Calabrese’s Pizzeria II

Heard amazing things about this place, and was excited to try it. After a 50 minute wait for pick up, got home, and opened the box. $ 20 for a large 1 topping with Little Caesars quality pepperoni. Pizza was undercooked, but given the fact that it was 9 at night, I was starving, and I didn’t want to wait an hour to get a new one, we ate it. After 2 slices I had enough. A couple hours later montezuma’s revenge came full force. Picture Jeff Daniels toilet scene in Dumb And Dumber. Really disappointed, and won’t be wasting anymore time or money on it.

Calabrese’s has the best pizza in the Dixie Hwy corridor of Waterford and Clarkston if you’re in the area don’t miss it!

Very fast delivery! Their antipasto salad was excellent very fresh. The square pizza is very thick a little too much bread.

Absolutely delicious pizza. Ingredients on par with the gourmet pizzas of crispelli and motor city brewing. You have to get the homemade sausage, its the best i ever had. The pizza is really heav though, I can have two slices of regular crust (not deep dish) and be totally full. Try the breadsticks and cream cheese garlic dip, these are good too.

Loved it so much yesterday that we went back today! The pizza subs and Italian subs were great. The pizza was also great! The employees were very friendly and I know that we will be going back!

Best pizza in Oakland County. We drive from Commerce Township just for pizza and the best Strom boli around. They make pizza the old fashioned way.
Very affordable and worth every penny.

Great little pizza joint! Our family loves this place and comes here all the time. It’s been here forever and has great pizza and good prices. The cheese bread is out of this world. Defiantly recommend it!

We decided to order here after hearing good things about their food and we were horribly disappointed in every part of our order. First off, we ordered a pizza, ribs, breadsticks, cheese dip, and a salad. The pizza was black and the ribs were definitely old and rotten. The cheese dip was at least 2 weeks old and smelled rotten. The breadsticks had no flavor to them at all. The only good thing was the salad (which is hard to mess up). We called and ordered this and they told us it would be 45 minutes for a pick up so we assumed that they would be really busy but when we got there to pick up our food there were employees just sitting around doing nothing and it looked like they hadn’t had an order all day. I don’t understand why it would take that long for a simple of an order as we had. I will NOT be returning!

I have been getting takeout from Calabrese’s since about 1990. They have the best Stromboli and cheese bread I’ve ever had! Whenever I am in the area I stop in. Don’t pass up this gem!

The first time I went here, I was kind of put off by the high prices, but totally understood once I got the pizza home. It was incredible. It was difficult to come up with something even comparable, it was that good.
Yesterday, I came back and decided to add breadsticks and an Italian sub, expecting culinary bliss. Instead, I was disappointed at every turn. Consistency seems to be a massive problem here.
The bread was incredibly dry and almost charred. The pizza, on the other hand, was so undercooked, you could pull dough out of every bite. It got even worse as the pizza cooled down. Totally disgusting.
The sub was completely underwhelming, especially considering the bread-​to-​filling ratio was about 3-​to-​1. Apparently, a light drizzle of French dressing is their special sauce. I’ve had better Italian subs at Jet’s. (No, that’s not saying that Italian subs are great at Jet’s.)
It’s been a while since I’ve felt like I totally wasted $ 40.

I’ve passed by Calabrese’s for years, but only in the daytime so it’s never been open. I was actually wondering if they were still in business. But last night, I was returning from a road trip, really wanted pizza and didn’t really want a chain-​store pie. Sadly, my favorite local place, Slice, recently closed, but then, I remembered that Calabrese’s was right on the way. I was glad to see that they were open!
I was glad to see that I didn’t have to get huge pizzas. They actually have 2 small sizes, a baby and a mini. I got a mini with hamburger & mushrooms, and that was 6 decent-​sized pieces. It’s not as cheap as the $ 5 chain pizza, but it’s MUCH better. The sauce was just right for me – not glopped all over the pizza, not too spicy and not overwhelming. The cheese was delicious and generous, and the meat & mushrooms seemed to be of good quality.
This is definitely a family-​owned business, and on this night, the family was not getting along well. The kids were kind of horsing around, and the woman — aunt of the the boys — was not amused. She said she’d been yelling them all day; she certainly was cross with them while I was there. She scolded one for not taking my order but did it in a mean way («What? You don’t know how to take orders anymore?), and the kid said he didn’t think it was polite to do so with a mouth full of food. Still, in some ways, that adds to the experience.
The next time I crave a pizza and don’t mind driving (it’s on the other side of town from where I live), I will try to remember therm!

I’m sorry you guys but this place is way overrated! We got a pizza with sausage and mushrooms which was good but nothing amazing. We also got the cheese bread that everyone raved about but my husband and I thought the bread was too thick, had a glob of mozzarella cheese on top and tasted like they sprinkled garlic powder on it. Finally, we got the small Greek Salad which was tiny and unimpressive. I would order from here again if I was in a pinch but I don’t see that happening anytime in the near future.

Really disappointed! This place had great reviews and my boyfriend heard great things. Our cheese bread and pizza were both waaaay undercooked. We won’t be returning.

My favorite pizza place by far in Waterford! Best ingredients, no skimping. My favorite though is the pizza sub… yum! Toasted in the oven either all that cheese. It’s so good.
Just a little hole in the wall place, but the nicest people and the best pizza. They do mostly take out, but also have a very limited seating area. Maybe a couple tables or so. Parking in rear. Entrance in front on street side.
Call ahead on a Friday evening. You could wait a while! Totally worth it.

The pizza is pretty good but the cheese bread is ridiculous! That’s a good thing. I have never seen so much cheese on bread in my life. The prices are a little but more than I’d like to pay but I will probably go back for some more cheese bread.

This place has decent pizza at best. It’s nothing that you’re going to go out of your way for but like I said it’s just decent.

People talked this place up. Didn’t like the sauce. Green Lantern in Madison hgts is better. Red Knapps is better than this place in the Clarkston area.

Fast delivery, great pizza and I love the cheese bread, loaded with cheese. Best around…

I had the wrong day!!!
I am pissed! I was expecting big things!
I must’ve ordered when the cousin’s friend’s sister’s boyfriend stepped in while they had some emergency… Or, quite possibly, the owner’s daughter’s current boyfriend was feeling confident…
I dunno…
Not a really good experience… pretty bummed considering the positive banter up in here.
I took the kids to Bay Court Beach and after a few hours of swimming with white trash kids who throw full bags of cheeto’s into the lake, love to bully smaller kids, throw rocks, and scream like dying animals… we were all ready for some pizza.
Gettin totally sucked in by Unilocal contributors I decided to get some carryout from this place on the way home.
When I opened the box, it looked like someone dropped the damn thing… so strange, it looked like it «folded» in the middle somehow.(?) All I know is that there was ⁴⁄₅ of the cheese and roni in the middle of the pie and the outer slices were basically dough and a just a bit of sauce (I took a pic of it but decided not to post as to avoid being an outrageous douche…
Dough seemed sweetened (this may be the crack everyone seems to smoke about this pie),
Sauce seemed sweet too… cheese was a river in the middle of the pizza…
Now, the bread sticks were a little strange as well… NOT even a dusting of parm or romano, etc and they were incredibly dense. Kinda heinous but if I was out drinking like a boss all night, these sticks might rank «up there» right around 4 bells… otherwise it seems as though I should have gotten the «CHEESE» sticks… dunno…Had to cough up extra coins for SAUCE with the sticks (Dick points).
Paid $ 22 for a large ½ Roni and some sticks… Feel like I really want to call em up and give em some shit for ripping me off but what is that going to do?
It really looks like I got the wrong thing maybe at the wrong time… I’m trying to stay positive and not subscribe to the theory that all the groovy reviews were owners, family, employees, etc… I really WANT to support old skool, family owned, pizza freaks, all day long…
I hate this side of town but if I come out here again and get crappy wheel from this place again, I know my wife is sending me to sleep in the garage for a week.

I love Chicago-​style pizza, but this is, by far, one of the best pizzas I have EVER had.
This is another one of the restaurants that we miss so much about living in Clarkston — We moved to Washington in January.
Will DEFINITELY be back to visit this place!