Love this place. Â A slice of pizza is huge and I usually get one and one is enough. Â They have a few selections of pizza made already and warm up a slice or slices in the oven to make it crispy and hot before serving. Â I think this place is family owned and the staffs are friendly. Â The only downside is that they increase the price. Â It is a little too expensive to pay over $3 for a single slice, but I still love this place.
Review Source:As they say, "Upon review of the playback ... ". Â Having re-read my review from a couple of years ago, I have to downgrade a little as having returned here after running the Rock 'n' Roll last year and finding the pizza wanting, specifically the sauce which was quite on the salty side. Â But, if in the neighborhood, I wouldn't count them completely out.
Review Source:Famous Pizza offers some of the better New York pie in Denver. Â The crust is that rare blend of crispy, soft, and thin enough dough to qualify as legitimate New York style pizza. Â Slices are cheap, toppings are plentiful, and the pies are as good as the individual slices. Â Cheap slices and a crappy, linoleum interior makes me nostalgic for New York pizza spots. Â It's nothing pretty to look at, but the pizzas are worth the stop.
Review Source:Meh...The folks here are very nice and the atmosphere is cool. It's in a great location, and the price is okay.
The pizza itself...The crust is delicious. It's crispy but not too thin, just how I like it. The marinara sauce is lacking. I thought it tasted a bit watered down. They have a decent selection of toppings, and I love that you can get pizza by the slice. I've just definitely had better. It would be excellent after a night of drinking though...but what isn't? :)
I was raised on this pizza, this place has been around for over 30 years old, most people do not realize this. I remember when I was younger that my dad would take my brothers and I down here and we would get pizza, this is actually one of my better memories of when I was a kid.
I have tried the other famous pizza's in the area and they still can't do the job of this place, they are still as good as what I remember when I was a kid!
The best new york style pizza around!!
They make most pizza's fresh but if you want just a couple of slices they normally have some pizzas already out and you can get pizza there by the slice.
This is the best place to go for pizza in the city and it is worth the drive if your looking for good pizza and a place that had a reputation that goes with it!
I smelled this place from across the street. And Im guessing its worth 3 stars. The dining room is no frills they have a Tv as well.
I ordered 1 cheese slice, and 1 pepperoni slice. The pizza was ok, nothing really stood out. But i guess if its 2 am and your drunk this will pass like 2 Fisted Marios.
The crust was a little harder than i liked. If im in the area again, ill track down something better.
Plus they charge you for refills. Ehh Thats a fail.
Want a GREAT Slice of pizza, and a GREAT Price then this place is for you! Â I've been going here for 20 years and the pizza is the same as it was back then!
They usually always have the "Carry Out" Special which is a huge 18" cheese and pepperoni, and a loaf of garlic bread all for $10 bucks! Â (I kid you not!) And the pizza is real NY style!
Anyhow, check it out if you get the chance! Great Pizza, and a couple cheap games for the kids to play makes this a great family outing when your trying to save a few bucks!
My credentials: born and grew up in Manhattan.
Verdict: This is the BEST NY-style pizza I've ever had outside of the city. The crust! The thinness! (But not TOO thin which is what so many places do -- looking at you Ernie's!) The vibe! The garlic powder on the counter!
The folks who work here are also unfailingly nice. Winning.
I got famous pizza delivered. Â I ordered over the phone and the women was so sweet!! She helped me make a desicion and was super patient.
The delivery came really quick and was nice and hot upon arrival. Â I love NY style pizza feel they did a great job. Â They were not stingy with toppings and it was the right price!
Curse you Famous Pizza!
Curse you for venting your delicious pizza oven exhaust onto the street while I am riding my bike and trying to lose weight!
Love the Famous Pizza! Â Especially by the slice. Â Price is right, and they do NOT skimp on the toppings when added to single slices. Â Service is fast and friendly enough. Â Like the table reserved for codgers who own the place. Â Big Coke and slice comes to about 4 bucks. Â Alot of calories for the price.
What I had? Â Slice of Pepperoni and slice of sausage pizza
Food review: Â This is just a nice little local place. Â I wasn't expecting a whole lot but wanted to give it a try. Â It ended up being pretty good. Â It was simple but it had a nice subtle touch to it. Â I don't what it is but the cheese especially had really good flavor to it. Â
Service? No complaints
I gotta say, I just wasn't wowed.
Could be cause I quit drinking, could be cause this place is a dump? The pizza was lack luster at best. I ordered a slice of the white spinach pie. There was absolutely no flavor. The people behind the counter had zero personality or interest in me being there either.
I won't go here again.
I got yelled at and talked down to for not know what to order immediately after I greeted the gentleman serving pizza cordially. I was deeply offended, but let it when the young lady behind the register asked him to calm down and apologized for his behavior.
So reconciled, I went to asking for a slice and some wings when he interrupted me by pointing at me and say "this guy" to a coworker next to him. Â
From there I left and will never return. This interaction happened around 7pm, not drunk o'clock, while the restaurant was completely empty. So unnecessary and rude.
Bottom line: Go to the walnut room a block north.
Oh hella hella yeah yeah!
Famous Pizza ain't fancy or highbrow. There is no Gorgonzola with free range organic sun dried gluten free ceramic sliced Roma tomatoes. There's no pedant lighting, decorations of the Appian Way or Caesar frolicking with Bacchus and you won't hear Bocelli on the Bose.
This is a corner pizza joint like your Dad went to, with real marble floors and faux marble tables, hand flung pizza crust, delicious and wonderful. The counter staff is one-third indifferent, one third surly and one third filled with disdain.
Nothing is fantastic, and yet combined it somehow harmonizes into the perfect neighborhood pizza joint. I love you Famous Pizza, with all my sauce stained shirt as proof. Now shut up, order a slice and EAT.
Why are so many reviewers compelled to celebrate mediocrity? Â Especially when so many admit they go in when they're drunk. Â Hungry drunk people will eat anything. There are bars (and some good ones) in every direction.
Pizza by the slice. Â Whoop dee do. Â Really hard to pull off with any sort of distinction. Â Might be better with a twinge of ambiance besides a shaker of dried peppers and a napkin holder.
The McDonald's of NY Pizza.
It happened again! They didn't have my pizza ready AGAIN!
This time it was just comical, I have no more anger left to give this place. I walked up, told the pizza guys I had an order for pick up, they looked at each other, looked in the oven (which was empty), looked at me and said "10 minutes".
I swear these guys must be so high all the time. There is no other explanation for standing around twirling the pizza peel and looking into space when my order is sitting there waiting to be filled.
I laughed out loud and told them I would be back. 15 minutes later my pizza was ready. The pizza was good as usual (even though I saw some sketchy looking pieces being doled out by the slice), but $18 for a medium pizza with two toppings is a little pricey for me. It's pizza from a DIVE where they make you wait 35 minutes for you to get your order.
Still two stars.
I happen to like Famous Pizza's PIZZA...that's it. Like others have expressed numerous times throughout this Yelpathon, the service lacks at this specific location quite a bit. I always get the same thing - XL Pepperoni - and it is consistency delicious. The touch of garlic they add to their crust is also quite exquisite if you ask my face.
Here's the thing to do if you want to avoid awkward poorly executed service - don't dine in. The atmosphere will make you think you're stuck in some 70's movie like "The Warriors" and unless you want to get killed by some roller skating, baseball wielding, face painted like a clown mufuka, you should just order out.
I tell you what though - I have never had bubble guts from eating Famous Pizza and I will ALWAYS go with bad service over bubble guts.
I drive by Famous Pizza every week on the way to dance class. Â Today, I was overcome by an intense hunger and was looking for something quick to scarf down, and had always wondered about the pizza.
I wasn't disappointed! Â I am a sucker for the classic NY pizza and it hit the spot. Â Crispy and thin and tasty cheese slice for just 2+ dollars. Â I got it fast and ate it fast. Â I did not stay there to eat but it looked like (as the other reviews commented) a northeast pizzeria, which made me love it even more. Â I should have gotten an extra slice for later.
Like others have said, it's a no-frills pizzeria. Â It reminds me of pizzerias in NE cities, from the booths to the bright fluorescent lighting to the old-style menu sign. And like many Northeast pizza joints, there are Greek items like gyros available. It's inexpensive, too.
A slice here is decent: not great, not transcendent. Â Perhaps it's not a destination restaurant, but it's reliable pizza when you need it, and that's a very good thing.
We live up the street and when the urge to hoof it downtown strikes and we need some sustenance to keep us fueled, we will grab a "walking slice".
Hot, crisp, thin and so, so gooylishious I want to.....well, never mind.
Seriously, super good, super cheap and super hitting all your spots when you need a slice. It is a dive, but in a good way.
Not so much about the delivery option- it steams a bit too much in the delivery box, so walk down, work off the cheese and get some local good food grub on.
At first glance in the window, the pizza here looks like "New York Style". Â I've never been a fan of cooking a cheese pizza and then throwing requested ingredients on top and heating it up for two minutes, so therefore I'm no fan of 'New York Style' pizza. Â
However, this pizza is far from Manhattan. Â Well, since I've never been to Manhattan, I guess I'll say that this pizza is far from the crap that is Colorado's other versions of 'New York Style'. Â It has a very distinct flavor and substance that is hard to find in Colorado. Â The pizza is good and the slices are very large and affordable, available as a slice or whole pie. Â You can also order wings and breadsticks, etc.
The staff is very friendly. Â The cooks look up and greet everyone who walks in the door! Â The decor is a little random. Â The owners are Greek so the Greek photos are justified. Â There is a photo of the Sydney skyline. Â I'm not sure what that's all about, but it was nice to look at. Â There is also a flat-screen TV showing football games, which is rare, yet appreciated.
This place is open late, which makes for a great stop after hitting the bars of South Broadway.
Great thing this place has going for it? Â If you're walking S on the east side of Broadway around the 0 block mark, and you're getting dizzy and a bit spacey and are thinking "I need to get some food", the thing that will eventually stop your walking like a very friendly brick wall is the aroma coming from Famous Pizza.
Friendly place, good people working here. Â I walked in to get 1 slice, but bumped it to 2 slices because they have a $5 min limit for charge cards (boooooooooo -- but knowing what vultures Visa/MC are, I can understand why) and didn't want 1 slice overflowing with 5 toppings. Â Thin crust, NY style, semi-crunchy crust, and uneven ingredients -- I had a 'barely ok' topping-wise slice of combo pizza, but a mushroom slice overflowing with mushroom and cheese goodness. Â One of my slices was a little small, the other was a bit larger. Â I guess it all balances out. Â You can sprinkle parmesan cheese, garlic powder or oregano on top as well, and they will make you up a slice or 2 to go in a box while you worm your way down Lincoln and Colfax out of the 5 hr rat race commute -- which is where I ate mine. Â Not the best NY style pizza, far from the worst.
Once again, due to the "are we critical enough?" thread on Yelp from a few days ago, the 3 1/2 stars gets locked in at 3 instead of rounded up to 4. Â There. Â Now I'm evened up enough for my liking.
Greek family owned, no unneeded bells and whistles, great pizza made with love.
This place is a great authentic pizzeria. Â With an employee only table next to the kitchen with prime television viewing, you know "it's gots to be good." Â I have always wondered if I sat at that table what would happen - I just might.
You order your slice premade, set out on the counter, half or somewhat cooked, then they put it in the oven to ensure you are eating the freshed slice around. Â Lunch is pretty busy, not bad, a quick wait. Â
Your pizza is served on a paper plate that reveals the left over grease from what you devoured, at least from the hamburger with extra loaded spagehetti sauce. Â It's not fancy, but it doesn't have to be. Â They are good.
I picked up a spinach pizza with white sauce and an order of buffalo wings on Saturday. Â The pizza itself was okay, but a tad bit dry. Â I've definitely had better. Â The wings were standard fare and comes default with ranch. Â
The upside to this place is it's cheap, quick, and the staff's nice.
This is your good-old everyday pizza. I cannot comment on the other foods offered, but the pizza is quick and consistent.
They are a wonderful fixture in the neighborhood, and extremely nice and friendly (not ALL of them, though. there are of couple of JERKS, too).
Without Famous Pizza just steps away from my place, I don't know what I'd do with my frequent, late-night NY-style pizza cravings.
I LOVE (most of) YOU GUYS!
After yet another of a string of long nights of drinking, I woke up and needed something for my stomach. Something greasy is of course. Sheri suggested Hooters, not just for the wings, but because they had a TV showing the Giants/Ravens game and they were not showing the game on local tv. Well I had an appointment to get my haircut that afternoon so we decided to get something close by the salon. I suggested the pizza place just a few shops down. Every time we've walked by the smells that come from there are just so enticing. So we headed out there, our tummies rumbling, ready to have some of this pizza we keep smelling.
When you walk in, you find a number of pizza's already made waiting for you. It's a pizza by the slice kind of place, which I must admit I haven't been to many. I am typically the type to buy a whole pizza and have it delivered and if I lived in the area I would probably have done so at this place. It's not the best looking of places. Kind of old inside, fuzzy tv screen, beads hanging on the door frame leading to the bathroom, old tile and sign menu board, but of course you're not going their for looks, you're going there for the food.
I didn't spend too much time checking out what they had. I was hungry and ordered one slice of pepperoni and one slice of sausage (my favorite pizza topping). After we ordered, we tried to figure out what else to get, but they don't have a whole lot on their menu. I got a lemonade and Sheri got a salad and a soda. It wasn't until one of the employees started talking about wings did I realize that they sold them there. I saw the separate sign listing them when we went to leave. Dammit! Then again I probably shouldn't be eating wings so soon, not like I haven't put some of the weight I loss since moving here back on over the past week and a half.
The pizza was of course the thing that would keep me coming back to this place. It's a New York style (forgive me if I am wrong), big pizza slices, very thin crust, etc. And it's the crust that did it for me. It had a chewy, yet crispy texture to it. I've had some many places have tough, thick dough and it makes it hard for you to get through a piece or two before you feel full. It was so good, if I didn't have dinner already planned for that evening, I would have probably ordered a pizza to go.
Definitely a stop for a late night snack if I'm in the neighborhood drinking or just if I want good pizza. :)
With some indecision about giving 3 stars or 4 stars to Famous, I decided to give four with a disclaimer. I am indeed a fan. But the 4 stars for famous should not be confused with a 4 star rating for some finer dining establishments. I guess I should explain.
Famous Pizza is just basic, no frills pizza. There's no fancy, fine-quality ingredients here. The crust is good, thin, slightly chewy. The sauce has a good flavor. The slices are cheap. And they are open pretty late on the weekends, so you can hit this place up in the middle of your friday night broadway bar activities for a slice or two. So for what it is, they get 4 stars; they are friendly, they get your slices to you quickly, and you can get back to your friends at the bar with some good warm food in your stomach. Just don't come in here expecting something fancy, it's just cheap pizza.
Their calzones are decent, but I usually just get a slice of the spinach pizza and then another one of either pepp or sausage.
I'm afraid that I have to edit all my pizza reviews since I have new standards to judge pizzerias in denver. I think for pizza by the slice places, Famous and a couple of the Abo's are still my favs and are pretty good but usually are "go to" type places only in a pinch for time or when I'm in the area and hongry.
Oh by the way, no city in the U.S. has a lock on the best pizza in the USA. Arguments can be made but it isn't about the town, it's about the individual and his place of business. Short of Naples, pizzeria Napoletana in other countries are imitators. All the people who boast about their city's pizza in the U.S. need to STFU. The people qualified to be called experts have picked joints across the U.S. as the best every year. Argue with them.
I guess it all does depend on what you think pizza ought to be. I like this pizza a lot. I like some chew to the crust; I like the crust not to overwhelm the sauce but to support it. I like to be able to taste the sauce under the cheese and any toppings. This place does all that. To you folks who don't like it -- sorry. Oh well.
I'd kill for an anchovy, though. Can't believe an old-school place like this doesn't have anchovies.
P.S. I tried the spaghetti here once. Based on that, my advice is to stick with pizza and only pizza.
I'm not so sure why everyone is raving about this place. I found it to be rather lackluster. It could be that I grew up in Chicago, a city that does pizza right. It could be the nasty ass bleach smell that was coming from the bathrooms while we were eating there last night. I mean, seriously, wtf, why would you use so much bleach in the first place, and why would you do it with customers in the restaurant? That was a huge turn off!
Maybe it was the bleach smell messing with my taste buds, but I didn't think the combo (pepperoni, sausage, green peppers, and onions) slice was that great at all. It surprisingly lacked any real flavor, and the thin crust was pathetic. I also ordered wings, another disgusting choice. I mean, I know most places cook their wings before coating them in sauce, but this was a new level of low quality. These wings were way fatty and definitely tasted like they'd been in the fridge or freezer a tad too long. Not to mention the hot sauce was like Louisiana's Watered-Down-Poor-Excuse-For-A-Hot-Sauce Red Hot Sauce.
I typically wait to review a place until I've been there twice, but I don't think I'll be going back. I'd be wasting my money. For the guy who said being drunk here helps, it sure didn't last night.
The lady who rang me up was sweet as can be, though. That's probably the only redeeming quality about this place.
I was with Will when I went here for the first time. I also don't get the great reviews. Also being from Chicago maybe this makes me a bit of a pizza snob as well, but, seriously, I felt like I was eating cold cardboard. The bleachy smell did not help things either. Â The wings were disgusting, and laden with fatty pieces. Â
I'm shuddering just thinking about this place. It smells SO GOOD from the outside too. What a dissappointment.
You don't need to be drunk to eat here but it helps. Actually being drunk helps with lots of things in my opinion, from making other people more attractive to numbing yourself to the harsh meat hook realities (to borrow from hst) of living in the modern age. Â
Sure I have had Famous before whilst sober, but frankly like most anything I do in that state i found it somehow lacking.
But get me there drunk and it's on like donkey kong. Â I can eat at least three slices and they're always perfect; just the right amount of give to the crust and oh so cheeeezy. Â I love the cranky flake young guy that works there, he seems so taken aback by every order no matter how simple. Three pepperoni please will elicit the heaviest of sighs from the guy, like he just got bumped down the kidney transplant list. Â
Hey some people like their pizza all highbrow with roasted red peppers and capers and shit, and that's fine, to each his or her own. Â But I like mine when its been sitting neglected on some counter for hours and the mean guy behind the counter breathes life back into it using the flame and fire from a crusty old oven. Â I like it legit.
Here's a story about why Famous Pizza gets 5 stars in my book that doesn't have a lot to do with the quality of the pizza...
Once there was a girl that roamed S. Broadway like it was her job. She traipsed up and down the glorious sidewalks, dancing from bar to bar, enjoying cocktails and varied company throughout the night. When her friend Dulce de Mentia heard about the good times our heroine was having she demanded to be taken along.
But! What Dulce didn't know was that her friend was a heavyweight drinker. So all night long Dulce tried to keep up, drink for drink. The outcome was, of course, terrible.
So around one a.m. (when all princesses on South Broadway and their friends turn to crazed, drunks that need to eat or they fear they will die) Dulce needed to leave the bars and search out some sustenance.
Lo and behold! A Famous Pizza beckoned the duo of fair ladies and so they walked (stumbled) towards the neon lights.
But, what a sad day for these two because as it turns out the pizza place was closed!
Our loyal heroine tried to console poor Dulce with promises of Pete's Kitchen or perhaps Taco Bell should the food emergency reach terrifying heights. And the pair turned away to find a taxi home.
Just then a not-so-fair janitor or maybe cook called after the girls, "Excuse me! Do you want some pizza?" The duo, hardly believing their luck, turned and nodded an affirmative and then zombie-walked toward the promise of pizza.
And expecting to pay for some sort of leftover pizza that was getting ready to be thrown out, the girls were more than pleasantly surprised  when the pieman asked what they would like on the pizza, baked a fresh pie for them and then gave it to them for FREE! How luxurious they were treated by this tired, hard-working man.
And so the girls wondered back into the street, passing out slices of pizza to other drunken citizens of South Broadway and eating their own with great satisfaction.
Yep, my favorite pizza in Denver. Â The sauce is nice and garlicky, and a welcome surprise from a lot of bland sauces out there. Â The crust is a thicker than say, Benny Blanco's or Protos, but still a thin crust nontheless. Â I like to ask them to leave my pie in the oven for a smidge longer to get it very dark brown on the bottom.
The spinach-feta pie is a delight, and I usually order a small one alongside my "regular" pizza order. Â They have a good selection of slices available as well, however, the pizza is so good you'll want leftovers, so just go ahead and order a whole pie. Â ;)
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