Joe's Old School Pizza — Restaurant in Hollywood

The curbside ordering with a beautiful woman was the first the thing I saw. For me, this always a vice, however, the next thing I noticed was the attentiveness, patience and help she had for a newbie to Joe's Old School Pizza like me. The menu showcased vegan pizza, gluten free pizza and the classic the "Works" which is any five toppings. Most of their pizzas are 18" but you can get 10", 16" and a Sicilian 16"x16" which is cool. Their drink selection was minimal but, hey, it's a pizza joint. Yes they have beer; both import and domestic. I ended up ordering the two slices and a drink for $6 deal, which is all day -- everyday.

The tables that were under a small structure (bigger than an awning) were spic and span. Also spacious due to how BIG their slices are. They are thinner slices but they are loaded with cheese and the pepperoni are generously sliced and placed. Thanks! Thumbs Up Before my food came out there is an obvious place to grab disposable yet study utensils. Some not wrapped and some...wrapped? Economically unsavory on their part (it isn't my business, ha) but in the end it meets the desires or should I say the nutty needs of a neurotic germaphobe. Did I go too far?! Next to the utensils you are gonna see a beautiful lineup of Parmesan cheese, flaked pepper, salt, pepper, garlic and dare I say cinnamon? I should have inspected closer. Drats.

The food was brought out timely by the man that cooked it. And it was HOT. I grabbed the NON wrapped untensils on my ever ending quest to save the earth from excess waste and dug in. It was delicious. Crispy crust with just the right amount of burnt taste to it -- if you know what I mean. The cheese was greasy but not super greasy so I used the Parmesan cheese to soak it up. The pepperoni slice was just as good just a tad greasier, obviously. Nothing Parmesan cheese can't handle.

As I ate I looked around; everything was tagged with I ❤ Joe's. Honestly, I thought that was the name of the place. It wasn't until Google asked me to write a review that I got the real name. Cute, eh? The most important things I look for in the service and food industry is......you guessed it! Service and good food. This place had both. A bunch of smiles on all the staff's faces every time I looked up, constant hard work to please paying customers and great artisan skills to bring you exactly the name of the franchise. A delicious old school pizza to die for. Thanks...

The experience here was so underwhelming that I'm taking some time out to leave this review...

First, if you're going to hang a sign above the garage bay door (and it is a former mechanic's bay) stating this is a New York pizza experience, you'll need to step up your game! Heres some important things to note about new york pizzerias:

You dont get a receipt with an order number on it to claim your food. When you're served in a ny pizzeria, the transaction happens at the same counter. Here, you're guided by signs INTO the mechanics bay, where a staff person walks out from where the ovens are to give you a receipt. Then the guy who is supposed to quickly hand you your slice then hangs your order on a clothes pinned line and calls you out by number like a short order cook.

THEN you will stand under the awning from where a gas pump once lived and wait in line for your quick new york style experience. Today, I waited about 10 minutes for one slice as the only preparer instead made a pie from the order # before me. Astonished, I looked for the woman with the cool front magneted eyeglasses ( and I do mean they were interesting and practical) who only took money and did little else to expedite the tedious process. When I mentioned that no reasonable new yorker, or even a floridian, deserves to wait while a pie is made before getting one pale, undercooked, and at over $3, an overpriced slice, the woman looked at me as if it never ran through her poorly organized business brain. She replied, "everyone needs to 'wait their turn."

To that, I demanded my money back and I'll never consider stopping here on my visits again. That is, until it returns to being a better managed gas station.

Do yourself a favor and waste your time and...

Before I write my reasoning for this review, I want to state that I have never in my life left a review for a restaurant or any other business in my LIFE. This place does not deserve to be listed on google at all and should be shut down indefinitely for not only serving HORRIBLE food, but also blatantly lying on their advertisements (website) about "best wings" and "great food"... I ordered 3 pies, 2 plain and 1 half pepperoni half veggie along with 18 wings. The food was cold, the crust was hard, the wings sauce was not "hot" and the taste was unbearable. I and even the kids in my family chose captain crunch as an alternative. I ordered through Uber eats so one may argue the delivery guy took long, however he didn't. I really just don't understand how a "restaurant" such as Joe's Old School Pizza, a place that serves such low of quality food can pick up the phone and fulfill and order with an honest heart. The only reason I did give this place some stars for service and atmosphere is due to the person picking up my call which I explained my special request for wasn't rude and I didn't go pick it up in person so I did not see the atmosphere for myself. I also am not going to dispute this charge on my debit card because if they're running such a hoax of a pizza restaurant the owners must really need the business. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE... take this review as a warning and if you do order, GO IN PERSON. I will be calling the restaurant after I post this review and telling them how much of a disappointment the food they provided was. Also, my stomach is killing me... might be from eating cereal after one slice of card board,...