Red Sea Pizza and Market — Restaurant in San Francisco

Located in the cuts of San Jose Ave, there's many of ways of getting here; especially if you work or live in the Mission. I work in the E, so walking distance wasn't that far to get here, like a cool 10 min walk. There's a train that passes through the shop which is convenient if you need to head to Balboa Park station or towards Embarcadero. Was able to get my sandwich and drink, and enjoy my meal at the J stop.

I went with the BBQ chicken skewer sandwich which the reviews were saying it was GAS. Had to try it. The guy behind the counter was super chill, and had the slappers playing the store. He was fast and friendly to take my order. He went over the different toppings, and breads to choose from for the sandwich. Went with the classic dutch crunch, mayo, pickles, onions, jalapeños, pesto, and some more toppings on it. Took less than 10 min for the sandwich, and had the game on. Total with a drink was like $12 something?

First bite, immediately knew that this was the one. It was indeed, GAS. Especially for a corner spot deli. Every bite I took from this was enjoyable, flavorful, fresh, and did not disappoint. It was an amazing sandwich, and will come back and try the rest of the menu. Maybe the Lamb Gyro is next, and so on with the rest of their menu. After finishing the sandwich, it had me wanting to get another one, but at that point; it was my intrusive thoughts speaking even after I was full, and feeling pretty satisfied. My train had pass thru at right time, and had a great time enjoying that sandwich and environment going back home. Y'all are awesome whoever owns and runs the shop. Keep doing y'all thang....

There was no working website when I tried to look them up, so I called in to ask about the menu and was given a web address to a website that didn't exist. Finally found snaps of the menu on zomato and decide to order a large, 4 topping build your own - which to my estimate should've come out a little over $16. Initially asked for delivery and was told they wouldn't deliver to the inn I was at even though they could literally walk right up to my door because they'd had previous bad experiences delivering to hotels. So I opted for pick up and was told it'd be 25 mins...25 mins. Figured whatever, might be busy. It has high reviews after all. The final straw was when I went to pick up the pizza. At the counter I was told my pizza was $27, not the $16 I expected. Why? Because two of the toppings I ordered were "double toppings." There was no mention of any such extra charges on the menu, nor was it mentioned when I ordered over the phone. If such charges are legitimate, they ought to be mentioned plainly during the ordering process. An extra $5 each for 2 toppings is ducking scam. Had I known they where so outrageously priced, I would've just taken my business...

We were craving pizza and wanted an option that was close enough. Red Sea had great reviews. We called (phone or in-person orders only). The person on the phone was nice and recommended the Pesto and Balboa park veggie as bestsellers for their veggie pizzas. So far so good.

Order was ready in time, and service was excellent (hence the 2 stars).

However, the pizza was extremely low quality. Probably one of the worst we had. And we have a LOT of pizza. One look, and you could see that the veggies used on the pizza were bottom of the barrel - the tomato was colorless and tasteless, and the onion still had some peel. The dough is usually a star and didn't feel like it was proofed and tasted like cardboard. The cheese was low quality and tasteless. We felt sick after eating the pizza.

If you spend $45 for 2 small pizzas, you expect at least an average experience. This was unpleasant and not worth it. Very disappointed. Not sure if it was a bad day and they didn't have anything but...