Tortugas Pizza — Restaurant in Birmingham

Mid at best. I should’ve told them it wasn’t great when they asked was the food ok but I was so hungry and hadn’t ate all day that i just tried to eat it the best i could but ended up just eating the topping off the pizza (bottom of it was hard) and ate my cheese bread salad dressing made my salad taste awful so didn’t eat it. The cheese bread was plain nothing special about it, the Italian dressing for my salad was oil and herbs with a nasty sour bitter taste to it (let customers know it’s not regular Italian dressing so they can not expect what i did ) the deep dish slice i had which i thought would be sausage and pepperoni with spinach and mushrooms because i added extra toppings ended up being just a spinach and mushroom slice with no meat we had to wait a few minutes and didn’t want to wait longer as i was already starving and pregnant so just ate it . My son had a thin crust pizza slice both of our pizzas was hard at the bottom couldn’t cut through it and it got cold just as fast as it landed on the table. I also thought it was odd everything was served on paper plates. Didn’t have a nice get away restaurant feel to it. Felt like we could’ve just ate Pizza Hut or little caesars. On my ticket it said my food was $41 and some change however after paying on the receipt it said i paid $43 and wasn’t informed it would be an extra fee for paying with a debit card. I still left the server $6 cash to be nice i know it isn’t much but geez the food was pricey and nasty. My taste for a good pizza was not fulfilled and i wasted so much money just to not enjoy my food i won’t be back or recommend this place to any of my foodie friends. The staff i will say was a little nice but unorganized 3 different people came...

I have mixed feelings which is why I gave it three stars. I went for the first time and I wasn't sure how the process worked. Similar places you order then have a seat and they bring it to your table, but here you have a seat and wait for the waiter to come get your order. So I stood at the counter for about 10mins for no reason thinking I had to order there and the lady behind the counter never gave me any kind of direction. Eventually a guy came out and asked me was I picking up a order or dining in. Then I was finally told I could just sit anywhere. So I would like to my commend my waitress, she was amazing and made the experience a good one and took good care of me and my friend. Finally the pizza looked good, definitely was excited about a true deep dish pizza (see picture), more moist than I expect once the slices were separated and I thought the ingredients would be cut up more, it was basically whole grape tomatoes in it.

Overall I am going to go back to try...

I was born and raised in the heart of Chicago and tried pizzas all over, I'm sad to say this place is nowhere near authentic when it comes to deep dish pizza. The sauce was definitely not chunky tomato marinara! The sausage tastes like the equivalent of little caesars 👎🏻 The worst part of it all is I had shown the the waitress my horribly bent fork from trying to cut through the pizza. So she offered us stake knives to do the job. To spite all that was said , the service was good as we were seated immediately and offered drinks right away. Also, no one even asked us what we thought of our pie, so we paid and left with out make a big deal. I can't speak for the rest of the food on the menu, but the ingredients are all wrong. If you're going to charge thirty plus dollars for a deep dish pizza, don't skim on the quality....