Tony's Pizza & Grinders — Restaurant in Pearland

I used to live right down the street of this place, every morning I would walk to Dobie donuts or the gas station for a quick snack during summer break. One day I was home alone and started to crave wings, being a young man with no car and parents who left money for me to grab food nearby. I looked up this place and fortunately the had what I was looking for. I walked for about 10mins before walking through the doors. Got to admit, the decorations are pretty damn cool. The vibes give off boy macho man sandlot movie energy. The staff were pretty decent but sounded like they didn’t want to be there at all. Guessing by how dead it was and I was only customer inside the place. I ordered my 8 piece of Buffalo hot wings and walked my way back home to enjoy my meal. This is where my face goes from upside down to frown. :( Looking at the absolute deformed chicken drums that lay before my very eyes distraught me. I took a pic and posted on my Instagram feed with the caption “What type of wings are these!” Not only was I dumbfounded but few of my followers replied with questions of their own. It looked like the poor chicken that was slaughtered has a genetic defect where all it’s muscle tissue was transformed into fat when put into a deep fryer. Every bite I took of the wings I hope to feel tender goodness of meat but a tear fell from my eye from the betrayal. Ate 5 wings before I threw the container into the garbage where it belongs, that chicken died for nothing. If Gordon Ramsey walked into a room with these wings placed on the floor he would die, come back to life, die again, the soul would come up die and the soul of the soul would die. Also the sauce was eh 3/10 sauce. This was my 2nd experience here by the way. My first experience was when I was around the age of 14, my mom had a coupon for this place when it first opened. She ordered me and my brother a large pepperoni pizza. Me and my brother being natural pizza lovers we knew we would shred this pizza till only the grease remained. Needless to say only 2 slices were taken out that pizza. The bread was too doughy, the cheese was not cheesing, the sauce overpowered the cheese. HOW!? I’ve never been to a place where the sauce overpowers the taste of everything else on the dang pizza, if I had a Time Machine I would go back in time and tell my mother that putting us in the adoption center to eat would’ve been a better option than ordering a take out pizza from here. Not only that but the grease, you thought papa John was bad? I could place a bath towel on a slice and wring it out and it would fill half a bucket. Am I going to far with this review, yes. But I’m doing it to heed a warning to those who dare step inside. This Halloween I might dress up as a old man with a fake long beard, giant wood stick and gown with a hood just to point my finger at doordashers and advise them to cancel the order.

I cannot fathom the frustration of going to a place with high hopes twice and being slapped in the face with all tastebuds removed in the process.

But to keep it short, I am not returning to his...

For starters, the the management/staff is very rude and unwelcoming for no absolute reason. These people clearly need to rethink what it is to own a proper business, because having good food absolutely is not the only thing you need to have a successful, functioning restaurant. To tell the whole story, me and my friends walked in to simply have a good lunch, my friend, who is disabled btw, walked in with her service animal. A perfectly, well behaved service dog whom she had a card for as well. The staff immediately jumped on her, saying she couldn't have her dog in the establishment, and quote, "Having a dog around food is disgusting". While this statement could apply for an average house animal, it most certainly doesn't apply for a registered service dog. They continued to argue with my friend while we all just simply wanted to eat and enjoy some ice cream, telling her that "You are only doing this for your own good". After we refused to leave, the staff continued to walk over to a back area and talk trash about my friend and her "fake service animal" while thinking we couldn't hear them. We did get our food but it was absolutely not fresh and left out for a period of time, absolutely disgusting. Would not recommend going to this place ever, especially if you're disabled as these people seem to have no sympathy for disabled people. Fix your management, this behavior towards customers is unacceptable. Your management acts like spoiled children, and as a native Italian myself, this behavior is vile from you so...

This place used to have good pizza but sometime around the end of last year, their pizza's kinda just took a drop in quality, I kept on going tho, up until my last visit. So you know how you've heard those exaggerated statements about certain big chain pizza places selling pizza that tastes like cardboard? See I've never actually experienced that myself I always thought that was just pretentious stuff people who don't like pizza would say on Reddit or something. But last time I went to tony's I got a pepperoni pizza that didn't really have much taste. If I were to put it into percentages I would say the taste was composed of 15% crust, 30% burnt crust, 15% pepperonis 10% cheese, 10% marinara, and 20% cardboard. I'm not kidding I could literally taste the pizza box itself in the slices I ate. Usually with most pizzas event if you dropped a slice flat on its face back into the box and ate it you still wouldn't taste any cardboard because the flavors of the slice itself is much more present to the point where the taste of cardboard is indiscernible but this thing just didn't have any flavor. But I mean it's not all bad, there this Stefano's place nearby that I probably never would've bothered trying if not for this. I gotta say, those Italians know their stuff. Anyways, Tony's used to be pretty good, I'm sure at some point they will be good again but as it is right now I'm probably not going to order again...