The Piehole Pizzeria — Restaurant in Vancouver

Cowabunga dude! Pizza toppings are legit and the service is amazing! Clean dining inside and room for your four legged friends outside. The Pizza Crust: Crust is nice and thin in the middle and thick at the crust..but the crust is chewy. Chewy like steak that's been cooked too long. This crust is so chewy that you'll want to toss it aside by the time you get to it. Nice and soft and chewy, chewy, and even more chewy.

The drinks: full bar with a serious bar tender. No vodka soda with a slice of lime on the rim. NO! Not this restaurant. These Tenders MUDDLE your drink to perfection and add the slice of garnish to the rim for flare. Total drink and service perfection.

The deal: $75.72 for one 16" pizza and two double vodka sodas + 20% tip.

Tomorrow, I'll update with a full pie and two doubles from the pizza slinger across the street - Hungry and Thirsty Sasquatch. Too be continued.....

UPDATE:

Hungry and Thirsty Sasquatch.

Big pizza and big slices. Still very chewy. But more of a thinner / less tipping NYC style so it's not as apparent.

Price for comparison: $72.91

A larger diameter pie with less weight of toppings.

The drinks don't come muddled but they have a fresh squeezed lime bottle.

The Sasquatch has a great back patio for four legged friends.

The service is outstanding. The young man who is manager goes above and beyond to make sure you have been taken care of.

The older man bartender who works once/ week is crass and boderline rude.

The hungry Sasquatch tender has a " defund the police" tee shirt on. So That's the mentality there. I wonder when the last time she had to call 911 was?

Over all, the Sasquatch and the Pie Hole are neck and neck.

A definitive stance of no dogs and big open business inside the Pie Hole. They Serve dogs outside at the patio.

The Sasquatch has dogs hanging out inside the bar. Health Department doesn't seem to care.

There is gay pride flags everywhere which would be great if I was gay. But since I'm not, it makes me feel like an outcast. Which is human nature. We all want to fit in.

The Sasquatch has pinball.

The Pie Hole has a huge bar with wall to wall seating for friends and families.

Try them both and make your...

Highlights: EXCELLENT pizza, but the lack on online presence is frustrating and the service feels amateur. Well worth a visit, but be prepared to wait if you're not getting take-out.

The good: I got a Caesar salad (delicious) and a 1/2 Cheeseburger 1/2 Taco pizza. They were both fantastic, but the Cheeseburger pizza was the real star of the show, like an 11/10. I know that sounds sacrilegious, but trust me: you've gotta try it. I've heard the dough is egg-free. I saw options to swap for cauliflower crust if you're gluten free or keto. I didn't see any option for vegan folks.

Needs improvement: I couldn't find a website or any web presence for the life of me. I'm told there's a Facebook, but I don't have Facebook. I had to look at other folks' reviews to see a menu before going in and hope it was still accurate.

The service was friendly, but felt very DIY family-owned, like front of house staff hadn't worked the industry prior to opening this spot last year. The service was slow because their timing was off. One example: I first ordered my salad and said needed a minute to look at the pies. My decent-sized salad was dropped off and I had time to finish the entire thing and continued to sit for a few minutes before placing my pizza order. Then I sat and waited for that to be made. It wasn't a bad experience per say; the staff was eager and friendly, but experienced servers would know to check in and ask for the pizza order when the salad was dropped off. The place was mostly empty, but the server seemed a little stressed even with only four tables to wait on. I saw staff attempt to refill a table's full waters five minutes after they were served them and they hadn't even ordered food yet. I think this business would benefit from hiring an experienced FOH manager.

Overall: Piehole Pizzeria, you were delicious and I'm...

We went here just after opening. There were no other customers but we didn’t think anything of it because they had just opened. We ordered the garlic cheesy bread as an appetizer and it arrived with a browned edge but frozen in the middle. The bread was obviously pre-made and frozen with shredded cheese thrown on top. We told the waitress and asked for it to be taken off the bill but she didn’t hear so she asked the cook to re-make it. It was hotter but still not worth $10 or even the discounted price the waitress gave us. The waitress even told us that it was a new item that they were testing. It just doesn’t make sense to me to charge for a product that isn’t fully tested, especially if they’re not even making it from scratch. If the owners see this, please remove the garlic cheesy bread if you’re not going to make it from scratch or at least test it before charging customers for it.

We also ordered the all meat pizza which was also cold in the middle. I don’t know if this is the norm or if it’s because there are SO many toppings on the pizza or because it was that start of the day. Either way the pizza shouldn’t be cold in the middle. Because of the cheesy bread, I also assume the pizza crust isn’t scratch made. The bottom was crispy and the toppings were good for the most part, but because it was cold in the middle I was kind of turned off.

The service was good but I don’t think I will ever come back or recommend this place. It was also pretty expensive for a pizza place that doesn’t make pizza...