Hot Stone Pizza — Restaurant in Alcoa

Went in to grab a pizza for dinner. It's a small pizza joint in Alcoa. The girl at the register was nice and took my order. Wanted a gyros but the Google maps menu hasn't been changed since new ownership. I also wanted onion rings but they were out of those. Both were a bit disappointing. I did order a large half cheese half sausage pizza. It was pretty damn good. I love a thin crust and the sauce was excellent. I also thought the sausage was pretty good. I'm from Chicago and another review made a comment that we put our sauce on top. No that is deep dish that all the tourists eat. Chicago's pizza is thin crust tavern style. All locals eat it and rarely touch deep dish. This is the closest I've had in Tennessee. We cut ours in squares so you can drink an Old Style beer in the other hand though. Hot Stone is more like NYC slices that you fold in half and eat. Regardless of all that it was a good pie. My fiancée got a burger and liked it but said it was greasy. Quite frankly that just makes me want to have one. It looked good and you could tell it was hand formed. I've been looking for a non-chain pizza place close to home to call my own. This may very well be that place. They should maybe think about adding the gyros back to the menu. It got good reviews which made me want one. It was a good carry out experience and I would...

I am the quintessential "pizza snob," and a slice of their plain cheese literally brought tears to my eyes, bringing me back to my childhood and Sicilian roots. I'm from NJ, born and raised, and we take our pizza very seriously. It's gotta be paper thin, the crust has to be crunchy with a chewy interior, the sauce UNDER the cheese unlike you blasphemous Chicagoans, and if when you fold it to take a bite there's not a little oil dripping onto your hand and plate.... it ain't the real deal. Well, THIS PLACE IS THE ONLY place within this entire state that i have found "the real deal." The family that owns and makes the food and pizza, the father and husband is Sicilian from Brooklyn with family from Sicily. If you want a taste of old world Sicilian pizza pie, go in and get a slice of plain cheese. I am thrilled that I discovered this place by accident. I was having a really bad day, like really bad, and when i stumbled in, that first bite hit me in the heart ....as incredible food can do to us foodies. The cheese steak sandwich was also amazing and the onion rings aren't breaded... they are batter dipped. Yum! And best of all, the hospitality was unexpected and kindly appreciated. This family CARES about their customers. They are friendly and they take immense pride in offering an authentic...

Just don't. Worst food I have had in ages. I ordered a pepperoni pizza, a large salad and a gyro sandwich. Worst of everything. The pizza crust was like cardboard and tasted like it too. Barely any sauce and basically tasteless ingredients. I have had better cheap brand Frozen. The gyro was nasty. The meat was also like cardboard, hard and tasteless, literally stacked up like pieces of dog jerky, the sauce was runny and also tasteless, maybe even a little off, and barely any fixings. The fries were cold. The salad was supposed to serve two but was basically chopped romaine, two thin slices of red onion, two tiny grape tomatoes cut in half and two cucumber slices, accompanied by two plastic ramekins less than half full of the worst ranch dressing ever. The bread sticks were like day old cardboard, I couldn't even go there. All for $30, what a rip. On top of that my tummy is killing me and I never have stomach issues, feel like I ate a bunch of sharp rocks. You want a meal 10 times better and half the price, just go to Kroger and get a top brand frozen pizza, pre-bagged salad of you choice and a deli sandwich. You will be glad you did.

Oh and no masks and no gloves on any employees. Beware. Terrible food, terrible behavior....