Their pizza is delivered fresh and fast. I really like the Topper Sticks. Lots of meat and the dipping sauce is addictive. The guy who takes the orders on the phone is nice and very helpful for suggesting stuff and giving coupons ... but you have to ask for specials/coupons, though. I always get a parking space if I pick up my orders, but the mall itself is kind of hassle if you come in the wrong way. I suggest you come in from the Irving Park entrance. But going north on Narragansett from the mall or turning into the mall from southbound Narragansett really sucks. The only reason I don't put five stars is ... well, it's a commercial-type pizza place, in line, though slightly above Dominos and Little Caesar's... I prefer the old type Chicago pizza, which is, of course, a bit more $$$$.
Review Source:For years I went to school in Wisconsin where toppers was THE place to go for college kids. Was so glad to see one here. Hands down the best pizza, most unique toppings, and speedy deliveries too. If you aren't getting pizza from here you're doing it wrong on the northwest side of Chicago.
Review Source:I received a flyer in the mail from Toppers and decided to give them a try. I placed my order online a large sausage and pepperoni pizza, a large order of cheesy bread and hot wings.
Within minutes of placing my order a employee called to tell me that they were out of wings it was 12.45 and the Bears were playing an afternoon game how could they be out of wings but anyway, he said that they have an order of wings that another person had ordered and just cancelled a few minutes ago and he could give me that order. OK fine we hang up and minutes later another phone call from Toppers sorry but the wings are BBQ not hot, so I'm forced to order boneless hot wings which I really don't care for but but I have guests and I need to feed them.
The food arrives very fast and is hot which is a good start. Â The pizza looks and tastes good it is made in the same style as a Papa Johns or Pizza Hut or Dominos the dough is hand tossed and the cheese is a much better quality than the others. The pepperoni is good but what's with the sausage they all make them look like little rabbit turds, they must all get their sausage from the same supplier. Â The cheesy bread sticks were good but the boneless hot wings were as expected a real let down, they do not look like wings at all, they are soggy breaded round balls of chicken covered in sauce do not order them!!
Overall it was good, they are probably in my opinion tied with Papa Johns for the lead in that style of pizza.
If you like semi-nasty food that is overcooked, get one of the grinders. I bought the Buffalo chicken, which was the best one, but even it was horridly dry. The thing was so overcooked in the oven that all the sauce dried up. The smoky BBQ beef had the world's saltiest bacon and ill-flavored sauce. The philly cheesesteak was OK, but it had a sour cheese sauce on it and near raw vegetables. The original grinder was a monster; meaning it tasted like one must. The sausage were one of the top 10 worst things I've ever eaten. The pepperoni was small and dried out and I couldn't even detect red sauce. The bread on each sandwich was hard and even burned on the ends.
My mother and sister were pretty upset that this was what I had brought them for dinner.
Oh, plan on having some other things to do in the area if you go in and order for take out. It took maybe half an hour to cook the sandwiches.
This was back in January that I and another were shopping at American Science & Surplus at 5316 N Milwaukee Ave in Jefferson Park. Â It's the shop where most Chicago public school children go to get ideas for their science projects and "what nots". Â So we're walking around looking for a gift and in the rear of the store where batteries and other knick knacks are sitting in glass counters, atop these counters are about four to five pizzas laid out. Â Not for customer consumption but for the employees. Â The pizzas were all different styles of what Toppers calls their "house" pizzas but as most would know as specialty pies. Â There was a gyros pizza, a hangover helper, the BBQ chicken, the maui and the Philly Cheesesteak. Â Many of the pies (though tired from sitting all day) still looked pretty tasty.
So fast forward some months and I happen to be in the area at the grocery store around the corner. Â Placed an order inside, the counter dude was cool about me using a coupon off one of their menus. Â I got two specialty pies, a personal Philly and a large Big topper which is alike a super supreme at Pizza Hut. Â I was also able to get their Topperstix which are approximately 26 lady finger like breadsticks topped in a massive quantity of cheese and your choice of meat topping. Â I got taco meat. Â Yum. Â It came with two sauces and I think that completed the order. Â Total was around $26 - $28 dollars I think. Â Ready in twenty minutes and I was on my way back home to enjoy.
First off.. the thing about Toppers are the specialty pies so forget about making your own one topping or going for a plain old traditional style pie with sausage, pepperoni, green peppers, etc. Â Philly Cheesesteak was bomb! Â Mozzarella and Provolone with white sauce, tender Cheesesteak with crispy onions and .. well the shit was awesome. Â I should add that once I got home I stuck the pizza in the oven for an additional twenty minutes to make it crispy. Â On their heat alone, the traditional pie was soggy. Â I would guess the toppings were frozen or something which could explain all the excess water that soaked the pizza box. Â It was super wet like a soiled diaper. Â The traditional pie was BORING. Â Toppers is all about specialty pies and those crazy topperstix. Â Get a bunch of friends together and order a couple different pies and sticks. Â Their pizzas tend to have a minor application of sauce, so you may like to ask for more sauce fiends! Â For the toppersticks I suggest blue cheese or BBQ, the other sauces were BOring.
Final details. Â Yeah its chain pizza. Yeah its a bit more than the shit you get at Domino's, Papa Johns or Little Caesars but it's different and its much tastier versus their competitors. Â Plus.. with the PJ's owner talking all this nonsense about supporting the Mint Rawmoney (Mitt Romney) campaign, its a decent substitute.
Cheers!
Excited to have a new (maybe new, I have never heard of it before?) pizza place in the area.
Mac 'N Cheese Pizza- awesome!
Loaded Baked Potato Pizza- strangely awesome but I think they forgot the sour cream dip
Topperstix- very cheesy and good
Very good service, coupons make it cheap. Â Probably the nicest delivery guy I've ever had.
One bad thing- you have to wait quite a long time to order while listening to annoying ads on the phone. Â Just when you think you can't take it anymore, a real person gets on the line.
We heard they recently set up shop in our neighborhood and decided to check it out. We had a coupon that included 1 pizza, 3 orders of Toppers Sticks and 12 wings for $30. The hangover pizza was really good and so were the sticks. The only negative area were the wings; while they tasted pretty decent, they were tiny.
Overall, we would definitely order Toppers again. It's nice to have another fast-pizza option.
The company I work for is nearby and was lucky enough to get a preview of their food a couple of days before their official opening; part of some kind of employee training they were doing (and probably partially a gimmick to get the word out). Well let me tell you, the gimmick worked because I'd totally get pizza from them again.
By the time we were done ordering, we had something like 5 pizzas and 1 large order each of their cheese breadsticks and bacon breadsticks. Nothing we had seemed greasy, which was a big plus, and they do a great crispy thin crust. We had mostly normal pizza toppings (cheese, spinach and mushroom, sausage and onion, Canadian bacon and pineapple) but the one that seemed to get the highest reviews was the gyro pizza. It sounds bizarre, but it works; I could make a bad habit out of that pizza. Even the cheese breadsticks were getting high reviews--not at all greasy and a hint of garlic butter flavor.
Prices strike me as a smidge on the high side, especially for house pizzas, but not terrible considering how good the food is. Definitely one of the better chain pizzas I've ever had.
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