Minsky’s Pizza

This is bar none the best pizza in Kansas City that I’ve had to date. They have a vast selection of toppings, they’re all fresh, the pizzas always come out perfect, the service is fantastic, and the delivery is almost always faster than the 45 minute estimate. Can’t eat a whole pizza? The calzone is a great option (and is still usually more than you can eat). Personal favorite? Buffalo chicken pizza, minus the carrots, and add a double dose of cream cheese… add ranch for some dipping and you’ve got the perfect pie.
For the people who aren’t in the know like Brian R… if it’s a Friday or Saturday night or you’re stopping in on THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING, chances are you’ll have to wait an hour or slightly more. If you’re concerned about the wait; stop in at a Casey’s general store and grab a slice there; but leaving a 1 star review because you’re too stupid to figure out that a good food place is going to be busy the night before a major holiday is wholly unacceptable. Use your brain when you’re going out to eat.

55 minutes and still waiting for our pizza. Would have been nice to know ahead of time it’d be this kind of wait.

Loved the cheese on the pizza which is a mix of mozzarella and Romano cheese. We got the Seafood Elite pizza and Papa Minsky’s on thin crust (its not super thin but thinner than the original). Both were pretty good but we enjoyed the Seafood Elite a bit more than the latter. We also got a house salad to share which was a great size especially for the price. I need to try out the rest of the pizzas!

Went in late on Friday 02OCT15. Server was very kind, upbeat and helped us pick out a couple of pizzas for my family. The pizza’s were okay. We got a Meat pizza with bacon and seemingly every other part of the pig I can’t remember the menu name for it but it was an okay pizza. The Shrimp pizza with white sauce was the better of the two though the sauce was a bit runnier (sp) than I’d have liked. The only real complaint was that it was incredibly slow. It took nearly an hour to get our pies and we weren’t ever given an explanation as to why. If we are ever in the neighborhood again I’d be willing to give them another shot.

The new BBQ pizza’s are amazing!

Best pizza in Shawnee! I highly recommend this place. We always get the combo pizza minus the black olives. They never disappoint!

I LOVE Minsky’s Pizza. This location just fails every time. I try to keep going back in hopes that it will be better, and it stinks. I have called in orders for delivery and they do not deliver the correct order. Even the person taking the orders is rude and unprofessional. Hope that this location can pull it together, because they do have a great product.

I will always be a loyal customer to Minsky’s, and this location is the best in the area. The service is impeccable and the food is to die for. On very rare occasion when they get orders incorrect, they are extremely quick to replace them. Hands down, this place is the best around! It’s more expensive than most pizza places, but it’s worth every penny.

Was in town for business!!! Really good pizza. Had a thin crust personal. Fresh ingredients. Good menu with lots of different choices. Service was really good price was very reasonable as well. I will for sure come back.

Great pizza. Get the papa minsky!

After a long day of moving, my boyfriend and I were entirely worn out and ready for some good food. We drove all of two miles to this joint and immediately ordered the tallest waters they had and the cream cheese pesto dip. Both were refreshing and delicious. For pizza we ordered a deep dish bacon cheeseburger variety. It was as amazingly indulgent as it sounds. We loved every bite. The mustard is the key ingredient. Loved it. I asked for a side of peppercorn ranch too, which made every bite that much better. The service was also great. We had the wife of one of the partner’s and she was just the cat’s meow. We never wanted for anything and she got the Pacer’s game on our TV without question. Great night, great place, great food.

Brrr! Great food but order out. It’s a problem when everyone is eating with their coats on. I wish KC restaurants would figure out seasonal awnings. Shut the front door already!

What’s not to love about Minsky’s? The pizza’s good, perhaps the best in KC. Personally, I prefer the spaghetti with meat sauce. (BTW, this should apply to all Minsky’s locations, but I really like this one in Shawnee.)

Near a large ball field, so they are used to teams coming in to celebrate the win — they’re pretty kid-​friendly, but it can be raucously noisy at times. The pizza is good, with a fresh & yummy sauce on a nice chewy crust. Salads are good too.

Best pizza in town hands down. Always have the freshest ingredients and good beer selection. Can get a little expensive but it is worth it.

I have not had a good experience here before, but I decided to try it again due to the long wait at Eggcetera next door as we were really hungry at the time. My previous experience was that the service was ok, and the ingredients themselves tasted good, but the crust was horrible and to me the crust can make or break a pizza. This time around, our experience was even worse.
We walked in and were seated right away. Our server looked like she had been up all night drinking. I can’t fault her for that necessarily because I like to go out and drink on the weekends myself. What I do fault her for is her bad attitude and lack of friendly service. If you’re going to go out and drink full well knowing that you have to work the next day, suck it up and put a smile on your face if you plan on getting tips that day. I’m an ex server and I know how tough that can be, but I dealt with it because that was my choice.
Since I was so hungry, I decided to order a salad. When it came out, it was more like a bowl of lettuce with a side of misery. The cucumbers on the side looked like they had been sitting out all day, the tomato was not ripe at all, and the pepperoncini looked more like a pickle than a pepperoncini. Their «house» Italian dressing tasted more like oil and vinegar with oregano thrown into it.
At this point, I’m regretting not going to Eggcetera… but we still had a glimpse of hope for the pizza. We ordered a thin crust original with sausage, mushroom, and onion. Dissapointed yet again. The pizza came out loaded with a puddle of grease on top of the cheese. I proceeded to sop it up with a napkin, easy fix. What I couldn’t fix was the crust that was so soaked with grease that the limp, soggy remnants of a pizza fell apart as I moved a slice to my plate from the plastic, grease laden pizza dish.
Ok, so after all this time and being so hungry, I was a bit irritated. The server came over to see how everything was, but I refrained from saying how I really felt and simply said the crust was soggy. She proceeded to take the pizza back and was going to put it in the oven to crisp it up a bit.
The manager came over 5 minutes later and said they were putting a whole new pizza in. I probably would have been ok with this if I wasn’t so hungry and had my whole day to waste so that’s frankly what I told him. He said «I already put another pizza in for you, but it doesn’t sound like anything I do is going to make you happy?» (Record scratch…) WHAT?! A manager with this behavior should not be in this business.
I’ve spent way too long writing this review as it is, but I feel it is important to forewarn others who read the other reviews and expect a good pizza. Ok, enough ranting and raving…
Long story short, I will never be going to this specific Minskys again. If you like Minskys, I’d go to another location where you can at least get a greasy pizza with a smile.
Better yet, go to Waldo pizza where they actually serve good pizza.

Quite simply, I think Minskys is the best pizza in KC. We’ve never had a bad experience (knock on wood), and hate that we moved too far away to make this a regular stop any more. The only thing keeping this from a 5 Star review is the pricing. While fair for the quality, it is one of the more expensive pies in town, which makes it a $ 30 pizza dinner most times for us, which is a bit steep.
They do have an awesome lunch special though, which is 5 Stars all the way for Price and Quality.

Always been my fav KC pizza. Papa Minskeys. Roasted red pepers.
Their pizza don’t give me heartburn after I eat it.

I’ll start out by saying that on Valentine’s Day, my wife and I did not plan on going to Minsky’s in Shawnee. But after looking at the lines at various other eating establishments in the area, we defaulted to here. We were seated almost immediately when we entered the restaurant, which was surprising, given the place was packed, and remained that way while we were there. Most of the patrons appeared to be kids and parents.
We were working on a time-​clock due to having a movie we wanted to see, so we opted for something quick and not pizza. We each chose a calzone. My wife chose a vegetarian special with wheat crust while I chose a 4-​ingredient combo with Italian sausage, Canadian bacon, mushrooms and garlic with the traditional white crust. We only chose water for drinks, but we did add salads to the choices. The salads were basic iceberg lettuce and assorted other things from a bag. The dressings were okay but also unremarkable.
Our calzones were ready in about 20 minutes, which did not surprise me, given the amount of business they were doing. However, what did surprise me was they did not come with any kind of marinara sauce, and if we wanted it, that would be $.50 extra per calzone. We decided to order some, but it never came. Fortunately we were able to get our waitress to take that off our bill. So a dry calzone is not a great calzone, but it was okay. I wish I had ordered the wheat crust. They were certainly plentiful in size. My wife took ½ of her calzone home. In the end, I agree with reviewer Stephanie N. who equates this as being better than Pizza Hut or Domino’s but nothing special. I found it to be rather pedestrian myself. I remember when Minsky’s first appeared in the KC area and it was rather good and unique at that time. Now, not so much.
The wait staff appeared to be hustling but were overwhelmed, and so our service suffered. They could have easily added 1 – 2 more wait staff to handle the crowd. I’m not sure if this was because it was Valentine’s day (not many couples besides us that night) or if Monday nights are always like this, but in these days I would think IF you’re doing this kind of business on a regular weeknight, finding an extra body or 2 to service your customers would not be hard.
So all in all, Minsky’s is probably okay in an emergency or to get out of a big-​chain rut but don’t make any special effort to go.

It’s ok. It’s better than pizza hut, dominos, etc but nowhere near Waldo Pizza. Now, I realize Waldo pizza is St. Louis style and Minsky’s is possibly trying to edge towards St. Louis style, but it’s not happening.
The sauce was lacking true flavor. It was average at best. We ordered the honey wheat thin crust which is hard to get down as far as crust goes. The edges were perfectly toasted with a light brown color. The bottom of the crust was a little soft.
The service was great though, so that was a plus.
Really, I’m not complaining or trying to be negative, but I just thought it was alright. It’s like comparing bud light to actual beer.