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| - I was a bit leery of trying Dewey's pizza because it's a chain and not local, and there are enough local pizza and meal options including the excellent Angelo's. Nevertheless, after reading numerous reviews of how great their pizza is, what fresh ingredients, what good dough etc. I decided to try them for takeout. I don't think they deliver, which is a negative given that they are located in a busy block of restaurants/ bars that is often all parked up, but I wouldn't knock off a star just for that.
Although I wouldn't call Dewey's website very user-friendly in terms of ordering (no build-your-own options, no crust options, and I even had to hunt around for the phone number of the location to call in my order), the interesting pizza combinations they offered were appealing, offering a number of fresh veggie choices and none of the weird "taco seasoning on a pizza" or "mac n cheese on a pizza" or "nachos on a pizza" gunk. I was pretty thrilled to see the Wild Mushroom pizza on their menu because we have mushroom pizza fans in the house and the Wild Mushroom pizza features several varieties of fresh shrooms, rather than the sad little handful of un-fresh canned shrooms you often get on a "mushroom" pizza.
So, after putting in my order, I drove down to pick it up. You enter down a hallway and at the end there's a "Please wait to be seated" sign and no indication of where you pick up takeout, but it's apparently the bar as that's where I went and paid and then the tender calls the kitchen to bring my order out. After a couple minutes wait, out it came. When the box was placed in my hands it was not terribly hot, and during my 7 to 10 minute drive back to where I was staying in the West End I grabbed a piece at a stoplight and it was lukewarm...and by the time I got it into my kitchen it was verging on cold. I ended up having to heat pieces up in the microwave which caused the dough, which already seemed a tad underdone (thin, white and un-crispy) to go rather gooey. The whole thing probably should have been shoved into an oven and baked an additional 5 minutes but people were hungry and didn't want to wait. I will say the ingredients were fresh and the veggies were flavorful and the combinations were tasty but...it was like eating semi-raw dough with olive oil and toppings and a hint of cheese, and if not reheated it was cold semi-raw dough to boot.
Side note: Make sure you read the ingredients to see if something as basic as red pizza sauce is going to be on your pizza because some of Dewey's creations don't have it. I was OK with this at least from an experimental standpoint, but my dinner partner expected a pizza to have the basics of dough, cheese AND sauce and objected strenuously to its omission on the Wild Mushroom pizza. Sadly, there does not seem to be a menu option to add things like sauce to the set selections. I don't know if they'd do it if you asked, but I'd just as soon not have to hassle around with special requests, especially when the set menu item isn't even coming out hot. Pizza's supposed to be easy...
Finally, a word about the sit-down part of the restaurant. We didn't eat in, figuring it would be too crowded and maybe full of kids and families on a weekend night. For some reason it was only about half full but even so, the only appealing part of this restaurant to sit in was at the bar. The rest of the place looked like my college cafeteria. In a town where 100 restaurants and bars are competing with each other, who wants to eat in a big boring space? Based on other reviews I was thinking you'd maybe get to see the Dewey's cooks tossing dough like Shakeys, but there wasn't much of a sight line to the kitchen window, and nothing visible through it at all.
Not horrible, but I don't think I'll bother going back any time soon.
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