Derango Pizza King The

Love the thursday night pizza special, chicken wing apps are very good as well. Excellent fried chicken. Sometimes can get pretty busy but belly up to the bar and wait a few minutes.

Normally, I like this small and simple restaurant for a quick and fairly inexpensive bite to eat. Pretty good soup and pizza. I went this evening and ordered a chef salad. I usually don’t complain, but the salad was pathetic. Iceberg lettuce, five strips of beef, turkey and ham along with 2 pieces of processed American cheese slices. I’m surprised they even took the wrappers off. I told the waitress they should be ashamed of serving something like that. I’m going to think twice before going back. Based on only today’s meal alone, I would only give them a ½ star.

I ordered the «world famous» turkey club, the lettuce had shredded carrots in it!!! It is the same bagged lettuce they use for the salads, don’t know how this place is still open.

So you can read my original review below but I had to come on here and share my last encounter with this place it was so ludicrous. I ordered 2 pizzas for carry out over the phone. I had accumulated 10 red tickets so one was free. When I went to pick them up, I gave them my name and phone number and they said they couldn’t find it. The woman got really impatient and rude with me, insisting it was under another number (which it’s not because I only have one phone) or I called the wrong location (which I didn’t because they’re programmed in my cell phone.) Finally someone else came over and they found it only to discover it was sent out for delivery in error, oh and they did not have a cell number to contact the delivery guy. When I asked how long it would take to replace the pizzas they told me 40 – 45 minutes (because I guess you get relegated to the back of the line when they screw up)! I said forget it and left. As I walked out to my car the delivery guy called me (so I guess I did give them the correct phone number after all) and said he was at my house, where was I? We ended up meeting halfway between Derangos and my house because we were in a hurry to get somewhere (and we were providing dinner). He had to call in my credit card because I hadn’t paid for it (obviously because I was supposed to pick it up). After they took my number and didn’t offer any sort of discount (in fact I had to ask for the delivery fee to be removed), I heard the original B I dealt with ask if he got my red coupons! DID YOU GET THE MF RED COUPONS? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Luckily the delivery guy wasn’t a total idiot and told her he was going to let me keep them for another time. I swear this country is going down the tubes.
My original review. I want to like this place because their pizza is good but darn it the service is awful…
Derangos has the best pizza in kenosha IMO but if you order do carry out or better yet, delivery. I’ve eaten in the restaurant two or three times and every time the service was miserable. We’ve always had good service when we get it delivered. The sauce it a little on the sweeter side which is probably why I like it. Crust doesn’t taste like cardboard like the rest of the pizza places in town.

Tonight we ordered boneless and traditional buffalo wings as well as cheese curds for take out. To say I was disappointed is an extreme understatement. The boneless wings were barely tossed in sauce, me traditional wings were super dried out, and I found multiple pieces of cauliflower mixed in with my cheese curds. I called and complained about the boneless wings before I saw the other food and when I went to go pick up replacement boneless wings they looked EXACTLY THE SAME! Never ordering from here again.

Mediocre… There’s a ton of pizza places in kenosha, this one is okay. We called for a pretty big delivery order one night (over $ 100) and I wanted green olives on my burger. Girl on the phone was pretty rude and said if it’s not on the menu they can’t do it. Seriously… Then she told me they could give me olives on the side… So you have them, they can only get cooked on pizza tho?! Got it…

My favorite pizza place in Kenosha. The menu is reasonably priced and there are deals every day of the week. Mondays half off pizza and Sundays buy one get one free appetizers. The hot sauce on the wings is the best way to go. A very casual environment and delicious meal any time.

The pizza is nothing to write home about, and their prices are a tad too high for what I am getting. I’d recommend going another place in Kenosha other than Derango.

My boyfriend enjoys this place. Out of all the pizza places in Kenosha we pick this one.

Just had a great big burger and it was really tasty. Best burgers in town! Had it delivered. Only took about 20 minutes.

I had Derango’s a good handful of times as a kid when I would stay at my grandparents place on the north side of town. I always enjoyed the pizza back then and have eaten here twice in the two times I’ve come back to town in the last 6 or 7 months. I thought the pizza was just as good both those times as it was a kid. The burgers are pretty good as well. This place looks like it has been renovated some over the years which is good because it needed a little brighter appearance. In my opinion Kenosha is king when it comes to thin crust pizza (no, not «NYC» thin crust) and Derango’s is one of my favorites in a town that has a lot of good pizza places.

Dethrone the King! The restaurant recently remodeled the exterior and interior which adds to the aesthetic appeal. The interior still embodies the divey, sports bar feel. However, you’re there for the food; mediocre is the best word to describe it. I recently had the manicotti and lasagna and it is bland at best. The meat is dry and lacks flavor. The pasta sauce merely masked the taste of the food instead adding to it. So if you’re craving Italian, then Kenosha has better options.

Train wreck of an establishment.
We were in town for a wedding and ordered pizza from our hotel room. The pizza was soaking through the box, which the delivery driver wasn’t concerned about.
The pizza was not cut and was a big coagulated nasty mess. We called back and the not so friendly staff member said the only thing she could do would was to send out the delivery driver with a pizza cutter. We asked for the delivery driver to come back, pick up the pizza, and refund us which caused the lady on the phone to begin yelling like her hair was on fire.
I called on three occasions and talked to managers who said they would pass my contact info to the owner. No call from owner.
Luckily we took photos of the pizza which have been posted above. Enjoy.

Went here for lunch on a Saturday. Picked it by driving down the road, noticed that the other restaurants in the area had nobody in their parking lots. Figured this place should be good if the parking lot is packed.
Took the last spot in the parking lot and the next to the last table in the restaurant. Both of us ordered the ½ lb burger special because the deal was too cheap to pass up (~$ 2.79 each with fries).
Service was very quick and friendly. We got our burgers fast because they accidentally gave us someone else’s order. But even so, the service would have been quick. My burger was excellent. My brother’s was not quite what he ordered (cuz it was someone else’s).
Marking down ½* for décor — ’70’s dive woodpanel with weird red floor tile in the clean bathrooms.
Marking down 2* for the video poker — just tacky and brings in the some very sad downtrodden drunks.
But the unbeatable price and excellent service brings it back up to 4* total.
Will probably go back if I’m in the area.

So the thing about Derango’s isn’t that their food is awesome or the atmosphere is to die for. No, there are two reasons to go to Derango’s that I can come up with: going with a great group of friends and having a good time regardless of where you end up and trying to save some moeny with good deals. I find myself taking advantage of both of these on almost a weekly basis.
If you’re going to go to Derango’s for pizza, do it on a Monday night. After 9pm, the pizza is half off if you eat half of it. That means the pizza is just about dirt cheap. Even better, after 9pm every night of the week Burgers and brats are $ 1.50. Oh, and we’re not talking dinky little things that wouldn’t satisfy a starving squirrel, either. These are quality half-​pound burgers and brats that reek with old-​fashioned sports bar charm.
Outside of that the food is all pretty standard. The Philly Cheesesteak is a hidden gem, so keep an eye out for that. And for the adventurous «Man vs. Food» types out there, ask about the ‘Ol 59er. I’ll just leave it at that.

Went to Derango’s as a kid. Had fond memories of the place. It used to have decent food. Not sure what has happened since then. Unfortunately it has gone completely downhill and needs major improvement. I sure hope they’re going to pay attention to their customers reviews or else it shall end up closed very soon.
One of the biggest problems I have is that I’ve heard two people say they’ve gotten sick from there. After taking the chance of eating there I understand why.
My girlfriend and I were there recently and ordered the Lasagna. We asked the rushed (nearly rude) waitress what her suggestion was as we have never eaten there. Didn’t really give us a very good idea of what to eat. Asked her if the lasagna was good and she said yeah it’s really good. Okay… Clearly the lasagna was sitting for at least a week or more. I’m pretty sure they just warmed it up in the microwave and put their disgusting red sauce on. I tried to think of a friendly way to describe their sauce but I need to be honest. My girlfriend was very hungry so she kept eating it. She later got sick :(I wouldn’t say it was food poisoning but her stomach was very upset through the next morning. I do not re comment eating their food. A friend we were with did mention their burgers were good though. After he got it it looked and smelled fresh.
My other friend that ordered from their had a sausage bomber. She told me she definitely got food poisoning. She was throwing up and had to sit on the toilet. She called them to tell them and they said she was probably sick before she ate there and were rude to her.
PLEASE get some professional help as whoever is managing/​owning the place is driving it into the gutter. The food needs to be much fresher. The menu needs to be updated. The interior needs to be updated. There were quite a few trashy people in there playing on the poker machines. What are you thinking people?

Bad experience, Tv was loud upon walking in, tables were dirty, service was slow, food was ok, not the best

Yes, the atmosphere leaves a little to be desired if you are not a sports bar fan, but the pizza is still the real deal. It looks like they are remodeling though, which means this place could easily move up to five stars. There is a reason this place consistently places in the top three in the area in pizza cook offs. The pizza is that good.
The lunch specials are unheard of in this day and age, and an outstanding value. Their brats are wonderful too. Personally, I like the sausage they use. The sauce is solid, and there is a lot of cheese on the pizza, so order to your preference. It’s a Kenosha institution that really should be tried once. I suspect you’ll be hooked once you do.

Deserves a 1.5.
Food is very so-​so. I ordered a pizza turnover, which was very similar to the pizza turnover at The Fireside, except that resturant has much better food. Service here at Derango’s was lackluster. Atmosphere left much to be desired, especially the other patrons and their tragic apparel choices. Décor of this restaurant was just like someone’s dowdy, wood paneled basement. Go to The Fireside instead.

Bargain heaven on a plate.
I have attended Derango’s since it opened many years ago. Back then, it was a simple family restaurant lost in a sea of similar quality eateries scattered along the North side.
Since then, traditional restaurants have passed on or slipped substantially. In the meantime, Derango’s updated its interior (to a divey sport’s bar) and expanded their already massive menu of pizza and Italian-​American food with fried appetizers and the like.
Although their interior redesign was silly, their unwillingness to sacrifice quality and gorge their customers keeps willing me back when I visit Kenosha.
Bottom Line: Eat a lot of great-​tasting food, but spend a little. Kenosha’s best full service value restaurant.