Riverview Brick Oven Pizzeria

Pizza is just so so but it is reasonably priced and they have a lot of choices for toppings. Also the pizzas are ready pretty quickly. If you want a quick pizza and convenient pizza place then I would recommend this but if your looking for the best pizza in Chicago then don't bother going here.

Let's be honest here, the pizza isn't the best but certainly not the worst.  RBOP needs to work their execution a little and they are sitting on a gem.  Roscoe Village has clearly shown an interest in artisan brick oven pizzas, one needs not look further than Frasca's sidewalk in the summer.  It's easy to imagine this would be a successful delivery concept in the winter.  I live right around the corner so I was rooting for this place, I'm still rooting for it, but it needs some work.  

The pizza is way to greasy. Not sure why, nothing on my pie could have produced this much grease, I can only suspect the dough was doused with too much olive oil prior to the toppings.  I enjoyed the toppings, I had the balboa, it was rather spicy but flavorful.  The only problem was the toppings slid off the crust due to the grease which left me with a nice piece of toppingless crust.  The now naked crust had a wonderful crispy bottom and edge but the topside resembled something more like a wet noodle.  And thin wet noodley crust is not an ideal vessel for transporting tasty toppings into ones mouth. Fix the grease and you fix your pizza.

The Club Italiano sandwich is awesome. Big fan of the natural chips. Was there right after Thanksgiving.