Pasquale’s Pizzeria

Mediocre pizza at best. The cheese was low quality and had a bad taste to it. We ordered chick tenders and fries and both were burnt. I appreciate that they were baked and not fried but they tasted awful.

I love their wings simply because they’re baked– these guys are making a bold move doing this and in a Pittsburgh full of pizza shops with basic menus it’s a bold step; although their calzones are small they’re the 3^rd best I’ve had in the city.

I’m completely making this up, but Pasquale’s Pizza serves up what I call Pittsburgh-​style pizza. What is Pittsburgh-​style pizza? It’s the kind of pizza that I ate growing up from the local pizzeria’s in Pittsburgh, with thick chewy bubbly crust, a good helping of sweet-​spicy tomato sauce, and lots of greasy cheese. Toppings? Nothing but the basics — no eggplant, no sun-​dried tomatoes, no feta cheese, etc, etc. I’m home to visit my parents in Pittsburgh and ordering out in this house means pizza. I was feeling lazy — didn’t want to wait for or bother to retrieve Mineo’s from Squirrel Hill so we went with this place which is super close. It was exactly what I was hoping for, not amazing but good. I like this pizza. The crust was crisp, but not burnt on the bottom, and chewy throughout. There was the right balance of sauce, and it was sweet-​spicy as I like it. On the down side while there was a decent amount of toppings, they were chopped a bit small for me. Anyway it was cheap for an x-​large pizza and it was ready pretty quickly.