The pizza is good. Â No doubt about it, Â but I must echo the sentiment about service and wait time. Â I placed an order online, expecting it to be more efficient. Â At delivery time I called to check status and was kept on hold for over 10 minutes, only to be told "that pizza has already gone out" and to be promptly hung up on. Â I live literally 4 blocks from this place, had they said it was not yet ready I would have simply picked it up. Â No, on the contrary they said it was already "out" but somehow after 10 minutes on hold and waiting another significant period of time the pizza has yet to arrive.
It has now been over 90 minutes since I placed my online order, with no delivery happening even yet.
My kids and I have better results if we order in store and wait in store for them to prepare and hand us the pizza. Â Under these circumstances it only takes about 12-15 minutes. Â Then we can enjoy the pizza. Otherwise, it's mired by the shabby service.
Really good pizza, really fast and you bake it yourself. Plus, I love the ability to order online. We go at least once a month. The staff here are super friendly and helpful-- tonight we tried to order online but it wouldn't let us because it was only 20 minutes before close. We called and they got it done, no problem. The only con is that they close pretty early- 9 p.m.
Review Source:Two and a Half hours from ordering to eating!
Yes, this pizza is good, but it's not "waiting 2 and half hours" good!... The ordering process was great, the girl on the phone was great and gave us a full refund but I don't think we'll be ordering from here again. If we had been told 2 ish hours when we ordered we would have at least known what to expect, but to be told 45 mins to an hour and then it takes just over 2 hours is a case of not managing your customers expectations. I think that promise low and deliver high should be the moto in any business and this was the total reverse. Plus this was the second time that this happened. I was glad that they refunded us and we enjoyed the pizza once we had it but like I said we probably won't order again from here.
This is the first time I've written a review for a restaurant that hospitalized me. Â
Hardcore! Â
I'm celiac. Â HMPC claims to have gluten-free pizza. Â My friends brought me home a pizza that they said was gluten-free, that they had watched be assembled, that they had drilled the staff on (don't use the same spoon or surfaces, etc, that have touched gluten.)
I trusted the friends, I trusted the kitchen, and later that night I was incredibly, incredibly ill. Â I spent 2 days throwing up & then some, and was finally hospitalized, stuck w/ IVs, given dilaudid (!) and kept 3 days. Â 3 days!!! Â I've never so much as been in the hospital overnight before. Â I've NEVER been glutened like this before. Â So whatever happened, it was no trace amount or tiny mistake. Â
DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU. Â If you're celiac, steer clear. Â Super super clear. Â It took me weeks to fully recuperate. Â I don't think this restaurant understands what it means to offer GF items. Â Many, many, many, many pizza places do, and are virtually risk-free. Â
So learn. Â Do better. Â Don't kill anyone.
It's probably a good thing I don't have children, because I would gladly trade them in for this deliciousness!
Yes, it is a little more expensive but utterly and completely worth it. The ingrediants and so above anything I've ever had on a pizza in terms of freshness. It beats out Dominos, Sarpinos, Lou Malnatti's and yes, even Piece.
Now you can get pepperoni that isn't swimming in preservatives! The creaminess of fresh goat cheese! Peppers that are stilly crisp even after baking!
And the crust... oh that wonderful crust. Sweet, light, golden perfect thin crust pizza.
The people in here are always extremely nice. We get Homemade around 2-3 times a month. Stopped in yesterday after work to get a ready-made pie. They didn't have any that I liked in the display, so I ordered the special. took them maybe 5-10 minutes to make it. So nice!
I would probably starve if it weren't for Homemade. I keep making a mental note to try their salads, but haven't gotten around to that yet because their pizzas are just too addicting!
Looking good so far. Â Have walked past here many times and decided to try it on a whim. Â A basic pizza is pretty cost-effective but the prices adds up to delivery-level prices once you start to add on extra ingredients and spices. Â My advice, add your own extra toppings and spices. Â Additional cost for the wheat crust as well. Â The salads are expensive and 90% lettuce; the one we got didn't quite match the example on their counter which was loaded with stuff.
Cooked well in a home oven and tasted pretty darn good. Â Was still cheaper than delivery and much less work than making it from scratch.
The manager did follow up with a questionnaire email a few weeks later, that was a nice touch.
the pizza was great....but i have to admit i had no idea that a) the pizza would still have to be cooked when it arrived and b) it would take an hour to get an uncooked pizza but let me tell you that the pizza was really good and the homemade ice creme (that the delivery guy forgot but i made him go back and GET was fantastic). Â I mean I'm dreaming about it! Â Order from there for sure but you better call early and be prepared to throw it in the oven when you get it!
Review Source:I've ordered from here a couple of times now, so I guess it's time to write the review.
Everything so far has been top notch! You can get a pizza pretty much any way you want it with lots of ingredients that you won't find from your average pizza place. The ingredients are excellent. The salads and desserts are great. The service has always been pleasant and prompt. It's a little bit pricey but completely worth it.
I'm especially fond of the whole wheat crust and the chocolate chip cookie (but not on the same pizza :) ). HomeMade Pizza Co can count me as a regular customer!
Tried this place because a friend wanted to try it out.
This is the most ludicrous business I've ever seen. Â How this chain is still around boggles my mind. Â Charging $18 for you to call for a pizza that you got to wait 30 minutes for them to just assemble; then once you get it you gotta bake it yourself for another 15 minutes. And when you eat it the only satisfaction you get is from smug self-satisfaction that you get from consuming "all-natural ingredients... It's about honoring our farmers and nourishing ourselves..." (from their website).
The funniest thing to me is that when we picked up our uncooked pizza, there was another guy there picking his up. Â He too was boggled as he asked the kind girl behind the counter, "Wait, so you're saying I have to bake this?"
The pizza itself was ok, but one could get a comparable pizza in a frozen food section of a quality grocer for half the cost. Â I think slightly over baking it made the crust better. Â The storefront was clean but they could really use a couple ovens in the back. Â Not paying for gas to bake pizza but charging the same price as normal pizzeria sounds like a crazy way to do business, but I guess there's a sucker born every minute. Â They fooled me once, but never again.
This should be labeled as a store because a restaurant provides food ready to eat or provide the means to make something edible (i.e. fondue, shabu shabu).
I can honestly say I have a slight crush on Homemade Pizza Co. Â Everything is so fresh and delicious. Â During the months of June, July and August of last summer, I bought so many salads (they had them on $5 sale) that I recieved 5 free ones. Â That means, I bought 50 salads! Â I do love a good salad though! Â My favorite was the cobb salad and pear salad. Â Kids loved the cutie pie pizzas, and my husband and I also enjoyed the carmelized onion and sausage pizza. Â The crust is very light and all the ingrediants tasted great! Â Highly recommend!!
Review Source:Homemade Pizza is delicious! I've been a fan since their Southport location and used to drive down to Hyde Park to pick it up b/f the SL location opened. Â
My absolute fave is the wild mushroom, I cannot get enough. Â
Their salads are also fresh and delicious.
I do think the Medium size bakes up better than the Large sometimes, especially if you have a lot of toppings, but done right their crust has a great chewy texture while still being a thinner crust. Â
It's great for a weekday get together with friends. Â Don't forget to use their usually active $3.00 off code, and join their free club so you can get free pizzas!
I've been to homemade pizza a few times and really wanted to like it. I thought that maybe I didn't follow the directions precisely enough or I didn't get the "right" pie. Everything about the pizza was just... Meh. Their pizza is only marginally better than the frozen ones from whole foods. Sorry, I really want to love you, homemade pizza co.
Review Source:We walked to HomeMade Pizza Company on Friday afternoon and ordered a spinach pizza. It was ready before we knew it. It was a super salty pizza from the feta and olives - so good! I know I'm putting this place back into the pizza rotation. I don't think it represents Chicago pizza very well and I'm really surprised to see it won a best pizza award on the North side. Those crazy north-siders. Anyway, Check out the spinach pizza sometime.
Review Source:Still rockin' my world a year later. Every 10th (11th?) pizza is free (no limits on what goes on the free one!). Plus, they always give you a coupon so a  medium special can be had for like $13-$15. A delivered pizza doesn't compare to the olfactory sensation that is a delicious pizza from Homemade Pizza. I'm a big fan of places that make just one or two things but make 'em fantastic - this place is definitely one of them.
Review Source:We tried HomeMade on a whim this week after attemping to go to the Italian deli down the block only to discover that it's one of those annoying places that is closed on Mondays. Oh well, always willing to settle for pizza...
The service was a weird combination of extremely attentive and slightly pissed off. Like, she really wanted to take our order but was also pretty irked about it.
Anyway, the deal is you pick out your pizza crust, sauce and toppings, they make it for you, then you take it home to cook it (aka upscale take-n-bake). The ingredients sounded great and we settled on sundried tomatoes, mushrooms, spinach and ricotta on a wheat crust. This was one of the specialty pizzas and they had it pre-made, so I can't say how long the wait is otherwise.
The pizza cooks on this weird parchment paper which is supposed to give the crust a special something. It only took about 12 minutes to cook. The crust is extremely thin and crispy, which I loved. The rest of it was just fine but not great.
I could see me going back to try their salads, which looked yummy (and are $3 if you go at lunch Mon-Wed), but probs not for the pizza when there are so many other, better options around.
We have been addicted to home made pizza now for the last few weeks. Â It's been an every weekend thing. Â Plus we're working our way towards our 11th free pizza.
There's a great selection of pizzas and I like the whole idea of natural ingredients.
Our favorites are the barbecue chicken pizza, the spinach and sun dried tomato and good old pepperoni. Â
Some people don't like the idea of paying the same price as a fully cooked pizza to walk away with a pizza that you have to take home and cook but since this is so close to home we don't mind.
I love this place..
everything is freshly made and it's a great alternative to the cardboard frozen pizzas from the grocery store. I usually get the BBQ chicken pizza and i add on jalapenos - absolutely delicious.
they give great coupons and promotions every now and then also. if you've got room - try their chocolate chip cookie - it's absolutely delicious as well.
I walked in and was instantly greeted by the boy behind the counter. He could tell I hadn't been there before and explained everything to me. I was going to go for whole wheat crust, but went against it after he told me that it is an extra $2 for whole wheat crust, how nice.
I finally decided that the perfect pizza would be a large pizza, regular crust, regular tomato sauce, topped with pepperoni on whole and mushroom on half. And a pint of cookies and cream ice cream. Got it home, warmed up the oven, popped it in, [they give you the perfect instructions], and waited about 12 minutes for perfection. It tells you to let it cool or a few minutes before cutting or eating, I of course, ignored it, I was hungry and I'm not patient. However, I highly suggest actually following these directions as it took about 3 billion years to cut the pizza and the crust was floppy at first but by my second piece it was per-fec-ti-ON!
The ice cream was a bit of a fail though. It did not have enough cookies, but when you got a chunk o cookie, it was really good.
I can't wait to go back and get another pizza and maybe try a salad.
So after a few up & down Michigan Av. With no luck finding parking I opted for hazard lights and an illegal park job. I hope this place is quick ( was my thoughts). Enter in to a clean, simple store front and browse the menu board. 1,2,3,4 done, I will take a seasonal salad and a medium spinach pizza. About 8 min. later I was out the door.
The salad was loaded with fresh avocado, had a light citrus dressing and was fresh and tasty as can be. The pizza had a wheat crust w/ olive oil, spinach, pine nuts & sun dried tomato. It looked healthy and gave me guilt free pleasure in eating it. It's a tad bit pricey for take and bake. Yes you bring it home and throw it in your oven. My medium pie was $14 & some change. But It's more of a frame of mind as I would think it was reasonably priced if the cooked it. But seriously, I walked in my door, fired up the oven, turned on the TV, ate my salad & Wa-la! One piping hot pizza right out of the oven was ready. Easy!
It's a Friday afternoon when I get a text from one of my chickadees. She just got back into town for good and wants to hang out. Sweet! I get to chill with my darling for the first time in over a year. But wait - I've got to work tomorrow morning so no serious drinking and I'm a bit light on the cash so no spendy dinners. What's a girl to do?
Enter HPC. An image flashes in my brain, the image of a little cardboard disc that entitles me to one free pizza with purchase. (thanks summerfest!). I leave work and hightail down to the south loop. Man parking is a BIA over there but after about 4 block circles, the 15min parking slot opened up a mere half a block down. I'm happy. I stroll on in and tell the gal that I'd like the Spinach Pie (sans olives thankyouverymuch) and the large pear gorgonzola salad. She rings me up and offers up the discount club. I didn't really pay attention to how it works, but it's done by phone number so I don't have to carry some annoying card. I grab a seat and wait for just shy of 10 minutes when some cutie ginger dude hands me order and I'm on my way.
I get home, my girlie shows up with a bottle of red. Let the gossip and grubbing begin. We dig in to the pear salad and it was phenom. Nice crisp greens, fresh pears, walnuts, dried cranberries, and a balsamic vinaigrette. While we're munchin - the smell of the spinach pie is invading my place. We dig in and it's amazing too. Super fresh spinach, tons of feta and roasted garlic, a nice saltiness from the sundried tomatoes and a little crunch from the pine nuts. All in all, a great meal.
About 3 days later I get an email for $5 off my next order. I agree that HPC is a bit pricey - but for having it fresh from your oven with quality ingredients, plus all the discounts (thus far) it's totally worth it. Give em a shot, they won't disappoint.
My friend Alina first told me about this place before they were even open. Â She kept a close eye on it and as soon as she saw it was open she jumped in. Â Alina really liked the pizza (look for her 5 star review in yelp), so I finally found the time to wonder down the street and put up my uncooked pie.
Well I really like the concept of this place so I was pretty excited about our first pizza. Â We ordered up a large Quattro Stagioni pizza. Â The menu boasted a uniting of prosciutto, artichokes, wild mushrooms, Kalamata olives, Fontinella cheese and fresh thyme and that just sounded plum delicious.
We didn't order ahead, so it took a while for them to prepare our pizza, but that is totally understandable... First in, first out. Â What caught me off guard is that when we got the pizza it was actually a four quadrant pizza. Â Each quadrant had it's own pairing of two ingredients. Â I didn't understand that from the menu, then and now to tell you the truth. Â But no worries; I figured this was better, it'd be just like eating four different pizzas! Â And boy do I LOVE pizza!!!
We quickly walked home and popped the pizza in the oven. I agree with Alina, the parchment paper is classy. Â You can't beat the parchment.
The ingredients were all extremely fresh and there were good portions of each combination in each quadrant. Â We chowed down and quickly noticed the crispy crust; I mean who wouldn't be able to hear that crunch when you first bite down?
I'm not a huge fan of olives (aside from plain ole black olives) so the Kalamata olives where a bit over powering for me. Â But the rest of the pizza was great.
A couple weeks ago I decided to surprise Cindy by popping by unannounced with a HomeMade Pizza. Â She greeted me with a great big blood curdling scream, since she didn't hear me enter her condo, but once she calmed down, her eyes were fixed on the goods.
This time I was smart and phoned in the order as I walked to my car after work. This time I ordered The Georgia, which has Santa Fe chicken sausage, poblano peppers and Ricotta cheese.
When I got to the store, the pizza was already waiting for me. Â I parked in a not so good place to park and left the blinkers running, so I was in a hurry to get in and out. Â These guys were fast. Â Not only did they give me my pizza and ring me up quickly (I charged it), they also quickly signed me up for their rewards card, which gives you a free pizza after you purchase 10 or so. Â Best part about the card is that you don't need to carry it with; they can look it up using your phone number. Â Be sure to get you one; and if you're my friend and you don't want to get your own card, feel free to give them my number to help me out! :)
In closing, I'd like to comment about the price debate. Â I'd have to say it depends on what pizza you are comparing HomeMade to. Â If you are comparing HomeMade to a store brought frozen pizza, then yes this would seem pricey to you; but remember you are getting much better stuff from HomeMade. Â If you are comparing this to a pizza restaurant, then this is about the same. Â Some would argue that you have to wait longer to eat and then the added cost of cooking the pizza yourself. Â Well you know what; then a "Home Made" pizza is just not for you. Â You are paying for the fresh pizza, made with fresh ingredients and the fun of the whole thing. Â I'd say the price is just right; especially if you can get a rewards card.
I love making my own pizzas from scratch. Strike that. I love how the pizzas I make from scratch taste. I am however, the most inefficient cook ever, and the subsequent dish pile and flour explosion kind of keeps my pizza cooking nights at a minimum. It's a shame. Nothing quite tastes like fresh organic produce mixed with non commercial grade cheese on top of dough that hasn't been frozen or proofing for hours.
To clarify - by nothing, I mean HomeMade Pizza. Never has a name been more of  a complete lie while remaining the truth. I admittedly thought the idea was a bit off at first. If I'm paying $20 for a pizza, I expect to raise a gas bill other than mine. However, one afternoon my boyfriend and I were about to head home from the south loop not wanting to cook that evening, but not hungry enough to eat somewhere at that point. Bored with the delivery options we would have had, I suggested the HMP that we'd walked past earlier.
I took a bit of coaxing to get this to fly, but we stopped in and decided on a peperoni, wild mushroom, basil and oregano pizza. We received our pizza about 4 minutes after ordering. The idiot in me was amazed for a split second that they could make a pizza that fast. Even for being uncooked, that was damn quick.
The instructions were idiot proof, and it came with a thin sheet of paper to place on the oven rack that gave the crust a crispness of a bare rack bake without the risk of burning the bottom or cooking unevenly. When completed it had the look of a frozen pizza. It wasn't greasy and gooey like a restaurant pizza, but instead it was a bit neater with less cheese, more toppings, and the fringe of browned cheese around the crust that only comes from a non commercial oven. The taste, however, was nothing like a frozen pizza. Kristina is right about the mushrooms. They are amazing, and even the oregano tasted so incredibly fresh that I understood why they charge for it as an ingredient. Considering what I would have paid for the ingredients myself, it was basically like paying someone $4 to prepare the pizza and clean my kitchen.
Overcome the urge to write this place off as a yuppy fad, and give it a try.
Mushrooms are disgusting. It's fungus. However, I dunno what HomeMade Pizza does to their mushrooms, or where they come from, but I ate ALL of them on my slice of Four Cheese pizza - and then had a second slice. Yum!
I had a friend over to see my new apartment so I ordered one medium Four Cheese (with mushroom, per her request) and one medium Fresh Herb (I love goat cheese and do not eat meat). The Fresh Herb was too dry for my taste - it features their "olive oil glaze" or whatever - no sauce - and the goat cheese crumbles were far too spare (as is so typical with most restaurants - come peoples, more goat cheese!). The Four Cheese was more to my liking - not too much sauce and just the right amount of cheese - and mmm, Fontina!
What I enjoyed about the bake-at-home concept in particular was that it allowed me to actually cook something while I had guests but it didn't require any of my time for prep work, etc. And clean up is nonexistent thanks to the parchment paper/cardboard provided.
It's definitely for the thin crust lovers, and be forewarned, the leftovers (of which I had plenty - one medium easily feeds two people) do not seem to heat up well in the oven. The crust was too crunchy and dry after reheating. But fresh out of the oven the first time around? Mighty tasty.
Next time I'll stop at the 55th Street location as it's much closer to home. I like you HomeMade Pizza, I do, I really do!
Interesting concept.... selling uncooked pizza. Ya gotta give people who come up with these concepts kudos for executing. Â And it seems the other stores are really successful, so I had to try it for myself.
We got several 'cutie pies' so we could taste a few different things. Â (How cute is it to name your smallest pizza 'cutie pie.') Each one looked as appetizing uncooked, as it did cooked. Â The placement of the ingredients on the pizza is even aesthetically pleasing... haha.
The verdict ... the pizza is good. Â Not anything I would kill for. Â Not anything I would particularly crave. Â But it is decent tasty pizza. Â Very crispy crust. Â Very fresh ingredients. Â Very easy to bake in your home. Â
Great quick meal to pick up on your way home from work. Â Love the fact that they have bake-it yourself cookies too.
Drawbacks : Â The wait time. Â It takes about 10 minutes (give or take) for them to make/assemble the pizza. And then ya still have to go home and bake it for about 15-20 minutes.
It's another case of the three-and-a-halfsies, which HMP would definitely get. We have been staring at the front door of this place for awhile, waiting for the sign to illuminate as the letters went up. It was messiah-like, as having a pizza place lit'rally a stone's throw from your front windows well. . . you've arrived.
*moving on up to the east (south) side!*
We ordered a pie with carmelized onions, sausage and fine cheeses (specifics escape me). And then we got another with spinach, ricotta, pine nuts and sundried tomatoes. The special. Always order the special don't you think?
The group of us chowed down and loved it. Making them in your oven gives you that yummy, burned-in-some-places-not-in-others taste you just can't get from deliver or DiGiorno. The flavors were bright and fresh and we had such a hard time picking only two.
I think, for the perceived inconvenience of not being able to eat a slice AS you're walking out of the store, making it at home is a worthy cross to bear for such tastiness.
I've heard plenty of good things about this place lately, so when one opened up a few blocks away from my apartment I decided to check it out. Â It was suggested to me that I order my pizza using wheat dough rather than white for crispier crust, so I ordered their BBQ Chicken pizza on wheat.
The pizza itself was very tasty and I like that they give you "parchment" paper to cook the pizza on so your oven doesn't get messy, but the whole concept of me having to pay as much, if not more, for a pizza that isn't already cooked and takes 30 mins to create (preparation time at the store, not including cooking) just doesn't make sense to me. Â If this were the best BBQ Chicken pizza I had ever tasted I would gladly play $20.00 to take a 14" pizza and cook it, but it just wasn't THAT stellar, it was good but not amazing.
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