Chicago Pizza
239 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02139
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Address :
239 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA, 02139 - Phone (617) 497-5555
- Website https://www.cambridgepizza.com/
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Opening Hours
- Mon :10:00 am - 3:00pm
Specialities
- Takes Reservations : No
Delivery : Yes
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Late Night
Parking : Street
Bike Parking : Yes
Wheelchair Accessible : No
Good for Kids : No
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Ambience : Casual
Noise Level : Average
Alcohol : No
Outdoor Seating : Yes
Wi-Fi : Free
Has TV : No
Waiter Service : No
Caters : No
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Pizza
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Over the years, different pizzerias in the United States have developed their own respective regional variations. Pizza gained popularity as the iconic dish in the United States in the second half of the 20th century. Whether you prefer thin or thick crust pizza, you can find a pizza of your preference at the best pizza restaurants in your city.
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Erin W.
Probably one of the worst experiences I have ever had. Too bad, I have a huge corporate account for a large event I am trying to fill and they were in the running. Just lost it with the phone call I had about missing menu items.
(1)Lindsay M.
I honestly don't know why these guys have such a low rating. Their food is great, not a fan of the crust but I don't really like any crust. Their delivery was exceptionally fast (I mean like 20 minutes fast - bear in mind I ordered fairly late at night) and the service was outstanding! So polite and friendly! They didn't have the drink I ordered, they called right away to let me know and offered tons of substitutes! The pizza was full of toppings and so good! Give them a shot! It's definitely worth it! Especially late night when your choices are extremely limited in Cambridge!
(5)Trevor J.
Great pizza, mad sauces, nice staff, open late and delivery! I don't understand the 2 star rating. Always enjoy my experience. One of the few quality pizza joints open late in east cambridge.
(5)Cuitlahuac G.
Don't understand the name it's kind of misleading. But once you get over that you walk in and in my case I asked for a slice of pizza the guy with a very grumpy face gets the last slice and puts it in the oven. I begin to think well how long has the pizza been sitting their that he is heating it up? I pay the $3 for a slice and walk out to eat it. The pizza over all is not bad I've had worse and the price isn't to high considering the area. I don't understand the name, the grump face and the reheating. But if I had no other alternative I would get a another slice.
(3)Ankur G.
I have ordered pizza online in night from various places and various shops in the US and I have never been more disappointed...I ordered the pizza at around 2AM using their "online delivery". I received a call saying they don't have a driver and they will cancel the order. The bill showed up in my credit card statement and upon calling them multiple times, rather than accepting their mistake, they shouted on me. This is the worst possible service I have experienced...
(1)Pascal F.
Garbage they get points for being the only place open so late but because of that they really slack on quality. Would not buy again.
(1)Amy M.
Ordered my pizza about two hours ago now.. Called a hundred times and was told "all 5 delivery drivers are out, we're too busy". Called the 101st time, got a reasonable person who admitted they screwed up our order and will be en route in 5. It's 4:45AM, placed the order in the 2's, still hungry. Might die tonight. May not make it through the evening. I love you mom.
(1)Sean S.
I dont understand the low review. Yea the service sucks but the pizza is much better than anything around here (get the broccoli one, i usually only eat meat but trust me) and they're open til 4 or 430 am much later than anything else around here. I was there a few nights ago, admittedly wasted, but the crust was especially on point and we thought it was easily the best pizza in cambridge
(5)Burt B.
Yeah, it's not so pretty inside, oh well. My experiences have all been pleasant, and when I ask for a large Italian sub with everything, I get just that -- the thing is basically an open-faced monstrosity with generous toppings. I devour it like a caveman in a shirt and tie. I can't speak to some of the other things that reviewers have commented on, but this place suits my needs pretty well.
(4)Joon Hyuk C.
I ordered wings from this place. I have never seen wings like this in my life. They had super deep fried wings that were beyond crispy, infact, more like burnt. The wings were not golden fried but dark brown fried. I bet I'm getting stomach cancer after eating the very little amount that I did. Also I ordered bbq flavored wings, but this was more like buffalo poorly mixed with watered-down bbq sauce. Come on, don't sell wings if you dont know how to fry them, and dont offer different flavors if you're not going to give what we order.
(1)Mike A.
Do not waste your money...I work overnight so this is the only place around that delivers late which is the only good thing I keep giving this place a chance but every single time I order my order is incorrect,missing items and food plain old sucks I'd rather starve for now on. On top of it all the customer service sucks!!!!!!!
(1)Jarrod G.
Best Pizza in Cambridge. Get the extra thick crust - it is delicious.
(5)Rich E.
I ordered from Chicago Pizza today around midnight while i was working the night shift at work. I ordered a greek salad with chicken. The delivery time said 45 minutes but ended up coming around 1225 which was a plus. The salad was actually very good! lots of feta, fresh veggies, all in all very pleased. The only con was that they do not offer greek dressing which is just weird. I see alot of bad reviews on here and some of the food looks down right nasty but maybe it was just an off night.
(4)Derek B.
As a business you should be absolutely ashamed of what you serve to your customers. I posted pictures of the terrible food I was delivered. If it wasn't for the MIT kids i'd be shocked if you stayed in business. I gave one star for the fact my Hawaiian punch was in fact what I ordered. I will not be ordering again and definitely will not be accepting the comp food you tried to give me to resolve the problem. SEE PICTURES !! AS A FOOD SERVICE WORKER ( I COOK ) STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE AT ALL COST I DONT CARE HOW DRUNK YOU ARE ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT !!!
(1)Tim S.
Paid $11 for a steak bomb sub. The steak, provolone, and peppers were alright, but the bread tasted like it didn't belong in the cheesesteak. It was thick and hard to chew. Come to think of it, the steak was rather dry and I don't know if there were actually mushrooms in the sandwich I got. Maybe I'm being too hard these guys. I've had my fair share of Philly cheesesteaks, so the bar was set high. But I'd be willing to bet most people would feel gypped paying $11 for what I received.
(2)John F.
Imagine for a second that someone microwaved a Digiorno pizza, let it set for a few days, and then re-microwaved it again. And, along with a crust that resembles the texture of an unflavored pork rind, the sauce also has no taste! That would be what you'd get from this place. A despicable projection of, what some would call, pizza that is probably not even suitable for canine consumption. It was terrible. I definitely should have checked this before ordering...
(1)Laura D.
Stopped by today during lunch break of a conference at MIT. It's a small-ish place and definitely could benefit from some sprucing up on the inside. There are few booths and some tables, and notably the menu above the counter was not as updated as the menu online or in the brochures at the counter. The man at the counter was very helpful in deciding which pizza to get (using the brochures) and said he could customize it as we wanted to reduce the cost. We ended up going with a small (10") veggie pizza with no tomatoes (black olives, onions, green pepper). We were the only ones there and our pizza was ready in less than 10 minutes. The presentation was great! All the veggies looked fresh and delicious. When I bit in, it was a surprise to find that while the top layer of the pizza was doughy, the bottom crust was nice and crispy. Strangely, though, the pizza didn't have much flavor at all. The crust was the worst part--totally bland. If some seasoning was baked into the crust it would improve it immensely. For $13 & some change for a small pizza, I'll definitely pass on this, although the service was speedy.
(2)Amaresh S.
I know the rating for this place is low, but i thought this place was exactly what they advertised: cheap, late night pre-cooked pizza that you can get by the slice. Since I got what I came for, I left satisfied. Can't say much more about them, if nothing else is open then it's not a bad choice. I of course wouldn't come here during the day, but I feel that this place should be rated for what it is. I didn't expect management to be that friendly, given the nature of this place.
(3)Bilge Zeren A.
Pizzas and subs are okay. Froyos are not good. Pasta & chicken dishes were pretty bad when I tried. It's open late at night, and pizzas are okay, so I go pretty often. But I'd say it's overly priced for the quality of food.
(2)Sebastian Y.
Friends and I would come here for late night pizza because nothing else was open. We were...a few drinks in and the pizza was still horrible. It was horrible, it is horrible and will most likely remain horrible until it closes. Cheese that tastes rancid and a crust that could only be compared to eating cardboard. This place has nothing you want.
(1)Shay B.
So let me tell you about my experience these people. I work overnight in hospitality and I count on these types of establishments to get me through the night. So I ordered here for the first time the food was alright for it being cold, the driver ran late because his car broke down, and for compensation I recieved a slice of chocolate cake. The 3rd time I ordered food was much better ( not sure if they heard of the past experience at the hotel.) So tonight I decided hey lets order from here....So I called at 2AM no answer called back at 2:10 the phone ranged ranged and ranged. Called back at 2:20 AM someone picks up says "WE ARE TOO BUSY, WERE NOT DELIVERING, CLOSED BYE" and then hung up in my face, not even giving me a chance to explain. Their menu states they close at 4AM every day. Since they don't want to play nice they have lost me as a customer and also I will not be referring them to any of my guest and ON TOP Of it all... I will be tossing all their menus to insure no one here uses them.
(2)Stephanie A.
So I ordered food from here. I'm working 3rd shift so this is pretty much my only choice. I ordered my food @0030, I call to see where it is @0130. I'm told my food should be here in 15 mins. I call @0230 again which is 0130 thanks to day light savings. This time I'm told it is coming right to me. Be there in 10 mins. it is now 0230 (3 hours later) and still no food. Not even a call from a delivery guy saying he's on his way or anything. Now just busy phones and no god damn food. Finally break through the phones @0240, guy ask if I still want my food cause they'll have to remake it. Hell yeah I want my food, even if it is a mangled mess. I'm not even hunger anymore I want it just on principle. Don't order from here the service is horrible and the food is sub par.
(1)Devin T.
This place is so bad that it's funny. My friend and I came in here by chance one day. When you go in the environment is kind of weird. The workers seem sort of slow and not all there. They are not very friendly. My friend got a sub. When it came out we actually looked at each other and started laughing. We LAUGHED. At a SUB SANDWICH. It looked so half-assed it was funny. The onions actually still had skin on them. Everything was put on in such a half-assed way. I wish we took a picture. We laughed our asses off. It was probably the worst looking sandwich I have ever seen. Chicago Pizza became a legend to us. We forgot the name and I searched online until I figured out which place it was. When we found the Yelp page for it and read some of the bad reviews, we laughed for hours. How can a place like this exist? We actually went back another time months later just because we thought it was so hilarious. We needed to go again. This time it honestly wasn't as bad but it still wasn't good either. The same confused looking employees were there. A homeless guy sat at a table and talked to thin air. Anyways, this place is legendary. If you want good food, don't go here. If you want a good comedy show, go here.
(1)Benny H.
the worst large steak and cheese in the world ! and shitty customer service !! nobody should ever go there again , there is no reason a large should look like a extra small be aware and stay away from this over priced and small food amount place
(1)Leigh G.
Oh, you did not just do that. You did not name your place - and I understand now that it's a chain?! - Chicago Pizza, and serve nasty NY style thin crust. Oh no you didn't! I had a veggie pizza slice here. I was drawn to it because it had broccoli, which I do enjoy on a pizza. But having lived in Chicagoland for 18 years, I can tell you, no one in Chicago but me seems to like broccoli on a pizza. The pizza was dry and unimpressive. And the pizza place's name is a LIE! It was fast and it was cheap. And I suppose that's something that real Chicago pizza is not.
(1)Adam L.
It infuriates me that this place is even still in business. Their revenue must come entirely from non-repeat customers. No one with any sense would come back to this joint, so I'm sure it's only newcomers to the neighborhood who eat here. Even though it's open late-night, I'd still rather starve myself than pay more than $2.50 for a slice of some of the lowest quality pizza in Cambridge. Their subs/cheesesteaks are just as bad of a deal: nearly $10 for such a short sandwich that when you look at it, you think they mistakenly only gave you half or a small when you paid for a large. Please, for the love of god, do not patronize this place.
(1)Jeremy S.
Doesn't matter how drunk you are. Avoid Chicago Pizza. I ordered a pan pizza from Chicago Pizza on Foodler about a year ago, thinking it would be a Chicago-style pan pizza. Wrong. It was the middle school cafeteria-style pan pizza that's somehow kind of popular in Boston. And even the other places in Boston where I've had this style of pizza was miles better than the crap I got from Chicago Pizza. All the calories and cholesterol without the authenticity and flavor: Chicago Pizza!
(1)Jeremy H.
Methinks this place needs some improvement in customer service! The proprietar is grumpy as all getup! Hey man, I'm all about being real, but if your having a bad day you still have to be at least halfway nice when dealing with customers. I asked the guy how he was doing, and reached in for a handshake and he left me hanging. The pizza is not Thick Crust Chicago style pizza at all, but its decent fast food when you need to grab a slice and you are hungry on the go! Wouldn't go out of my way to go there, but if you're in the neighborhood and you dont want to stop at 711, my advice is to grab a slice!
(2)Jedi C.
I have ordered through them via Foodler multiple times, have spent a few hundred of dollars there in the past few months, and the last few times I have ordered they have done nothing but refuse to deliver due to menu complications or pricing issues with Foodler. This has resulted in them telling me to take it up with Foodler to resolve the issue instead of delivering the order which was charged to my card and then resolving whatever issues with Foodler themselves directly. I refuse now to do business with them. There is something to be said for having some kind of respect and consideration for long time customers and they have made it quite obvious they do not have neither.
(1)Shannon M.
If it's past 2am and I'm drunk and hungry but not hungry enough to eat any of the giant orders at Beantown/too cheap to pay more than $3, then I will get a slice of cheese pizza at Chicago Pizza. To clarify, the above is an "if and only if" statement.
(1)Abigail V.
I ordered a small pizza and fries for delivery. After waiting over an hour the food finally arrived. Fries were soggy and had to reheat them in the oven to make them edible. Pizza was barely warm and was stuck to the cardboard it was placed on in the box. Pizza seems overpriced for the size and quality and is not Chicago deep dish style. I will not be ordering from here again.
(2)Naji K.
I ordered a cheese pizza and a sub via phone. Delivery was super fast! The driver was really nice and courteous. The pizza is cheesy and cooked really well! The steak and cheese sub that we got wasn't too good. The sub was overloaded with lettuce, which is fine. But, I wish they could have toasted the bun and melted the cheese...which I assumed would be standard. Overall, it was an okay experience. I'm not planning to order from them again anytime soon.
(2)Heather G.
floppy chicken and onion pizza - toppings $2 each. Flash-frozen-fried french fries for $5 an order. A garlicky chicken kebab. One delivery dude who swore we didn't put the tip on the credit card and verbally abused us into paying extra tip in cash "just in case". Not cool. As much as I dislike Cindarella's, i like them more than you.
(1)Johnna M.
I wish I could review Chicago pizza. However, I've been waiting for an hour and a half with no pizza. Seriously guys? ok...it just showed up...let us see how the review goes...one friend says, "hey johnna, don't you yelp? say it isn't that good?" Says the other, "it is exactly not what we ordered?" Says me? the reviewer? It is delicious and exactly the cure for my drunk munchies and I am ok with that. Tasty, late, exactly opposite of what I ordered, but got the job done,
(3)Jon B.
If you are looking for a great Chicago style pan pizza (think Unos)...keep looking. This place advertised "thin, thick crust and PAN pizza") their pan pizza is as thin as any typical dominos or papa johns regular pizza. When I called them back they said (not kidding) "well we do cook it in a pan". It's not even very good. The crust is about three inches wide on the outside (is this what they think pan pizza means? They are wrong). That would be fine if it was good crust- it has the consistency of a hamburger bun. Dry, tasteless and bad. Stay away. These people wouldn't know pan pizza if it fell out of the sky and hit them in the head.
(1)Will E.
This place gets way too much flak. I LOVE their pizza: it's cheap and it is made nearly perfectly IMHO. By the way I, the kind of guy who gets groceries at Whole Foods and haunts coffee shops.
(5)Ross R.
Haha had to write a review about this because I honestly did not think there was such a thing as a BAD pizza, until I got food from here. My roommate ordered some BBQ chicken bullsh** from here at like 3 AM. Pizza got to our apt at like 4:15 ish. Open up the box and there was the worst diarrhea dump pizza pie I've ever seen. Not even remotely cooked (there was literally shreds of cheese on the pizza). BBQ sauce was generic red crap ala "we ordered the cheapest BS from the worst vendor we could find". Chicken was in chunks...chunks? We couldn't even eat the pizza. Hammered at 4:15 AM and we couldn't even eat a slice of f***ing pizza because it WAS SO BAD. Granted, it was super late and I'm sure they were somewhat busy because they are probably the only place open until 4 AM, but I would still recommend chewing on your own hand over ordering from this place.
(1)Hugh R.
I CRINGE whenever I see a pizza parlor with "Chicago" in the name. An establishment serving a REAL Chicago pie would never be caught dead touting the inspirational origins of their delicacies through their window in gaudy neon, mostly because they wouldn't have to....you KNOW it's a Chicago pie because, well, you're in Chicago. So when I first step foot in "Chicago" Pizza, I knew without question it was going to be the sort of place that would leave scores of international students from Harvard and MIT with severe misconceptions as to the nature and quality of what is, admittedly, the BEST PIZZA IN THE WORLD. That is, pizza pies from Chicago, not pies from Chicago Pizza. (If you'd like to sample the former, the Chicago chain Lou Malnati's will ship you a real Chicago pie on dry ice. It'll cost ya, but it's worth it.) So I'm going to be serious here for a moment. In fact, I'm probably going to sound like a parent, but whatever. This is important: when you're out on the town having a good time and 2 a.m. rolls around, don't let the booze fool you into thinking Chicago Pizza is a good idea. It's not. By this point it is entirely possible you've made it through your night without having done something to regret the morning after. Don't screw that up now....
(1)Noor B.
Bullcrap. Can't handle a small delivery for one person a mile away. Took 90 minutes.
(1)Irene R.
If you have a sign up that says "Baklava" and you don't have any you should probably take the sign down. The guy behind the counter couldn't acknowledge anything. I had to ask him about the Baklava 3 times before he finally told me he didn't have any. The he seemed annoy. Well, jerkface, had you told me the first time I had asked I would have stopped. And when I said you should take the sign that says " Baklava" down you could have done better then give me a dirty look. pizza was expensive for a slice of cheese pizza that looked like it had been sitting there all day. The crust was crunchy...but that's only because they heated up stale pizza. As much as I hate Hi Fi and only eat it after a night at the club, I prefer it to the dreck I had to eat here.
(1)rachael b.
wow. i don't know whether to be comforted or completely disgusted that people have had similar problems with this establishment. we, too, ordered online and after hours gone by, no pizza, and completely rude and dismissive customer service (they hung up on us while we were politely explaining!!), we cancelled our order--because who would want to give someone like that business? I'll make grilled cheese, thanks. FOUR MONTHS LATER we are still disputing the charge on our credit card for a pizza that was never delivered. Today, however, was the the kicker: they sent a doctored receipt with a forged signature to bank of america to avoid refunding us our order WHICH WE NEVER RECEIVED! i don't know what is going on over there, but i'm calling the better business bureau with the hopes that someone else doesn't get defrauded. please, please don't trust these people with your money! it really is very upsetting people like this are in business.
(1)Juho W.
Ok... I only yelp to give bad reviews. if its really bad. i need to say something SO PEOPLE DON"T WASTE THEIR MONEY! We decided to give it a chance. I'll keep it short. The pizza was extremely undercooked with raw dough. THE WORST PART. THERE WAS A METAL COIL IN THE PIZZA! WTF. Normally i would call to complain, but its not worth it because it was SO bad. Please do not go here. Save the money to buy some drinks. I've posted pictures of the COIL that was embedded in the pizza!
(1)Ora A.
Don't waste your money on a pizza here. Very rude, half cooked, dirty and total ripoff. I hope the health inspector takes a peak to shut, this place.
(1)Gino T.
Desperate. That's what these people our counting on, that you'll be desperate at 1 am in the morning and place an order here. THIS IS IN NO WAY CHICAGO STYLE PIZZA!!! (neither is Uno's) I actually asked these guys if there from Chicago, and they told me that they just picked the name randomly (sigh). The actual place is a dive, but I think you get better quality food if you go there personally. Delivery is the worst. Small pizza, salad, cheese sticks, 1 hour and 15 min. The taste? Greasy, cold, no flavor pizza. I read some yelp reviews, most people are college kids who are wasted when they order, I unfortunately was sober. A nightmare.
(1)Orly M.
This pizza is repulsive. I went here for a drunken awkward pizza encounter yesterday. My being a hot drunk trainwreck mess made my hunger totally outweigh the fact that I was in a situation I didn't want to be in and I don't really like pizza. To me, I can't justify eating a pile of starchy crust covered in fatty cheese unless the pizza in question is damned good. This pizza is not damned good. It is a weird, smushy, spongey crust covered in too sweet sauce and congealed, lumpy cheese matter which is probably 83% trans fats. I was drunker than David Hasselhoff and I still could barely eat this crap. The crowd is worth noting, too. Unlike the delightfully ghetto goodness of Hi-Fi, this is all nerdy MIT kids. Not really the entertaining kind of drunk, more annoying drunk. I was at least grateful to learn they had a bathroom because I was seconds from peeing in my pants, but when i walked through the kitchen into the back area, the toilet was filled with puke and there was vom all over the seat. HOT
(1)Michael P.
Let's face it, there aren't that many late night joints near Central/MIT to satisfy our late night cravings. Chicago Pizza definitely does NOT serve the best slices in the local area, but it IS open till 4am. Expect to shell out ~$3 for a slice. They have 3 different pizzas readily available (cheese, pepperoni/sausage, and daily special?) They heat up the slices in the oven before serving, but if there are a lot of customers, they'll pull your slice out a little sooner so that it's on the cold side of how you'd like it. I give em mad props for having a huge variety of condiments/spices/seasoning to put on the pizza. It's fun experimenting when you're drunk since any funky combo of condiments seem to taste aMAZing. (Just don't let your sober friend try...heh heh) Great pitstop for MIT students when stumbling home drunk. =) P.S. I concur with Ligaya. Moody's late at night FTW!!!
(2)Rayshauna G.
My experience at Chicago Pizza is usually either adequate or disastrous. On any given night, a slice could be a decent size or something out of a lunchable. The last time I went, there was one person in front of me in line and I still waited forever because the pizza-making dude was listening to the phone ring and pondering the mysteries of the universe. CP deserves one star for so many reasons: poor service and the fact that they don't actually serve Chicago-style pizza only two of them, but they do have something for them - they're open until 4am and sell by the slice. I'm shameless.
(1)Michael C.
So on a random monday night I was driving wih my friend at 11:30 at night dying for a slice of pizza, I proclaimed I would the most mediocore pizza around as long as I could get a slice. Then I saw Chicago Pizza, I demanded my friend stop the car because Chicago style pizza would be much better than mediocore. Little did I know that this pizza is as much Chicago as I am Chinese (It is chicago in name alone). I got my mediocore slice of pie and left Chicago Pizza feelin betrayed. They should change their name to "Mediocore Pizza" it would be more fitting.
(2)Jeremy K.
I like this place a lot. It has outdoor seating in the summer and has some really good thin crust pizza and subs. Their boneless chicken is meaty and their service is great. The variety of drinks is also good. They are open late and deliver too which is awesome!
(4)Josh G.
It's not that they don't care, it's just that they have no clue what they're doing. If it wasn't overpriced and you weren't hungry, the comedy of errors at this place would be entertaining: First, both guys behind the counter will make the same order. Then, learning their lesson, both assume that the other one is working on order #2. Finally, they get it together, and divide up the work-- one completely screws up order #3 while the other cocks up order #4. Don't worry though, what you ordered isn't any better than what you actually got. Just be happy you got something and hope most of it is edible.
(1)Timan G.
Chicago Pizza is one of the few places that delivers really late at night. (They close at 4 am.) When you have the munchies, the pizza really hits the spot, but apart from that there's nothing special. The slices cost about $3 and more for toppings. The slice size is so inconsistent. I ordered 2 slices of cheese pizza and one slice was half the size of the other. The pizza is never that warm, probably because they re-warm slices in the over for like half a second. What I do hate about this place is the service. The cashiers/drivers usually have horrible attitudes. It's a real turn off. They are also very impatient. Once they delivered the wrong pizza to our dorm. Despite that someone bit into a slice, the shop asked if we could return the pizza so they could convince the other party to take the pizza sans a slice. That's just gross and unprofessional.
(2)Brian C.
There must be something wrong with me -- I'm reading the reviews while eating dinner here and thinking I actually went out of my way to come here tonight, and not for the first time... Okay, first off, the "Chicago Pizza" thing does make me cringe. I make Chicago deep dish once in a while at home, and this is not it. This is just basic New England Greek pizza, served in surroundings that look like they were last redecorated in 1979. The place is known for its late night service, and being more or less on the MIT campus ensures that this place will be popular no matter what. It also has free WiFi, which would seem to be almost a requirement around here. The service is quick and perfunctory, and drinks are self-serve from the refrigerator or soda fountain. The pizza itself is, as I said, typical Greek pizza, with a crisp crust and the cheese and sauce melted together the way Greek pizzas usually are. It's not as greasy as something like this usually is (let's face it, all that olive oil is something of an acquired taste for Americans) and the crust has a curious soft, crumbly mouthfeel that sets it apart from most pizzas like it. You're not going to go out of your way for this, but if you live or pass through the neighborhood, it's a good fallback when all you want is something quick and dirty for dinner. Take it for what it is. It's not fancy, it's only slightly more interesting than average, and it's dirt cheap. But sometimes you're in the mood for junk food pizza, and this is a good example when you are.
(4)Barney B.
'drunk pizza' - pizza that normally is pretty bad, but with the right mix of EtOH in yer belly, it somehow tastes damn good. 'chicago pizza' - I'd rather eat pizza off a Central Square drunk than have this shite again.
(1)Keith T.
Thinner than Greek pizza but thicker than traditional. Very light on the sauce. The cheese is good. Been here twice around dinner time and it was great both times - slices had that nice little crispness on the bottom that I love. The crust was a little dry and reminds me of making pizza from the supermarket mix. As for price, maybe it seems overpriced in a student area? I don't know, but it's still cheaper than Back Bay. I can't really complain about the negative reviews; I don't like waiting in line so it works out.
(4)Jack M.
Not sure why everybody hates on this place? I have eaten there for a couple years now and it is always the same. More importantly eat late night pizza quite often. l am in the know on this subject. It isn't knock ya socks off pizza but for late night it is pretty fantastic!! Crust is awesome with ranch and they even have salads that are acceptable. Staff is all cool and polite. Not expensive and they are open till 4 in the morning and deliver. Highly recommend this spot!
(4)Austin T.
Somewhere in the back of your (possibly alcohol-addled) mind, you are thankful that you found the Cambridgian Holy Grail of late-night food. The rest of your mind is wondering if it's a violation of health code that the guys working there (chefs? hell no. servers? worst service ever.) touched your pizza slices with their bare hands. But back to your food. The chicken tenders were forgotten in the fryer and thus, exhibit Sahara desert-sand textures and coconut-husk hues. Meh. The premade slices are ... hang on, you're about to pass out. Wait, did you really eat that? Gross! The dude's hands touched it! At least the small personal pizza is fresh and superhot from the oven. Yumm... oh wait, you're dreaming. I mean, what do you expect. It's open until 4am.
(2)Ligaya T.
This place is weird: garish fluorescents, out of it employees, zero ambiance - although admittedly I was completely sober. Even bombed out of your gourd you'd think so which is really the only time anyone should ever come in here. A veggie slice was had. Refreshing to the normal offerings of cheese and pepperoni at the post-midnight hour. Being open until 4am, I would have been scared to try it in the wee hours but two stars for it being hot and having broccoli and peppers with discernible flavor. Hi-Fi v. Chicago? It's the worst of toss ups. Moody's instead!
(2)Julia F.
"Open til' 4AM" is proudly stated in the window - perhaps it's because it'll take that long to get your order... Perhaps they are catering to the student population. The slices are large. The prices are fairly basic. The service was slow - but smiling and accommodating. They didn't heat up my slices, the soda machine had only two kinds of soda - the rest of them were out of order. The wait was about 10 minutes for my dad's steak tip sub. The toppings available for pizzas and subs are in huge commercial kitchen sized tubs, not in easily used shakers. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Come on Chicago Pizza, you can do better than that!
(2)Hussam B.
This place is inconsistent. The only great thing about it is that it is one of the very few places in Boston that opens until 4 AM. The pizza is actually fairly good for late night if you ask them to do the following when you order your pizza. Light sauce, light cheese, well done and crispy. If they do that, the pizza is actually pretty good. The steak and cheese sandwich is usually not bad.
(2)Diogo H.
This is the first review I've ever written on Yelp. I'm so disgusted with the service I received I had to write a review. DO NOT give your money to this place. An hour ago I ordered a pizza for delivery and the delivery guy just called me telling me I would have to go downstairs to get the pizza because he wouldn't come up (I live in a 18 story building). I told him the whole point of asking for delivery was for him to get the pizza to my apartment, not for me to go out in the cold. After being extremely rude the guy basically said he didn't care and he would leave. I called the main line and after explaining the situation the guy on the other side, without even asking me who the delivery guy was or my own name just told me to never call again and hang up the phone on me. To make things worse, I paid with my credit card. This place is despicable.
(1)April P.
This place isn't that bad. Out of the delivery choices in my neighborhood, I think it is decent. I always order a small... so, their large must be ginormous or they give me a large for the price of a small, I am not sure which. Either way I am not complaining. I have never had tomato sauce on the pizza I get, but I can say their pesto is pretty good. Throw some garlic and feta on there and I am happy. Delivery is pretty fast, even really late at night.
(3)Ted K.
I'm not sure why it's called Chicago Pizza because none of their pizzas are chicago deep dish, but it's still good pizza. Their gourmet pizzas are pretty good. The canadian bacon/bacon/pineapple was awesome. The jalapeno/onion/garlic/chicekn was also really good. The pizza isn't overly greasy and the crust is nice and crispy. It's also the only thing open past 2am!
(4)Serene C.
this place has THE worst reviews, but they have good pizza and friendly employees. my experiences have always been pleasant ones.
(4)Neil B.
I staggered into this place piss drunk. Although I was drunk seeing the tiny pepperoni slice I was given for $3 sobered me up quite well. Pizza was lousy too. Awful crust, lackluster pepperoni and nasty cheese. 2 stars for being open late.
(2)Doug H.
Should have been warned when I walked in around 5 and the place was empty. The person working, was just leaning on the counter and looked slightly annoyed that we showed up. Looking around the place showed dirty tables. Seems to me that if the place was empty, then it could have been cleaned. Our meals took average time, and I got a steak & cheese. This was dry and had hardly any cheese. I ate it because I was in a hurry and had no other options, but regretted it later. Not a place I would recommend.
(1)Sarah H.
I hate Chicago Pizza. Its almost a running gag as to how much my boyfriend and I hate Chicago Pizza. First, I used to kind of like their pizza, despite its mediocrity, a pizza is a pizza, for the most part, and there's is fine as long as it was hot and fresh, at least in my experience. The trouble comes when its not hot and fresh, which happens when their delivery staff are completely incompetent, or when you try to go in for just a slice. I was trying to get a pizza delivered to 84 Mass Ave, which is pretty much a five minute walk from Chicago. It was raining, I didn't want brave the storm. It took 3 hours to get my pizza. Two hours before they even called me to come down to get the pies, and then somehow they couldn't find the entrance and ended up on Amherst Street instead of 84 Mass Ave. After running around in the rain trying to find the joker delivery person, and ending up with a soggy, cold, and disgusting pizza, I tried to get the pizza refunded. But no. The 'manager' (who I'm pretty sure was also the driver) said that it was my fault, no refund for me, I could get another pizza. No thanks, one disgusting pizza is enough, and it would probably take you 3 more hours to get it to me. Screw you, Chicago Pizza, and screw your management. Don't order from them unless you're going to give them a fake address to mess with their heads. Jerks.
(1)Tom E.
Proof that not all pizza is good. I'm hungry, I'm craving pizza and yet I still can't finish the 3 dollar pepperoni slice in my hand. It's a big flat floppy abomination - no discernible sauce, cheap bad cheese and the crust is peeling underneath like a croissant. It was probably cooked 6 hours ago and was only half-reheated. From the outside this place looks promising and modern. Inside it's plastic bolted-down tables, posters of Turkey and ugly power-drink fridges. I wish I'd gone to HiFi Pizza instead. I never thought I could wish that.
(1)Jessica S.
I signed up for a Yelp account just to express my dissatisfaction with this place. The first time I ordered delivery was around 2am after getting in from the bars and craving pizza. The food did not show up until two hours later, and the driver had dropped half of our order on the street. He took it off the bill, but we were still left hungry. The second time I ordered was last night. The guy on the phone was rude to the point where I almost told him to forget it. I wish I had. When the driver arrived, there was confusion about whether or not I had paid already. Then the driver would not accept my coupon and refused to let me see the receipt that he was holding in his hand (I had paid over the phone). So I called the place again to ask what the total actually was, since I had no idea if my coupon had been deducted or not. The guy on the phone this time was much nicer, but I had to explain to him four times why I was calling. And to top things off, my calzone was disgusting, they forgot the dressing that I asked for on the side, and I threw it away after a couple bites.
(1)Greg F.
This is the second time I've eaten at this place. I don't know why... it's close, I guess. It's called "Chicago Pizza." Lets discuss why this is a dumb title. Frist of all, its in Cambridge, not the windy city. If anyone has ever had Chicago pizza... it is nothing like this. Chicago pizza is almost always deep dish, and can get to be more like a stew or a pie. Third of all, I'm not even sure this stuff is pizza... the dough/crust is more like a croissant. Fourth, this place has a huge menu, and pizza takes up TWO ITEMS: Cheese and 'specialty'... the rest of the menu is stricly non-pizza. And the LAST reason this is a dumb name, the folks who own and run "Not Chicago Not Pizza" are, as far as I can tell, not Chicagoans. There are pictures of the mediterranean, and they all speak with heavy accents. Not "da bearz" accents, either. Now that we've established that Eastern-European Schmorgesboard is not Chicago or Pizza, lets highlight the other features of this dump: flourescent lighting gives me a headache, withered and dead plants in ugly vases make me depressed, the counter-area is littered with random pieces of paper with items and prices on them, walls are plain with fake wood paneling along the bottom, seating is hard and yellow... That being said the pizza was not all that bad, the flaky crust made it interesting, and the flavors were pretty good. Also, the pieces are huge, so you get a lot of bizzang for your bizzuck. This is no Presto's... don't go out of your way to get here.
(2)Al A.
Horrible pizza that takes 60mins t o be delivered.
(1)Krystal H.
This place sucks one pretty hard. I'd rather eat shit than order a pizza from this place again.
(1)Vikram S.
A fairly run down place this is .. but it was one of the places open until relatively late in the night, so if you are like me and too lazy to cook/go too far, its good to grab a slize of pizza.. The pizza is not bad, though you would have tasted better. I personally like the calzones better .. I recommend adding olives, green peppers and pineapples in the calzone .. With the "trademark" Chicago pizza sauce/salsa, it's surprisingly good.
(4)Matthew M.
Mad props to these folks for staying open until 3:30 in the morning. There's no one else serving food anywhere nearby at that hour. But when you stumble in at 12:30 am, like I did last night, find the place totally empty, ask for a slice of plain, and hear, "Sorry, it's going to be 15 minutes before we have any pizza ready," you gotta wonder just why they even bother opening before the bars get out.
(2)cricket c.
Open late. Cheap. Best mushroom pizza with the just-thick-enough crust. Convenient place to grab a bite if you go to MIT. (Definitely cheaper and much better-tasting than the pizza at the grill in the student centre there) Unfortunately, the pizza's never as good when you get delivery, specially if you're ordering from Boston. Also, the pizza is definitely not Chicago-style. Update: The delivery guys are unbelievably rude. One of them started swearing at us over the phone when HE couldn't find his way to our place. And I'm sure one other time they were just too lazy to come to Boston, so they said they couldn't even find Charles Street on their GPS and asked us if we would please cancel our order. Yet, I still continue to eat their pizza. It is pretty good fresh.
(3)Matthew H.
Contrary to what most would assume; the name "Chicago Pizza" by no means correlates to a pizza even remotely close to the pizza found in the second city. This is the equivalent of opening a restaurant in the Midwest called "new england clam-bakers" and serving imitation lobster meat in a can of corn. Congrats Chicago pizza, you somehow managed to make Domino's and Pizza Hut look good.
(1)Jessica R.
Greasy and cheap with bright yellow booths, Chicago is your best bet for late night onions rings if you are out at the middle east or go to MIT. It closes 1am all days except Friday and Saturday when it closes at 2am. They's even grabbed the domain cambridgepizza.com
(3)martin m.
Not as bad as reviews make it out to be but certainly nothing special.
(3)Alex S.
I have to agree with most other reviewers when they say this place is good for late-night. The pizza was okay; however, it's nothing I would enjoy directly at my own volition. Good filler, but lacking in quality.
(2)Dan C.
The BBQ chicken and bacon pizza is so good you may contemplate suicide since every gastronomic experience after will be less satisfying.
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Scale of 1-10 (multiple visits): 7 Food 7 Service 3 Atmosphere 7 Value They need to have more selection of pizzas available. But I guess they'd need more traffic to do that.
(2)Shane F.
According to Jessica this place is open late. That must be its redeeming quality. The pizza is flat and bland. It makes me think of something you'd get in a cafeteria or sports arena, somewhere without any market pressure. I guess if it's 12:30 in the morning, you're in Central, you want pizza and you don't have enough money for a slice at Hi-Fi, come to Chicago.
(2)Arnie F.
Chicago Pizza place has great hours of operation, a good location, but poor quality over priced pizza. A few of the subs are passable, but overall the food is very subpar. If it weren't one of the few places in the area open late at night, I wouldn't return.
(2)Christine T.
the food is edible. I've only ever eaten here for lunch during the work day because its right next door. Pizza is decent, not the best in the world granted, and it definitely is better if you cook it again. I like the nice tasty ground up mystery sausage they serve on it... brings me back to economically challenged childhood, where gourmet and quality was a thing unheard of in food, but it was cheap and still tasted damn good. Buffalo chicken wrap alright. veg's i got have always been good, nothing wilty... but it is a ton of lettuce in their "salads". I haven't tried much else on the menu. The service is good when its the grumpy old guy serving... some of his employees though... ya...no comment on the general thuggishness and apathy they have. I was in there earlier today, and while i was waiting for my slices to be heated, he had to call one of his employees and ask Where TF are you? I can't run the whole joint by myself, you're 3 hrs late... lol mildly amusing this was.
(2)Jimmy N.
Have these people ever been to Chicago? Ever even seen a picture of a Giordano's? Not even a Pizzeria Uno!? So picture this: it's 1:00 AM in February, I come from a place with no seasons and thus forgot that jackets are useful at 10 degrees (a temperature I was unaware existed outside of my freezer), and I'm patrolling Mass Ave. in the hopes that someone, ANYONE, will feed my stomach before it too freezes. Behold-- Chicago Pizza! With booths that make me think this place used to be a Subway sandwich shop, I step inside to a warm, albeit empty, pizza joint, with at least 4 guys standing behind the counter. They don't seem to care that I walked in, but continue chatting in Greek. I look around for a chicago pizza slice-- on the menu, on the counter, behind the sodas in the fridge... nothing. Not even a box tall enough to hold a deep dish. I see a thin wispy slice that appears to have been sitting there for quite some time sitting behind a glass case. I grab a baklava and the guy throws my cheese slice in the oven for a few minutes. You know, the baklava wasn't half-bad. And at 1:00 AM and 10 degrees outside, neither was the pizza.
(3)Nadja O.
This is the worst pizza I have EVER had. I can't really understand why they even call their product "pizza": it's disgusting doughy bread covered in fake mozzarella and bad pizza sauce, most likely taken directly out of a can and slopped on the pie. To add insult to injury, you end up paying almost 2 bucks for a slice, and more if it has any canned toppings plopped on top. They only decent thing in the place is the baklava.
(1)Jon R.
Avoid this place. It is obscenely overpriced. $2.58 for a slice of cheese "pizza". Everything else is ridiculously overpriced. $4.00 for a small french fries. They keep jacking up the prices, and lowering the quality. They also keep hiring new counter help, who don't understand the concepts of gloves and tongs. Just don't bother. If you want cheap, fast pizza during lunch time, go across the street to Star Market, which has decent pizza-by-the-slice for lunch during the week. If you want tasty pizza, go down Windsor Street to the Bertucci's on Main. If you're looking for something other than cheap pizza, you were at the wrong place to begin with!
(1)Ben W.
I ordered from Chicago Pizza for a few years for football viewings at my work. The salads weren't very good but I thought the pizza and sandwiches were okay and they were very good about delivering promptly, although I'm only located a few blocks from them. But they lost me as a customer when they were incredibly late for a scheduled big order that I had with them. Then for the 2008 Superbowl I had organized a party where we had over 50 people coming. I called an ordered a week in advance, and this was a large $500 order. I even called the day before the game to confirm the order, and I wanted it to get there 30 minutes before the game, and they assured me this wouldn't be a problem. I don't get cell reception where we were showing the game, so the result was I had to wait outside for them to come. They came OVER AN HOUR LATE, more than halfway into the first quarter, and I was less than pleased. No apologies when I called to check up on the order either. Needless to say, that was the last time I ordered from them.
(2)Allison B.
big slices + super cheap + open til 4am = good! not the best pizza i've ever had in my life, but not the worst. this is convenience food at it's finest - you pick from the display, they pop it in the oven, and you enjoy your equivalent of 1/6 of a whole large pie in delight. not too greasy, good ingredient ratios (nothing's worse than an uneven distribution of sauce, cheese, crust, and toppings), cheap prices (slice = less than $2.50, large soda less than $2 w/ free refills), and a crispy crust makes this a place i'd remember and go to again if in the area, but it's all-around-averageness prevents it from being one i'd go out of my way to for a slice.
(3)Thuy Tien L.
The pizza here is really bad. The crust is also really weird. Doesn't really taste like food. Kind of hard and dense. Crunchy only because it's hard. Tastes... flour-y. Kind of crumbles when you chew. It's kind of like... Well, have you ever had hardtack? The stuff from oh, colonial days, or maybe it was during the Civil War ( I'm not a history person, sorry). Basically it's really really REALLY hard biscuit-type food, baked forever into palm-sized squares that were given out as rations in the army because they lasted forever. Because they had the consistency and hardness of bricks and, well, lasted forever. (You eat them by dipping them in water or soup or I guess your ration of whiskey.) I had some once in high school because my American history teacher was really big on interactive learning. Anyway, that's what the crust on the pizza tastes like. Yeah.
(1)Brandon R.
Seriously, no.
(1)Steph L.
This used to be my favorite pizza place when I lived in the area. I would always get the calzones made to order. And they'd always be a little mushy on the inside, but tasty nonetheless. I miss Chicago Pizza!
(3)Tiffanie L.
I've been ordering delivery from Chicago's for years, I personally like greek pizza, but when I've tried other menu items it's just been ok if not disappointing, but today I ordered a pepper & egg sandwich etc. Delivery was slow and when the order arrived it looked like the eggs were cooked on a dirty grill. One bite and it was pretty awful so I called to complain. The person who answered said "I had to have the driver pick up those eggs, that's how I make it" and refused to credit me for the sandwich. I'm so disgusted with the service I got tonight that next time I'm ordering from Cinderella's around the corner. As I toss tonight's food out, and think about how many years I've been ordering from them, perhaps I should have given them a half star more, but it wasn't an option, and this negative review is exactly why you should take the customer's word for it, because by refusing to credit me back, they made me angry, don't forget I'm still hungry, and now they've lost my business.
(2)Arturo H.
they have jacked up their prices over the years, but its still a great pizza. try the ricotta cheese topping with pep and mushrooms...no shit it gave me wicked heart burn but i did anyway. it's like that.
(4)Kaopectate P.
how can you not make better pizza. i'm tempted to give it 2 stars due to the location. great for tipsy mit kids too lazy to get to the 2.5 star pizza at hi-fi
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