A Slice Above

Great pizza. It has replaced Angelo’s as my Cleveland favorite. Try the Chicago Style with pepperoni and sweet red sauce. Oh, sweet love! (Please note. It’s not true ‘Chicago style pizza’. There isn’t a place in Cleveland that truly gets that right)

Excellent pizza. Choices of sauce, crust and ingredients. We like the sweet sauce and pepperoni and roasted red peppers. We have never been disappointed.

The New York style isn’t New York and the Chicago style isn’t Chicago… Average pizza nothing great!

Best pizza in strongsville area hands down. Lots of options to choose from including types of crusts, and all the toppings on the planet. I always do delivery and they beat their time estimate every time, which I appreciate with hungry dudes in the house. Aiming to collect coupons from their boxes to get a free pie one day. Big fan!!!

If you’re buying standard pizzas with standard toppings this is a good, not great pizza place. Their regular pizzas are pretty good. Now, where it shines, and earns 5 stars is in the specialty pizzas and crust options. First off, the crust options are phenomenal. If you’re dieting or just eating healthier they have a low carb crust that only has 5 grams of carbohydrate/​slice, which means you can eat as much as you want without guilt. They also feature a whole wheat crust, which is obviously much better than eating a pizza crust made with white flour. Even if the pizza was mediocre (which it is not), this would be enough to keep me coming back. Next, the specialty pizza options are phenomenal. The pesto pizza is one of the most delicious things I’ve had to eat at a pizza place. The pesto doesn’t overwhelm the other flavors, which you would expect to be a risk with this kind of thing. The twister pizza is also excellent. As a fan of soft pretzels, this is such a cool option to have available. I also really like the nacho pizza. You’d think that it would be tough to deliver a nacho experience on top of a pizza, but they really nail it. If you just want regular pizza, this is a nice option and worth getting, but there are competitors in the area that are different, but equal. Where this place really earns its stars is with the crust options and specialty pizzas. GET INTO IT.

First let me say that I live in Westlake and took the 30 minute drive to Strongsville to pick it up, that’s how much of a fan I am of A Slice Above. I grew up in Strongsville and have heard from friends that this is THE SPOT for Pizza in Strongsville. Luckily when I started dating my girlfriend a year ago, she was living in an apartment down the street and I finally got to try it.
The restaurant is a small pizza shop on Pearl Road attached to the Office Bar (where I have never been before) and the parking lot is small and cramped as is the restaurants lobby. It seriously looks no different than any other small business shop but this place means business. There are so many different combinations but we like to stick to the normal or what I thought was normal. I traveled there last Friday night to pick up a medium «Death by Pepperoni» pizza, a dozen garlic wings & a 2 liter of coke. I was quoted a 30 minute wait for pick up and it was ready when I arrived. After making it home, it was literally pure bliss.
The pizza itself is wonderful. A great traditional sauce, a little more than normal cheese and lots of pepperoni and FULL slices of BACON make this pizza awesome in every bite. Did I mention the crispy and chewy crust… Outstanding. The garlic wings are really the star of the show, my girlfriend swears that they are her absolute favorite wings. They are large, meaty and drenched in garlic butter. It’s a fat kid’s dream. Stop what you’re doing now and get pizza and the wings from here. Probably my top 3 pizza places in the Cleveland area.

This is my favorite pizza. I am usually just a cheese pizza kind of gal but their sausage is so delicious I have to have it. Never disappoints.

This pizza truly is a slice above… Domino’s…but that’s about it.

This place gas very good food. Me and my family get this all the time and they have quick service and very good wings. GO THERE!!!

Best pizza in the Cleveland area I’ve ever had. Would definitely recommend giving the Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza a try, sounds odd but it’s amazing.
I’ve never actually eaten there, only gotten takeout so I can’t speak for the inside of the place itself.

Amazing pizza. Period. The Jimmy Hoffa is our favorite. It starts with an amazing crust with spectacular, authentic yeast flavor, topped with delicious bacon and other toppings. There is no shortage of good pizza in Cleveland, but A Slice Above is a local standout.

The pizza «restaurant» is part of a biker bar oddly called «The Office». I was dragged there by friends and while the food was good I felt weedy after leaving at 2am and looking in their pizza perpetration area which was closed but food was left out uncovered, place was very dirty — from TE floor to food surfaces and their food makeline had products left inside — so obviously they are keeping products in there day after day! And kids left off too! Won’t ever eat there again disgusting!

I’m giving this place 3 stars only because of the Twister pizza. A pizza with pretzels on it is a great idea and they did it just right. Aside from that the other pizzas are not good at all. The cheese was burned and there was not enough sauce. I would go back for the twister alone but I would skip their traditional pizza.

A Slice Above where have you been all my CLE life?
Ok, it’s probably me, but how. did. I. Not. know. about. YOU?!
I ordered 2 pies (Medium) which came to approx. $ 24; this isn’t bad because aside from the big box ‘za places, this is comparable in price and for what you get, I think it is a pretty good deal.
Pie 1 — Pepperoni Feast — Slice Above Crust, regular sauce, added garlic slices.
Pie 2 — Pesto — Whole wheat crust.
They made an error with my order and instead of the pepperoni feast I got the Death By Pepperoni which essentially added bacon to my pie, plus more pepperoni and cheese. I like bacon, so I didn’t care.
The verdict: The ‘za was fresh, delish, and well made. They certainly didn’t skimp on the toppings either. The whole wheat crust was dense and slightly sweet, but not annoyingly so. The regular crust was perfect, not too thick, not too thin. Finally ‘za worthy of my taste buds!
A few things that could be worked on:
1. The website. It doesn’t work for all the links
2. The website ordering — you can’t add notes to your order. (Ex. I wanted my ‘za ready at a later time. I couldn’t include that info on online ordering so I had to call it in.)
3. The website — The menu isn’t accurate (Ex. The Pepperoni Feast is not the ‘za that is described.)
For those of you who know what Mellow Mushroom is, this might even be better, In My Opinion.
I like it, I’ll be back!

A truly great independent pizza place. Unique specialty pizzas (our favorite is the Jimmy Hoffa with added jalapenos), expertly done, priced fairly, and delivered fast and hot. We found them about a year ago, and have never been less than completely satisfied (more often, we’ve been completely thrilled) with their food.

This place has excellent pizza and for about two years we have ordered pizza from only this place because everywhere else seems to be sub par. I highly recommend the Motherload, which is just as awesome as it sounds!
You can’t dine in at this place, it is a delivery joint but next door is The Office, a cozy hole-​in-​the-​wall pub for the locals. You can stop in for a pint and they serve A Slice Above pizza right there. They are two different venues that share a kitchen.

If you are stuck in Strongsville, at least there is one place with very good pizza. They are very good with their Slice style or thin crust. They have several types of sauce options, yes you have real choices here (Big Plus to Bianco-​white and Sweet & light) Forget speciality pizza, we are well past that. Quattro Formaggio — cheese and more cheese, Body Builder roasted red peppers and bison meat with spicy sauce. Then you can do clams, honey bee, ant Tutti Fruiti (I can not see mandrin oranges, pineapple and canadain bacon on pizza, but its there) They have an achilles heel in Chicago style crust. There is low carb too, but really why do this to pizza. Oh yeah, they run the bar next door, another reason to pickup possibly

Moving away from Strongsville always resurfaces as one of the great regrets of my life every time we drive down to visit A Slice Above. Angelo’s in Lakewood has nothing on ‘em. Seriously. A Slice Above is clearly the superior pizza choice.
I especially adore their Twister pizza (soft pretzels with a cheddar cheesy sauce), although my best friend said it sort of tastes like mac ‘n’ cheese. Another favorite of mine is the Rancher’s Choice — fresh spinach, garlic slices, broiled chicken, cheddar cheese, and topped with a «tangy ranch salad dressing» (but no mushrooms for me, please!). More recently, they came out with a pesto pizza that I’ve been dying to try.
It’s not all gourmet, either, for you plain Janes out there. They have «normal» pizza, too — The Pepperoni Feast, the Vegetable Patch Pizza, and Pizza Margherita are just a few options. You can also build your own.
They have 5 different crust choices — New York Style, Chicago Style, «Slice Above» Style, Whole Wheat, and Low-​Carb (with Chicago, Whole Wheat, and Low-​Carb only available in medium sizes). While you might be tempted to go with New York or Chicago Style crusts, I say stick with what’s local and go for the «Slice Above» Style. They have 5 different sauce choices — Traditional, Marinara, Bianco, Spicy, or Sweet & Light. The Bianco is my personal favorite.
You can probably sense A Slice Above is no stranger to variety, but their creativity doesn’t stop with their pizzas. They also offer Slice Overs (their version of a calzone, totally customizable for $.50 a topping), wings, Slice Cream (what other pizza place offers homemade ice cream?), and Take N Bakes. Take N Bakes are awesome for people like me who don’t live close by. Their gourmet pizzas are still made fresh to order, but they’re given to you unbaked — all you have to do is take it home and stick it in the oven! They even provide a baking tray. Fabulous!

I feel mislead. I just don’t like it when a pizza place says it serves Chicago style pizza, and its just thick crust. You should need to go to Chicago and order a pizza before you insult their city by calling this Chicago style. The Italian sausage was cut into chunks, and looked like kielbasa, but tasted kinda like the box I took it home in. Not that there was a ton of sauage or onion on it anyhow, but what I did get, didn’t think it was that good.
I doubt that I’ll go back anytime soon, but maybe the other crust aren’t as bad, as I’d like to believe the other reviews.
I had plenty of leftovers of course, as no one wanted to eat it, and as I tried to eat a slice for breakfast, realized it actually could get worse, and it doesn’t reheat good either.
Maybe if I sat at the bar next door for a couple hours and got drunk, this pizza would have seemed ok.

Yes, yes! I have been eating this pizza for years and feel bad I’ve waited so long to review it. Highly recommend the South of the Border! Tex-​mex style, amazing crust, and reheats very well. They have bizarre concoctions here, and each one I try leaves me happy I did.
The prices are a little steep compared to the discount chains. You get what you pay for though.