Highland Pizza

I am a fan of pizza… different varieties from different places. Anyone who knows pizza knows crust is a HUGE selling point for good pizza. I came here on a Sunday afternoon. Ordered a sicilian pizza. This has to be the worst pizza I’ve had. Bland crust with absolutely no flavor! It tasted like cardboard. The sauce and cheese were ok but would be better if cooked for longer. After a slice and half I couldn’t do it any longer and gave up. I would never come back here again. I make better pizza at home.

Though the food quality has gone down after the change in ownership a few years ago, there are still meals that will leave you satisfied. To put it out there, the main cashier definitely does not give this place an inviting or appealing feeling with his usual rude and unfunny remarks. You will want to avoid the plain slices, with their rubbery slabs of cheese and the garlic knots with their shrinking sizes and rock-​like textures. I would recommend their specialty slices and their selection of fries.
***tip for owners: actually melt all of the cheese when heating up your fries, slices, etc. (don’t just warm that rubber up)
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1÷26÷15 I called ahead to place an order, and I had to spend about six minutes on the phone clarifying my order, because the cashier kept trying to add things to my order which I didn’t want. He said that my slices would be ready in a few minutes. When arriving, the cashier said that he had no recollection of my order. Additionally, they ‘ran out’ of the ingredients to make my order so it could not be made on the spot, though they had assured me that it would be ready for pickup (customer baiting method). This place is a serious waste of your time – don’t come unless you are literally starving, with no other options.

I’ve been here several times. The pizza is a bit bland… at least they’re not greasy (if they were, I wouldn’t go at all). I saw a police officer having a delicious looking salad the last time I was there. So I might try that next time. I’ve only ever had the food that’s sitting out on the counter.

Their website says they deliver to downtown New Brunswick, yet when I called the gentleman told me they don’t deliver to New Brunswick … Cool thanks guys, I’ll take my money elsewhere.

I’m reviewing Highland Pizza because after the hundreds of dollars I’ve spent here, it just makes sense. My review is primarily based on their salads. I love salad. Highland Pizza has a great menu packed with menu items that are pretty good. Really large selection. Yet I just constantly eat only their salads. They have lots of leafy green options with tons of hearty salady ingredients and I am rarely disappointed. The cheesesteak on top of a salad is great for when I want to eat something shitty but with the façade of being health conscious. The harvest grilled chicken apple salad is a healthier choice, and one that I will eat often come September (harvest season). The pizza is good, but I’ve eaten it maybe a handful of times in the past two years.
Also, I’ve come to feel at home in this establishment. Their existence on grubhub allows me to view their menu with a sense of great familiarity, the delivery drivers have seen me in both my evening attire as well as my hangover pajamas, and I have rubbed a smooth spot into the floor of the waiting area from where I stand, waiting for my order to be prepared.
I took off one star because once I ordered a salad and added shrimp and it came with no shrimp.

I grew up on Highland Pizza and have been eating there since I was a child. Throughout middle school and all through High school, I was probably there every day. Being 31 years old now, it was my first time INSIDE the place the other day since High school and it is almost exactly the same! I assume the old man passed away, but I remember the rest of the guys! Still some of the nicest people you will ever meet and it felt good to be back. Now, just because I haven’t been inside for years, does not mean I haven’t eaten the food! My parents still order from them at least twice a week and they are super fast! Still cheap and GOOD! Definitely a go to place if you’re looking for a quick, cheap meal if you are in the area.

As somebody from Buffalo passing through town. These aren’t Wings. First they’re small. Pony up to your food distributor and get a reasonable size. Second, stop breaking them, wings are not to be breaded. Third, use more sauce. Fourth, your blue cheese is no good. Find a different brand.
Service was fine. Both friendly and timely. Didn’t get any pizza. But these are not anything close to a quality chicken wing.

My brother wanted pizza and we just received a pamphlet from this place so we decided to try it. Ordered a meat stuffed pizza and Philly cheesesteak fries. It was expected to come at 8:30 – which was an hour wait time as it was – but arrived at 9:15. Over an hour and a half to make and deliver a pizza? Terrible.
The pizza was good. Literally a gargantuan of meat, cheese, and crust. The fries were also delicious – the steak was flavorful and plenty, and the cheese sauce was awesome.
Would stop in if I was ever in the area, but for sure will never order delivery again.

I’ve lived in highland park for 24 years. For the first 20 – 21 of those years, Highland Pizza was my go to place. It had great pizza (as good or better than the old Campus Pizza in New Brunswick for those of you who went to Rutgers in the 80s). We ordered so many pies from Highland pizza, we were on their Christmas card list. Then a few years back-​poof! I believe it must have changed ownership. The pizza is no longer worth it. Among other sins, they commit the sin of bad crust. The zesty sauce? No more. So sad.
They get an extra star for fast pleasant delivery, and for the memories.
I’ve switched to Edison Pizza, which is the best alternative I’ve found thus far. Yet here I sit at 1am, perusing Unilocal,trying to find a decent pizzeria that delivers. I’m in NJ, 10 min from a college campus. It must be out there, right? Right?

I ordered to go pizza and it was great. The crust was good the sauce was good.
I would definitely recommend this place to friends and family.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS… I’ve lived in Highland Park for 8 years and this WAS my go to place for the entire time here. This place was so good I’d go in just to get a dough and sauce so i could make my own pizzas. The new menu featuring the mexican pizza is due to our conversations about what type of pizza I would be making that night… shameless plug, but true. Anyway for about the past year the quality of their product has gone completely downhill and I will tell you all about it.
It starts with a delivery order where the cheese is all off on the pizza and on the cardboard… no big deal, shit happens, no complaint from me to the restaurant. Next week I order a side of broccoli bites with my order only to get boneless wings, this makes even less sense when I tell u I also ordered regular wings. Still, no complaint, chalking it up to human error… again. I order again two week’s later and just mention to the person taking my order about the past two orders issues and how im giving them another chance to make it right figuring this woild ensure my order is perfect. Nope, I get my order and there is blue cheese spilled over my entire bag of appetizers. Needless to say, this time I wasnt as forgiving considering everything. So I called and they did the right thing and offered to send more apps out but im paranoid about getting my food fucked with so I told the manager not to worry about it bc he just lost a loyal customer.
Three weeks later, I need a good pizza place and my girlfriend talks me into giving them one more chance. So I call and order broccoli bites as a side again, this time I get broccoli rabe. It took until this to get me fed up and ready to unleash. So I call these clowns back and ask for the manager. After telling him the numerous instances and refusing his «answer» of sending the right order he hangs up on me. I call back and tell him how his food is good but the quality of his business is overall failing either due to poor management or quality of staff at which point he says to come down to the pizzeria to take it up with him. What a clown… I tell him I would be happy to come down and tell him how he is mismanaging his business into the ground and how to fix it but not during a snow storm. He mumbles some bs as I hang up on him.
The next day I am eating the other half of the chicken parm sub i ordered and I bite down on something hard. I spit it out and look and find a piece of metal that is used to hold chicken together. Thank fucking god I only chipped a tooth and didnt swallow it bc if I had swallowed it I would own this piss poor runned business and turn it back into a high quality establishment.
I put the picture of this metal in the photo section, just in case you’re a seeing is believing type.

Ok so i’ve been sitting in my room waiting for thefood for 1 hour and 20 minutes and still didnt get the food YET!!! How long do they need to make the god damn cold italian sub and galic KNOTS!!!
So i call the restaurant and the person who picked up the phone (a guy with thick accent) says this uhhhhh uhhhh uhhh what do u want me to do ??? He left the place and ur food is on the way i can tell u where the driver is «OMG are u serious ??? They should say at least sorry for taking it too long i apologize for such a delay. Never ever order from this place again !!!

They greeted us pleasantly… Unilocal symbol on the door… ask for 2 plain slices because any of the pizza previously made sitting were not plain and did not look appetizing… he said there is a fresh pie coming out in a minute… so my husband and I had a slice each that… nice thin crust… fresh hot slice… but had to add parm black pepper as well as crushed pepper for more flavor

I just called to order 3 large pizzas for delivery to Rutgers. I had to look up the street address of the building I’m in because we normally don’t go by that address. The man on the phone spoke to someone else saying «she doesn’t even know where she is» which I found incredibly insulting. I told him I heard him and he continued to be painfully rude, sarcastic and horrible. I ended up hanging up because of this treatment. This is NOT a way to get customers you jerks! I called and ordered with Fillipos instead with no problem. Horrible, horrible, horrible customer service.

Stopped in here the other night and had some pretty good slices of pizza. I had a mushroom slice. It was chock full of mushrooms and a very crispy crust. I also had a traditional Sicilian square and found that to also be tasty. My friend Jeff had a couple of regular slices and he found the crust to be too soft and the slice to be too cheesy.
This place is a good find especially later at night when everything else in Central Jersey closes down.
The counter to order right in front of the entrance way can get a little cramped and I am not sure if the window looking into the kitchen is going to win them any extra fans.
There are 2 large flat screen TVs and plenty of tables for seating in a pretty much otherwise non-​descript dining room.

I walked in and looked for an employee. I saw two men chatting it up behind the counter so I walked over and looked my food options over. I was starving and excited for this convenient location right up the street from me, but I waited patiently for one of the workers to ask for my order. One of them looked at me, DIRECT eye contact, and right as I was about to say something he looked away and made NO effort whatsoever to offer me any services. I waited a few minutes standing right in front of him before I walked out. I’ve never been treated so poorly, and will never give them an opportunity to earn my patronage. Despicable.

pretty good pizza and a very good Greek spinach salad. very reasonable prices. order at the counter, quite a bit of booth seating inside, two TVs frequently tuned to spprti g events, including soccer. also have subs and soup. they also do extensive delivery business. great place to eat a meal at a very low price.

I haven’t ventured into the Highland Park area in a while and a buddy told me he liked highland park pizza better than most. Take note I’ve started a pizza quest in the past and have gone as far as Brooklyn to try a slice of pizza. By the way, Brooklyn pizza is good. Though it will be hard to find that perfect slice i enjoyed in Manhattan close to PS19 on 14^th street, I think the name was Altos?, the brooklyn pizza was worth the visit.
Back to highland park, ambiance: standard pizza joint, efficient in a way that when you walk in is the order counter and behind it is the seating area, it feels a little cramped. It was lunch time and the staff was busy as people came in for a slice. I went with plain since thats where I like to start when trying a new place. My buddy says he likes their pizza because they don’t skimp on the toppings, visually it looked like an average amount of topping, but I also admit other places do skimp on the toppings.
My buddy also ordered calamari, though my expectations are usually low when it comes to seafood in central jersey. Taste: the plain slice was good, but it it didn’t stand out compared to other pizzas I’ve had. The fried calamari presentation was excellent, but it was tough to eat which makes me think it was either old or overfried. I don’t recommend the fried calamari. With the exception of ordering slices of pizza, take note it does take them time to fill and order. My buddy ordered a salad for takeout and it seemed to take longer than expected.
A quaint place to grab a slice.

I’ve ordered here a few times and I don’t know why I keep trying it when I’m just ‘ehh’ on it. I need to try other places to compare it but I don’t think it’s anything spectacular about this place.
I think it’s kind of expensive for the half decent pizza we get. The crust is usually a little burnt and a little too thin for me. I ordered mozzarella sticks from here and I just wasn’t that impressed with it either. I want to like this place but I just haven’t gotten the ‘wow’ experience from a pizza place that will make me want to come back time and time again.
I’ll have to try other places in HP and maybe come back around again for one more time.

After reading such a great reviews on Unilocal,I thought to give this Pizza a try by ordering two large pie of vegetables/​BBQ chicken pizza on the phone with them. I even told them I wanted to give them a try because I was reading a great review about the pizza shop (and obviously they dint care).
I politely asked them how long it would take for me to pick up the pizzas, they told me about 25 minutes. When I arrived it was more than 40 minutes already. I patiently waited for another 20 minutes, I asked the gentleman that i’m in rush and really need the pizzas to be ready.
Listen to this… The gentleman told me «Only if you want to eat raw pizza!»
Excuse me sir, perhaps I don’t want to eat the raw pizzas and that is the reason why I called the pizza advance to make me pizzas. I do not like their attitudes, service and the way they talked to their customers. I definitely not recommending this place.