John’s Best Pizza

The Food is amazing and the service is fantastic! Will definitely come back more often!

I am going to keep this short and simple… for pizza, one of the WORST We have ever had. Ordered a special there once called «risotto» for $ 18.95 and it was not what I know risotto to be and know-​it-​all waiter insisted to me that is what risotto is in Italian. Hope he knew he was getting a crappy tip too! They should really reconsider naming this John’s Nightmare since calling it John’s Worst wouldn’t quite describe its true potential. Even my kids detest this food! How is it making it there this long is beyond me!

John’s Best Pizza lives up to its name!
Even if you want to become a vegetarian to be healthy or to wiggle into a bikini, just try their «Meat Lovers Pizza» and there’s no way that’s happening. This is by far one of the tastiest pizza’s I’ve had in years!
Located on «Ethan Allen Hwy» (which is just another way of saying «Route 7», it looks like a simple highway pizza chain, but walk into the dining room and you are surrounded by natural light and large windows that look over a green belt along the river.
I once thought «Who would want to sit at an outdoor patio along Route 7?» but after rush hour when the traffic dies down, all you’ll hear is conversations and the gurgling river.
What a nice surprise! Great pizza and a very nice environment!
I thought I didn’t like pizza anymore (except for Julian’s Brick Oven in Westport, CT) — I’d tried every pizza place in Ridgefield and had given up… until I told my boyfriend the other night when we were looking to get some food after 10 pm, «There’s one place I haven’t tried, John’s Best on Route 7»… so we went and already four days later on route home from work I turned my car around to go back there and get another pizza. That’s saying a lot.
Other pizzas in town have flavorless dough or flavorless cheese or mediocre meet, or dough that is like rubber and chews forever without breaking down, others are greasy. John’s Best is perfect!
I thought it was a national chain but it turns out it’s a local Connecticut chain with restaurants in Ridgefield, Brookfield, Wilton and Norwalk (those are the ones I’m aware of) and it is still owned and operated by the family who started it.
Kudos to John and his family. And thank you to the chefs for another great pizza!

This is a typical John’s best pizza the staff is friendly and the place is clean. There’s plenty of parking so its good for decent size groups.

I use to love this location, the food was good and plentiful, the service friendly, and the pizza is amazing. But a few months ago they decided to change things up and redo their meals to much smaller portions, and for some reason the food just does not taste the same. I was told apologetically that they had a new chef in the kitchen who was changing the food, and it’s awful. On top of that the atmosphere seems very hostile now. The staff seem miserable and like they’re being bothered by my patronage, even though the restaurant is literally always empty.
I give this place a month before it goes under or shutdown by the health department.

Our Favorite Pizza in the Neighborhood
Having just moved to CT we were on the hunt for some good pizza.
Tried a couple places and we’re sticking with John’s Best.
Our regular waiter, Edwin, takes excellent care of us.
We love the Pizza with Sausage and hot peppers. Thin crust, not over oily and hits the spot.
We also always get one of their clam dishes; either the baked or sauteed in lemon, oil, herbs.
Sorry to hear it get such bad reviews.
Maybe they’ve changed chefs.
Give it a try.

John’s Best is a poor restaurant with unsatisfactory ratings in fire safety, food, atmosphere with loud patrons, kitchen staff negative behavior.

Ok… my experience at this John’s Best Pizza was definitely the Worst.
I was used to the other John’s Best and my friend and I decided to go to this one on Sunday. I was surprised that it was empty, but we thought «maybe it’s because it just opened up»
Service: ¹⁄₅ — We get in there, and a lady is too busy watching the TV on the bar, she comes serve us like she is doing us a favor. We probably came in the the best part of the soap opera, and I’m sorry if we did, but at least try to make it look like you are actually happy you have a customer there… at lunchtime… on a Sunday…
Food– 1÷5− To start, I like the loaf of bread served as soon as sit down at a restaurant, but we were served what we like to call «Beggar Bread» you know… bread that is a couple days old, cold and hard…
We were not enjoying the way things were going so we decided to just order pizza, since you can’t go wrong with pizza from a place called John’s Best Pizza… (or so we thought)
We ordered Chicken, Bacon Ranch Pizza and oh gosh, the pizza was SO DRY.
(When I order pizza, I want obese american style PIZZA, with the heart attack fatty oil puddles on top and stuff, don’t make it fat free… I mean who diets on a Sunday?)
But this one barely had ranch or cheese NOT good at all.
Gosh I was fantasizing over Domino’s pizza as I ate this rubber tasting pie. (Believe it or not)
Will NOT return to this location again, and since a member here on Unilocal said the owner was not the same, maybe I will go to the other one, since I liked it there.
Save your money, go someplace else. You’ve been warned.

Food was just okay but service was below mediocre. It was our first time going to this location and because I had a restaurant perk that I had purchase, I decided to give this place a shot as I love going to the John’s Best location in Brookfield (they’re not the same owner). I came with my family for a Sunday dinner and when we walked in to request for a table, two staff member saw us standing there and yet proceeded to walked right by us without a friendly «Hi, we’ll be right with you». It seems as though they just couldn’t be bothered. They weren’t busy so we weren’t sure it we just sit ourselves. We stood there for a good 2 minutes before anyone came to sit us. This first impression gave us a vibe that we were not going to foresee good service, but we continued to keep an open mind. We ordered the clam casino and they were not fresh at all. The fried calamari taste as though it was left over from the day before. The baked lasagna was ok, I could make better at home. The clam in my linguini clam was terrible. They were bad and you can smell the odor from them. The pizza was good but that was just about the only thing that was good there. I will not be returning to this location nor would I suggest this place to anyone. We were not at all impressed with the overall food and service we received.

You gotta be f’ing kidding me with a pizza place not swamped on a Sunday Night that gets a pizza order wrong. I don’t mean wrong size or toppings. I mean WE ORDERED 2 PIES and only GOT ONE! I mean WTF? How hard is it to take a pizza order for 5 people. 2 beers check. Two sodas, check. One water, check. Two salads, check. Extra hot pepper on the side… never saw them. House dressing for the salad… sorry, waitress on overdue status. Complain to «manager» «So soorry. I knocka 10% offa you bill.» Pizza was average at best. Charged for 3 imported beers when we had 2 imports one domestic. IF YOU WANT GOOD PIZZA IN RIDGEFIELD FORGET JOHNS BEST… GO TO GENOA INSTEAD! Unless you go on a Sunday & Genoa is closed. Then go to Village Pizza.

Not the «Best» (maybe for John) but not the worst either. Solid Italian, American food… nothing to write to Sicily about but will keep you full and happy!