Cristaldi’s Pizza

Im sorry I dont get Beach Pizza. Everyone seems just ok with the taste. But they buy it because it reminds them of their early days on the beach.
Hey, you want beach pizza, just sprinkle brown sugar on top of any pizza. You say thats not it… ok, cut squares out of a regular pizza.
It frankly taste like pizza in Chapel Hill NC in the 70s. The guy making this terrible pizza, told me if you add enough sugar kids will eat it.
So this is not a dig on this joint as much as I HATE BEACH PIZZA.
But I guess if you add enough sugar, they will come.

This is «THE» beach pizza. Extra cheese (slice of provolone) is a must! In my opinion beach pizza rankings are as follows:
1.Cristaldis
2. Christys
3. Tripolis

Pizza at the beach solicits a lot of opinions from people, and I don’t think this review
Will be any different. Cristaldi’s is the best slice available.

I have been to Cristaldi’s many times every summer throughout my entire life. I have always had a good experience and have always loved the pizza.
The reason I am only giving them 1 star is because of the rude woman that works there. We picked up our pizza and for some reason it did not taste right. I was worried that the sauce may have spoiled from the heat. I found the phone number and called to let them know that something didn’t taste quite right and we were going to bring it back. I didn’t want anyone else to buy the pizza and get sick if the sauce had spoiled. Before I even finished what I was saying the woman proceeds to tell me the sauce was fine and slammed the phone down. I was obviously in shock. I drive back to the place and the woman was so angry. The man came over and offered to make new pizzas for us. I just can not believe someone would be so rude to customers that buy pizza from the almost every week for years.

I would say this pizza is decent if it were anywhere other than the beach… But it basically just tastes like a worse version of Christys pizza which I consider worse than Tripolis. 3^rd best choice on the beach and it’s a little dirty looking as well.

I almost didn’t write this because it appears to be redundant from the many 5-​star reviews but why not one more?! I love this place and it’s the only pizza shop I know of that tops their pizza with provolone and not mozzarella. It’s a nice change and the crust is exceptional. One of my top three pizza shops with Joe’s Pizza in Beverly and Halftime Pizza in Boston the others.

Best beach pizza ever too bad it’s only open in the summer and it’s lot better then Tripoli’s by Far and all the copy cat pizza place in Salisbury and Hampton. I should know I been coming here for year since I was 2 years old and now I am 38 and it is still the best beach pizza around and even beat out the new place Called Beach pizza in Salem NH By way Far

Cristaldi’s Pizza is the best, Cristy’s a very very close second or tie. Triploi’s is not even third or forth. Triplo’s is sugar sauce, I just had to compare it on 8÷12÷2013, terrible. I travel 1.25 hours to get there and my farther brought us up there when I was a kid, now hitting the 50 mark myself!
The person that traveled 3 hours from Conn, I just think she did not understand the digital world and who has the right to rate her product. She got stuck there and did not hear anything after that, Because if you have been going there that long you would know that is the owner, and they work very hard and have to deal with all kinds of people, and lots of drunks in the beach area.
Please rethink what happened because you are right they have the best pizza… and if you went across the street to Tripoli’s you know darn right you where missing out on MUCH better pizza!
Miss Conn, I am going to open a Cristaldi’s pizza much much closer to you with the help of Cristaldi’s help! I Hope!

Bad bad bad pizza! Tastes like ellio’s!!! Look at this pic!

I absolutely love Cristaldi’s and have grown up with it since I was young, THERE IS NO OTHER PIZZA like it on earth! I highly suggest stopping to get a slice if your ever driving down 286.
To Missy S. the other reviewer maybe you should have explained yourself more clearly or something, because I’ve have had nothing but nice experiences there accompanied by a few laughs. Most people aren’t aware about what
is and there are many random sites out there that can be a bad thing for a business to be associated with. To be honest I think you may have let your pride get ahead of you in the situation, considering the person didn’t know who you are and if you really had written a positive review. It is also pretty sad that in a time of economic recession and hard times you would be so bitter about something that seems like a misunderstanding.
All I know is that I love Cristaldi’s, there pizza is always delicious and they don’t sell frozen pizzas which honestly sound quite unappealing! I also love garlic salt on my slice, try it, it is out of this world!

for service only… the pizza is still great ‘beach pizza!” Altho, thanks to the lady working there on Sunday ⁹⁄₁₉ at noontime, i will NEVER go back, and i will make sure all my relatives and friends in the area do not either!!!
i had the rudest experience there yesterday i could NOT believe it! This after telling her i had driven from HARTFORD CT and made a point to go right there, that i grew up on Cristaldis and it was my FAVE… and i also told her i had written the first review of them on
and that it was a 5 star review, and that the other reviews on there (here) were ALSO 5 stars…
well holy CRAP, that opened a can of worms and she got such a nasty attitude, and said, well who decides what can be posted online about us, what if we dont WANT to be online? I said, most business woudl be THANKFUL for a great review (not talking about mine, but any good reviews in general!). But she kept saying «Like who is the person (almost like she meant, who is sitting in the computer deciding what is written?) who decides what is said?»
I tried explaining that there are MANY companies that are online, started by various persons that allow anyone to write reviews, not just of restaurants, but doctors, lawyers, grocery stores, mechanics… ANYTHING! I assured her that the companies had checks and balances in place if there were ‘inappropriate or rude’ things written they are deleted…
but i said to her, i dont understand what your disagreeing with, sites like this allow people to find out about you… I said, for example, if someone is coming tot the area and was looking for a particular type of pizza or something yummy to try… they could look and see (for instance) that they should take a ride outside of the salisbury beach area and make the one mile or so trek to the salis/​seabrook line to try the pizza at Cristaldis, instead of getting Christys or Tripolis at the amusement area… that reviews let people know they are there!
and she just kept saying Well what if its like facebook and u dont want to be on there? I said, well, i just dont understand what you are asking me… I would think you would be happy that people like your product and want to tell others about it…
and BTW i wanted to yell at her after she was done raking me over the fricken coals while i was waiting for my BOX of pizza i was buying from her… that thanks to your rotten attitude, i would be downgrading my review because i came there to remember happy times of my youth and to get a taste of comfort food that i used to share with my grampa when we would go to the beach… NOT BE RUDELY ACCOSTED VERBALLY BECAUSE OF SOME PERSON SHE THINKS SITS IN THE COMPUTER! I swear, she just did not understand how it works, and i tried my best to explain…
but some people are just not swift enuf to 1) realize that yelling at a customer for the internet being in existence is NOT good customer service, and that 2) you should be nice to someone that drove almost 3 hours for your product and spent the first 2 minutes just telling you how she grew up coming there, and had been a customer for over 30 years, and what a fan she is of your product… etc etc etc!!!
oh and even tho it isnt my fave? you can BELIEVE AS SOON AS I LEFT… I WENT IMMEDIATELY TO THE BRAND NEW TRIPOLI ACROSS THE STREET AND BOUGHT A SLICE, A BAG OF FROZEN PIZZA AND A LOAF OF BREAD!
I Spent more there at Tripoli than i did at Cristaldi’s, and i had not planned to go there until the horrible service i received!
so EAT THAT CRISTALDI’S… YOU LOST A DECADES LONG CUSTOMER! and i hope more than just me when my loyal Unilocalers friends read this!
i hope the owner of Cristaldis sees this too. I dont know her name but she was a lady probably in her 50’s with a brownish ponytail. and a bad attitude!

Best beach pizza around, nothing beats it. Be sure to order extra cheese to get a circle of mozzarella on top of your pieces. Without extra cheese there’s barely any. Also, they don’t take credit cards so remember to bring some cash.
We drive from Waltham, MA to get it at least 4 times a summer.

Get in your car go! Order 4 slices I don’t care how skinny you are you’re gonna eat em’ all !! If you’re still hungry go get a Lobster Roll at Brown’s!

The best part of Seabrook beach is Christaldi’s pizza. The only reason I would ever eat another type is because Christaldis is closed. I get 2 slices and a diet coke and there’s nothing better.
I can’t even imagine how much money I’ve spent there but they deserve every penny of it!