town and able to get together, and in this way it holds us hostage. We would definitely go elsewhere after the abysmally bad service we’ve had on more than one occasion, but there is nowhere else to go. It’s too bad, because it could be such a great experience – a gem in Platteville’s pool of terrible dining choices – but the service is frequently mindblowingly awful.

Evening in Platteville: this is where I go, and this is where I take friends who come to visit for a pizza and a Spotted Cow.

** Gluten-​free pizza crust available! **
A bit pricy for pizza and beer.
Non-​smoking.
«Katerina» pizza (with basil pesto as sauce) is outstanding!
Greek salads are very good.

If you’re from Platteville, this is a weekend staple. I love the BLT pizza! Their thin crust is just okay, but I’m in the minority on that one.
I will caution you against this though — if you take a large group there, you will probably have to send someone from your party to fetch more drinks. We recently took a group of 17. That was way too big for a Friday night. We were sent upstairs where the waitress could only come back twice. Groups under 8 work better for the staff.

When I am in town, there are several stops that I must make, Steve’s is one of those musts! I picked up a pizza on Tuesday night and it was everything I remember, yum! Next time I am in town, you can bet I will swing by again.