Lake Harriet Pizza — Restaurant in Minneapolis

We try pizza all over the metro. Finally got around to this one. We like thin crust, HATE the burnt crust, yet, soggy center trendy over-priced Neapolitan crap - BUT OTOH good is good no matter.

The place is small. You walk right into the kitchen basically. Pretty clean looking. No seating except a few tables outside under the awning. It's oddly quite pleasant on a nice day, like a small front yard. Across the street is Broders, one of those "woman's restaurants". Who seem to own EVERYTHING in the area (and have little signs pushing the "local small business" deal. Which is ironic considering what a goliath they ARE in the neighborhood - creative, but stale food and WAY over-priced.) The reason I bring Broders up is the parking, which CAN be atrocious depending on the day and time. You are stuck between retail and controlled residential. So plan ahead. And be CAREFUL crossing the street!!!

The staff is a mix of the usual chick running the phones who doesn't care and the guys making the pizzas who (fortunately) do. At a busy time, you'll find 3 guys making pizzas and two over at the ovens. The staff is friendly, but business orientated, they're busy.

The pizza's are very very good. Excellent old fashioned homemade thin crust. No "graham cracker" crumbling bottoms here! Guy spreads it in a machine and finishes it by hand, that's why you can get a 20 inch here. Toppings: You can actually SMELL that fresh pork odor from the sausage. WOW! Everything seems fresh and good quality. LOTS of cheese. Maybe not the MOST flavorful pizza in the world, but still pretty good.

Garlic toast is very good but a little pricy. Old fashioned crosscut with burnt motz on top, MMMM. good.

Great value too, look for the expired coupons online, yes, they still use them and you'll get more stapled to the box. Price "may" seem high, but remember, you are getting a 16 or 20 inch NOT the usual 14 at a lot of other places. (smaller is available, of course) Pizza reheats well too.

We drive from Maple Grove to get pizza here and drive it back, if you are fortunate enough to live in the neighborhood, we HATE you LOL! and what are you...

If you consider the crust the best part of the pizza then this is not the place to be. Crust is extremely dry and crisp. Feel like it's been frozen.

If cheese is the best part then you're a little bit more in luck but don't get your hopes up. While I had vegan cheese, I gotta say the texture was unlike anything I've experienced before. it was oddly grainy.

If sauce is the best part well then you have a good spot. The sauce is flavorful and definitely keeps the bites coming non stop.

Overall average place, common pricing maybe even a little higher as my 9" 3 topping pizza (vegan cheese is extra) came to a...

It's okay. When I drove by it looked closed, but it wasn't, so I called for delivery from home. The kid on the phone was pure business, not friendly but not rude. The delivery guy was more gregarious. The pizza itself is cut into little squares, the Northwoods style that some people feel very, very strongly about. Be warned: the pizza comes in little squares. The crust was okay, the sauce was average, the cheese and mushrooms were fine. It's not high cuisine but...