Happy Days Pizza Place

With a bunch of solid pizza options nearby, I sleep on Happy Days… my loss! Great cheese pie and a friendly place. I vow to get Happy Days back in my pizza rotation.

I LOVE this place. I have been going to Happy Days roughly three times a month since about 2008. The staff is very friendly, and turnaround time between placing an order via phone and picking it up is generally under 30 minutes from what I’ve seen. The pizza tastes great, and the slices tend to be pretty fresh. A large pie is a little pricy ($ 15), but to me, it is worth every dollar. The sauce is delicious, and to me, the sauce makes or breaks a pizza. The garlic knots don’t tend to be quite on the same level, but they’re a lot better than some other knots I’ve had in the area. The parking lot used to have a ton more spaces available, but now it doesn’t. Bring your quarters, and keep an eye on your meter. I’ve gotten several tickets for going just a minute or two over. But don’t let the parking lot deter you. Happy Days has just about the best pizza I’ve ever tasted.

Staff is friendly. Pizza is okay to good. It tastes like a traditional pizza slice. There wedges are ok to good as well. Price is very reasonable.

The other reviews about this place sum it up. Nice friendly staff, reasonable prices, and delicious pizza.
They have wheels that were very good and these little eggplang rolls that were spot on too.

Old School New York Pizza Here! Staff is very friendly, food is good, what else could you ask for? They have pizza, pasta, calzones, salads, and the prices make it all worth it. It is cash only… don’t worry though, they have an ATM on site!

Great pizza. Friendly people working there.
Cash only! ATM is right there.

Friendly people and good pizza (crunchy crust) and calzones. Classical pizza shop furniture. Nothing fancy but it is about the food. Nice.

It’s our «go-​to» for a quick slice when we’re back in the neighbourhood.
Price is fair, service is quick, friendly. Haven’t had an overbaked slice here yet. I consider it the best in the area, mainly for the sauce, which doesn’t have the overbearing oregano flavour. Just great tomatoes and garlic.

I just stopped by here today on a whim while visiting the butcher a few doors down. I ordered a Sicilian pie to split with my coworkers and I was seriously blown away.
I have to note that their Sicilian is a little different than other Sicilian pizzas I’ve had in the past. (and I’ve had a ton of New York pizza over the years) The edges were nearly nonexistent (typically my favorite part of a Sicilian slice) but about an ¹⁄₈^th to ¼ of an inch of crust on the bottom was so crunchy and the dough above was airy… Sorry I started drooling on myself thinking about it again. It was really delicious. I noticed that they added the cheese to the pie nearly at the end of the bake and it really did the pizza so many f (l)avors.
Though this place is a solid 10 minute drive from my home, and there are plenty of great pizza places near by; I’ll definitely be going back to this place.
Worth checking out.

While visiting family back home, I put a special to-​do list together. One of the top items on that list was to pop by Happy Days, the pizzeria of my youth. It is with great fondness that I remember Happy Days. Over my entire life, it has been our go-​to pizza parlor. Back on No Meat Fridays it was a weekly staple for the family, and I can vividly remember through high school years heading down Locust Ave. from my house, or coming from the Lord & Taylor parking lot after a day of skateboarding to grab a slice for $ 1.25.
Well, that slice is $ 2.50 now, but there have been an awful lot of years in between, and Happy Days is still worth every penny. I felt an old familiar feeling, walking through the narrow alley that connects the parking lot in the back to the storefront on Post Road (It is directly across from the Mobil station for those of you who have yet to treat yourself).
Walking in you will find a basic pizzeria with no unnecessary fluff. This is a true pizza place. No tablecloths, candles or tacky knickknacks. You will find the counter in front, the soda fridge on the left, and if you chance to turn around and face the exit, there is a small TV set facing in, so the people working in the kitchen can watch the soccer game that seems to be going on no matter what day or what time you visit. Of course, on the walls you will find the mandatory maps of Italy and the «We serve the superior Grande Cheese here» posters.
Once your order is served upon that iconic double paper plate and wax paper combo, you can bring it to one of the tables or booths where you may find the NY Post or the Daily News waiting for you. It always seems just right that the NY Times is nowhere to be found.
The slices are still being perfectly prepared, the way all NYers live it, with the crust just right for picking up and folding over (allowing some of that olive oil to channel down onto the paper plate below). The sauce is just right. And the cheese is a gooey mess of full bodied flavor that trails from chin to hand as you pull the pizza away after each bite.
I would have normally rated Happy Days a 5/​5, but my true rating is 4.5 due to the fact that they offer Hawaiian pizza. I cannot in good conscience support that. An authentic pizzeria offering Hawaiian is anathema to NY. At least they don’t offer Chicago. I fully recommend Happy Days if you enjoy a good pizza pie.

Nice to see Happy Days still here. Remember this back from grade school days. Unfortunately they seem to drop half a can of oil on their slices… Would be good without all that grease!

Just plain old good pizza. Nothing fancy with the décor of the place and the pizza might be a little oily, but it’s nothing that you can’t fix with a quick dab of a napkin. I usually add pepper and sometimes garlic to pizza, but you didn’t need to add anything here; it was just perfect all by itself!

Growing up this was the staple pizza place for me and my friends. A place where you can find the ideal NYC style pizza for a good price.
Inside is like your traditional pizzeria: order a slice at the counter, booths for sitting. No frills, just pizza and and some traditional Italian food.
If your family regularly (weekly) orders a pie for delivery or pickup, they remember and usually treat you around Christmas.
It should be noted some people think the pizza is too oily. But for me, that’s how I like it.
** If you like Happy Days, you’ll also like S & J’s located in Scarsdale village.