Village Pizzeria — Restaurant in San Francisco

Please allow me to preface this review and the photograph by stating that this in no way meant to slander or disrespect Village Pizzeria at all. I have been an avid supporter of Village Pizzeria since I was a child having grown up right down the street from the Clement Street location. When I lived in Los Angeles, for 8 years I considered their Larchmont location one of three to four options you have in Los Angeles to have decent New York Style Pizza. Not to mention that I also respect that Village has roots in all three of these aforementioned Cities and represent that. Hardly anyone outside of here represents San Francisco in the Pizza World. And the reason for that is that San Francisco is hardly even a REAL PIZZA CITY like there are all over the East Coast. I understand that.

And it seems Village Pizzeria understands that too. Village Pizzeria is one of the few places that keeps San Francisco and Los Angeles somewhat proper. They can't do it alone. Back in the day, they kind of did though. San Francisco had almost no credibility as a Pizza City outside of Tony's for the longest time besides Village. I stand by this. These disheveled slices still were very good and made me feel like I do not need to plan an emergency trip to New York. However, the honest truth is without the help of Empire Pizza I still would need to do so. But until then, Village kept me going when I had no one except Joe's peripherally in a West Coast World, with an East Coast level of passion for pizza as a consumer. An East Coast level of passion as a patron and supporter of the men and women who have given their lives to Serve Pizza as many of the greatest minds of humanity always have.

This is more a criticism of Door Dash and Village Pizzeria needs to know how Door Dash is making them look. Just know if this happened to me, it could happen to anyone. And if Door Dash is reading this, consider figuring something out on the Driver's End so that they have what they need to properly deliver pizza as significant as Village. Please. So that I do not have to give them a 3 star rating when it's more so their relationship with Door Dash that is causing a 3 star rating to a place I want to give 5. I refuse to believe any Village Pizzeria in the Village Pizzeria chain could stir me wrong like this, not even the Van Ness location.

You might ask why I did not provide an additional photograph of the slices unfolded and straightened out. Trust me. It was not a pretty sight when relieved of the strange UFC/ WWE submission hold the Door Dash driver decided to put on these poor innocent and defenseless New York Style slices.

These slices, while tapped out, still were better than a lot to most of the slice places in the City.

Thank you and may you continue to succeed and thrive,...

This was my first trying this place and atmosphere is really nice and relaxing. Vilma was nice and friendly but I will come back to where she majorly dropped the ball and got 1 star for service. I tried the thick and thin slices of pizza and the thin definitely wins. The thin veggie slice is really good and flavorful. The thick slice isn’t that great to me. It’s like they use this hard thick store bought bread and add toppings to it and mines was hard and burned on the bottom so I only ate the toppings which was just ok it was the carnivore slice. My lady had the thick ham and pineapple slice which was cooked better than mine and less burnt than mine but she didn’t finish it and had about 3/4 of it left. So here is where the issue was, Vilma came to take the plates and leftover food from table and was gonna box up the remaining slice. On her way she dropped some silverware and napkins from plates she was carrying and we was actually watching her because of the noise it made when it fell. The food didn’t fall just napkins and silverware. Vilma picked up the dirt napkins and silverware off the floor and YES she put that nasty stuff right back on the plate with the pizza slice she was about to box up for us. She didn’t think we saw it but we did so she went on and boxed it up and brought it to us with the check. I told her I saw what happened and that should have been her opportunity to do the right thing and make a new slice but NOPE she tried to justify the the stuff she just picked up off the floor didn’t touch food!! That’s where she really messed up at. We told her we don’t want it and to throw that away and we paid and left. This is really a case of when they don’t think you are watching and they do nasty stuff and when they get caught are too embarrassed to do the right thing. This review should definitely be an eye opener for all. The photo is where she picked up the dirty napkin and silverware from and put back on plate. Shame...

The pizza was great, but the service felt a little weird. A few minutes after we sat down waiting for our food my friend and I noticed that two of the employees (possibly owners) were staring right at us and it was extremely awkward. We were not doing anything wrong, just waiting for our food. There was some confusion and my friend accidentally grabbed the wrong order, even though we heard our name called for it. The lady said, “too busy going to a concert to realize you have the wrong food.” We we’re going to a concert but it was just a simple misunderstanding and we gave the food back untouched. Also, we weren’t boastful of going to a concert, we are chill people. We planned on getting our pizza to go, but my friend was not feeling well so we asked to eat it there so she could sit for a little while. Somehow that really made the main lady who worked there angry. She came over while we were eating and asked us about our concert. Normally I would be happy to talk but she was very rude and demanding about us telling her about the concert. She became naggy and continued asking questions like what genre the music is. We didn’t know how to explain it so we just said jazzy music I guess and she was passive aggressive about us telling her what genre it is but we really didn’t know how to explain it. It made me and my friends feel uncomfortable because it was just a concert and we didn’t understand why she seemed like she needed to know so much about it. We left because of how...