Woody's Wood-Fire Pizza Bar & Oven — Restaurant in Joplin

I gave them a 4 star. But honestly, that is simply because it was maybe the best pizza I have ever had. HOWEVER, I would not recommend eating there. Just call it in and pick up! We had a group of six there Thursday night. The front area was full when we arrived but they said there was plenty of room in the back. And there was. There are long wooden picnic benches that they apparently purchased from a preschool. The seat boards are maybe a foot off the ground. However we all squeezed in to one of them. This back room is basically a wood shed (I will get back to that in a moment). It had absolutely no insulation, simply a single piece of barn tin separating you from the elements on all three sides and the roof! That is not an exaggeration! There is a really good heater out their and it literally would set you on fire. I think they use it to keep your pizza warm as it sits on your table. It would run for 5 or 10 minutes solid and roast you to death. Then it would turn off and you were immediately freezing. It is a very uncomfortable cycle you must endure if you visit on a cold day! Our pizza arrived very quickly in my opinion, in about 10 minutes or so. However the half of the pizza I ordered was made incorrectly. Instead of beef and onions, it was beef and mushroom. The waiter apologized and then said he would have me another one made. Excellent problem solving service. It was about this time we discovered we were in the before mentioned wood shed. Because right about then, they received their fuel delivery of more than a cord of wood. The back of the shed was opened over and over while the supplier rolled wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow of small chopped wood in and stacked it all within few feet of where we sat and tried to have a conversation. The rest of the group visited and ate their respective pizza while I waited for my dinner. After nearly 30 minutes, I decided to weed my way through the wood stacking competition and see if I could find my pizza. When I made it up front the waiter saw me and said it is just about to come out. Again, it was very good pizza! When we received the bill at the end of the night, it was obvious we had either had the most expensive fountain drinks in the world or they charged us for the refills. So obviously not knocking your Pizza or tying to give them a bad star count etc. But my advice...

First I want to start off by saying this was my FIRST visit to Woodys. I was very excited to try out as I have heard nothing but good things. I ordered to go, drove 15 miles out of my way to pick it up. The staff was very pleasant and had good conversation as I waited for my order. I told them it was my first time to eat here and they all assured me I would be back. The food was excellent! High quality meats, the veggies still had bite to them. The red sauce was very full of flavor and had a good spice to it and the kiss of wood smoke flavor was what put it over the top. Me being a cook/foodie this was very important to me. Why I gave it 4 stars is they got my pizza order wrong. I wanted jalapeños added to the Mutha pizza and they left them out. The waitress was very nice and offered to remake it or give me jalapeños to go. I was in a hurry having just worked a 12 hour shift and wanted to get home so I declined on them remaking. So all though the food was very good I was disappointed that they got my order wrong the very FIRST visit there even though the food was good and the wait staff was polite. Hopefully next time they will cook my...

We just moved to Joplin in January and tried Woody’s at the restaurant itself. The food was delicious. Since then we’ve ordered from them for pick or delivery and were disappointed three times. First disappointment was we called to place an order for pick up and they were two hours away from closing. They told us that because they were so slow, They decided to close early. The second time we ordered two pizzas from GrubHub, and one of the pizzas was the wrong pizza. it was a full on jalapeño burn your mouth pizza that we could not eat. We had ordered a pepperoni pizza. GrubHub did credit that pizza to us. The third disappointment was we placed an order for delivery today and got confirmation that they had gotten the order, but then five minutes later, got a text message that the restaurant had canceled our order with no explanation whatsoever. we knew that they were open today but then it showed like they were closed on GrubHub after the Cancelation . I guess the best thing to do is to eat at the restaurant and not order for pick up or delivery from here. But don’t get me wrong. the...