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| - Boka is the tale of two pizzas, with their slices being the best of times and their personal pizzas being the worst. I used to frequent this place for their slices for years before they switched their menu around. I've heard they did it to offer a more consistent pizza (slices could be sitting out for who knows how long), but the only consistency in the personal pizzas is that they are consistently bad.
During lunch time, you'll find a pretty darn good New York slice. Boka's pizza is defined by their somewhat unique sauce which really packs a heavily seasoned punch. It's a very strong flavor which features a lot of oregano and garlic. It may turn some people away, but for others it'll be a reason to keep coming back. The cheese and crust aren't particularly noteworthy. Occasionally they detract from the pizza if there's too much cheese or the crust is slightly burnt and crispy, but generally this is a solid slice of pizza. Given that there aren't many places doing slices well, it's a welcome addition to the Phoenix pizza scene.
However, if you come in outside of lunch hours, you'll be treated to an abomination of a personal pizza. That's right, no slices outside of lunch hours. Instead, you're given a personal pizza with crust that isn't stretched quite far enough and consistently overloaded with cheese. The strong sauce flavor returns but it's buried in a mess of soggy pizza which loves to fall apart under it's own weight. Boka loves to brush on a layer of garlic/oil on the crust on both their slices and the personals, but here it just feeds into the mess of grease dripping all over the table. It's not like this pizza is unfixable- A thinner wider crust with a better ration of crust-to-cheese-to-sauce would likely replicate the flavor of their decent slices. At the moment, I'm consistently disappointed by this pizza. Sure, it's one price for as many toppings as your care to add, but with a crust that is already overloaded, you're only doing yourself harm by piling it high.
There's a place that does personal pizzas well downtown- Pizza Studio is a chain place a short walk away that offers a much better version that is well balanced and tasty. I really don't know why Boka threw the towel in on their slices to offer a less competitive version of a personal pizza.
There's not a lot of good places serving pizza by the slice, and outside of lunch time there's one less. If you're not coming in for the slices, don't bother coming in.
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