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| - This review is for pizza delivered to Lakewood West End from this location. If/when I eat in the restaurant I will update the review. Although there are like 1,000,000 restaurants to try in this area, this place has a cute Sinatra/ Rat Pack theme and I love Frank and his gang, so there's a good chance I will stop in at some point.
Re pizza: the customer service both from the guy on the phone and the guy dropping off the 'za was top notch and deserves 5 stars. I'm used to pizza places, especially on busy weekend nights, (a) putting me on hold for many minutes when I call in a pizza order, (b) having someone who is about 15 years old and on their first job bumbling around taking my order, and (c) delivering or providing for takeout a lukewarm rather than hot pizza. Danny Boy's did none of the above. The staff I interacted with had been SUPER well trained and the pizza arrived so hot I could feel it through the box. And yes, they did get it to Lakewood in well under the quoted 45 minutes delivery time, yay!
Unfortunately the pizza itself was more of a three-star eating experience. This likely has to do with my personal taste in pies. I am not turned on by the idea of mac n' cheese on a pizza, or anything weird like that - I am more into just having a normal old pizza with cheese, pepperoni, etc. cooked in such a manner that the crust and toppings form a unified, greasy whole. Danny Boy's regular pizza is more along the lines of a soft fluffy crust with toppings sitting on top of it, so that when you eat it, the hunk of cheese and toppings pulls away from the crust. In my experience, places that specialize in Chicago-style pizza tend to make their pizzas in this manner, even when you don't order Chicago-style (as I didn't), and some people really like the toppings-sitting-on-fluffy-crust concept and some like me do not (which explains the wide differences in pizza ratings). I will say that in addition to arriving hot, the crust was really fresh, tasty, cooked through and crusty at the edges, and I liked that the sauce wasn't super-sweet (nice change from Angelo's sugary sauce) but mushrooms are to be avoided here because they seem to be using a canned/ marinated variety that doesn't have much taste or freshness.
So, 3 stars for pie and 5 stars for service adds up to 4 stars. I would give this place another try and go for the thin crust next time.
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