Pete's Pizza — Restaurant in Indianola

We arrived @ around 6 pm & older floorplan inside with majority of seating in back room of establishment. It was extremely hot back there & in kitchen area. There were 2 small tables in small dark front room. The one table was lower & I parked my guest in wheelchair @ that table. I made my way towards the cash register & open kitchen area. I spoke with the owners & explained it was our 1st time. She advised Friday nights the locals show up early & starting @ 4:30 pm & usually their busiest night. She promised when things cleared out some she would get us seated, but would need to be patient. A waitress took our drink order & we passed the time with conversation. It took @ least 45 minutes to be seated in the main serving area. Prior to being seated a steady flow of people came in for orders to go. The staff & some patrons spoke with me while waiting & friendly, & advised food good & worth the wait! We ordered small cheese pizza & large all meat pizza with extra italian sausage, mushroom & roasted red pepper. Pizza was thin crust, & very spicy, tasty & good amount of ingredients. When time to pay waitress advised they don't accept credit cards. Small ATM in front. We just had enough cash for tab & tip! Owner stopped to speak with us twice & gave us history of business & local sourced Italian sausage & fresh cheese, which they fresh grate.They are only open 3 or 4 days per week for dinner. Even with all challenges I was glad we choose to be patient & wait, treated us like family & encouraged us to return soon. Worth the trip if you arrive early, our patient & bring cash. Very reasonable also! Next time will order salads, as they suggested & plenty of fresh grated cheese on them! Thanks for making us feel welcome & checking on us several times, warm...

Not really sure how to fairly rate this place, but here was my family and I's experience.

Service was great right off the bat. Got drinks and menus right away and waitress was friendly.

Unfortunately that's about where the good experience ended. Not the waitress fault.

When taking our order I asked for the wings with the sauce on the side. She explained that the wings are pre made and the sauce is already on them.. I am a diabetic and keto dietary so I asked if there was sugar in the sauce. She went back and asked, and was informed it's basically all sugar... So unfortunately the only other thing on the menu for me was a salad.. which was just lettuce and cheese only. Not bad but needed something else.. My wife ordered the wings and said they were some of the worst wings she has ever had... The sauce was absolutely TERRIBLE. They were overloaded in sugar and basically all you could taste. She ate 2 drowned in ranch and tossed the others... My wife and kid ordered a pizza as well to split. The pizza was ok they said but it was soaked in grease. Wasn't a fan of that, otherwise it was ok. Nothing special.

Overall, I cannot say I'd recommend this place. It's not keto or dietary friendly. The wings, pizza, and salads are not great in our opinions. $70 for 1 pizza, 8 wings, and a salad. Using a card is an up...

This place and its pizza are amazing! I grew up in south Des Moines and our Friday's were always "pizza night" from one of the local Italian pizza places (Bordenaros, Vaccos, Paesanos). I didn't think I'd ever find a place close to this after recently moving to southern Iowa. I was wrong. The pizza is amazing and brings you right back to "little Italy". It is a small place and the line to wait was a little long but to me that just meant it was a popular place! They even had pizzas that had some similarities to the pizzas I grew up on. "The Funaro" is to die for. It's a very similar version the " Pastachina pizza" (if you know you know) that Paesano's used to make but with its own spin and definitely not a copy cat version. The place was packed which was not a bad thing. The staff (maybe the owners?) working behind the counter were so busy but left a little room for some humor and the sweet young lady at the register was doing so well for how chaotic it was. Our waitress was great and even the other gal who was working checked in on us a couple times. Seating was a little off with groups of people at wrong size tables BUT its a Friday night, its a nice night out, and it happens. We definitely will be coming back for more and will be bringing our friends and...