The Italian Pie Shoppe — Restaurant in Saint Paul

Disappointing. Being from Chicago and also liking New York and Detroit style pizza, it feels like this place barely knows what pizza is based on my experience here. I ordered the BBQ Chicken pizza and it was absolutely bizarre. They clearly prepared it in such a way that they cut the crust before putting any toppings on it, and nowhere on the menu did they say it would have anything more than chicken and BBQ sauce in addition to the normal cheese and tomato sauce. But when I got it was covered in an absurd amount of cheese, olives that clearly came from a can, lettuce that can only be described as “not very fresh” and a stupid amount of sliced tomato, as well as some onion and other stuff I can’t even identify. I don’t mind a lot of these toppings, but lettuce on pizza seems wrong and the taste of the olives they used clashed horribly with everything else, and I normally love olives on pizza. The BBQ sauce was vaguely spicy but not sweet, and the lettuce was bitter. All in all, it was way too much to put on a pizza and despite only being 10” I couldn’t even eat half of it before putting the rest in the fridge. When I ordered I thought the pizza seemed expensive but given how much was on it I understand why. I have yet to find pizza I like in the twin cities and I was really hoping for better here.

The only positives were the fact that my order was ready when they said it would be and pickup was easy. If I try this place again I sure won’t be getting what I got this time.

EDIT: The worst part didn’t come until the next day when I had some of the worst intestinal distress of my life....

I have never left a review that wasn’t 5 stars, but unfortunately I just had a very bad experience at Italian Pie Shoppe. We ordered a pizza to go but decided to sit down inside the restaurant (the tables were all empty except 2). We ate for a couple minutes without issue but when I took out a bottle of water that I brought, and the woman working there told me it wasn’t allowed. I put it away and she then told us we shouldn’t be eating the pizza inside the restaurant if we ordered to go. We asked her why because we paid for the pizza and even left a tip, but she decided to escalate the situation and kick us out of the restaurant. This women claimed she was the owner named Katie. This is no way to treat a loyal customer, and another party of customers even cheered for us on the way out since they witnessed us get mistreated by Katie. I like the food here and come here fairly often, but unfortunately will never return. I’ve never experienced anything like this.

Update: I reached out to management via email and phone and still no response after...

This Place Deserves 0 Stars But I Gave One Because The Food Is Decent! The Lady That Claimed To Be The Owner IS RACIST Is Always Rude To Us Me And My Partner We Come Here Every Once In A While And She Doesn’t Even Greet Us Like We Do Her We’re African American She Didn’t Wanna Give Us Any Plastic Silverware A While Back When I Was Pregnant She Asked “Why Plastic” But We Still Received It After I Asked This Time She Claimed We Can’t Have Any Unless We Eat Out So I Told Her We’ll Eat Out And They Can Pack Our Order To Go She Tried To Pack My Salad To Go I Told Her No I Can Pack That My Self She Got Irritated So I Went To The Counter To Ask For My Plastic Silverware And She Told Me She Put Some In The Bag I Said Can I Get My Bag Now So I Can Get The Plastic Silverware To Pack My Salad She Refused To Give It To Me Saying My Pizza Almost Ready… I Never Did Reviews But This Not The Place You Wanna Spend Money At She Was Rude As...