Punky's Pizza & Pasta — Restaurant in Chicago

I've lived on Chicago's southside for a while now. Lately I've been looking to check out the few pizza places that I've yet to try.

I went with the Scarlata pizza. It bled oil and grease ALL OVER MY CAR SEAT!!!!! Sure... my bad? I should have realized that the oil from the giardiniera and the grease from the sausage and pepperoni would be a bit more than usual, but I've NEVER had a pizza bleed all over my car seat. I had a PUDDLE of pizza ooze soaking into my seat. Maybe WARN people when about to put this pizza in their car? I mean... they couldn't know I was about to put it on a car seat, but seeing I ordered it to-go... that was a very high probability. I don't know... Provide a plastic bag at least?

The moisture from all these topping made the crust pretty wet, which isn't an adjective I want to use for pizza crust.

Not over yet though... I'm willing to admit that maybe I should just get single topping. Will revise my review pending a pizza that doesn't bleed with a crust that's isn't mush.

Here's where I find hope though... I still ate the pizza. I put it in the oven and cooked off the excessive moisture.

I just need to order a little bit wiser. Some pizza places do multiple topping pizzas better than others. There's an art to doing it without excessive moisture soaking into the crust. Next time I'll go with...

First impression. Pizza Pie ,boy I wanted a pie bad last night . I didnt want the same places I try out . Theres a place I havent tried and it came to my mind Punkys Pizza . Yeah I'm gonna try Punkys . I look you up on my phone and bam there is it . Now I'm excited its Sunday and ur still open. I make the call , (pizza for 2) lets try a medium please we have no medium only small and large , what !ok like little john then I get the small cheese sauage thin crust. $14 and some change . 20 minutes . That's cool u charge me $14 for a small I'm giving u guys a chance. I come get my pizza . I get home a little shocked as I open it .Number 1 Fire your cook or lineman or pizza maker whatever his title is . He needs a job a little ceasar where they teach how to make pizzas not a real pizza but none the less a pizza. Missing pieces of sausage . It's a law in pizza making that u spread the sauce to the ends and u spread the cheese to the ends evenly . I was missing sauce and cheese . I'm not gonna lie it was good . The flavors where there . But 1 star for the heart it wasnt there . My pie was just slapped together and slapped a $14 dollar price on it too . I will definitely be back for redemption because honestly it was that good. Give me a pie worthy of offering up to the Gods . Just...

Terrible! Dont eat here. I came here by accident because the other pizza place was super busy so I did not want to wait that long. So I came here and ordered a regular slice a desert slice and a sicilian. When I got to my room I realized the sicilian slice had a hair on it and some weird brown speckles on the corner. I could not tell if this was human hair or an insect hair. So i threw the sicilian away and called the punkys pizza shop to complain. I spoke to the manager and told her that I found a hair on the corner of that sicilian slice and I can bring it back to them. The manager atleast gave me a refund over the phone for that sicilian slice and told me I do not have to come back. I threw the sicilian slice away in the small box it came in. Disgusting! Also when I was standing waiting for my order...the impression I got was that the workers seem very disorganized and kitchen looks dirty in the cooking area. I found that the food here is very expensive. I will never come here again as it is located in an isolated area near a funeral home and finding a hair on my food and not sure if it was from human or insect source is disgusting. So if you ever come here to eat make sure you scan your food for hairs from unknown sources. Honest review...