zpizza — Restaurant in Los Angeles

First time trying ZPizza for the traditional Sunday night pizza night. I can confidently say it was not awful, but not exactly the pizza fantasy I'd hoped for. You can tell a lot about a pizza when you first open the box...before you even taste it, the look gives you clues about their attention to detail. So glance at the photo of the large cheese pie...on the one hand the cheese looked perfectly cooked (so many places send out barely melted mozzarella pies) and there was a generous amount of their robust sauce. (as is my preference...so many pizzerias barely put any sauce on their pies.) But what's with the weird and uneven amounts of space between the edges of the pizza and the beginning of the sauce and cheese? Had a pre-schooler been assigned the assembly of my pizza? I mean I like pizza crust...but I especially like it when it's topped with the things that make it a pizza.

The sauce and cheese tasted good. I'd eat that again.

The crust itself was not great...cardboard-y and not the chewy crispy crust you really want out of a NY style pie. It did have a sort of buttery flavor going on which was interesting, and what you want with a Chicago style pizza, but this was sort of like buttery saltines. No.

My wife had the Brooklyn Vegan...She thought they did as good as they can with what must have been the standard gluten free crust that shops use when they just want to have a gluten free offering, but don't really care so much about whether it's good. So again crust bad, toppings good.

Thanks to Z Pizza for at least offering the vegan and for at least having the gluten free option. But it...

Porter Ranch location. These were both orders to go. Ordered a vegetarian pizza with cauliflower crust. Personal size paid $18 + $2 tip. (Menu says pizza is $14) Would give the taste of the pizza 5 stars for taste, 4 stars cuz of price. But ultimately I’m giving 1 star because at this location they expect you to tip on a expensive pizza even if you order to pick up. Not that unusual these days especially in California. But a gratuity is not an obligation and when I shared with my Mother the pizza she loved it. So next day she orders the same order at the same location, she kindly asked the same woman whom served me the previous day, what was an average tip on the pizza, the woman said $5 to $6. However my Mom felt taken advantage of by the woman & had been charged $24 for a personal size flat crust vegetarian pizza that basically was a small salad pizza. It only had about 3 major ingredient components to it. (Again on menu says $14) Taking advantage of an older person is Not O.K. Not to mention the limited income she lives on. Instead of calling out this employee by name We both decided we would never give this place or this company our business ever again. Please beware of this behavior especially at the Porter...

My family and I went to try Z Pizza for the first time. We were ending our busy evening to have dinner there. When we walked in we were greeted by the chef. I asked what time they close? He said 10pm. I looked at my phone and it was 9:45. I said to the chef "Looks like you guys are closing soon? It's ok thanks. We don't want to keep you working late" the chef said "no, no, no. Welcome to Z Pizza. What can I make for you and your family? Our menu is right over here". I felt bad but we ordered and the chef was phenomenal. I asked his name and he said "Fernando". He was very knowledgeable of the menu, patient towards our decisions and very hospitable. At this point, I didn't mind waiting because the place was so clean inside. Nonetheless, we grab our food, went home and ate. Omg, was the food awesome! Thank you Chef Fernando. Because of you we'll...