Recently moved to University Circle close to Little Italy and wanted to try the legendary Mama Santa's. Took awhile for the pizza to be made so I sat talking to the waitresses as they set up for dinner hours. They were friendly with an Italian mama vibe for sure.
Now I just got a simple pepperoni/mushroom pizza --- and I'm not going to totally judge a 56 year old Italian restaurant on that, no way. I mean you want Italian, order manicotti or veal parm etc. right? So the pizza... well, it was good and as others have said, simple. I would say there wasn't really anything special about it, but there was and that oddly enough, was the crust. I don't know what it was precisely, but it was crunchy and slightly sweet. Whatever the indefinable pleasantry was, it was definitely homemade.
I can't say I'd go back just for the pizza, but anyone who's ever visited Little Italy knows there's a certain charm and now that I'm less than 10 minutes away, there's no reason not to go back and order that veal parm!