Rose City Pizza — Restaurant in Covina

I went to this place super excited, and was horribly let down !! Horribly horribly let down !! I went because I liked their “story” on instagram and the pizza looked good. Well the owner “middle aged man” seemed like a humble guy on his instagrams story but anyways we went his server and cashier were very nice , so the one thing that bothered us the most was they bring you out these paper thin plates(super thin paper plates) for wings and pizza right ? So the server brought out like 4-5 plates , but the “owner” himself came out from the kitchen and walked up to our table and said “you only need 2 of these right?” And took the rest of the plates his server had given us. I mean first of all it was the way he walked up and then he took the plates like it was a huge mistake they were being given to us after we’d spent almost 50 dollars for food !! I’m sorry but that’s really rude then on top of that the pizza was barely mediocre !! This place is all hyped up and there’s plenty other pizza spots that are way better than this place plus the owner of this place made it uncomfortable for me and my wife , I will never go back here ! Keep you paper plates . In a couple of words our experience was not good both suck the people and the food and it’s priced high !! No thanks !!. Sorry not sorry . I’ll take my...

Edit 01/14/2025: The sauce is back. While my prayers haven’t entirely been answered, the comeback from where I felt the store was 8 months ago is phenomenal. The quality and value in ingredients and craft has returned, though we are still missing the full sized tomatoes :,)

The new cookies are good af too. While I previously left 3/5⭐️ back in April, I’ve now upped my confidence in this pizza to 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.

Welcome back y’all

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My old review below, from April 2024:

They lost the sauce man, half a year ago the margaritas came with full sized tomatoes, you could buy an XL, and they had stromboli’s. Now the ingredients are chopped like a salsa, everything is more expensive but there’s no medium and xl anymore, and I can’t even place a phone takeout order

To be honest I could tolerate all the other changes if the pizza was still the same, I became converted to the Rose City gospel quickly last year, but my faith is fleeting with these changes. :(

I remember when y’all were selling the delivery bag for discounted large and xls and knew something wasn’t right, it’s sad to see things...

The good: We tried the Al pastor pizza and the birria pizza. Both were incredibly well done, and left me wishing they had a giant pizza option. The consumme that came with the birria pizza was super tasty also. The food was the only real highlight here. The decor is cool and it feels like a fun neighborhood pizza shop.. The bad: canned soda ($2.50 a can i think? ), and water was served in tiny cups with no ice (this is key when you get to the next part) that the employees had to get for you, and with how busy they were it was problematic. An ice water dispenser would have solved this. Also, guy who brought our pizza asked if we wanted pepper flakes and parmesan cheese, then had to go retrieve it which took a bit. The ugly: thermostat on the wall showed 90 degrees, and we were sweating the entire time. AC was definitely on, you could feel it in a few spots in the joint, but no curtains or blinds and huge windows made it roasting in there.

Might go back on a cooler day to try another specialty pizza, but the little things start to add up to a not so...