This place was such a surprising delight.
Went here on a whim based on a friend's recommendation, and boy o boy was I delighted!
As a new york native, I am always on the hunt for excellent ny thin crust, and it's rare here, truly.
But at Nancy's, the pieces were big and just the right amount of greasy. Â The trick is to hold the crust, and if the rest of the piece flops down, it's good to go.
A no-frills place that I probably would never eat in, but truly, solid, delicious, cheap food!
Tried the chicago style also, which was good too :)
I don't know how this place has bad reviews. The pizza was great! Not the best in Chicago but more than good enough to satisfy. I ordered the Veggie and Pepperoni stuffed. The Veggie was great. There were big chunks of fresh veggies that were not over cooked. The pepperoni was simply a "solid" pepperoni pizza, very tasty. The crust is very good by itself, different than most. It was very flaky and just simply delicious. The sauce was a good mix of sweet and savory with lots of basil. I thought it was great and I'm a New York Italian ( We know sauce)
The customer service was good. I originally ordered two pizzas for pickup than when I realized I didn't want to walk because it was in the opposite direction I called back and asked for delivery. They complied with no problems and the pizza was delivered shortly after I walked the 8 blocks from the train. BTW it was friday night.
If you live near Nancy's in Irving Park just order it. All my friends went on and on about how good it was and they are true Chicagoians. Its a good pizza that will satisfy and you'll be happy you tried it.
Avoid this place IT'S A COMPLETE JOKE.
I ordered a stuffed pizza and it was absolutely the worst pizza that I can remember ever eating.
The inside was uncooked, the SAUCE tasted like it had a bowl of sugar dumped in it.
The order taker on the phone is an idiot.
I have a simple last name  "MEL"  I had to repeat the name 3 times and then she asked me to spell it for her. Then I told her I wanted a medium stuffed sausage pizza for pickup & she asks me small, medium or large. Finally, when I arrived to pick it up she doesn't even have change for a 20 dollar bill.
BUT IT'S REALLY ALL ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THE FOOD AND THIS FOOD SUCKS BADDDDD. We threw 3 quarters of a stuffed pizza in the garbage.
I have no idea how this crap hole dive stays in business.
The reason that this place does not accept credit cards is because of all of the disputes / charge backs from customers that they would receive.
Smart of them to accept cash only because they are not going to give you your money back.
Good quality, reliable, take-out pizza. This location is cash only though and the inside isn't a place I would want to sit-down and eat. That said, this is a must-try because of it's history with stuffed crust pizza in chicago. The next time I go here, I would like to go to a more decked-out location though and sit-down.
Definitely one of the better stuffed crust pizza's in the city. Not over-priced. Good, not great ingredients. Definitely a solid take-out option.
I've only ordered once from them, just tonight. Barbecue ribs ... blech. They looked boiled, kind of gray, with a tomato-based sauce poured on top before they stuck it in the styrofoam container. I had to broil them with some good bbq sauce to make them palatable.
We also ordered a dessert, chocolate cake, and it was a small piece that tasted of freezer burn.
The garden salad was okay.
Cash only? In this day and age? Not even paypal?
This place is the pits. I had a slice of sausage pizza that was clearly reheated twice before. Ingredients aren't fresh and cheese and crust are bland. The girl at the counter didn't know what she was doing. Perhaps too busy reheating every ones pizza slices. Definitely Not recommended.
Review Source:I spent my late teens working at Nancy's in Elmhurst. I'm very familiar with their menu as well as the way the food should taste. This Nancy's is a bit different, not as great as I remember, but with the options available to me in Albany Park, its good enough. I absolutely hate their cash only policy! That alone drops a star, but they deliver FAST. So fast that you always have to wait to consume their perfectly crisp crust with slightly sweet tasting sauce pizza, or else you'll get the pizza mouth burn!
Review Source:I knew I loved Nancy's Pizza, because I used to work at one. The stuffed mushroom spinach we ordered did not disappoint. I happen to love the sweet sauce :)
I will say the interior really needs some love, and the menu was missing some of my Nancy's favorites like the taco salad. Also I asked to use a coupon I found on the menu and was told could only use it for pick up for delivery. Well, I left my order and came and "picked up" the pizza. Not sure how they define pick up.
I also like they give you a free large after 20 coupons. I got two with my order tonight.
Oh and cash only is a bit crazy for a pizza place.
I picked up a takeout menu that was left at my door.
I saw the yelp reviews and thought I'd give this place a try and did delivery since its extremely cold and I'm feeling lazy.
I ordered a large thin crust pizza with canadian bacon, onions and mushrooms. The boyfriend got the 4 piece fried chicken dinner with cole slaw, fries and garlic bread.
The pizza: crust wasnt as thin as I'd like it, sauce was kind of sweet, and it was mostly onions! The canadian bacon was sliced into very small square chunks and hardly any mushrooms to be seen. Pitiful.
The chicken: fries weren't that great, coleslaw was ok, garlic bread fine, and the chicken was identifiably chicken.
Bottom line, probably never ordering from here again.
My four-star rating is based on averaging near-extremes: 2 stars for their abysmal thin-crust, and 5 stars for their divine stuffed. I suppose that should average out to 3.5 stars, but since I can't split the difference and add half a star to my rating, I came up with the following tiebreaker: I love their stuffed pizza more than I hate their thin-crust. So tie goes to the upper star.
So what is it I love about the stuffed so much? First, the sauce. It is is less acidy than many, and it is very very sweet. When it comes to stuffed, the sweeter the sauce the better. I don't know why that is, and I don't use the same prescription for thin-crust. But I like sweet sauce on stuffed pizza, and they deliver.
Second, near-perfect balance of ingredients. I never thought I'd say this, but it actually is possible to have too much cheese in a stuffed pizza, and I discovered this after eating at one of the most popular stuffed-pizza chains in the city that rhymes with Schmior-Schmano's. Then there's others that add too much sauce, or sometimes not enough sauce. I've even encountered one or two that overdo it on the meat ingredients -- and that's hard to do given how much of a carnivore I am, but meats used on pizza tend to be salty and too much of it can make a pizza way too salty. Nancy's stuffed pizza suffers none of these maladies. It is my Goldilocks stuffed pizza: everything is just right.
Third: I don't know what it is about their ground sausage, but it lights up a pizza like little gustatory explosions. Just delicious.
So then, how can a place that gets their stuffed crust so right get their thin crust so wrong? I've been pondering that question for a while, but I'm not willing to eat enough slices of their thin crust to ascertain an answer. But there is something oppressively bland about their thin crust that I just cannot abide. Not enough sauce maybe? I don't know, and I probably never will.
Bottom line: get your thin crust elsewhere, get your stuffed pizza here. Oh, and don't plan on dining in. Their dine-in section is old, worn-out and creepy.
One final note: it's probably a good thing this place doesn't take plastic or I'd eat here more often and be even fatter than I am. I don't get retail businesses that don't take plastic here in the 21st century. I know some don't like paying the interchange/transaction fees, but the fact is that people will place larger orders if they're paying with credit versus paying with cash. In the end it more than makes up the difference unless maybe you're in an industry with razor-thin margins like the grocery business. As for the rest, get with the times and let people pay with plastic!
since i've moved to iowa (irving park) i've realized that my food delivery options have basically been cut in half. living further east i had so many options... but my delivery standards have changed now and i'm willing to award stars based solely on the fact that someone is willing to drive the food to my house.
anyhoo... they're prompt and all, i just don't like their pizza. the sauce was way too sweet for my taste. i added a ton of salt but nothing could take away from the overpowering sweetness of this sauce. oh, and the small was nearly microscopic. i mean, i know we ordered a small, but i'm an american and i expect gluttonous proportions.
This place was recommended to me by another yelper over the summer.
Cold weather breeds desperation for delivery. Â (As do weird smells coming from the refrigerator...)
Success!! Â
The chic on the phone was really nice and friendly. Â I know it sounds 3rd grade, but I will forever kick it old school to saying I like nice people. Â
In my older age I have gained respect for honest people as well. Â I appreciated her friendly informing of no credit cards BEFORE I placed my order.
Anyhow- It came, and you would never believe what happened? Â The delivery man was NICE as well! Â He smiled as he handed me the pizza... in the cold...
My thin crust medium Itallian style pizza made it to my couch, and unfortunately/ fortunately, since my friend stood me up to go to Wrigleyville (gross); I ended up pigging out and eating it all by myself.
While I hate feelings of excessive fullness, I cannot blame Nancy's for this nonsense. Â I am quite happy to put that blame on Wrigleyville, and in the meantime shout out Nancy's for food good enough to continue eating.
While I'm hoping it doesn't get excessively cold or our refrigerator starts smelling again... Nancy's bling has been added as an exterior refrigerator decoration, waiting on standby for my next pizza delivery urge.
thin thick stuffed its all good.
the menu mentions other typical pizza joint apps and side meals. but for me its all about the pizza. the red sauce they use is  a little sweet with just the right amount of tanginess.
check the windows for specials like this week was a large 2 topping thin for just under $12.
cracker thin crust with a  nice crispy smokiness on the edges.
their thin cuts are normally in squares...so if you want triangles you gotta assk nicely.
not much for ambiance so do the take out thing, get 2 pies to share and for late night cold pizza snacking.
street parking is metered so bring a quarter too.
5 stars for the pizza but they lose a point for not accepting credit cards. Wake up, Nancy's! I'd buy your pizza twice a week if I could use my debit card. Seriously. What's it cost now for a small business to set all that up? 500 bucks? Do it! You should know that the consistently mediocre and occasionally appalling Chicago's Pizza (also on Irving Park Rd) gets a lot of my last-minute or late-night orders merely because they accept plastic. It shouldn't be that way.
Review Source:Pretty Good Stuffed Pizza (that is all we usually order). Sauce is a little sweeter than what my taste is, but over all good. The ONLY reason I am taking a star away is that they DON'T TAKE CREDIT CARDS....so you always have to have cash to order from here. It has actually stopped us from ordering there some days because we were to lazy to leave the house to get cash, so we just ordered elsewhere with a credit card so we didn't have to leave. Decent delivery times, and service. Nothing bad to say about this place really.
Review Source:We just moved here from AZ and have been trying to find a pizza place close that was good. We ordered a chicago style pizza from Nancy's and it was delicious! Since moving here, we have tried Gino's - and this surpasses it! The sauce is nice and sweet, not acidic. We ordered for delivery on a Saturday night during the ICE storm and we got the pizza within an hour.
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