This place is actually more of a 3.5 stars. The pizza isn't spectacular, but it is pretty good. I'm not a fan of the crust, it's too bready, but the toppings are high quality. The appetizers are very good also. The ravioli, cheese curds, and Texas-toast-style garlic bread are all excellent. The toasted ravioli (with cheese filling - never tried the beef) is particularly delicious and we order it every time. Even out-of-staters who had never heard of the concept found it tasty. I guess there is a rule that applying breading to a food item just makes it more awesome.
The breadsticks lack flavor. Things would be better if they just baked a plain pizza crust and sprinkled some cheese on it. Another flop was the fried chicken - pizza places never have good fried chicken. It was greasy and over-fried. Even KFC is better.
At least they have great subs and pasta. Other pizza places offer these things but usually they are sub-par. Not the case with Glass Nickel. They also have online ordering (a huge plus in my book), fast delivery and I've never had a problem with any of the delivery people.
I just don't get the hype over the Fetalicious. Every pizza place has a feta pizza these days. The Sacre Bleu is obviously the superior pie. Anyway, you can't really go wrong with Glass Nickel, but there are better alternatives *cough* Falbo's *cough* for the west-side pizza consumer.