Blackthorn Pub and Pizza — Restaurant in St. Louis

Terrible experience. I dont normally take the time to write reviews. They pre-authroize your card for $450 if you want to start a tab. Ok so no tab for me but for some reason they wouldnt just let cash out right away. So tab it is and now for atleast 2 days my card had a pending charge of 450..So anyways the bartender couldn't multi task or act in an efficient manner and was kind of rude and slow... whatever..we ordered our deep dish pizza that everyone rates highly and he says its about 40 minutes.. cool.. and we got cheese bread as an appetizer to offset the pizza wait.. cool no biggie we will hang out, drink beers, play shuffle board, and chill... after 3 games of shuffle board and another round of beers ( bartender forgot my 2nd round because I must have asked him while he was busy assisting the other 2 people at the bar)..we look at the clock and its been about 60-70 minutes.. so i go to bar and of course the bar tender cant multi task and doesn't even acknowledge me for a few minutes because he is trying to pour a draft beer for someone and also explain the $450 preauth situation to someone.. anyways a lady from the back brings a pizza to someone at the bar that came in 30 minites after we arrived. Of course you always wonder why people that come in after you get their order first ..no biggie whatever.. so finally the lady finally asks if i need help and i asked about our order number.. she goes to check.. comes back and they have no order history.. im very frustrated at this point. Its Its now 815 pm and if its going to take another 40 minutes we wouldn't eat till 9.. we have to work tomorrow and really didnt want to be there for hours. At this point in the whole process were still hungry.. so we decide to cut our losses and get a thin crust that they said 20 minutes tops. So then.. cheese bread came out fairly soon. Little crispy but not too bad. Guy says pizza will be out in 5. It came out.. definitely over cooked and crispy. Lets call it "spicy cardboard ".. so we cut our losses and toughed though it.. went to cash out.. bartender didn't offer or mention anything about discount or food charge changes (remember we started by paying up front and food charges already entered).. absolutely terrible experience. I was treating a friend to dinner as a return to a favor and it was embarrassing. I really like to think it's normally decent food but ill never risk it again. Dont even think I've had an experience this bad at a fast food restaurant in my...

For me: Best “Deep dish” style in STL. It was a beautiful September night in St. Louis. A nice 79 degrees as I stepped out of my car at Wyoming and Spring Ave. The aroma of pizza hit me immediately from a store front with no name on it. It had to come from this building as my nose followed the smell distinctly. I stepped in the door to be greater by a most welcoming and positive energy that was the female bar tender behind the bar. The atmosphere was welcoming and family friendly. It was laid back. I sat down and had two beers while talking to the waitress. Shortly after, my pizza came out. 10” Chicago style, mushroom and pepperoni!!! I drove home salivating in my car as my precious cargo sat in my passenger seat. At home, I cut my pizza because everyone who is familiar with Chicago style knows to get it uncut so you don’t get your bottom soggy. Soggy bottoms get no bite. Common sense…. When I opened the pizza box it was love at first sight. The cheese was melted perfectly; the crust was something out of a magazine. It was cooked to perfection, so crisp, but so delightful at the same time. The sauce on this pizza must have been made somewhere in the deep spice orient then brought to Italy for its tomato treatment, and finally assembled by a master craftsman in the US for its final debut. The sauce is a deep burgundy tomato like sweet flavor that is slightly spicy but still tomato. I ate the whole thing that felt like it weighed 5 pounds. This pizza place does not belong in STL. This is something you would eat in New York, LA, Berlin, or its own Mecca of Chicago. This is too much flavor and goodness for the Midwest and can only explain the bad reviews this place has gotten. Maybe the people of the bad reviews had Covid, or a tragic ENT related accident that caused them to lose all sense of smell, taste, and texture and I mean that in the most respectful way. If you had a bad experience, give this place another try. You should try everything twice in life to make sure you don’t like it. And I mean...

I once drove to Chicago, all four hours I was exhilarated for a taste bud bending deep dish pizza. What was I greeted with? A flavorless tooth breaking crunchy pile of mushy sauce. Little did I know I only had to drive 10 minutes to get a deep dish pizza so good it knocked my socks off...I put them back on and it knocked them off again. Lemme tell you, this pizza will rock your world buddy. We walked in and were greeted to the chillest most classy hole in the wall bar kinda vibe you can get. The bartender and the cook both matched the vibe and greeted us beyond friendly. We ordered the 12 inch meat lovers deep dish with the chefs special sauce then we were informed itd be about 55 minutes until it was ready (perfection takes time my friends) so we settled in at the bar and took in the sights all the character the old building has to offer then before we knew it out came this ABSURD,GINORMOUS, MASTERFUL pizza just packed to the gills and then some more woth every meat in the book, tons of cheese and the sauce....oh the sauce. The only thing id change is more sauce because galli g willigers it'll satisfy your tounge more than its ever been satisfied buddy. The cook that brought it out was thrilled to serve it, said it was the best pizza you can get because he created the sauce....thankful he did. Between the two of us we were only able to eat half the pizza before we were stuffed like a Thanksgiving night. The cook came back out, boxed it up for us, we said our goodbyes the the fantastic bartender and grabbed our pizza....what? This damn thing was HEAVY, popped that thing on the food scale when we got home......3 pounds and 9 ounces. Half the pizza almost 4 pounds! INSANITY, ABSOLUTE INSANITY. Do yourself a favor, go take in the full experience stuff yourself beyond belief and hang with the old timers at the bar. You'll be...