Original Pizza II Pinellas Park — Restaurant in Pinellas Park

MENU: 5 stars. Original Pizza's menu is pretty straightforward: they offer pizza. It's not that hard to make good pizza, but man is it easy to make crappy pizza. Fortunately, Original makes its pizza pretty darn good. It took about 15 minutes to prepare (I called ahead). They had some other things like subs, hoagies, calzones, and the like. If I'm in the area again I'll these other things.

MOOD: 4 stars. This is as much a hole-in-the-wall as you'll ever see. It's tiny, offers very little to no place to sit and eat, and it's not especially appealing to look at. But it's a straight up pizza joint that doesn't attempt to offer any frills along with it. It's like the excellent pizza makes up for the fact that there's not much else. And I can dig it.

LOCATION: 2 stars. It's in a strip mall, and an unsavory one at that. That area on Park isn't the nicest, and Original Pizza makes no attempt to class or jazz it up. I'd never even knew this place existed, and I'd have never found it if I wasn't specifically in the mood for pizza and didn't mind searching. The restaurant is not terribly facile to find as it's buried between two ethnic shops. They could use a stronger advertising sign.

STAFF: 5 stars. The front counter lady was pretty nice. They have a minimum amount to use a credit card, which is totally reasonable, since it probably costs the restaurant a small fee if it's under $5. I only had my card and no cash, but the lady allowed me to use it, even though she was going to pay for it later. I appreciate the acquiescence.

VERDICT: 4 stars for doing the one thing Original Pizza does well: make pizza. No frills, no gimmicks, just bread, cheese, pizza sauce, and pepperoni....

The perfect neighborhood, family run pizza place - That missing piece that completes our feeling of home. Strong words, I know. But after tonight, and after many previous interactions with these folks, I can't keep it to myself any longer. Their pizza is amazing. Great NY-style thin crust - PERFECT amount of cheese if you ask for extra cheese. So many places put so much extra that the crust cant even 'crust' right - so disappointing. But these guys get it. They do it right every time. And they're always so sweet. Tonight, I'm mid-way through a bought of laryngitis. I sound really funny to those who know me, but I knew it'd be too much to ask for them to lean into my face to hear my wraith-like voice while placing our order. So I typed a note on my iPhone with our request and asked my 8 year old to order for me. She felt so proud and responsible, helping her poor ailing 40 year old mother (lol). But the people there understood she was trying to help, were so patient with her quiet little voice, and called HER name when our order was ready. It made her whole week, and mine too. Great job, everyone. You're a standard that others should aspire to. Merry Christmas...

First time I have eaten from here, my partner said he loved the pizza, but he is from Massachusetts, and he has a very bland palette. (He ordered a cheese pizza, no sauce) .HOWEVER..I'm Italian and Greek..I'm looove cheese creamy, gooey italian food. He said..hey, do you want to order from Village Pizza?..I'm love was hystatic!!! SOOO good..so I said..sure!! BAKED ZITI!!! So he brings home a tin in a bag, packed inside was a cold ish salad...with sliced tomatoes, big enough for a 1/2 pound cheeseburger, along with 3 huge onion rings. Sliced...and salad from a bag...ok..whatever, I didn't care about that..I opened the ziti..it smelled ok, not the same package, but I thought it was because he didn't order a family size..so I took a spoon, and cut thru what I expected to be a gooey cheesy saucy treat...hahahahaha..no ricotta?.. one very thin layer or mozzarella cheese...and that was it...wasn't any extra sauce in the tin...just well done soggy noodles, a little sauce...and ..my dinner was ruined..who makes baked ziti with no ricotta??? Bleh....