I wanted some pizza, and had only a little bit of cash. Where to go? Yup, Little Caesars.
I had seen some reviews on Youtube and other places of their deep dish pizza. I had never had it before (always go with the $5.00 hot and ready pepperoni) and it sounded pretty tasty. I drove down here, walked inside, and saw that they had a "Hot-N-Ready Box Set" for $8.00. This included 4 pieces of deep dish pepperoni pizza, and about 8 slices of Italian cheese bread. They didn't have any of these already available, but the lady said that it would be only 8 minutes or so. Me and my son took a seat and waited for our pizza. While waiting, one of the employees started chatting us up about Halloween. She asked us what we were doing for it etc. She was very nice and made the wait for our pizza enjoyable. She also gave my son Bill some cookies. I stole one from Bill, and they were actually pretty good (thin, crispy, shortbread style cookies)! About 10 minutes later, our pizza was ready. I took the box out to the car, popped the trunk of our CRV and sat down to dig in. Here is how it was................
Pepperoni Deep Dish- I dug into this side of the box first. You get 4 large slices of deep dish pepperoni pizza. This thing was piping hot since it was just made 2 minutes before. I had to let it cool down for a bit and then dug in. First bite in, I was pretty impressed! The edges were nice and crisp, the cheese was melted perfectly and the pepperonis were cooked the way I like them, too. These slices of pizza were thick! I could only finish 2 of them, and decided to save the rest for later. The slices kind of reminded me of old school Pizza Hut Pan Pizza. Lots of oil in the pan to crisp up the bottom/edges, and honestly, it tasted great. It was better than their $5.00 regular thin crust pizzas. The deep dish is the way to go!
Italian Cheese Bread- This "other half" of the box was 8 slices of cheese bread! This was very good! No sauce (sauce on the side..didn't even try it), tons of cheese and garlic/onion/butter spices all laid upon the same deep dish base as the pizza. I loved the crusty, crispy edges and bottom of this! The flavors worked and I enjoyed this almost as much as the pizza. I ate 4 slices and saved the rest for later.
Overall, I was very happy with my meal. I am a pizza snob, but I can still appreciate something like this. For $8.00, you get a HUGE box full of stuff. I made 2 full meals (could have probably made 3) from this box and for the value, it cannot be beat! I have had pizzas that were 2-3 times this price that weren't nearly as good. Is it winning any James Beard, or "Best of Yelp" awards? No. Is it extremely tasty for less than $10.00? Hell to the yes! I liked it a lot more than I thought I would, and when I come back, I will definitely get some more deep dish goodness!