Johnny Boys Pizza - Ferntree Gully — Restaurant in Melbourne

Ordered pizza after going to Woolies - very little flavour. I ordered Johnny Special Lot and found it to be so lacking in flavour I thought I was eating the box. Very similar to a $4 frozen pizza. Not sure how there are so many reviews saying it is good pizza. Very odd considering licking the road would be a better flavour. Extra info after manager request: I’ve had pizza from here twice. I waited a few months in between, but with the same result. From what I have tasted it appears as if the ingredients are the cheaper kind you would expect from a $5 pizza? For example, if I make a home pizza I will buy Don salami. I will buy ham that is at least medium quality. Bacon has lots of flavour, as everyone knows. Unfortunately, your pizza there was no bacon flavour. The capsicum should have a bit of tangy sweetness. A real capsicum from even the supermarket has this - try it and compare and you should see the difference. Mushrooms have an earthy smell and taste. There was no taste of mushroom at all on your pizza. Your red sauce was ok, could be better. It had a little tomato tang. I noticed another of your customers said there was no tomato base flavour and no bread base flavour. These are not things I care about too much, but you may want to check that as well and compare to a place such as 400 gradi in Brunswick. Some people like strong olives, but I don’t mind either way. So all good on my end. I guess I expect more flavour from large pizzas priced $12+. If it was a $5-$7 pizza, then I would not have mentioned anything. P.S. If you find the chicken doesn’t have enough flavour, I advise adding some 1 hour marinade - even just some veggie or chicken stock (the pizza I had did not have chicken, so this is FYI). Although generally good chicken will have flavour, but you may be...

Johnny Boy’s Pizza: A Thrilling Culinary Adventure (Minus the Chicken Cubes)”

Johnny Boy’s Pizza took me on a wild journey. It started with hope, veered sharply into confusion, and ended with me performing delicate chicken surgery at the dinner table.

Let’s be clear: the pizza itself? Edible. Respectable even, once you got past the… how do I put this politely… mystery cubes. These weren’t pieces of chicken so much as “cuboid memories of poultry,” possibly sourced from a parallel universe where chickens are made out of rubber and regret.

Each bite was like playing a game of Minesweeper with my mouth. Is it cheese? Is it crust? Or is it another chunk of chicken-flavored existential dread? Only one way to find out! (Spoiler: it was usually dread.)

After a few minutes, I gave up and started picking them off one by one, like a very judgmental archaeologist uncovering an ancient civilization’s poor dietary choices. Underneath the Mystery Chicken Event Horizon? A pretty decent pizza! Saucy, cheesy, and just greasy enough to taste like Saturday night choices and Sunday morning regrets.

Overall: • Pizza: 7/10 after extraction • Chicken Cubes: currently being studied by NASA • Experience: unforgettable, but not necessarily in a good way

Would recommend… if you bring...

Warning DO NOT GET A DELIVERY. The just lie to you.

They say 25-35 minutes. When they confirm the order it blows out to 65-85 minutes. Turned up 95 minutes after the order.

The owner kept making excuses saying a driver didn't turn up for the shift. But that doesn't excuse the lies that they tell you about time frames. Not to mention that they tell you it's only another 15 minutes away as it's already left the shop and on its 11 minute trip to my place. 17 minutes late I call them again. The owner says it's 3 minutes away. I ask him to call the driver and driver says they are 8 minutes away.

A 11 minute drive took 28 minutes. No wonder the pizza is cold. They deliver themselves. They make Menulog...