Ian's Pizza Cedar Rapids | Czech Village — Restaurant in Cedar Rapids

The heavens opened, the angels sang and then God created Ian's Pizza!!!!

My family decided to "try" Ian's Pizza for the first time tonight... getting ready to be disappointed already because we are from New Jersey and up until tonight, we have NEVER found good pizza....but tonight.... tonight was totally different...

How you ask???

1st...the size...a large is absolutely a large!!! HUGE!!!!

2nd....the taste...OMG!!!!! There are just no words.... AMAZING 🤩. We were immediately transported back in time to your traditional Italian Pizza Parlor that we grew up with!!!

3rd...This shit is ACTUALLY hand tossed...not shoved through a machine ...How do I know you ask??? After raving about it at the dinner table for an hour, we felt the need...a calling from the powers that be...to contact the owner, Lexi, and praise him, his business and just the plain fact that he exists for 15 minutes. The pizza makers, (I unfortunately forget their names), are also a blessing sent from up above!!

I can go on and on...you know....cause I'm from Jersey and we tawlk ...a lot!! LOL But all I can say is..If you haven't already, YOU MUST, (not a suggestion...a gentle shove) go IMMEDIATELY to Ian's, located inside Lion's Bridge Brewing in Czech Village, Cedar Rapids!!

Thank you Ian's Pizza and thank you Lexi for making me want to live another day!! LMAO 😂. We will DEFINITELY be back.......

I got a cheese pizza to go and I asked for it well done. No questions asked, 17 minutes later, for 16 dollars and some cents I was on my way. This is the one and only place that makes a true Neapolitan New York style pizza in Cedar Rapids. Let me go ahead and say that again, it is the only place that makes anything remotely close to a New York style pizza and they come within a few points of it being the best that Iowa has to offer in that category. The sauce is neutral which I can understand because the Iowan palate is just that: neutral. No extreme flavors at all. Just the cacophony of cheese, crust, and sauce. I implore you to ask for it Well done. Thank you! It's been years since I've had a pizza like this and I've just been hanging for it and you really rescued my day. Sometimes you just need a slice and a Pepsi to get you going again.

Iowa Rating

8/10

Portnoyesque Rating 7.1/10

Awesome for where we are at ladies and gentlemen....

This was my husband and I first time eating here. We were told the pizza is similar to New York style pizza. My husband used to travel to NY monthly for work prepandemic. He says you can get a slice of pizza on just about every street corner. They fold the pizza in half and give it to you on a paper plate to go. At Ian's you can order by the slice or a whole pie. We ordered a whole pie and 2 salads. The salads were made wrong (the waitress explained after she had delivered to the table and we had started eating them) and they gave us or money back plus the 2 drinks we ordered. Very nice gesture! The pizza was, per my husband, the closest thing to NY style pizza he's had in the Midwest. You fold it in half and eat! Even came with a paper plate lol. We'll definitely...