Unconventional Pizza

The reviews kind of touch upon everything. The first time I tried to go here they had half a pizza (which happened to be pepperoni and mushroom)…that’s it. It was on a Saturday afternoon during a 4,000 person convention. The only thing unconventional about this place was that it doesn’t have anything to offer. I did go back the next day and there were a few more options. I went with a slice of pizza and a house special calzone. The pizza was probably some of the worst I have ever had. The calzone was surprisingly half decent, but in the end this place already lost me to give it any redeeming quality. DO NOT GO HERE

Maybe I’m being generous with giving them two stars but I’ll try to ignore all the 1-​star reviews. So! That being said, this place is up and down bland. The pizza is edible, sure. I mean, how bad can pizza really get? We all know that even bad pizza is ok enough not to spit out. Here’s where they come short: 1) I wasn’t sure there was any sauce in my pepperoni at all, there needs to be more. Bread and cheese doesn’t put me in flavor country. 2) Pizza is overpriced. Even Pagliacci’s who has notoriously expensive pizza has cheaper slices. (larger and tastier too). 3) Like most reviewers have said, they skimp on ingredients in order to turn a larger profit in regards to supply and demand. So when there is an event, they become an even bigger rip-​off. Here’s an idea, make better pizza! Then you would have more customers and you wouldn’t need to skimp your ingredients and raise your already ridiculous pricing. People notice that BS. How this place stays in business? I do not know.
I believe people in general have pretty high standards for pizza since it is such a staple in our American diets. When something like pizza doesn’t meet our expectations, it makes us freak out. Making good pizza that people love takes some talent, really. These guys need to kick it up a few notches.

DON’T GO HERE!
What an ungodly rip off. Big convention in town so they have no individual slices for $ 3.50 like their menu board says. Just a half of a personal pizza. I ordered two with two bottles of water and it cost $ 20.
Then to top it off the pizza was inedible. Cooked cardboard would have been a huge step up from this place. Seriously, I am not foodie — this place makes Little Ceasars look like food from the gods. It was just a piece of dough with some sauce painted on and about three shreds of cheese.
They survive only because out of towners come here for a convention and don’t read reviews before going in.

Update: Very good news. Unconventional pizza is gone!
Don’t go here if you’re at Sakura Con or for any reason. They sold half a 9 inch pizza slice size of pepperoni and a cheese slice pizza for $ 13.18 without warning that there are no slice prices. Which are suppose to be $ 3.35−3.50 a slice on their wall menu. Rip off.
P. S. There is a restaurant behind the escalators with decent prices. I’d really check that place out next year.

Just awful, absolutely no redeeming qualities about this place. Over the weekend PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) happened and I was down there for it. It was like 12 or 13 dollars for a little tiny pizza with almost no sauce. Who cares about the volume of customers? A good pizza joint doesn’t sacrifice quality and churn out a bunch of shitty pizza because they get swamped. Also they took complete advantage of the event going on and I would imagine they don’t normally charge 12 dollars for a 5 — 6 bite pizza? This place is a joke.

A Conventional Rip-​Off!
Oh these guys, they know the trick of supply and demand. We were here for a convention over the weekend and due to the high traffic they were only serving mini-​pizzas Cheese or Pepperoni. Ok fair enough, however said mini-​pizza with no choice of variety and barely ANY cheese, guess how much? $ 10.95.
That’s right, ELEVEN DOLLARS. This is not their normal price, oh no… they took complete advantage of the convention rush to totally screw people over. And when we expressed our feelings about the price, the swarthy guy proceeded to tell us «Fine…Goodbye.» then promptly offered our pizza to the next people in line.
Not only are they price gouging, taking advantage of the lunch rush and screwing people, but they were just flat out rude about it. Definitely avoiding this place at all costs in the future.

The pizza here is absolutely god awful.
Was here for an event over the weekend and needed some food ASAP. Saw pizza downstairs and the short line drew us in — apparently the shortness of the line should have been a warning sign.
Felt extremely pushed through the line by the unfriendly staff. The only pizza options were cheese or sausage — the only difference being about 5 – 6 tiny round pieces of sausage on each slice. Soda and a slice was $ 5.50 — not awful at this point, but I hadn’t bit into the pizza yet.
When I did, I was less than pleased to find it was soggy, greasy, and — above all else — cold. Yum :-/​
I didn’t even want to finish the slice, but I did. I was starving. As soon as my friend and I finished, we went on a new hunt to find actual edible and satisfying food…
Will not be back here.

Getting a couple slices of pizza pie… It’s lunch time right???

I am referring to pizza place inside the convention center. Horrible pizza. Tasted like cardboard. Not fresh at all. Actually made me feel a little sick.

I have been to eat pizza here more than 5 times. One time the pizza was lukewarm and not flavorful, but my last 4 times it has hit the spot.
Their vegetarian pizza is absolutely delicious. All the vegans need to check this place out. I am happy with the service the pizza and the prices.

Got two fresh slices of cheese, which were on the bland side but hot and tasted ok. Also got a slice of Hawaiian, which was cold and congealed and gross. Service was fast, but I think we got in at a lucky time. Vegetarian-​friendly. Would go there again if I *had* to eat fast food at the convention center and could get a fresh slice (better than Subway or Taco del Mar).

More bad pizza. The supreme slice I ordered felt like it was made 3 days ago. The cheese actually ok though.
Supreme slice — toppings were flavorless (kind of hard when you have like 5 diff things!), I couldn’t tell the sauce was there, crust subpar.
Cheese slice — tasted fine, good cheese/​sauce ratio, crust was passable.
I came here because all of the other pizza stores near me were closed, and I needed my pizza in a new city fix. Wish I read the reviews on Unilocal prior…

No sir, don’t like it. They rush you through the line and then forget that they’ve talked with you even though you may have not even moved an inch in the line.
We walked in looking for a nice quick bite and the service lady asks us immediately what we want to order before we even get a chance to get up to the menu. We tell her that we don’t know yet and need to look at the menu first and she barks at us to move over so that the line can move by us. We look behind us and there is no line. Fail 1.
We decide on single slices a a couple of garlic bread sticks because we’re not impressed with her attitude and decide against ordering a whole pie in case they screw that up. So she tosses the slices onto paper plates and plops them on the serving counter without so much as a thanks or a smile and then turns around so she can tell her associate that she is taking her break and walks away without finishing our order for the bread sticks. Fail 2.
So we flag down the other server guy to grab those for us. He’s really nice and offers to warm them up for us and bring them out to which we gratefully accept since the woman wasn’t so nice.
So we progress to the cashier next and my boyfriend paid for the single slices and bread sticks for me and his sister. As we were filing out the cashier flagged me down and asked me to pay for my slice and I had to clarify with him that he just rung us up for them. He said okay. Then as we were trying to move away from the register some people came in and we had to step back toward the register to give them some space and the same cashier again asked me to pay for the same slice he just asked me about. I looked at him and told him he already asked me that and that it was paid for. He frowns at me and waves me away. He actually dismissed me. Fail 3
They forgot my garlic cheese sticks in the oven. We were nearly done with our slices before anyone noticed that we didn’t have our bread sticks. We had to go back and ask for them. Fail 4
They looked at my boyfriend like he was crazy so they grabbed them out of the oven, tossed them on a plate and dismissed him too without so much as a sorry. I took a look at them and they were nearly burned and were extremely crisped. I took a few bites out of it since we paid for it but quickly deemed them inedible. Fail 5
I gave up on even trying to ask for our money back because they were still rushing people through the line – all of them looking equally unsatisfied as we were feeling. Fail 6
And I can’t find a trace of garlic in my overdone «Garlic Cheese Bread». Fail 7
As for the actual slices and marinara sauce, nothing memorable. The crust was okay but the pizzas left you wanting for… well…pizza. Looking back on what we paid for these slices and how they treated us I highly advise against ever coming to this place at all. It truly killed my high from having an awesome Convention experience. If all you want is a thin slip of bland, unsalted pizza dough in your tummy then YAY you’ve got someplace to go! But if you want Real Pizza, move on elsewhere.

I think this location is the one in the Convention Center. Theres nothing about this place that I like… it’s dark, the pizza looked like it had been made a few hours beforehand, there wasn’t enough cheese or sauce on the pizza, the dough needed to be salted a bit more (according to my friend who likes to think she’s a chef), the side salad that you get if you order the lunch special tasted like ass… in one word: No.

Favorite among the local college crowd, this little hole in the wall pizza place is incredibly warm, fun, and fresh in their attitudes. Their signature pizzas are tasty and always good, while being within college student budget [meaning: cheap]!