Pizza Guy the

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  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!

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  Posted on 10.14.12 Imja L.

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  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!

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  Posted on 08.03.12 daniel r.

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  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.

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  Posted on 06.13.12 Ali K.

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  Pizza Guy has a nice variety of pizzas and although simple, very tasty.  I love the brick oven taste! The personnel are very friendly and I have never gotten a bad pizza.  I do think their large pizzas could be a bit bigger, but the fresh ingredients makes up for a lot of that!  A real winner.

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  Posted on 02.20.12 Jessica P.

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  We have a few different pizza shops in our takeout rotation, and The Pizza Guy is certainly one of our faves. The best part? Their thin, crisp crust. Get pizza from some other places around here and the center is often a soggy, greasy, floppy mess. But that doesn't happen here. We recently moved to West Side from Agawam, but we still make the trek over the train tracks to get the occasional BBQ Chicken or Meatball specialty pizzas. They're worth the trip.

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  Posted on 02.10.12 Bill B.

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  Very disappointing!
  
  We flew out from California to visit family in Western Massachusetts. We'd read about The Pizza Guy winning "best pizza in Western Mass" and because we were staying in Agawam we saved our "East coast pizza night" to try them out. Pizza is SO much better on the East Coast ... usually.
  
  We ordered a cheese, mushroom, and onion pizza.  Large by any standards in Agawam us usually huge (see Nicki's pizza). Their large was just enough for 4 people, barely. But that's OK because it wasn't anything special. The sauce was very bland, not much cheese, the crust was thin and tasteless ... all around it was a huge disappointment.
  
  If you live in Agawam, stick to the pizza you already know is tasty. If you are flying out from the West Coast, don't waste your one chance to have amazing East coast pizza on The Pizza Guy.
  
  We can't figure out how they won this contest!

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  Posted on 12.23.11 Carolynn K.

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