Woody’s Grill and Tap

Some people absolutely LOVE Woody’s pizza. I like it. Don’t love it. However, I do thoroughly enjoy coming to Woody’s. It feels comfortable and warm and I enjoy the atmosphere. I think the food is good, not great but I think it is a top spot to go for dinner on any occasion. Definitely a good pizza don’t get me wrong.

This is a delicious restaurant!
My family and I came here during a quick trip to Boston because we were looking for a good place with delicious food. Between the three of us, we shared a salad and two small pizzas, which were absolutely delicious and just enough to share!
Service is great and fast and food is amazing! Would definitely recommend to anyone who is looking for fast, easy, and delicious pizza.

I want to preface this with the fact that during my college days (2004 – 2008) we LIVED at Woody’s (literally, we lived on the 4^th floor above this place). The food was great, the staff was friendly. Now that we are «older» and live across the city, we still come back a few times a year. Today we decided to venture over. My husband, my (sleeping) infant son and I walked in to a COMPLETELY EMPTY restaurant. After standing at the front for about 5 minutes with not one staff member asking if they could seat us, we took it upon ourselves to sit at the closest table tucked away in a corner.
Finally, a middle-​aged overweight man (only describing him so others can avoid this unpleasant person) came up to us and rudely told us we couldn’t sit there. I looked around as if it were a joke since the place was EMPTY and I had a sleeping infant in a carseat. Was this guy really telling me to move? In fact, he was. He said he was expecting a «VERY LARGE CROWD» in about an hour and a half. I told him we would be gone within 45 minutes (anyone with children learns how to eat as lightning fast speed). He told me to get up and move to a smaller table if we wanted to stay.
Needless to say, we did not stay and I don’t think we will be returning any time soon. It’s a shame when small neighborhood places become unfriendly.

Came here during my weekend trip to Boston. Was looking for some good food right before the game, and this place was it. When we walked in, everyone there was in jerseys stopping by before heading to Fenway.
The service was quick considering how packed and rushed they were for everyone to finish their meals before the game started. The drinks were well priced. We ordered a white clam pizza and chicken sausage pizza. The pizzas were bigger than personal size, so it was more than what the two of us there could finish. The pizzas were great and far exceeded my expectations, coming from New York.
The neighborhood as you step out is so cute and quaint. Almost had trouble finding this restaurant because its on such a quiet street. A quick walk from Fenway too which was a plus.

I hope Woody’s is not always like this, but we went there yesterday and had to wait an hour for our pizza. When we got there it wasn’t too crowded but after we sat down and ordered, it got packed pretty quickly. We knew something was wrong when everyone around us started to complain about the wait. The waitress kept coming over to apologize and to explain that 20 orders unexpectedly came in at the same time. There was no use apologizing if you didn’t try to offer us something in the meantime. I even started to feel light-​headed from being hungry and angry at the same time. If it weren’t for the high quality of the pizza, I would have rated them one star. But to be fair, they did compensate us by taking the more expensive pizza off our bill.

A great spot on a Friday night. Shared a meatball and red pepper pizza which was great. The crust is soft and chewy and the cheese is really good. Only down side was the meatballs were a little dry. Service was very friendly and we (myself and my SO) were seated within a few minutes of arriving at 7:30pm on a Friday night.

After moving my entire life to Boston, up four flights of stairs, and into a tiny box in the Back Bay… I was pleasantly surprised to find this little pizza joint around the corner. My recommendation? Order a large classic cheese for $ 12. Hands down, delicious. For a more sophisticated choice, go with the Greek pizza.
Full disclosure: I’ve never ordered anything but pizza, wine, and/​or beer here. Why mess with a good thing?

I went here w/​my husband and his parents for a bite to eat before the Red Sox game.
We scarfed down every bit of our pizzas we got as they were fabulous.
Thin crust nice and crispy, delicious!!!
And just a short walk from Fenway (coming in back entrance by Jillian’s)

Appetizer– meatballs made by the owner’s mother. Yum! Dinner– Made to order wood fire pizza. We cleaned the (pizza pan) plate between the three of us. Friendly. Welcoming. Enjoyable.

You want a good pizza! Go to Woody’s! Some of the best pizza I have ever had. You can’t go wrong.

Very solid local bar Pizza spot off the main drag. Come sit at the Bar and be sure to order one of their pizzas baked in front of you in the wood burning oven. Incredibly aromatic, thin style and not drenched in sauce or toppings. I wanted to only eat half of the pie, but I obviously failed greatly at that attempt.
The servers and chefs are nice and you are left with a homey neighborhood, come again, feeling.

Just got back from Woody’s Grill and Tap. Fun little place with a bar on one side and the seating on the other. I ordered the jerk/​buffalo wings. Wow. Very unique and very good. They are jerk seasoned and tossed in buffalo sauce. A must have!
I also ordered a pepperoni and bacon 10″ pizza. The bacon, unlike many other pizza places, was clearly bacon. Not crumbs sprinkles but real chunks of bacon. The wood fire/​brick oven pizza was very good.
The male waiter was very prompt and checked on me multiple times. When asked about beer recommendations, he rattled off a few with good knowledge. I also asked him about places to get Sox tickets around the neighborhood, and he gave me some good direction.
Overall, I would definitely come back if I was in the area.

I like the steak tips. It’s a small portion of steak so ask for a double order if your hungry.
The pizza is wonderful. Wood burning stove pizza. Yummy

Went here with a friend to grab a bite to eat for dinner on a Sunday night. There weren’t too many customers there so we were seated right away.
I was craving pizza so I decided to go with a large BBQ chicken pizza. The pizza was quite large, especially for the price, but it did not really go above and beyond any expectations that I had.
Overall, the service here is friendly and the pricing is good, but the pizza was nothing to write home about.

Decent place for a quick bite
Woody’s is a neighborhood meeting place where you can grab a decent pizza, a beer, and unwind. Located on Hemenway St., it a convenient walk from Back Bay and the Fenway area. The ambiance is simple and the service is helpful.
Having eaten here a few times, I agree with other Unilocalers that the pizza is probably your best bet. I ate at Woody’s a few nights ago with a friend. We started with the hummus which was pretty good but served with only a few slices of pita (6) but luckily they offered to bring some more. I then had the ½ chicken which was pretty good. However, the arugula salad didn’t have much along the way of dressing and the roasted fingerling potatoes were a bit dry.
Other times, I have had the wood grilled pizza and found it to be pretty good.
Woody’s is a good place to meet up after work or for a quick bite. Although not overly impressed, I have every intention to keep dining here.

Okay. You come here for the pizza. It really isn’t worth it for much else.
A couple of friends and I stopped by early on a Saturday evening after working out. It wasn’t crowded at all, but service was ridiculously slow, and they were all out of a couple of things we tried to order (Seadog blueberry beer, and one of the desserts). We split the calamari appetizer, which was okay.
The pizza was really the only thing that impressed. I got the Jamaican Jerk and ate nearly the entire thing in one sitting! I don’t have an appetite like that, so you know that it must’ve been good, if I was able to eat that much. Eunice E. got the buffalo chicken pizza, which she also enjoyed. Nandanie S. got a turkey burger, and reported it being a bit dry, further confirming that you should really just come here for the ‘za.
Got the peanut butter cheesecake for dessert, and it was completely and utterly bland. Never in my life have I been so disappointed by something with peanut butter in it!
I spent a while trying to think of a way to end this review, but I’ve got nothing. Woody’s is really just… OK, in every respect.

After dancing around for an hour at U-​Jam, Andrea B., Nandanie S., and I were ready to sit down and eat. And drink. We decided to go to Woody’s since it’s categorized as American, Pizza, and most importantly, BAR. It definitely is all three, but I think I’d come here mostly (if not only) for the ‘za.
We ordered a calimari appetizer that was OK. We ate it all because we were on the verge of hangry, but even the fried spicy peppers couldn’t make it better than just OK… the chipotle aioli was very good, but you’d expect the star of the dish to be the calimari, right? Plus it came out a bit cold… which would have been a fine descriptor for our IPAs… alas, THOSE came out a bit warm.
But the pizza. Wow. I got the buffalo chicken pizza, and it was beyond delish. The mozzarella, the bleu cheese, the onion, the buffalo! You can tell that it’s made in a wood fire oven grill, and it says amazing things – like EAT ME. I ordered a small pie, which could feed one extremely hungry person or two comfortably hungry people.
I didn’t go for a third course, but the ladies were kind enough to offer me each a bite of their respective desserts (peanut butter cheesecake and chocolate fondant cake). Though the girls were sweet, the treats were decidedly not. Our sugar-​fearing mothers would have loved them, but for us normal sweet-​toothed folks, they were both a huge miss.
Also a bit spotty was the service. Our waitress was nice, but awfully slow at checking in, and whenever she did, it seemed like it was just to tell us that they were out of, well, everything (e.g., the kind of beer one of us wanted, the kind of dessert another ordered, etc.)… strange for an early Saturday dinner.
No matter; I have just one piece of advice: get the pizza.

Okay, so Woody’s has changed quite a bit since I’ve been here back during college and post college years circa 2006−2008ish.
Three of us girls shared the calamari, and it was meh. The calamari was a little cold as we were eating it and slightly rubbery. Beer was slightly warm as it was brought to our table, as Eunice E pointed out.
Pizza looked delicious as Eunice E and Andrea B ordered the buffalo chicken and Jamaican jerk pizzas respectively. I can’t have dairy, and I think it’s just sacrilegious to get pizza without cheese. I opted for the turkey burger which wasn’t too bad. Could have used some pickles or something to bulk it up a little, but it was okay. Fries were crispy and hot though.
Movin on to dessert. I ordered the chocolate cake. It was extremely bland with no taste. It also wasn’t sweet at all, which was odd considering its a chocolate cake. So weird. I have a Lindt sea salt chocolate bar at home… it’s ALL mine to replace the bland cake. Maybe I’ll share with Josh. Maybe. Hehe…
Service was okay. We were seated right away and then we ordered drinks and whatnot. As the evening progressed, service got slower and slower though.
Kudos to the space heater in the ladies room though. :)

Pizza. Good ingredients. Nice People. Clean location.
It’s a little «staid» for me. Someone else wrote homey and comfortable. It’s a little scrupulously pure so as to be bland or characterless. It’s not a negative but a criticism that keeps me from returning with so many pizza places that in the Boston area that come across to me as cool with character.

Our first visit… based on other Unilocal ratings and reviews.
Loved it. Some of the best wings ever. We got them with sauce on the side. Yum!
The «kitchen sink@ pizza was delicious. Nice thin crust. Not too much cheese. Very tasty sauce.
All in all… a great neighborhood spot. And convenient to the Boston Symphony Hall.