Apollo Pizza Restaurant & Grill

I have lived in North Franklin for over 30 years and frequented this establishment 100’s of times. The pizza and grinders are excellent. The staff and owner are attentive and always pleasant to deal with. They have a habit of going to every table to ask how your food is and just generally inquire as to how you are. My adult daughter became seriously ill a number of years ago and to this day the owner asks about her health.
You are not going to get gourmet meals here because after all it is an unpretentious pizza place. What you will get is hardy food which is reasonably priced that has been well prepared by kind and considerate people in a family atmosphere.

I order dinner here to go when in a desperate situation only because it is so close. Tonight when I ordered my usual I just covered they had increased the price by $ 2 and decreased the portion by half. Bold move for an establishment that taste like hospital food.

The chicken parm is the best in the area. I had the liver with bacon, onions and gravy cooked perfectly. Friendly waitresses.

I have had food here about four times. 2 times in house and 2 for take out. I have tried the pizza two times. Each time the pie is average. It is not horrible but it lacks flavor. Typically get the standard pepperoni etc… and they cant push this past frozen pizza caliber. The other times I tried a club sandwich. This was also lack luster. The meat was not discernable from the other bits in the sandwich and the bread was bread quality you get from the cheap bread at Walmart.
We don’t eat meat too often but today I was jonesing for a cheeseburger baaaaad.
Today we got cheeseburgers and chicken fingers. Again the quality is stuff you get frozen at Walmart. I have purchased those frozen burgers from Costco that taste darned good compared to the burgers at Apollo. First thing, the bun was NOT toasted nor did mine come with any mayo or ?? No one asked to have nothing on it and I didn’t think I needed to prompt someone to put mayo (or secret sauce lol) on a burger. Its pretty standard. So… that meant I had to lube up my own burger. Then the buns weren’t toasted so the whole thing was doughy and bland. Ya know guys, you ENHANCE the flavor of bread by toasting it. Now I wasn’t expecting a thick bar burger but I was at least expecting a hand patty or something that tasted like meat. I even was so foolish as to order my burger ‘rare’ lol. But whats inside was a cold McDonalds Cardboard burger. Even some of the frozen ones I get at Walmart tasted better. We also asked for grilled onions. What was on there was thinly sliced onions which seemed like the kind for salads but they grilled them. What happens when you grill paper thin onions is they don’t caramelize well enough to add flavor to the burger so we didn’t taste any onions either. I swear at least McDonalds rehydrated onions have an onion taste. The other thing is who puts American cheese on a cheeseburger? It is so bland of a cheese that a burger needs a heavy one like cheddar or Suisse.
We were starving so wolfed em down anyway. Like I said they aren’t inedible its just that you expect people who make it their business to cook for others should at least do a better job than me!
The chicken fingers we got also tasted VERY frozen and dry. I have had better Tyson chicken fingers from the bag. How hard is it to bread chicken and fry it? The French fries are also battered so it takes away from any potato flavor.
We called to let them know that the burger and food just was very blah and it seems like no one cares there. They seemed interested in hearing it and asked us to bring in the burger so they could see. Well… its cold out and once you get in your house and are warm the last thing you want to do is cart a half eaten burger there! Lots of people love them though. Getting good food in the more rural areas of CT is a challenge. Everything tends to be bland. But this place is in my neighborhood and I was hoping for better. They cant get better if no one challenges their perception that they are great. I am glad that the locals like them and they get good business tho. I am always happy to support local business but this place is just not for me.
Well I gave it four tries and this was the last. I guess I will just get Costco burgers and keep in the freezer for those once in awhile cravings. Peace.

Well if I had looked at the reviews we might have not enjoyed a delicious pizza and pleasant service. This is a great local joint and was perfect for a solid pizza and everyone else seemed to be enjoying themselves as well! I would say give it a chance if you are on a road trip and need a meal.

Pizza was awful, burnt and hard as a rock:(service was very unpleasant! Left there upset and hungry!

I have had pizza here many times and it has been very good, tonight when I ordered the girl on phone was rude and short and when I picked up my pizza and got it home it was missing the sausage I ordered, but I understand why she was distracted when I got there and there were two waitresses speaking a foreign language behind the take out counter and laughing, I’m sorry but that is just RUDE… sorry but speak English when you work with the public. end of story… although the pizza has been good, I will Never go back here again due to the rude behavior of the staffl…

The food is delicious. The owners will make you feel like you’re part of their family. The staff is real nice too. My son’s favorite is the Moussaka pizza.