Pizza Guy the

Anyone read <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fslice.seriouseats.com&s=2737a3e10696fd694f19042cabe9f3d7e9bf987e8150aab7178c23ce1e281db8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://slice.seriouseats…</a> I like to daydream about the perfect pizza, so I read there pretty often. The thing about Slice though is that most of the reviewed pizza places are still in the NYC area. I did get to try Modern Apizza in CT thanks to everything I read about it on Slice and a bit of a day trip on my part. My point is that I care about pizza in a Slice sort of way.

I had really really really absurdly high hopes for The Pizza Guy when I learned of its existence, so maybe that's why I was really really disappointed with the actual product.

As far as pizza in general goes, it was fine. Good ingredients, good service, etc. I would probably try it again if I was in that neighborhood.

As far as pizza in Slice terms goes, it just fell short. For a place that is using a brick oven and claiming to provide pizzas unlike what's usually found around here, the pizza we got didn't really reflect that. It looked a lot like the doughy, underdone (uniform - no dark spots/char/bubbling/crisping/yumminess), overly cheese-y pizzas that, while very often delicious/satisfying, are pretty ubiquitous in New England.

Now I need to plan another trip to Modern Apizza, or maybe Frank Pepe's this time!

The pizza Guy is a winner!! Ingredients aren't sliding all over the pizza and theres isn't a hint of grease on the cardboard box. Its brick oven cooked but barely any charred pieces.....wife had a veggie personal pizza which she loved....my son and I had a large with hamburger,pepperoni and sausage. Not a ton of ingredients....but just the right amount. Crust is thin and tasty....its a very small restaurant....slightly off the beaten track.....but worth finding. Springfield newspapers voted it BEST pizza in the pioneer valley and now i know why!

if you like brick oven pizza, you've got to try this place. we live in st louis , but whenever we visit my parents in w springfield, we always order here. very close to bertuccis in west side , which we also love. and california pizza kitchen here in st louis, but slightly different than them both. we order the white pizza, fried dough and 1 other pizza. unlike bertuccis , this place delivers late night. they are usually very busy , and the owner is super down to earth. we dont like brick oven pizza loaded up with ingreidents as it can get soggy and we like to taste the crust. the crust had a nice charred finish.
probably not the cheapest pizza , but we don't care, the freshness and the taste are well worth the price.