Listen. I can't even give this a star. First of all, I thought my jaw was going to come off its hinge trying to chew the cheese bread. It tasted like aluminum and had no flavor. The barbecue pizza, forget it. The chicken was so tough it almost choked my friend. Â I don't care if you are in a life or death situation, choose death instead. If you like your marinara ice cold when you order ranch, chose here. True story. One more thing, this pizza would taste just as good if sat outside on my front lawn for five days I the freezing cold.
Review Source:First time I had a slice of pepperoni I was half in the bag at a bar, and thought, thats some good stuff. Second time I was stone sober and it was kind of like pizza hut pizza a little, and the salad was WAY overpriced. Basically, I paid 7 bucks for lettuce. Just lettuce. So, I guess if your partying and nothing else is around, then it can be ok.
Review Source:My girlfriend was in the mood for wings. Â Found this place, looked good and ordered 20 wings with a salad and a Sprite. Â Delivery took an hour. Â The salad was not fresh and the chicken wings were flavorless and lukewarm. Â She only ate a few and she was hungry. Â I tried eating my share but began feeling sick soon after. Â Tasted pretty bad. Â Thankfully we had gotten a Sprite. Â Can't mess that up right? Â Yep, it was a little flat. Â Price was unreasonable. Â What started out as a $16.99 "deal" turned out to be $37 after a salad and a drink. Â Ridiculous.
Review Source:Downgrade, Papi!
$20* for a personal pizza (basically 2 small slices) and a side garden salad with pre-fab ranch dressing? Methinks NO. Too much money for generic tasting pizza and salad. A personal pizza shall not ring up more than $13...for the love of Papa Peter!
*includes tip and delivery, but still...c'mon. Should Papa Romeo's EVER EVEN CHARGE FOR DELIVERY!? No.
The pizza is nothing to write home about. But, when it's 2am and you're smashed, you're going to devour this stuff like it's your last meal. The plain bread sticks are miserable without the garlic sauce. Maybe they have cheesy alternative that tastes better, I don't know. One thing I know for sure, I'd never order this place sober. The delivery was super fast though, which I appreciated. I think I'll shop around for various drunk-pizza places before I repeat Papa Romeo's.
Review Source:Yeah, that about sums it up: Meh. I've experienced better.
Me and the Man ordered a beef sub for him, mushroom/tomato pizza for me, had it delivered. Â Delivery was prompt, and food was hot, so that was good. Â
Sub looked kind of small and sad, with no sauce or sides, but he liked it. Â Pizza was mediocre - my first thought when opening up the box was "dominos". Â It was nothing special, but hit the pizza spot for the moment. Â Would I order there again? Â Probably not. Â Would I eat it again if someone else ordered and paid for it? Â Yes.
The pizza was tasty-ish and relatively reasonably priced for what it is and i got a pretty good deal by ordering online at <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fchitownmenus.com&s=91dd1b8720aaffea69cbde0192ed9a7ca153d3da3bb9483e9c722458bcb509fa" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://chitownmenus.com</a> (15% off your first online order) but felt fairly deceived by the menu when it said "deep dish".
One of the greatest things about Chicago i experienced the very first time I visited the city. I wasn't used to deep dish pizza seeing as I come from a high altitude city that is bereft of Italians and when i ordered one here in the windy city and was greeted by a massive cheese and sauce monument to human culinary creativity, i could have wept with joy. I have since come to expect the same cheesy/saucy wonder i experienced the first time...and when I ordered deep dish from Papa Romeo's I had the same expectation. What i got was an overly bready regular looking pizza that tasted OK.
I got ham, peppers, and onions and could barely taste the ham, but my friend, who i ordered with, said she was getting big chunks of ham...and it made me sad. I literally would have given 4 stars if it had just been "Chicago Style Deep-Dish", but it was just average tasting, was too bready and kind of fell apart when you tried to eat it, i will probably order again, just not soon.
BARF.
Not a deal to be had here, People. Â I thought about adding more sauce, but then, that just seemed silly. Â I think that I counted 10 pieces of pineapple on my pizza. Â Sadness. Â
BARF, BARF.
That is what I get for being too lazy to use the phone and opting for online laziness in ordering. Â I never should have cheated on my usual:(
Important  lesson learned: don't order anything other than pizza from a place that has pizza in their name.
Chicken bites? A.K.A., mystery meat. Honey mustard dipping sauce? Only enough for about one of the ten bites in your order.
Twisty breadsticks? Luke warm, but not bad; however again, the dipping sauce lasted about two bites. NOT cool.
The diet coke was good. Sadly, if that's ever enough of a reason to go back to a restaurant, I might have bigger problems.
There are certain requirements to be able to enjoy Papa Romeo's Pizza...
1. Drunk (didn't see that coming did you!), but I don't mean "I've had too much to drink", I mean "I think I'm about to pee my pants but am too drunk to get up" kind of drunk.
2. It's has to be around 2 am. Why? Because you're about to pass out and you need their greasy goodness to sit in your stomach so it can soak up everything.
3. You can't really think of anywhere else (probably due to all the liquor).
4. I don't remember the fourth, it's probably because I'm drunk right now! Oh yeah best late night delivery service by far. They are Jimmy John's commercial kind of fast!!
So let's recap, best drunk pizza in the city (hence 4 stars), super fast delivery, and you can order really late in the night. Don't forget to order the cheesy bread... trust me. Done and done!
Also as a warning... don't try to eat sober, it might damage you (mentally and physically)!!
I had a bad memory about this place and thought I would never call them ever again. I don't really remember what the bad memory was, but I know I told myself to never order from there again. About a week ago I ordered from Papa Romeo's and I don't really regret it.
I was in the mood for "Papa John's" style hand-tossed pizza with garlic dipping sauce. Papa Romeo's provided just that. The pizza is a simple hand-tossed crust with relatively fresh ingredients. The garlic sauce is garlicky, of course, buttery and probably not too healthy, but it is so damn good. I also ordered a small side garden salad. It came with Kraft Ranch and the veggies and Iceburg lettuce were fresh and crisp. Yum!
The delivery was fast and the price was right. The overall pizza is very average, but it provides sustenance to a hungry stomach and cured my "Papa John's" craving. I will definitely call again when I get the "Papa John's" craving again.
Great, stock standard pizza. Way better than Domino's, Pizza Hut, etc.(though this California kid pines for some Round Table)
Sometimes you don't need frou-frou toppings or a story about how the owner imported their great-grandfathers oven from Italy. Nope. Just good crust, tasty sauce and solid toppings(oh, and quick, reliable service).
Papa Romeo's definitely delivers(pun intended).
In the wee hours of New Years day 2010 was a nightmare, calling around trying to find an open pizza place. My local spot & backup were closed! How rude.
(For fast food pizza, Papa Romeo's is pretty damn good. As good as Papa John's and way better than Domino's.) Lucky for us the Papa was open and they had a decent meal deal running. A big pizza with some toppings, cheese bread and a 2 liter for twenty bones. I can't remember the details, my DD. was driving (oh how I wish I was with double D's instead) and I was manning the phone putting the order through. Ready within twenty minutes. The guys in there were quick about it, also good that they treated me nicely despite my post NYE top shelf speak. I've had pizza from this location a few times in the past and it was always as good as the first time I had Papa Romeo's.
What is this crazy thing called Italian beef pizza? Â With the crazy peppers on the side? Â With the crust that was thin, but not so thin it snaps in your hand? Â Not too much of anything, but boy oh boy did the flavors on this pie make some noise. Â While I love my NYC style pizza, I am not a hater of the different varieties of pizza found here in Chicago. Â This is some seriously good pizza.
Review Source:My neighborhood is constantly getting bombarded with Papa Romeo coupons/flyers. One night, my roommates and I decided to call PR's after realizing that we could get a great deal by using the coupons. We ordered two larges pizzas and were thoroughly satisfied with our meal. While it was definitely not the best piazza we had ever eaten, it was well-worth its price.
This is a great place to order from if you do not want to spend much money but want a big meal. I would especially recommend ordering from this place if you have one of their coupons - you can keep reusing them if you order for delivery. In fact, there have been occasions where PR's botched our order, and gave us a large piazza for the cost of a medium :)
Remember, expect to get what you pay for. If you want a gourmet piazza with all the trimmings, go else where.
I would give it NO STARS if I could! The staff ,"Gina" is so rude! The order was completely wrong and blamed Grub Hub! I will be calling her manager...who at first she would not give me his name...Jackie Tseved, if that is his name, will be getting a letter, as well, as their corporate offices about the rudenss of "Gina". DO NOT ORDER HERE...Try "The Godfather"...very nice there!
Review Source:I ordered from Papa Romeo's today for the first time, and I pretty much got what I expected: pizza, delivered to my door.
Which is to say, it's nothing special. I've been to plenty a fancy pizza place, and Papa Romeo's isn't it. But what's wrong with that? Sometimes you just want a pizza delivered quickly to you, and you could care less about knowing that it has organic mozzarella and gorgonzola with a whole wheat crust, baked in a wood oven imported from the depths of Rome itself.
No, I just wanted one of those pizzas that you think about ordering at 1:30AM after you've been out all night. And I wasn't disappointed. My pizza had a bunch of gooey cheese of unidentified variety on top (not that I cared to know the type of cheese), and tasted better than any Little Caesar's or Dominos pizza I've had.
On top of that, my wife is vegan, so she likes her pizza with just dough and sauce. However, Papa Romeo's was nice enough to let us substitute another topping for the cheese at no additional cost. Having tried to explain to other places that a pizza can even be made without cheese, it was very nice to see that they were willing to offer not only a cheeseless pizza, but one that still had a topping on it.
So, overall, if you want $30-quality pizza, go somewhere else. But if you're sitting at home, looking at the barren wasteland of an empty fridge, you could definitely find worse places to order from than Papa Romeo's.
It was late at night and this one was hungry.
Wings and fries I said.
I went outside and ran into a friend on a bike. He wondered what I had been doing.
Wings and fries I said.
After a short trip to Long Room, I caught a cab home and had some of the wings and fries. The wings were very tiny and tasted like they were grilled, which gave it a nice flavor. The fries were large and had an interesting batter on them and were quite tasty. I got full very quickly and put the leftovers away and passed out into a long-deserved zzzz zzzzz zzzz session.
Last night at 10:30pm, I ordered a small thin/crispy pizza from Papa Romeo's through <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2FFoodler.com&s=0023c688bb084dcec00f0539bc0b57c8429a53c1ca5e385e73793dcae003a235" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://Foodler.com</a>. Â The confirmation e-mail I received said I should expect delivery around 11:10pm. Â At 11:45pm, I called the restaurant directly where I was immediately told (before I stated my name, how I ordered, what I ordered, etc.) that there was "no record of my order." I stated that I ordered through Foodler, the extremely rude employee sighed loudly into the phone, said "you got scammed" and began to hang up. Before he could, I asked him to cancel my order and refund my credit card. He said, "there is no order, bye" before hanging up.
Magically, at 12:35am (a full hour and 25 minutes after my order was supposed to arrive), my exact order showed up (proving that there was no error on Foodler's part). Â I told the driver that he was an hour and a half late and I had asked to cancel the order. He shoved the box into my hand and held his out as if expecting a tip (I had already left a $3 tip on the credit card). I told him that I did not want the pizza, he went back to his car and started talking on the phone. He came back and said he could not refund my money, again shoving the pizza into my hand before jogging back to his car.
A representative from Foodler contacted me today to inform me that they would be refunding the money to my card, as well as looking into fraud on Papa Romeo's part.
I will NEVER give this restaurant my service again, and I implore others to follow my lead
After spending over 30 minutes trying to find a pizza delivery place that would service our desire for delivery in Lakeview on a Tuesday night around midnight, we discovered Papa Romeo's. Â As the pizza came, we glanced upon its millimeter thick crust to find a layer of grease that easily was twice as thick as the crust. Â After using multiple paper towels to clean off one slice of the "bbq chicken" pizza, I tasted a shitty excuse for fresh mozzarella cheese, and wannabe bbq sauce that scarcely covered a pizza with maybe 2 piece of chickens on it. Â Check out my photo to discover a) my first bite that I spit out because it was so greasy b) one of my paper towels that was used to clean the grease c) my own bbq sauce that I had to use in order to even remotely make the pizza taste good (Rufus Teague's Blazing Sauce)
Bottom line: don't ever go here please.
It's cheap and fast and it tastes ok. Â I know I should order from some place better, but I can't ever think of anywhere and this place is so close and the pizza's decent. Â Plus it's no hassle to just walk over and pick it up (except you gotta scrounge and work through the coupons). Â Anyone have a better suggestion for someplace that is near irving and ashland?
Review Source:We only order from here because it is the only decent pizza place we have come across that doesn't serve Chicago style. The pizza is mediocre at best but the bread sticks rock! Delivery is fast and the food is always hot when it arrives. we always get their bread sticks, medium pizza w. 3 toppings, and 2 liter deal. Pretty good if you are looking for a pizza place that delivers late and isn't Chicago style.
Review Source:When I think of Papa Romeo's, I think about sloppy, floppy, run-of-the mill, overpriced pizza. Papa Romeo is like Papa Johns' fuck-up, underachieving, rebellious little brother that went to community college and refused to follow in his older brothers' state school footsteps.
And the people who run this hell hole are pieces of shit too. They have no sense of customer service and if they eff up your order, it's your fault, not theirs, so your $30 trash pizza ends up being your biggest regret in life for weeks to come.
You may be enticed by the idea of garlic butter dipping sauce. I'm all about dipping sauces too, so I feel for you. But, really, you know it's not good for you. It's just not, you can do better. After you eat Papa Romeo's, you feel like you need to take a shower. And you probably should.
So, I dont really even like pizza, but I liked the really thin pizza from this place. It even heated up really well in the oven a day after.
We ordered an order of mozzarella sticks too, but they arrived undercooked and soggy. Sure, things like that dont deliver well... but this was silly. Like, they didnt even cook them!
Pizza, yes please... and they have good fries.
Good drunk food, but living here, Im sure there is much much better!
We tried Papa Romeo's last night. Â Ordered the thin & crispy Italian Margherita Pizza with pepperoni and a small side of BBQ wings. Â The order was made through <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2FGrubhub.com&s=b68af316d5ad911efafe6df1a7700193fecd9928d904496b34ba6a876ef91c08" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://Grubhub.com</a> (love those folks). Â It came in under an hour (less than the quoted time). Â Really wasn't expecting much; very few places make the kind of pizza we like and we knew our delivery options didn't offer it. Â It wasn't as bad as we anticipated but it wasn't going down in the pizza hall of fame either. Â The crust was good and crispy and the pepperoni was more than generous. Â But a Margherita pizza is supposed to have fresh tomatoes and basil and both ingredients were so sparse you needed a magnifying glass to find them. Â Oh and the cheese was really heavy. Â Oddly it didn't have a pool of grease on top from the cheese. Â So that was a plus. Â The wings were surprisingly tasty. Â Especially because they didn't have that overpowering vinegar taste. Â They were meaty and saucy and we devoured them. Â Not sure if I'd order from them again, but if I do I'll get a big order of wings!
Review Source:Best way to describe this pizza place: College. It's definitely not Chicago pizza. But for those of you who remember late nights of ordering pizza and cheesebread after a night at the bars that hit the spot, that's exactly what this place is. The cheesebread is basically their pizza without sauce and comes with dipping sauces. We ordered it awhile ago thinking it might remind us of a place we used to get pizza from in college - sure enough, it did.
I mean, this isn't Edwardos or Giordanos or any sort of gourmet pizza, but if you're ever in the mood for late night delivery and something a little more simple, I have to say this place is pretty good and cheap. Don't get it if you're expecting the best, but it's okay if you know what to expect and want a change from heavy pizza.
OK, late night delivery is a plus. As is online ordering. But basically, this place is not only a chain, but a clone of one of the nastiest pizza-delivery chains anywhere... Papa John's. The chicken wings tasted microwaved, too.
Seriously, it would be like opening up a restaurant to serve "McDonalds-esque hamburgers." Blecch.
The Breadsticks  here are on point, but I have to agree with reviewer below, Sid.S. After eating their food I feel sluggish & sickly. Granted pizza is not the most health conscious food out there, but im saying though, other pizza places don't cause me to feel this way. They are cheap and always have coupons for you to use at your pleasure. I ordered from here twice out of lark because it was freezing outside I hadn't went grocery shopping yet and I usually order from Panino's but they were closed. Delivery both times were amazingly fast! Both times I ordered the same thin crust with mushrooms, onions,and spinach. The spinach was barely found, but with an immense amount of mushrooms,Also Cheesy Bread,which was great both times but I think I will just stear clear of Papa  for now and avoid the tummy ache.
Review Source:They have the absolute best Hawaiian pizza. Â Something about their sauce goes really well with the ham and pineapple. Â I also like the dough they use... it gives the crust some flavor instead of just tasteless bread.
They're not the best known pizza place in town, but they do a very good job.
If I am in the mood for "just pizza" (not deep dish, not trendy toppings, not stuffed or whatever), I order Papa Romeo's. Â They are reasonably priced, have excellent pizza, and deliver in RECORD time. Â Seriously, when they say it will be at your apartment in 30 minutes, you better be ready with your money in 20.
I also recommend the cheese sticks. Â I really haven't had a good experience with their chicken wings, so I would stick with the basics.
This is great weeknight pizza. Â It will never be confused for Chicago staples like Lou Malnati's or Gino's East, but it is good basic pizza. Â Papa Romeo's is extremely fast, friendly, and they always have coupons that make it really affordable. Â I love their veggie pizza, cheese bread, and even the tossed salads are pretty good. Â The delivery guy is always at my place in great time, and he is very nice.
Review Source:I love this place, the pepperoni pizza, the breadsticks, the cheesy bread, and the garlic dipping sauce. Â Unfortunately, I always regret it the next day. Â Then again, I can never really tell if it was the pizza, all the booze I consumed across the street, or a combination of the two.
*** UPDATE ***
It's definitely the pizza, not the booze. Â Always seems like a good idea at the time, but then anywhere from thirty minutes to a day after consuming, I feel sluggish and sickly. Â The food is sanitary I'm sure, but um... yeah, just not the healthiest thing around. Â At the age of thirty, you start to feel these things.
We ordered from here after receiving a flyer in the mail. A large pizza and 10 wings were a little under $17 with tax. The man who took our order over the phone was extremely friendly, and said the food would arrive in 30 minutes. In 20 minutes, a really cool delivery driver arrived with piping hot pizza and wings in tow. The pizza was great; but the wings were a little disappointing. They were baked buffalo wings, breaded with Italian seasoning. They just didn't have a whole lot of flavor; I'm sure their hot wings might have been a little better- we just poured some tabasco over these.
This is good, fast delivery pizza that earned our high marks on our first visit. We'll probably stick to pizza next time and take a pass on the wings though.
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