Extreme Pizza

11653 West Broad Street

Richmond, Virginia

Wingin' It

SCORE CARD

Sauce: 8

Comments: I had two different sauces on two different pizzas. being at EXTREME pizza, I felt the need to order something extreme, so that I did. We got two different pizzas, the Wingin' It and the Baja 1000. The Wingin' It had buffalo sauce as the pizza sauce, and the Baja 1000 had a black bean sauce. It was a risk and the executed it perfectly. The buffalo sauce had balls. It was not a wimpy wing sauce, it was a kick you so hard your mom feels it, sauce. The bean sauce on the Baja 1000 was nice and mild and seemed to give it a more "natural" flavoring to it and brought all of the toppings together.

Cheese: 7.5

Comments: It was so stretchy that at one point I had to let my girlfriend know she had a cheese beard going on. It stretched for days from the pizza to your mouth. It wasn't hard to chew at all, and went down smooth. The Wingin' It had traditional mozarella on it but the Baja 1000 had cheddar on it, which I was weary about at first, but it was a perfect fit for the pizza.

Dough: 7.5

Comments: It was thin and strong. Sometimes you get thin crust pizza and it couldn't hold up a paper clip. This was strong thin crust that held up our mountains of toppings on each EXTREME pizza. It was the same thickness from end to end, and the crust was thin and crunchy without being a threat to the roof of your mouth.

Service: 8.5

Comments: There wasn't a welcome party waiting for us when we went in, but they were incredibly polite once we got up to order. They made conversation, asked us where we heard about them, were quick about getting our pizza made, and seemed to know a lot of the people who came in after us. While being a creeper, I noticed that they actually cut up a little kid's pizza who sat at a table beside us. The parent's didn't even have to ask, they went ahead and did it with a pizza cutter before they brought the order out. 

Decor: 7

Comments: It wasn't bad but it wasn't great. Let me explain. They had the SAME EXACT wood paneling and mustard yellow paint as EVERY SINGLE pizza place I have reviewed thus far. But after that, it was pictures of extreme sports and dangling skate boards on the ceiling and a mural of a BMX biker on the wall. I say, let the Italian thing go. This pizza isn't Italian. This pizza is American perfection. Let the Italian decor go and just roll with the extreme theme. Liked the high top and low top tables, all matching, and lack of carpet. Carpeting in restaurants is just weird. 

Overall: 7.7

Comments: I plan on going back to this place at least once a month, if not more. I will, and mark my word, I will try every pizza they have on the menu. The pizza is so good it'll make your tongue slap your brains out,  and I never thought I'd say that about a franchise pizza business. 

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