I have heard so many great things about this place, but... Although the pizza was quite good, I didn't get to enjoy it all because the AC was so cold that by the time i was finished eating my first piece the rest was cold! The other problem was the music was so loud!! Good tunes, but unless I'm eating alone I want to be able to talk to the people I'm with...
Review Source:Love, love, LOVE this pizza, it is absolutely addicting! Â Crispy, thin crust pizza with select toppings, but you don't need to add a ton to it because its delicious plain too. Â The hot oil is unique and very flavorful, would highly recommend trying it out if you can handle a little spicy. Â
The atmosphere is great too, its a great place for families, or a night out for pizza and drinks with friends. Â Every time I have been here, the employees have been extremely friendly. Â Definitely give it a shot, you will not regret it!
Wow! A pizza place owned by former NHLer Chris Drury! Â This place is out of this world. The menu is fairly simple consisting of just a list of toppings. The pizza itself if very tasty. I had ordered two pizzas, one with Peppers and Hot Oil, and the other with Pepperoni and Hot Oil. If you have never experienced the Hot Oil (their specialty topping) get it! It gives the pizza a taste they you will not experience anywhere else. If you are a sports fan, make sure to look around at all of the memorabilia from Drury's career. It will get packed during a big game as there are HD TVs all over the place.
Overall, the price for everything was very reasonable and I will be making several trips back in the future.
We are frequent guests here for lunch (close to my office). Today I stopped in with the whole family and while there was a little hickup with my wife's order the manager (without us saying anything) went above and beyond to make it right, far past what is reasonable and I was truly impressed that without us even hinting at the fact that there was an issue with he proactively took over. He truly and genuinely cares about their guests experience. Great job!
Review Source:Feeling like having some pizza and beer? This is the place to go! The Colony serves only pizza in the way of food and has a nice selection of beer. The pizza isn't terribly expensive and you can share one pizza between two people no problem. It's SUPER greasy and is a little off putting when they put it down and you can see the grease just sitting on top but if you came here for nutritional purposes, you made a mistake. It is a laid back vibe, sports paraphernalia and history about the town decorate the walls. It has a nice bar and is pretty noisy on a busy night. A great place to come with friends for a causal dinner.
Review Source:If you like super crispy thin crust pizza oozing with tons of oil then this is your place. Â People I know think this is the best pizza on the planet. Â I don't think 80 paper towels could have blotted out half of the oil on this pie. Â Couldn't even eat the crust and I love crust. Â Â They have some following though.. I'm just not one of 'em.
Review Source:first time coming to Colony and was overwhelmed how packed it was. I was told 30 minute wait but waited for about 20 minutes and was seated before people with tables for 2. Observation: make sure you arrive with a 4 setting as most tables are settings for 4 and up for quicker service. we ordered 2 pies and it was soo good ordered another pie. the service was great and the drafts even better. I love these type of restaurants with friends and family being all together for an affordable price.
Review Source:I'm not usually the biggest thin crust pizza fan, but colony is addicting. My favorite as a spice fan, is a pie with hot oil and stinger peppers. The peppers can be pretty hot, which is great if you're sick of pizza places only having jalapeños and cherry peppers, which just aren't spicy enough. The pizza is a perfect blend of soft and crunchy, and the oil is personally what really makes it for me. It's not going to be a pie of new York style pizza, they serve bar pies, so make sure not to go in expecting that or you may find yourself disappointed. Give colony a try, it's well worth it!
Review Source:Colony is a great place. I don't know why they call this place a grill, because the only thing on the menu is pizza. You can choose from ten toppings. My favorite is the hot oil! I love the pizza! It's thin and delicious, although you're going to need a couple pizzas! This place is very loud, though. It's the loudest restaurant in Fairfield!
Prices- Pretty Reasonable. Except each topping is $1.50 and each pie is $9.00
Service- Each waiter I've had has been excellent.
The colony grill has pizza and drinks for a menu. They have a variety of different toppings that you can add each for $1.50 on top of the additional $9 for the pizza. We thought it was very good pizza for our first time being here. The place is friendly for adults to college students to little kids and families. The staff is very helpful and friendly. the pizza was very good.
Review Source:My husband started taking me to the Colony in Stamford when we first started dating. He'd been going there with his parents since he was only a few days old and his father had been going since he was kid. Honestly, I thought it was a lot of trouble for a pizza. The original Stamford location has very little parking, not enough tables, and the service was incredibly slow because they didn't have the kitchen capacity to keep up with demand. Don't get me wrong - the pizza was great, but it was a hassle.
The Fairfield location really makes it a joy to get a Colony pizza now. The parking situation isn't the best - it is downtown Fairfield after all, but it's not terrible either. There is a parking lot and street parking isn't impossible to find. And they've definitely fixed the wait for pizza. We got our pizzas hot and quickly and all at the same time. The wait staff is just as friendly and personable as they are in Stamford, but in Fairfield you won't have to wait forever whenever you ask for something.
The menu is simple but it's executed VERY well. The restaurant is large, open, and bustling. I'm excited to be able to get my pizza fix without trekking down to Stamford. I'm looking forward to their new location in Milford too!
(Best part of the Fairfield location? No creepy clown paintings on the walls!)
Colony Grill has only one thing on the menu and that thing is thin crust pizza. Â For nine dollars you get a pizza that looks and tastes like Celeste microwave frozen pizza. Â I was actually amazed at how similar the taste was. Â Some people may love this pizza but it wasn't for me. Â The other issue was the pricing for the toppings. Â They didn't have any chicken but for $1.50, you could get 8 mini meatballs on your pizza.
I only tried the food and I wasn't too impressed and $1.50 per topping is a bit over the top considering how they don't give you much. Â The pizza was underwhelming so it's nothing I would really seek out again.
After several initial bad experiences with the quality of the pizza as compared to their Stamford location, I swore not to return to the Fairfield spot. But lo and behold, I found myself with a friend in downtown Fairfield craving a Colony pie - so we tried yet again.
And what do you know? The quality of the pizza improved exponentially. The crisp caramelized edges were back and the stinger peppers had bite! All lacking in previous visits, the Fairfield pizza was now finally up to the standards of Stamford. I still heartily recommend checking out the Stamford location -- Fairfield's sanitized space and friendly service is good for families on a Saturday post-Little League, but the Stamford location gives you a better sense for the heritage of Colony and their place in the community down there.
But if you're looking for unique, tasty pizza in downtown Fairfield, Colony can now be a great option.
Good pizza, and a bit different from the typical ones. Note that it is only pizza and booze, so if you are looking for anything else, don't go. Worthy of note that they have gluten-free pizza in case you find wheat difficult to digest - OK by the standards of gluten-free, but costs more and not as good at regular if you can eat gluten.
Review Source:It is a good pizza, a decent bar and parking is pretty good for Fairfield. Â It's not the best pizza you could ever hope to find but it's pretty darn good. Â My favorite is the hot oil pizza with the stingers (little hot peppers). Â It's white hot! Â It's volcanic! Â It tastes so good but your lips are going to peel and you won't feel your tongue even if you stapled it to a lamp cord and plugged it in. Â It's farging hot!!!
The service is pretty good. Â The prices are acceptable if a little on the high side for what they are doing. Â I'm sure rent and wages are a killer in this location. Â If you're in the area and feel like a brew and a pie, this is a safe bet, especially if you like the thinner crust pies a little oily and a little light on the cheese. Â It won't be the paper thin (excuse me but it that a pizza crust or did someone put sauce and cheese on a piece of toilet paper?) but it's not like the Greek pies that the eastern part of the state makes better than anyone. Â Don't worry, if you're from new york. Â The crust doesn't have a lot of flavor. Â You'll hardly notice it!
Seriously, this is a very good spot and you can have a great time here with the right group of people. Â Don't be snobbish about the food. Â It's a farging pizza for goodness sake! Â Don't expect them to save your marriage, protect you from an alien abduction or teach you how to love yourself in public! Â Just relax with a slice and a beer cold as ice!
Home of the quintessential bar pie!
They are very good, but you need to know going in that they are very thin & crispy crust personal-size pies... not NY or New Haven style at all. Nice assortment of toppings available.
I was surprised how packed this was on an early Sunday evening in May. Tons of families with kids. Pretty loud open room... bustling vibe.
They stick to the basics & they do the basics well... pizza & beer.
If this is Fairfield County's best pizza, then the saying  "money can't buy happiness" is alive and well along the Gold Coast.  Because if anybody could afford the best of anything it's Fairfield County residents.  And if this is their crème de la crème, then apparently money doesn't buy good pizza in this part of the state.  Pepes doesn't count exactly because that's a New Haven export.
Now I'd go so far as to say Colony Grill doesn't make pizza. Â What this Irish establishment produces contains the three key ingredients for pizza, but its appearance is really unusual and unlike anything I've seen before. Â Like one reviewer said, it resembles Celeste frozen pizza. Â That's very true (and it's not a compliment). There's very little sauce and the cheese has odd little holes all over its entire surface.
But that's not to say the pizza is inedible. It's not. I was able to keep down several slices.
As bad as it is - and it is pretty bad - I wouldn't compare it to traditional Italian pizza. Â I bet if they wanted to, Colony Grill could get away with calling it "Irish" pizza. Â Sort of like Greek pizza and Chicago pizza. Â Because while some people may refer to this stuff as pizza, if it's ever thrown in the same ring with Italian pizza, it's going to get its lights knocked out. Ka-pow.
Food review:
Colony Grill is exactly what's wrong with America. Ok, maybe not America, but definitely Connecticut.
I'm not sure why, but everyone seems to rave about, glorify and genuflect before any Connecticut pizza establishment. I originally suspected this was limited to New Haven (ahem, Pepe's, Sally's), but sadly this sense of delusion is apparent in Fairfield as well.
First off, this place is not really a grill. I stopped in for lunch and accidentally asked for a menu, but all they have is pizza. Ok fine, so it's not a proper restaurant, but a bar that happens to serve pizza. Fair enough.
This would be fine if the pizza had any semblance of taste or quality...or at the very least value. Â $12 for a small-ish pizza with toppings that will leave a lunch party hungry is not my idea of "good" in any sense of the word. For that price, I'm better off going to Stop & Shop, getting my own greasy Elliot's pizza (or DiGiorno's if I want to splurge) and making my own lunch.
I don't want to give this place a 1 because I realize the pizza is only a part of the establishment, and in fairness I didn't go in to drink beers at the bar. 1.5 stars, rounded up because the dairy queen I had afterward put me in a relatively good mood.
Pros:
Clean, nice atomsphere
Cons:
Tiny, greasy, disgusting tasting pizza
Expensive
Very limited options (one size fits all pizza)
This is for the Fairfield Colony Grill only.
This was my first time ever at Colony Grill and my husband's frist time in years--he used to go to the one in Stamford when he was younger. Â He told me the pizza was so unique and super crisp--almost like a cracker. So this is what I expected.
Our waitperson was very efficient and nice. Â I ordered a pizza with sausage and my husband a pizza with pepperoni. PIzzas come one size and are so thin it is basically an individual pizza. Â Each pizza is $8.50 and any of the toppings is $1.50 each. Â The pepperoni and sausage were both good quality and tasty.
The rest of the pizza is bland--but I think that is sort of the point. Â I put garlic powder and parmesan cheese on mine and it was tasty enough. Â The garlic really makes the difference. Â
As I said, I expected extremely crisp but what I got was not quite there. I think it needed more time in the oven.
Overall a nice bite to eat in a nice looking restaurant--super super loud in there though so if you can't handle that look somewhere else or go at an off time.
seriously the best connecticut pizza ever. Not a local, so everytime I visit CT, I make my sister take me here.
I always get:
Hot oil & sausage.
It's seriously ridiculous how good it all is. So crispy, so thin, so oily (but not in that gross greasy pizza way). This is like sheer awesomeness oily. Plus, the cheese looks like it's from the moon.
Beer and pizza, and good pizza at that. They hand you a placard, you figure out what you want on your pizza and what kind of beer... Done. All of the toppings are good, do your thing, but their thing is hot oil.
Only issue is that this place gets packed with families, and they don't seem to leave until about 9pm (yes I realize this is FF)
A hot oil and stinger pizza?! Say whaaaaaaaat? Â
In other words, go there and get some! Pizza that is. Â
Always jamming with a wide array of people ranging from Soccer Mom's to SHU / FU kids. Â The pizzas are one size fits all so everyone can order what they want. Â I'm sure this is one of the reasons it's so appealing to families. Â Kids dig personal pizza. Â Super thin crust, but nothing like Wooster Pizza, the dub themselves makers of "Irish pizza". Â Whatever it is, it's tasty and it needs to be since it is the ONLY thing on the menu. Â No salads or appetizers here, folks. Â Just pizza. Â
They have a full bar and a decent list of draught & bottled beers. Â Flat screens throughout so it's a decent place to watch a game and a cool place to get together with friends to try a variety of topping combinations. Â I'll be back.
The "kinks" have been worked out. They are now on point & on par w the ORIGINAL spot in Stamford. Jody the Manager is a gem! The bartenders are seasoned & can handle a full bar. But most of all the pizza is really good, particularly the hot oil stingers, crust & texture.
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Maybe this should just be chocked up to what  bugs me? This is a BAR & restaurant. Why do Fairfield moms & their underage kids find it necessary to fill up BOTH the bar area & the restaurant??? Screaming whining ill mannered children in the bar area is just slightly irritating @ best. So because these suburbanites feel it's imperative to invade everything- you will have to wait, wait, wait for a table/booth & then when you FINALLY get to sit down you will have the pleasure of endure chatty moms & their ill behaved children. Not my idea of a good time.
$1.50 for a soda refill?? Really? Between that and the single pizza size that's too small for two people and too big for one, I'm done.
The only reason I don't give it one star is because the pizza is actually pretty good, though not as great as everyone claims it to be. Also, the decor is nice and the TV's are plentiful.
Try Mike's next door for better pizza, shorter wait, better service, and standard customer benefits like soda refills.
Definitely a fan of Colony Grill. When you go there, you know you're going for pizza. Although I love NY style pizza, Colony's thin crust style is up there with great flavor and finish. The Fairfield location is not quite the 'dive' feel as the Stamford location but is a fun place to go with friends.
All of the times I have gone there, the service has been excellent and the pizza has come out great each time.
I highly recommend that everyone give this place a try.
We in Connecticut take our pizza very seriously. The pizza rivalry is heating up in Connecticut with Colony Grill's expansion onto Fairfield's Post Road. Colony Grill in Fairfield has already cultivated a near-instant following drawn to its thin crust hot oil pies and booming bar scene.
Die-hard fans of Stamford's Colony Grill will not be dissapointed in its Fairfield incarnation. Â The nearly-identical menu is matched by an identically delicious pizza, minus the decades of pizzeria patina, a combination of occasionally surly service and constant throng of people and take-out orders we've come to appreciate (read: tolerate) in Stamford. Â Â
For Colony neophytes, a quick introduction to what is certainly an original pizza experience. A Colony Grill pie is exceedingly thin yet robust. The uniformly thin cracker-like crust somehow manages to form the base for cheese, sauce and twelve possible toppings . This pizza is not for the grease faint-of-heart and is practically its signature. Each slice is a study in the marriage of cheese, sauce, and you guessed it, oil. And if you even think about not ordering the hot oil as a topping, you mine as well go back to New Haven. Colony Grill has practically invented the hot oil pizza.
Colony Grill is also no frills. Utensils? Nope. Plates? Paper. Menu? Pizza. Napkins? Well, alright.
Each pizza is $8 and you can embellish your pie with any number of toppings for $1.50 each including meatball, sausage, pepperoni, mushroom, onions, black olives, onions, cherry peppers, stingers, hot oil, anchovies, peppers and/or bacon. I'm a fan of the hot oil and stingers and my fellow diners loved the bacon and pepperoni. You can't go wrong with the one pizza to one person ordering ratio. You'd think there would be leftovers but the pull of the hot oil will render your powers of restraint useless.
I am in a delicate position here. If I pan Colony Pizza, chances are good I'll have entire towns searching for me wielding tar and feather. If I sing its praises, I'll be insulting the foodie intelligence of our readers and well, myself. Luckily I find myself right smack in the middle. Yes, the pizza is indulgently greasy, the crust is more about thin perfection than flavor, but somehow Colony manages to consistently serve one of the most satisfying and comforting pizzas around.
Connecticut pizza fans are not much different than baseball fans. Each are rabidly and often irrationally supportive of their team or in this case, their pizzerias. And just as that imaginary line splitting Connecticut into Yankees and Red Sox territory exists, so does the invisible border separating followers of Stamford's seventy-five year-old institution, Colony Grill, from those forming lines at Pepe's and Sally's on New Haven's Wooster Street.
Depending on your team, one thing is certain. We in Connecticut take our pizza very seriously. The pizza rivalry is heating up in Connecticut with Colony Grill's expansion onto Fairfield's Post Road. Opening this past Memorial Day weekend, Colony Grill in Fairfield has already cultivated a near-instant following drawn to its thin crust hot oil pies and booming bar scene.
Die-hard fans of Stamford's Colony Grill will not be dissapointed in its Fairfield incarnation. Â The nearly-identical menu is matched by an identically delicious pizza, minus the decades of pizzeria patina, a combination of occasionally surly service and constant throng of people and take-out orders we've come to appreciate (read: tolerate) in Stamford. Â Â
For Colony neophytes, a quick introduction to what is certainly an original pizza experience. A Colony Grill pie is exceedingly thin yet robust. The uniformly thin cracker-like crust somehow manages to form the base for cheese, sauce and twelve possible toppings . This pizza is not for the grease faint-of-heart and is practically its signature. Each slice is a study in the marriage of cheese, sauce, and you guessed it, oil. And if you even think about not ordering the hot oil as a topping, you mine as well go back to New Haven. Colony Grill has practically invented the hot oil pizza.
Colony Grill is also no frills. Utensils? Nope. Plates? Paper. Menu? Pizza. Napkins? Well, alright.
Each pizza is $8 and you can embellish your pie with any number of toppings for $1.50 each including meatball, sausage, pepperoni, mushroom, onions, black olives, onions, cherry peppers, stingers, hot oil, anchovies, peppers and/or bacon. I'm a fan of the hot oil and stingers and my fellow diners loved the bacon and pepperoni. You can't go wrong with the one pizza to one person ordering ratio. You'd think there would be leftovers but the pull of the hot oil will render your powers of restraint useless.
I am in a delicate position here. If I pan Colony Pizza, chances are good I'll have entire towns searching for me wielding tar and feather. If I sing its praises, I'll be insulting the foodie intelligence of our readers and well, myself. Luckily I find myself right smack in the middle. Yes, the pizza is indulgently greasy, the crust is more about thin perfection than flavor, but somehow Colony manages to consistently serve one of the most satisfying and comforting pizzas around.
As for my team? I'm proud to admit I'm a fair weather fan. In New Haven, I love Modern. In Stamford, I'll belly up to Colony. In my 'hood, I'm a Lauretano gal.
In Fairfield, Colony Grill is proving, "If you build it, they will come."
This is a "one trip" place for eats.  Life is short, so why waste a meal in a place that is just below the radar on pretty much everything they  do.  The owners did a beautiful job fixing it up, that's about it.  I never went to the Stamford location, but as far as I can tell, they just saved me a trip.  The crust is mediocre, pizza greasy and toppings uncreative. Yawn.  Service was just OK (although friendly) and regardless of price - cheap - expensive/ whatever?? It's not worth another look in my book. CYA
Sooooooo.... just to be fair I returned for a second (and last) time yesterday to receive what could be considered the absolute worst pizza I have ever had in my life. Â It was the signature HOT OIL variety that made them popular. Â The disc of characterless dough was flabby, oil soaked, not hot in scoville units, disappointing in taste & overall the biggest waste of a ten spot I can imagine. Â This is how bad this place is - Domino's is like a wet dream compared to this place. Â I don't get the attraction at all.
I won't bother further editing my review with additional tips because if you are at all interested in eating here its quite likely you are unable to read.
Never thought I'd see a place like this in the area - a place that actually has a college-town vibe. Â But more importantly, this is a top-5 pizza, in my view, and I include Pepe's, Pequod's in Chicago and a few other perennial champions among my contenders. Â I ordered a hot oil and cherry pepper. Â Extremely thin - almost wafer-like in texture, but really, really tasty. Â Pretty much finished an entire pie myself and didn't feel disgustingly full (although I may feel differently in the morning).
The Fairfield branch is only open for a couple of weeks, and there are some kinks to work out - they warned us that the pie would take 40 minutes, but not sure why that should be.  But it's a vast improvement, at least aesthetically and in attitude, over the Stamford location.  A few years ago, my wife and I walked into that location for the first and only time.  We had  heard about its reputation and since we were in the area decided to give it a try.  We stood at the doorway for a few moments, but got a really uncomfortable feeling that we weren't wanted there, so we walked out without sampling the merchandise.  Fairfield is light years more attractive, everyone was nice, a real solid addition to the area.
The Original Stamford spot has fallen off in quality in the past couple years... I was skeptical to try this venture of 4 members of the 1989 Trumbull Little League World Series team.
It was pretty good, pizza tasted crisp just like Northeastern Neapolitan Bar pizza should.
It also gives the locals a clean place to watch sports on Post Road. The only problem is that while Skybox lounge is on the Second floor, this place is on the first- this presents some problems...
1) Easier access to food for large gals who want to go out to a bar and drink.
2) fit girls would rather walk up the stairs to Skybox to "burn off the beer"
3) $8 for a decent size pizza- this will inevitably attract Fat and cheap AND poor girls ;(
I think this is a good addition to the area- maybe they can add some steps to fend off the aforementioned clients
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