Sliver Pizzeria — Restaurant in Oakland

Another pizza shop in the East Bay with Arizmendi DNA, this chain is the brainchild of a former worker at Berkeley cheese board Pizza collective. Newly installed in the Rockridge shopping center, this is sure to be a big hit in the area, since there is no other Pizza like it in the area. Word to the yum yum. If you want to know what I mean by Arizmendi DNA, think of delicious pizza but with a crust that is so delicious you can eat it alone without toppings, a kind of chewy fragrant sourdough that they could sell as bread all on its own. Kind of like putting Pizza on top of a high class focaccia. Add to that the classic cheese board Pizza collective sauces and toppings, and a rather reasonable price, equals big fun for newcomers to this old pizza recipe sold in a new...

Was excited to try Sliver having seen a new location opening in Montclair Village. We ordered a cheese - reasonably priced! - and a pizza of the day for Saturday, and a small salad via Uber Eats. The pizza arrived barely warm, which appears to be an Uber issue in the main even with a 10%+ set of fees (separate to taxes). The cheese pizza was quite rubbery: just exceedingly chewy, and neither kid enjoyed it. The pizza of the day with tomatoes and kale had enjoyable flavors. Both exhibited a fairly thick gum line. The spinach salad with tomatoes and olives and ground parmesan was fresh and quite nice, but with this was an overall disappointing delivery experience,...

The restaurant was nice and clean. They only offered their Pizza of the Day, which was vegetarian. I always try to go for wood fire pies. But for one of those conveyor belt pizza ovens, we were surprised by the quality of the pie. Crust was crisp, wasn't burnt, and the ingredients tasted fresh. Cheese wasn't leaching oil. The pizza was enjoyable, pesto really tied all the flavors together. Not sure if I'm overthinking but the service could of been better. May just be me not being from the area but I don't really enjoy an "eh" as a signal to come over to get my food. But food wise, it was...