Pizza Chef

Pizza had great sauce & cheese. Dough is different than my NJ haunts, but very tasty. Would definitely go here again if wasn’t going home.

VERY solid NY style pie. You can’t get better pizza in this part of town than Pizza Chef’s.
A little pricey, but absolutely worth it. Their «Meat lover’s» pizza is arguably the best slice I’ve ever had of its kind. Simply fantastic.

Awesome Pizza! The folks that work there are real friendly also! Stop in for a slice!!!

Best pizza I’ve had in Sarasota! Always fast with every delivery I’ve ordered. The white pizza is amazing! Definitely give it a try.

Best PIZZA is Sarasota. Coming from a northerner. I PROMISE YOU! place is a regular pizza sub place. No bells or whistles just straight up quality pizza. They deliver too. Here is the trick, sliced are cooked twice and they are crispy and wonderful. So if you get a whole pizza as for the crust to be well. #problemsolved

Ordered the veggie pizza… crust was soggy and there was no marinara sauce on it. My family has been ordering from this place since they opened, so I was shocked at how bad it was. Hoping it was just a bad night.

Bad, taste-​less pizza. Ultra rude service. Very over priced. Go to Pizza SRQ instead. You’re welcome.

Although their pizza was passable (at best), I found their prices to be very high, to the point of being unreasonable. If you want a standard 14″ pizza with a few toppings, you’re looking at over $ 20. Let me tell you, you can do far better at that price because their pizza is nothing too spectacular. I found it to be a bit on the dry side and very mediocre.
There is pizza equally as good or better, right up the street at a far better price point. I do not recommend.

My husband and I lived on the east coast for most of our lives. I worked in NYC, and my husband grew up eating his mother’s home-​made Italian, and we’ve lived in states from Arizona, to Illinois, to New Jersey, and traveled the rest of the US extensively.
So when I tell you this is the best tasting, best quality NYC style pizza south of Philly, you can believe it. The mozzarella on the pizza is fresh, and the sauce is a perfect blend of sweet and salty. The crust is oven crisp to perfection.
The small antipasto salad is also very fresh, especially the mozzarella and romaine, and big enough for two people.
The ambiance is what non-​New Yorkers will not be accustomed to. Just a small, family owned business putting out good family style food. If want white glove snobbery, go elsewhere.

The pizza’s are delicious! Hands down delicious! Our company also orders from them all the time for lunch and their delivery is always on-​time.
I too ordered a pizza one day after getting my nails done next door, they place was empty, but they had orders flowing in like crazy while I sat there waiting.

Worst slice of pizza I’ve ever had. Worst Caesar salad too. And service to match the food.
I came over on a Monday night around 7pm. Place was almost empty. Waitress was pleasant enough, but I was surprised when she asked me to pay in advance as if it was takeout. She later brought my food, but never asked the customary question, «is everything good? » Nor did she offer water or even another beer.
The food she brought was almost too disgusting to eat. The Caesar salad consisted of wilted lettuce and croutons too hard to chew. Dressing on the side was far thicker than mayonnaise. There was a little bit of parmesan cheese at the bottom.
The slice was a larger disappointment. It tasted as if it had sat on a warm counter for about 2 days. The cheese was almost unrecognizable as such. The sausage I ordered on top was a small amount in the center of the slice. The crust was paper thin and burned around the edges.
There’s much better pizza and enormously better salad available at Pizza SRQ or Jet’s nearby, or even at Domino’s. No reason to frequent such a poor quality establishment.

Wow! This place would definitely be in my top 5 for local pizza joints in Sarasota! We placed an order for take out. We had a large half pepperoni half onion and green pepper pizza with a side of four garlic knots. We walked around a few of the shops and within 20 minutes it was done! It smelled fantastic and all the ingredients looked incredibly fresh. The food would definitely get 5 stars. We were pretty displeased with the lady we ordered with as she was very unpleasant and seemed as if we were bothering her the whole time we we’re ordering.

I went to Pizza Chef a few years ago on a recommendation of some local Northerns. It was good, but for some reason forgot it was there and haven’t been back, until Thursday night. This is a small place in the Daruma stripmall on Fruitville and Honoree. It looks like they mainly do take out as there was not one in the place, but they have several tables. When you walk in the restaurant smells amazing, always a good sign. They have a full dinner menu which I can’t review as we only did the pizza. You order at the register and food is brought out. We ordered plain pie and it was hands down the New Jersey pizza that I grew up on, the kind you fold to take a bite. This is not brick oven pizza, which I love as well. The sauce is right on and $ 12.99 for a large pie is a deal. The only thing lacking was the staff up front, she didn’t smile, she clearly could have used another person, as she was taking phone orders while people were waiting to place take out orders. We were the last ones there and we try chatting with her telling her how much we enjoyed the pizza but she just walked away and didn’t acknowledge us. Normally this would ruin it for me, but the pie made up for the bad service. Also we asked for our pizza «well done» and it wasn’t, I think she didn’t write it for the cook, but still the best I’ve had in this area. Note: They are closed on Sundays. Side note, we had a few slices left and took them home, made a stop at a store and when we got in the car it smelled delish… still! I’m glad my friend took them or I would have probably gone home and finished them up.

The feta-​olive-​onion-​tomato pie (one of their specialties) is everything you could ask for in a strip-​mall pizza and then some. The ingredients weren’t stunners on their own, but it all came together pretty nicely on a crisp, thin crust that didn’t venture into that cracker territory lesser pizzas tend toward. A $ 15ish 14″ pie served three hungry and somewhat anxious adults (I was meeting ‘the dad’ for the first time!) fine with two slices left over.
Garlic rolls were a little on the dry side (they’d been sitting on display but were heated to piping when ordered), but the flavor was great and they had plenty of fresh garlic for a lover of the seasoning like me. Marinara (for dipping) was on the sweet and mild side.
For a place with a rather slapdash, homey look and only about two full tables at lunch on a Monday, these guys have it goin’ on. The people behind the counter were friendly and seemed to know many of the customers. The woman serving our table and bussing was efficient and quiet.
Six kinds of beer (bottled) and soft drinks from the fountain or the fridge. Our fountain drinks weren’t refilled, so I don’t know if that’s included.