Pete’s Famous Pizza Restaurant

While visiting places I like to check out different local places and came upon this place. When we walked in it was very small but didn’t let that hold us back. We order a pizza asked for fresh mozzarella. The kitchen is open and you can see them as they fix it. They pulled out a frozen bucket of mozzarella balls and put on the pizza. Once the pizza arrived you could swim in the juices on top of the pizza. The crust appears it’s frozen already flattened out. The worst part of this experience was the huge roach that walked across the floor while we was eating. It acted like it owned the place. A server seen it and kicked it under a cooler and looked to see if anyone seen her do it. I would never let my dog eat here again.

Delicious food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Try the pancakes for breakfast. A real taste treat.

Still 1 star for having one of your employees send rude messages calling me a retard for pointing out the fact that your delivery drivers can’t find a proper parking spot instead of the bike lane, funny thing. Usually there is a open parking spot blocked by there double parked POS green station wagon. Why don’t you stop calling people names and fix your shit cause next time I’m forced out in to the street cause of one of your delivery cars I will kick the mirror off with my steel toe boots. (I hope it’s the little dark blue Honda I get too) only cause it’s nicer and it will cost you people more to fix.

I eat there often and I really like how they fixed the interior. Food is good and people picking up the phone are great.

I decided to try this place out on grubhub, and that was a huge mistake. Not only is the delivery driver incapable of reading instructions and ringing the doorbell when I clearly stated not to due to a sleeping roommate but their customer service is horrible.
They sent out my order without my fries, and when I called to see about the issue I was told they would send it back out. In how long? A half hour. Uhmm​.no. I requested my money back and they made it seem like an issue to just send the driver back to return my money for the fries.
And to end this pleasant exchange, I called back because I discovered my cheesesteak had no cheese.
Their response, hanging up on me.
Avoid this place.

I got a whole wheat turkey club wrap, and it was tasty. I was skeptical at first because of the many different food choices, but the crispy bacon (a little salty), turkey (not the deli meat kind), and fresh tomatoes meshed well.

I waited entirely too long for 12 wings and small xcheese. People walked ordered and left with their food while I continued to wait for mine. Finally my food was ready. Got home the dough was hard and somewhat burnt. I just picked all the cheese off the pizza. The most expensive cheese I’ve ever paid for since the bread wasn’t edible. I should’ve just went to Fairmount pizza, instead of trying some place new.

The best little dinner/​pizza shop in Philly. Being a New Yorker I hate Philadelphia’s pizza. I love this place! Rich succulent pizza!

At work we placed an order. My co-​workers enjoyed their salads, but the pizza wasn’t very good. I know its a pan pizza, but the crust was doughy and not very thick, about ¹⁄₃ as thick as deep dish and two or three times as thick as a regular NY slice. The sauce wasn’t very flavorful either. I ate half the pizza and then just ate the toppings on the other half.

I really like their Buffalo Chicken Pizza. It is by far my favorite thing to order here.
I also like the bacon Chicken Ranch and BBQ Chicken!
Pete’s makes really good specialty Pizza’s. I am not a big fan of their regular Pizzas because I think their crust is on the thicker side and is just better suited for more «stuff» on the Za. So my pro-​tip, definitely order something substantial such as the Buffalo Chicken Pizza, you’ll enjoy it more than just a plain pie with pepperoni or extra cheese.
They also have good sandwiches, mozzarella sticks, and other appetizers.
The location is small and often busy, I usually get takeout or delivery from here rather than eating in.
They are fast and good for delivery! Staff has always been polite when I have called or stopped in.

I like this spot. They have good run-​of-​the-​mill pizza shop food. I do make a point to tell them I want my pizza well done because they have a tendency to undercook them, which is also an issue with the mozzarella cheese fries. The cheese barely melts before the pull it out of the oven. Note to cook: I know you deal with a wide variety of tastes, but It’s ok if it has a little color; no one likes barely melted cheese.
The steaks have always been excellent too. They use good rolls and have the right ratio of cheese and meat.
Note here: to the tourist below saying he’ll let his concierge know (I’m not making this up, look for it) that this place messed up his «standard toppings» on his steak, as a lifelong Philadelphian I can assure you — despite what Johnny-​come-​lately suburban self christened Philadelphian guide-​writer writes, peppers are not standard. You need to ask for them. If anything is standard around here it’s the attitude, especially when confronted with know it all tourists who lecture a multi-​decades old business on how their food is locally improper. What a farce.

I live across the street from Pete’s and probably go here at least once a week. It’s cheap, it’s good, the people that work here are polite, and they even sell beer here at a reasonable price.

I live in the area and usually go to Luigi’s which is a block away. I decided I would give this place a try since it is so conveniently located. I ordered a meatball parm for take out. The meatballs weren’t even meatballs it was burger meat cut into bite size pieces with sauce and cheese on top. The burger meat was cooked so well done that it made it tough to chew.
Needless to say I tried Pete’s and won’t be going back.

We ordered a margherita pizza and salad from Pete’s last night. First I would like to say the delivery was fast and the delivery person was very nice– but the pizza was cold. The salad wasn’t bad.
That being said, I was really disappointed in the pizza. The crust was very dry and hard and had very little flavor, which we might have been able to overlook. But, the pizza was mostly tomato sauce with very small slices of mozzarella that covered about ¹⁄₈ of the pizza and maybe 1 or 2 basil leaves per piece. Luckily I had extra mozzarella on hand to make the pizza a little bit better.
I’m not sure if we just ordered the wrong thing or if it was on off day — but the pizza was just not even close to being good. I probably won’t order from here again.

Very rude woman behind the counter, they don’t make a cheese steak that is even close to the value of the price they put on it, and confusing seating situation. Woman actually rolled her eyes at me when I said I wanted to dine in. Also didn’t have a clue about standard toppings on a cheese steak. Your city is known for it, you claim to have a good one, but you say peppers and onions aren’t standard? What the hell? I would never suggest this place due to the rudeness of its employee. I’ll be sure to tell the concierge at my hotel about the experience too. Learn a little bit about hospitality.

The pizza was average. The server took more than 10 minutes to get to our table. Then it took her another 10 to bring us our sodas.

Just had ice cold beers here but it was busy and definately a local favorite.

PIZZA REVIEW ONLY.
You know what I think happens? We go on Unilocal,we see that oh hey, this place has gotten not great reviews and I’m gonna do the same even though the food was okay and the service was okay. So you give ‘em a little lower than you normally would. So every now and then I like to have a little courage of my convictions and give a place a nod.
First off, I GET why this place wouldn’t be on your normal «like» list. Ok, it’s small. More than small. Like a hole in the wall. Ok the staff are locals and not in a hipster Fishtown cool way. And they’re not trying to do a song and dance for you to make you like them. Welcome to restaurants that aren’t owned by Steven Starr. We stopped in here one night randomly to get a slice of pizza on our way to get ice cream (not our best day for nutrition, obviously). We stopped because I always see the people on my block ordering pizza from them which I thought was odd since there are other «cooler» places close by. But it makes sense: the pizza here is not your brick oven prosciutto with arugula and a cracked egg. It’s the kind of pizza we all grew up on. Fast, greasy and cheap. Comfort pizza. Kind of like when you secretly make mac and cheese from the box instead of grating cheddar and making a roux. You feel me? The dough is crunchy and not super thin but not too thick. The pepperonis are sweating. And before you know it, you’re splitting a box and doing two sessions of T-​25 to make up for it.
I’m not saying this pizza is something I would drive here from South Philly for, but for living in the neighborhood, I’m darn happy it’s there on my way to ice cream.

I was excited about ordering here because some of my coworkers told me it was alright and pretty moderately priced. I found out that because I work at the Franklin Institute I get a 10% discount which is always a pretty cool thing. The first time I ordered I got a cheese steak and when I asked for a toasted roll the cashier told me (with an attitude) that they all come toasted. I personally appreciated this because I HATE soft greasy rolls with a cheese steak. The cheese steak was good and well priced as it was pretty big and filled with meat and cheese nicely. My only complaint was that the pickle came as an entire spear on my steak. I didn’t like that because it made biting the sandwich awkward so I ended up chopping it myself. The staff that day was particularly rude and that’s why this review has three stars.
The second time I ordered I got an Italian hoagie, which was not as great as it looked because it was overloaded with cheese. I like provolone cheese but I can’t stand too much of it because its balmy. Otherwise the hoagie was awesome (once I removed a quarter pound of cheese from it) and the staff was friendlier the second time around, and I even remembered to mention my TFI staff discount.

Meh pizza.
Great service tho! Which is why I don’t mind going back.