Sliver Pizzeria — Restaurant in Berkeley

If you are a fan of Arizmendi, Cheese Board, or Gioia, you will want to try this pizza joint, at a new location. They have a daily special (always vegetarian), which is available as a slice, half pie or a whole pie. Its' cheap, thin crust, freshly baked, laced with seasonal veggies, artisanal cheese and uber delicious. Make sure you get a few pumps of the green pesto'ish tangy salsa sauce from the side. This adds a new flavor dimension to your palette, as the succulently crispy sour-dough crust, dances with the tomato sauce and delectable toppings (in my case, the green sauce worked well with the Bulgarian feta on the daily special) - I nearly drool as I recall my experience.

You serve yourself, order at the counter (there can be a line, but it's worth it). On the plus side, there is ample seating, and large flat-screen TV's to lounge around. They also serve beer, Kombucha and made-to-order pizza and salads. My goto though is the daily special pizza slice.

Parking can be challenging, so be prepared to walk a little if you are planning to...

Sliver is great, perfectly located for lunch and the pizza is just great. There isn't a pizza here that is bad and actually I had the salad catered once and it was also really great. They are quick and friendly, their slice to slice variation has gotten a lot more consistent (almost approaching the consistency slice to slice at cheeseboard), and I really just have no complaints about the restaurant. If you've got a pizza craving sliver will satisfy you perfectly, and don't forget the green salsa! The one thing I will mention is that the delivery service they have with Caviar is kind of a rip off, there's a huge service fee and the driver we had for the Caviar delivery was super sketchy and had a lot of trouble finding us on the edge of campus (and then ultimately stopped in a silly location blocking traffic). If you want sliver for a function on campus just have someone walk over. That's more on Caviar than...

I came here multiple times and had varying results! IMPORTANT TIP: DONT COME DURING OFF HOURS When I did come during rush hour, the pizza was fine. With the cilantro dipping/drizzling sauce, it really adds more to the pizza. If I didn't have the off-hour pizza, I would've given them 4 stars.

When I came during off hours, (I think I went at 3 o clock), the pizza we not what I expected. The crust was dry and soggy (which I have no idea how that could happen), the toppings didn't add much of anything at all and in the end, because of this, I ended up eating cilantro sauce with a side of pizza because of how bad the pizza was. The cilantro sauce redeemed 2 stars for the pizza.

tl;dr: Cilantro sauce is bomb, wait the extra 10 minutes and go when there are more people or else you get cold sad pizza (at least make sure you're not the first...