Homeboys Pizza — Restaurant in Salford

The first rule of Homeboys pizza is that we don’t talk about Homeboys pizza.

I had my doubts given the overwhelmingly positive reviews and word of mouth on the Manchester pizza scene (yes, there is one. No, you can’t ask to join. You have to be invited) I was sceptical.

There’s no dearth of good Neapolitan style pizza in Manchester. After a while you’re making a decision on where to eat based more on the choice of negronis or craft beer rather than the dough. It was getting to the point where I was reaching a state of pizza fatigue.

Enter Homeboys pizza.

Rather than slavishly adhering to the precepts of Neapolitan style pizza, they blend in sourdough technique with New York style toppings and a bit of olive oil for crispness on the cornicone.

The result is a glorious melange of mouth watering goodness. The fact that there aren’t people queuing around the corner is a surprise to me. While it’s not wood fired pizza, it was worth travelling all the way from South Manchester to try.

This is not going to date well, but their pizza is the perfect thing to scarf while rewatching The Bear. Remember that the second rule of Homeboys is that you always ask for dip on your first order.

Don’t...

Was really looking forward to trying out HomeBoy Pizza but had a massively disappointing experience where we don't think we will go back again. We ordered a two pizzas and some of their sides, the collection time said 50 minutes, went to pick up our collection and was told our order would be another 10 minutes, was sat outside for another 40 minutes waiting just over an hour and a half in total to then have someone come out and hand me the wrong order. Then we were given our order which was sat waiting on top of their pizza oven. Took the order and by the time we got back to eat everything it was stone cold apart from the one luke warm pizza which was at the bottom touching the pizza oven. One of the sides was the chicken wing/tender combo which was suppose to have blue cheese sauce accompanying it which was no where to be seen. The whole experience was just ruined, from spending the amount we did to have to wait such a long time to receive cold food and not recieving the order with what was listed to accompany it. After hearing such good things we walked away extremely disappointed as we try to support our local...

I live locally so decided to try this place out for the first time. The website landing page says they're all 14" pizzas but on arriving back home I saw it was a 12", and wouldn't be enough for dinner (and now scared at the prospect of informing my wife!). I called to let them know, the person who answered was blasé as he informed me they were aware already, which surprised me. Surely if you know there's a pricing error you need to inform everyone who makes an order? He said they will change it in the next week (it is one number to edit on the website), before insisting the sizing was correct on the menu online (it wasn't). Bit annoying, I wasn't after a refund as I was already home and did just want them to be aware but I didn't get a good feeling from the way it was dealt with. Pizza was decent anyway, maybe that's...