Chef V is the guy behind some former Cleveland gems (Grovewood Tavern, and Americano). At some point during his Americano days he decided to immerse himself in the art of making perfect pizza. It was inevitable that he would open this restaurant specializing in authentic stone oven pizzas. Fortunately for the East Siders who he's spoiled over the years with his other culinary ventures, he decided to open Citizen Pie in the heart of the Waterloo Arts District in the North Shore Collinwood Neighborhood right across from the Beachland Ballroom.
His imported italian flour based dough recipe, and other meticulously selected high end ingredients result in a pizza that is one of the best thin crust pizzas you'll ever eat. I have eaten all of the pizzas on the menu, along with a number of specialty pizzas and desserts. It's all great food.
I almost exclusively order takeout because the place is small. And I order a couple pizzas because I love making leftover pizza and eggs the next day for breakfast.
The prices are only slightly higher than most other joints charge for pizzas the same size, but the quality of these pizzas is hard to beat. The only other places in town with thin crust pizzas that come close are Crostata's in Highland Hts., and Bucci's in Middleburg Hts.
Also it's kind of weird to see images of Communist leaders on an art installation inside the restaurant, and the left wing "raised fist" symbol acting as the restaurant's logo considering Chef V - being an immigrant from Eastern Europe - likely has a number of tales of the horrors of Communist Russia, but I have to assume he left the decorating up to one of the local lefty artist types. Oops!