The Nines

I dream in deep dish. Also corn nuggets. Also fried mushrooms.
Be prepared for the service to be horrible, that’s their «thing.» Don’t waste your time coming here for Tuesday trivia, it usually lasts too long and the host is bad. I recommend Moonie’s trivia instead.
But the food is greasy, heavy, and totally worth it. It’s a good place to hang out with a group of friends over pitchers and overly cheesy (in a good way!) pizza. I love this place and came a ton during my years at Cornell. I have never come across another place that serves something similar to their corn nuggets, so get those if you choose to visit!

Love sitting outside for deep dish with my family. My kids also love cornfritters. Only downside is if it’s busy the pizza takes forever. On an off night, only 15 minutes?

I would come in more often, we could come in to eat there, but for some unknown reason the tomato sauce is contaminated with dairy. Rather than just put the cheese on TOP of the pizza, they choose to eliminate «cheese-​less pizza» as an option for people who want to avoid dairy or have an allergy.
The men’s room could use a clean up and some paint. I hope they have soap next time. And paper towels. Condition of any restaurant’s restrooms are a great indication of the cleanliness of their kitchen.

Hard to rate a place like this where there are certainly some good things about it. Lots of space, live stages, live music on certain nights, pool table. Service people are nice, but super slow. I waited for my sandwich for 30 minutes and when it came it was burned and impossible to eat. Their pizza is not bad. Prices are on par with the area.

I enjoy the bartenders and there pizza. I enjoy the live music they have too. Go here, be merry and try their deep dish pizza. You won’t regret it

This seriously has to be the best Pizza in Ithaca. I recently moved from Florida and have been looking for a new pizza joint. I have tried other places, but this restaurant has my vote. Great food, and a fun atmosphere.

Great place. Sometimes it is too noisy, but still not a bad place to be.
The service is pretty slow. If you go there, make sure you have enough time to spend. Order a deep dish pizza, it is so filling, and can be shared by 2 – 3 people to be full. The toppings are really fresh and in good amount. The appetizers are average, not so great and the range is mediocre.

We waited nearly an hour for our sausage, onion, and garlic deep dish pizza. We finished the fries and corn nuggets before it came out.
The corn nuggets are really good and the fries aren’t the best I’ve had, but pretty good.
The pizza crust was great, but the pizza itself was super greasy. It was deep, but mostly because it was a thick layer of oily cheese. You could see pools of the grease, maybe worsened by the fact we ordered sausage. The garlic was kind of in big pieces and tasted half-​raw, but I sort of liked it in a weird way.
My breath also smelled like pizza for the rest of the night, even after like 5 or 6 hours AND after brushing my teeth. It didn’t just smell like garlic… it smelled like the entire pizza — my friend told me so.

Ordered a broccoli calzone for delivery. An hour later it still hadn’t shown up, when I called to ask the guy was nice about it and didn’t just do the whole «it’s on the way» lie but he actually checked. When i got it, the calzone was about 60% burnt but I ate it anyway. Dough (despite the char) was tasty, but the filling was lacking… literally. Description says ricotta, mozz, onions, peppers, and choice of broccoli or ham. No onions or peppers in my calzone :(very plain. thought the sauce would help. nope. tastes like red water.
all in all… would i order again? maybe… but not any time soon. i’d give it another chance solely based on the tasty dough. but i’d definitely order something other than a calzone…

I got to say I was really disappointed with trivia. The announcer was drinking while asking questions so it took FOREVER and it also started 20 minutes late. There were literally 12 questions total and it took almost 2 hours which is just unreal. It’s definitely a very particular crowd for trivia that just wasn’t for me. Aside from trivia the food is also just okay. Being from the NYC area, the deep dish pizza just doesn’t do it for me and I have also tried the garlic bread which is super greasy and the nachos which only have salsa and some cheese on them. Nothing to write home about. Other places in town have trivia like Rulloffs in Sundays and Applebee’s on Thursdays and both are more fun than this was. Also service is super slow. Out waitress was an actual space cadet and took forever to take our order/​bring us food/​bring our check.

Good stuff. Hot fresh ingredients make for a pizza of the like… pizza pizza
okay, is it the best pizza I’ve had? no way, Giuseppe! but it’s a college joint and it’s always packed, they have some good slices and they’ve been open for a long long time.
take out, get delivery, they even do a little mock deep dish. with 4 large slices.
they should probably drop a dollar off each menu item but otherwise, let them pay rent on this once imagined firehouse, twice made pizza joint.
check it out, don’t check it out, no difference. at least it ain’t bland, people always under-​salt to please the masses not true here, this spot is pretty decent in the scheme of things.

Calzone took forever, which made sense when we saw how burnt it was. After we sent it back we were given an auto-​gratuity on our tab, to prevent a bad tip for their mistake. The four of us guests are all servers so we were pretty offended by the many excuses Stephanie, our server, gave us for why she automatically judged us as bad tippers. Overall, the experience we had was disappointing because we used to love this place and their pizza until Stephanie gave us really poor service, poor food, and made really unwise judgements on her decision to autograt the 4 patrons at the table.

I’ve eaten here many times over three years and I have always loved their deep dish pizzas. Don’t come here if you’re in a rush, its more so a place to sit back, talk to friends and enjoy the night.
My only suggestion to the management is to cut down on how much cheese y’all put on because a good bit of it gets wasted. Otherwise, keep on keep onning!

Went in for a quick lunch while in town visiting Cornell. I was originally going to head elsewhere but saw a bunch of people sitting outside and figured that I would give it a try. I was there about a week after Cornell let out for the summer so it wasn’t busy at all. Overall the service was good and friendly, the space is what you would expect for a bar in a college town. Got the steak sandwich which was actually quite good, I would order it again and hopefully next time I will get to try the pizza since that seems to be the thing to get here.

The short, pretty good pizza absolutely terrible service.
We came in at 8 and it was pretty busy. Hostess said 20 minutes and for us to go to the bar and she would get us when a table opened up.
10 minutes pass and a table opens up, and she gives it to two guys who came in after us.
25 minutes pass and another table opens up, also taken by a group who came in after.
45 minutes pass and a third table gets taken before us.
I went up to the hostess and asked and she had completely forgotten about us. I told her how long we had been waiting and she said that a table was opening up soon and it would be ours. I do feel bad for her as it looked like it may have been her first busy night as a hostess as she was very frazzled and didn’t seem comfortable in the job (she never wrote our name down which should have been a warning).
Our food takes about 45 minutes to come out, awhile but the place was busy. It just seems that the severs are new or just all were having a bad day. Tables took awhile to clear, we were never checked up upon and my water was never refilled.
The hostess went outside to clear some tables and left the door open whilst doing it. Understandable until she made two trips and didn’t close it. 5 minutes later someone got up from their table to close it as it was making the whole place too cold.
They needed atleast 2 more waiters, and for their existing staff to hustle. I’ve worked in the food industry when you’re short staffed and it’s a rush, it sucks a lot and service takes a hit, but you hustle and get through it.
I really don’t like poorly reviewing a restaurant that I’ve enjoyed prior, but this wasn’t a good experience. It simply isn’t a good restaurant, a fine bar that serves food, but not set up well for their main line of business to be food.
I’d go again, but only on nights I know would be empty, don’t try to go on a potentially busy night, they are just not equipped to handle any sort of rush.

my official rating is 2.5 stars
Where to start, I been looking around on Unilocal for a pizza place in ithaca haha. Yea okay … Seriously, why is this so hard ?
anyways I came across the nines on Unilocal and after reading the reviews I thought I’ll give it a shot.
I order a deep dish pizza 6:59pm and didn’t get my order until 8ish…
the pizza is nothing special honestly … The ratings are all lies… It’s greasy and too much salt … I guess for the typical college drunk student this will be amazing but to me it was whatever… Really I don’t see this place going anywhere beside rite in ithaca, there is just no flavor, no originality … Nothing. Im going to skip for a next time.

Tasty, really tasty. The dough was well cooked, like other reviewees said deep dish isn’t quick. I did not think there was an over abundance of toppings but they were fresh. They have a good selection of beverages.

What an interesting and fun place to have some delicious and unique pizza! Some nights they have live entertainment and other nights, you get to focus on the pizza yumminess. Just check out my pictures of the food please… and maybe you’ll get an idea of why you should try it. Wait Staff was always friendly the few times I’ve been. Speed of food depends on how crowded and what time of school year it is. Guys! Remember good food does not come at microwave speeds!
I love the dumb waiter delivery tray from the upstairs kitchen!

The Nine’s is one of the ol’ reliable joints in Ithaca: you know exactly what you’re getting, but frankly, it’s not exactly the best pizza place you’ll ever have.
The Nines is a beer and deep dish pizza place, emphasis on the latter. The deep dish pizza is uniformly tasty, but really more of a fat pizza than a deep dish (i.e. pan) pizza. The pizzas are loaded with sauce and cheese, which isn’t exactly my favorite style, but I see the appeal. The beer is tasty, which goes a long way in making the pizza better.
The ambiance is dive-​bar-​y, which is typical for Collegetown. Not my bag, but hey, you lower your expectations sometimes, especially if/​when a poor grad student.
Ultimately, it’d just a decent Collegetown place. It won’t be the culinary masterpiece of the world, but it’s good for a quick meal with friends.

Collegetown divey eats & drinks are what you’re after? The Nines has been a landmark for as long as I can remember when I visited friends during our college days. A reasonable selection of beers and munchie items, but the deep dish pizza is where it’s at.
We ordered the nachos to start and the turkey gumbo to try. Since it was lunchtime, the gumbo hadn’t had a chance to cook down and concentrate the flavors, so was watery. I’m sure it would have been a lot better later in the day. Maybe the chili would have been a better choice. Nachos were so-​so. The House Special Deepdish was killer! With the classic toppings of pepperoni, sausage, peppers & onions on an extra thick crust & hot gooey mozzarella, it’s just making me drool again! So my question is how come their regular pizza is round, but the deep dish is rectangular?