Curly's — Restaurant in Colon Township

Buyer Beware – The $49 Pizza! Did you know you could order a nearly $50 pizza at Curly’s? Well, we did, and I'm embarrassed for the establishment for allowing this level of overpricing. Sunday was a birthday lunch with the family & we ordered two large (18") pizzas, a basic pep & bacon and a supreme. Total came to a tad over $81 with tax and card surcharge. When I went in to pick it up with my dad, we saw the receipt and asked if the $49.49 supreme pizza pricing was a mistake, it must have been right? Who in their right mind would order a $50 pizza in Colon of all places. How could anyone in their right mind charge $50 for a specialty pizza that didn’t include caviar or gold flakes. My dad joked we were on a TV show asking the bartender to show us where the cameras were because we must be getting pranked. NOPE, apparently, we’re the joke for buying a $50 pizza. Make sure you ask for the price of the pizza before confirming the order or you may end up like us by inadvertently ordering a $50 pizza, I keep saying it because I can't even believe it still. As a comparison you can order a large deep dish supreme pizza from nearly any top tier Chicago pizza joint for under $50 which could feed a whole family, the Curly’s supreme barely feeds two people.

For context I’m not one of the local mouth breathers who whine at the hint of something changing in town. I looked forward to new blood in town and understood that prices had to go up some and with that likely getting a better product. Objectively I’m this establishments target audience. I don’t typically look at what I pay for food, I’ll gladly pay up for higher quality food and experience as long as I get value out of the food/experience. We ordered pizza about a month prior, and the order was completely screwed up and we were given an extra pizza as a “sorry”. We were fine with it, the price was a bit more than before, but you could taste the quality difference versus the prior ownership’s pizza and it felt like they were trying. Any new establishment deserves a little leeway to figure it out. The owner apologized and we were understanding because they were still clearly figuring it out and trying. We were happy to give them some business with all the local drama around the new owners.

Flashback to today and I can tell you they’ll never get a penny out of us again and personally I don’t have a reason to come back since they got rid of the only good item on the previous menu which was the grinders. Fool me once shame on you... I never wish for a business owner to fail, I truly hope they find enough suckers to buy $50 pizzas to stick around, but in a small town like ours, they’ll only going to find enough of them during the summer. They have a high probability of running dry of em’ during the winter months when the money flees this town. Hopefully they figure out their pricing strategy before they drive away their core customers.

If the owners do read this they should immediately do 3 things, ensure every order total is told to the customer before they hangup, post their menu on an easily accessible page that doesn’t require an account (get a website) and implement an online ordering system so you can use the data from your ordering system to help you figure out your pricing/products that...

This was my first time eating here. Tbh my experience is why I put 3 stars. I think it could've been better but the ditsy girls they had working ruined it for me. Our waitress was very flighty & smug & should not be helping customers. We sat down and was not waited on for almost 20min even though she was wiping table 2 tables down from us in between snacking by the bar or in the kitchen. There was no one else in the area we were (were were on the edge of that area by the bar & patio door). There was an older (older than the girl- 40's I'm guessing) waitress that had to direct her to do her job (that lady was doing great). Before we left a bigger group came into that same area & I almost told them to ask for someone else but they quickly picked up on what I was thinking and I believe she almost immediately ruined their moods as well. Watch your wait staff as they're the face/ lasting impression of your place. Otherwise it was ok. Decent decor & environment. I may give it another shot if I'm in the area with a group that wants to go there, otherwise I may not based on that...

If I could do half stars I would have given 3.5, BUT, I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt and round up to 4. When we went the place was reasonably packed, but not fully by any means.

We ordered food and it took a lot longer than it should have to arrive, but that was only after finding out that they were out of certain items on the menu that my friend wanted to order. The waitstaff should just tell people when they are seated that they are out of 'X, Y, Z'.

The waitress was okay but took way too long on the refills for drinks so a few people ended up taking glasses up to the bar for refills.

I had a Swiss & mushroom topped burger which I assumed would include lettuce and tomato - in most places that is standard. Not here. It is also extra to add them. The burger had a great taste and was done the way I ordered it.

The fries were warm but nothing to write home about.

The atmosphere of the place is fun and looks like a collection of local and sports history memorabilia,...