Pizzeria 22

Perfectly fine neapolitan style wood fired pizza, but the prices are 30% higher than what they should be & the staff has been consistently inattentive each of the 5 times I’ve been.
Give the place a try if you haven’t ever been, but with the opening of Miopisto, which is directly across the street & has significantly better pizza, I can’t foresee making another a return trip to Pizzeria 22.

Pizzaria 22 is probably my favorite pizza place in West Seattle. The pizza is incredible and the service is some of the best I’ve had. Our waiter was very personable but not too so. I’ve never had a white pizza I enjoyed until Pizzeria 22.
The s’mores are amazing!

The Best Pizza, you will not be disappointed. All the ingredients are fresh, and the quality is top notch. I don’t think its overpriced for what you get. The salads are generous, and the pizzas are big. House wine is good and not overpriced either. I’ve been many times and I highly recommend it.

Expensive but totally worth it. The service, waitress Jenny, was spectacular and we actually came here after waking out of another place where we had horrible service. The waitress was so helpful and sweet and so attentive. Food was really good. Pizza reminded me of our trip to italy. Enjoyed the pancetta pizza, bufala appetizer and chianti. Great, calm ambiance. Don’t miss this spot.

Stop reading Unilocal and just go here!!! Best pizza ever! Order the grapefruit Margarita it’s made to perfection! I will be coming here again and again.

$ 30 for what would be two personal pizzas on the East Coast. Soggy, soft chewy crust and zero flavor. Really disappointing after reading all the rave reviews. Makes me wonder if possibly most haven’t ever had really great wood fired pizza…
Don’t recommend trying if you’ve ever had a decent slice.

Very unfortunate, but this place is going down. It was so good after it opened and not so good now. Had to ask for a water 3 times, asked for napkins! They ran out of scissors to cut pizza and overall the pizza is not that great. With competitors around the corner this place is losing on quality, service and prices. I don’t think I’ll come back unless Mioposto is fully booked and I’m desperate for pizza.

I have been several times, great pizza, cool pizza oven (open kitchen), clean, friendly atmosphere. The pizza is better then every other pizza joint in west seattle. Finally Kerry Kemp (owner) is one badass dude and has crafter one fine pizzeria.

Fun little spot in W. Seattle. I heard great things are really wanted to love this place. The service was fun and attentive (although a little unorganized). Wine/​beer selection is great. We had the meatballs and a couple of salads to start. The meatballs were the low point of the night. Zero flavor and a very weird/​soft texture. The caesar was really tasty but seriously drenched in dressing. I enjoyed the pizza but think that it could have been way better if they were simply using better quality ingredients. Crust was perfectly crisp and slightly chewy… yes! It’s just that the toppings were so… not great. Bummer.

Better than your average pizza joint. They also do GF crust with all the same gourmet toppings.

Good pizza, very similar to the many other wood fire places in the area. They lose points for charging $ 6.50 for beer (!!!), not cutting the pizza for you (they give you scissors to cut with) and not having temperature control. It’s way too hot in there.

I really did enjoy the pizza. It Neapolitan style done well, but their topping style is meh and Overpriced! I understand paying for good food — but everything down to the draft beer was higher than expected. I feel like they are cashing in on the uniqueness and not of what is actually being served. If you do go, as I said the pizza is enjoyable — just get pizza and water. They serve tasty free bread before hand so you’ll be solid even splitting two people one pizza.
The seating outside seating area is very tiny and on top of each other style. I suggest going here for an indoor restaurant.

Great Italian style pizza! Thin crust with sauce and toppings. We had the pepperoni and the inferno pizza! Oh, and the fire roasted smores!!! Small, quaint and a decent beer and wine selection. Outdoor seating was cool, picnic tables with umbrellas. Waitress was super friendly and awesome!

I had no idea this place would be so amazing! I have driven past this little pizza place many times but just last week my husband and I decided to go. I love the intimate café feel of this place. The food was incredible! I couldn’t believe that this place had been around for a year or so and i was just now getting around to going! I cursed myself for the many times i could have dined here. What a great place. Service was amazing, food was superb and atmosphere was top notch. We will be back again!

Pizza is the star here, not the staff. We got there and it was empty and they wanted to put us in the side room which is strange.
So, it took a while to get drinks and then get our order in, but we could deal because the pizza was so good. Don’t both with their s’more dessert– a kid could do better at a camp fire.

Beware the dangerous step up between rooms. Poorly marked — one inch sign at least two feet above eye level about what is at least a 4″ step up. Went flying across the floor when tripped over it. Staff did’t even apologize or seem concerned when informed. Far more concern expressed from the patrons who saw the incident. Staff thought signage more than sufficient.
As to the food, the selection is limited although it is a reasonable Napoletana pizza. Space is small and crowded.

It’s a bit tight here in P22. Adjust your expectations accordingly. Feels a bit like a New York diner. You’re going to be close to other people and likely to bumped, touched and rubbed — especially if you sit at the bar. This has never stopped me from coming here because I love the food. Also, the owner is great and the staff and clientele are friendly.
The pizzas/​calzone are Neapolitan style from an authentic wood burning stove. It’s thin crust and sloppy, just the way I like it. Perfect for folding.
I enjoy quite a bit of the items on the menu but my go to are the Insalate 22 salad along with the meaty Calzone. When I’m not so hungry, I’ll split the two with a friend. If famished, I’ll kill it on my own with an IPA to wash it down. I also love the clams appetizer.

My wife and I have been here 6 times and we really do think it’s the best pizza in West Seattle, but the experience can vary depending on the night. Weeknights are definitely best if you don’t want to wait (or make a reservation).
We went there this past Saturday at about 8:30 and knew we were going to have to wait. We got a table pretty fast (about 10 minutes) and were seated at a table near the back. If you haven’t been there, the main dining room is basically one long bench with tables that can be combined to form parties of 2,4 or 6.
As we were walking up to our table we saw a guy in a flannel sitting in the middle of the tables talking to a table of 4 women. I squeezed by and took my seat on the bench figuring he was just saying hello to some friends.
About 20 minutes went by and I sat there, 6 inches away from him with his back facing me and it appeared he was in it for the long haul so we scooted the table to the right to get a little elbow room and not encroach on the other diners to the right of us.
And then he just took up more room.
After another 10 or so minutes he gets up. We’re free! Nope, he then goes behind the bar and gets a round of shots for the table he is at. Wait a minute, this guy works here?
We asked our server who he was. Not only does he work here, he’s the owner! None other than Carey Kemp himself.
He stuck around for a total of 60 minutes total. I don’t know if he was flirting with one of the ladies, maybe his girlfriend, his wife, whatever. I don’t really care what he was doing.
We were just really disappointed that his behavior was so unprofessional on a busy Saturday night, with tables stacked up and your servers busting their rumps to turn tables.
You are the owner, I get it. You can flirt with whomever you want and buy drinks for whomever you want. Next time just don’t do it on a busy night at the expense of the other patrons in your restaurant and probably the moral of your servers.
The food was great as always, but it’s going to take awhile for the bitter taste of this experience to wear off before and if we come back.

This review pertains to the service, as there are plenty of other reviews that address the food quality.
We were there on a busy night. We made a reservation via Open Table but they hadn’t figured out how to actually use it yet apparently, and thus we had to wait along with the other poor schleps to get seated. They offered us a few glasses of wine to help soften the disappointment which was nice. Great for the adults, but not for two hungry kids in tow.
I would’ve left at the get-​go but since we were with friends, I didn’t want to cause a commotion. This only got worse as I observed our servers continually take long delays between returns to our table to attend to us. Yes, the kitchen was clearly busy, but to see our server stop and chat with other servers, while we still hadn’t received all of our drinks… or to have another server who was bringing our appetizers (an hour after arrival by the way so we were ready to gnaw our arms off at that point) literally stop a few feet from our table, while holding our food and to talk to the owner about something was more than eye rolling.
This was further maddening that when our pizzas finally came out of the oven and were waiting to be delivered to our table, our server was at the other end of the bar talking to another employee for an extended time that was ridiculously unacceptable. I was moments away from going to pick up the pizzas myself and he finally made eye contact with me and was abruptly brought back into reality that he was a server at a restaurant with actual customers at tables (!).
Oh yeah, in the total time from arrival until we were brought our check, we could have ordered a pizza from Pagliacci and had it delivered. Twice in a row.

Thin crust pizza place that has about 20 varieties of about the same pie. Outside, dog-​friendly area consists of 4 picnic tables that are right off the street. The outside area is not well-​lit with either outdoor lighting or street lights, so its hard to read the menus under over-​sized umbrellas.
Our group ordered 4 pizzas. 2 were burnt, and 2 looked about right. Skimpy on the chicken and toppings in general. No one was blown away with the size, taste, or speed of service.
Much better pizza places in the area. Probably won’t return.