Piccolo Italia — Restaurant in San Francisco

i don't know why their yelp rating is so garbage but google reviews, you get it. i'm just gonna paste my yelp review here!

this is the best pizza i've ever had in my life and this is what you need to do. it's a tiny little pizza spot with like 2 tables in the tenderloin, so you're going to want to drive or take transit and grab it for takeout. they're open super late so it's nice to come here for post-concert food or a late night craving. the guys are always super nice, very fast, and they take apple pay! when you get there, park somewhere (doesn't matter if it's a "spot" you can probably just put your hazards on and leave it there for a couple of minutes). just pick somewhere close to the store. then go inside and order one of the slices in the display for like $5-6 - they're gigantic and the best thing that they sell. their fried appetizers are also pretty decent and well-priced, and they do make pizzas to order but those aren't really a better value. they'll heat it up fresh for you! you can eat the pizza in your car, it's a very structurally strong pizza that won't make a mess, or you can eat it in the store because you WILL inhale it within 10 minutes! you can even eat it just walking down the street and you'll be done by the time you're at the bus stop i swear. now onto why i say this is the BEST pizza i've ever had. it's not a super thick and goopy slice but it feels hefty in your hand. it's gigantic, surface area-wise, so it's a really good value and a satisfying meal. the crust has a good chew to it but is slightly crisp on the bottom (it feels like eating forbidden cardboard in the best way). the sauce is a beautiful contrast to the melty cheese and flavorful toppings, which always pair perfectly and are not greasy at ALL. if you are a bbq pizza fan, come earlier in the day because you NEED to try their chicken bbq! it's genuinely the best thing they sell and will make you ascend to the gates of heaven. if you like something with veggie, try the roma or the combo/veggie pizzas. everything is good here. i've had their onion rings and mozz sticks before and those are good too, but i'd say try the pizza above everything else. it's just so consistently fire and amazing value!! the first time i had this pizza in 2020 it changed my life and it's just as good when i came back recently last week. come here ASAP there's no...

After a long stressful day of hustling and bustling, this quaint little pizza shop never fails to induce a relaxation of the daily stresses and tensions which so thoroughly permeate the day as to become unnoticed until I am pleasantly removed of them. Of course, the pizza is good too – best slices of pepperoni in the city, if not the greater tri-state area... or even the whole world!! Seriously though: best in "The Whole World!" as in "Planet Earth". The pepperoni is crisp and flavorful. The dough is fluffy but firm: not too soft, but not too hard... The proverbial Goldilocks of pizza dough. The cheese... Oh the cheese... It's that type of cheese that only exists in memories of childhood. The type that doesn't completely sever with each bite and can sometimes stretch into a long string between mouth and slice. This is potentially one of the most embarrassing yet mouth watering moments one can experience at a pizzeria. You can feel the many eyes of the popular dining destination descending upon you, judging you, heads shaking in disapproval. But it's not your fault, this bad etiquette was forced upon you by the high quality cheese you are ravenously consuming. You try to continue eating the stretched out melted mozzarella assuming that it's bound to break "it can't stretch forever?" you nervously tell yourself. But it can. And it will. Unless you put down the slice and use your silverware to cut that rebellious rope of delicious melted mozzarella cheese. Don't be deterred by the possibility of such a cheesy incident. The constant line of customers at all hours of day and night is all the proof you need. If only all pizza was...

$5 cheese slice, heated up in about 3 min. $1 ranch, $2 can sodas. It was …pizza. I usually head over to Seniors on Haight, for a $5 slice (plus 50¢/topping) for a better slice. Tomato sauce is better and present on the slice (I couldn’t taste Piccolo Italias sauce. The crust was pinkish under the cheese, so some amount existed at some point), more cheese, and a heftier slice plus the “Seniores secret sauce” which is what really gets me to trek over there. I imagine the owners were like “Okay, we need to make pizzas with the lowest cost possible” and then proceeded to buy low-end inexpensive ingredients, and make the pizzas using the bare minimum amounts of dough, sauce & cheese. Result: thin pizzas, skimp sauce that either absorbed into crust or was never more than a swipe of pinkish to begin with, and cheese that you know was the cheapest option available from wherever they buy ingredients. I Just trying to be explicit about what you’ll get because I seemed to come across only “this is amazing!” reviews for every pizza place I’d look up. I aim to inform people rather than give empty blah blah blah. I strayed with this Piccolo slice, and I’ve learned my lesson. I’m sorry Seniores. Piccolo Italias slices: they’re food. And it’s some ungodly hour, you’re hungry, you don’t have a way to get elsewhere, and you have exactly $5 - it...