Hot Rod Willy’s Pizza — Restaurant in Fresno

I was looking for some deep dish pizza, it's really hard to find in Los Angeles and Fresno.

I saw Hot Rod Willys had a deep dish and gave them a try!

Ordering over the phone was easy and delightful. The woman who took my order is the wife of the family that runs this place.

Its a family owned business and probably the reason it's so good. Lots of restaurants are corporate and the food is degraded in quality. NOT HERE!!

The deep dish pizza we tried is called the Chicago style. It's about $24 per large.

They might look small, but they are heavy and thick. Perfect!!! Two slices can fill anyone. Three slices if your a big eater.

Me and my family loved all three variety we got.

Chicken bacon ranch with extra topping - Garlic was my favorite from the three.

Jalapeño Hawaiian was good if you like a little kick.

Standard pep and sausage with veggies was also great.

The dough not only holds up together well, it tastes good too. The cheese they use is real, it melts and you get that nice cheese string when taking a slice from the box. The filling is generous considering the size is a bit small, but it makes up for it with how thick the pizza is with all the fillings. Tasting very fresh and delicious.

I would say it was so good, It's my number one deep dish pizza now. This includes being better than the places I've tried in Los Angeles!!! Huge!!!

After Numero Uno closed down in Los Angeles there has never been a good deep dish place and I've tried a lot.

I'm happy to say with Hot Rod Willys Pizza, I have found another place to get deep dish pizza and it be really really good, worth going back to.

Highly recommend!

If you get the chicken bacon ranch, add garlic it was like a mouthgasm!! Since they use fresh ingredients, even the simple real garlic flavor stood out a lot. I loved it.

Thank you for the deep dish pizza!!!...

My husband and I just tried this place for the first time today. I am passionate about supporting small local businesses and am a total pizza fiend, so was super excited to hear about this place and bonus, it's close to my neighborhood. Firstly, let me say before I get to the pizza, I absolutely loved the atmosphere. This guy's passion for what he is doing is beautiful to see. His whole family was in there working hard together and are such sweet people. Very attentive to their customers. My husband really enjoyed chatting with the owner. You ever walk into a place and just KNOW the food is going to be amazing before you even try it because you can tell it is being made with love? That's exactly what I felt in here. I knew this pizza was going to be the bomb because I knew it would be made with love based on the passion and care I saw from the owners. And boy, did the pizza prove us 100% right! We got a Sicilian-style combination. Upon the first bite, my husband and I just looked at each other 😂 We said, "ok, this is officially the best pizza we have ever found in Fresno and going to be our new pizza place from now on". From the dough alone that has that perfect crunch on the bottom and on the edge and then so soft and chewy on the inside, the freshly-grated cheese, the quality toppings of Italian sausage and generous pieces of bell pepper, to the utterly delicious tomato sauce with beautiful chunks of tomato in it... We were in heaven 😋 This is exactly what Fresno has been needing. We have not found pizza this good in a long time. This guy knows his stuff! This is going to be our pizza joint going forward. Recommending to all our friends. You guys rock! Thank you for the great...

One bite was all it took, and now I am instantly hooked! This was my first time here, and it will now be my go-to pizza place! I absolutely love that this place is family ran and owned, and not some big corporate food chain. This place definitely has heart in what they do and it was so wonderful watching the kids work so hard creating this amazingly delicious food! I ordered the California 16" Pepperoni and Olive, and a side of garlic cheese bread...I was completely speechless! Everything about the pizza was MIND-BLOWING, the cheese was so thick and stringy, the sauce was perfection...as for the garlic cheese bread..WOW, mind-blowing as well and topped with tons of garlic chunks! I also loved how the tip jar was for the kids, and how the owner opened the boxes to show me my food upon handing it to me so that I can see everything was correct and just as I ordered. Lastly, the prices were great, very affordable and the food portions were not skimpy at all. I had asked the owner for some Parmesan cheese too, and the packets were set out to where you can actually take what you needed yourself...he actually said "take what you need"....I was instantly transported back to the "good ol days" when he said that...I mean, when do you ever hear those words nowadays, usually when you go out to eat, they only give you 2 packets of anything if you're lucky, and many times you have to pay for it and it's always kept behind the counter, away from customers. Needless to say, if you're in search of a new pizza place, this is the...