Address: | 3200 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55408, USA |
Phone: | +1 612-827-5978 |
Site: | pizzaluce.com |
Rating: | 4.4 |
Working: | 11AM–2:30AM 11AM–2:30AM 11AM–2:30AM 11AM–2:30AM 11AM–2:30AM 11AM–2:30AM 11AM–2:30AM |
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A Private User
FIRE THE WORTHLESS MANAGER ALREADY! Whoever it is, they havent a clue how to run a restaurant. Since the beginning of September, 2011, Ive ordered three times from the Uptown location now. The first order: Pizza sauce was extremely bland just like the crust. You have to pay for additional toppings like pesto, garlic, basil, etc. if you want this cardboard with cheese to have any flavor whatsoever. Second order: The spaghetti noodles were undercooked, not el-dente, undercooked/inedible. The sauce was horrible! The meatballs were hard and just disgusting! Pizza 1: A gluten free pizza - they could do this pizza without charging exorbitant fees - not worth the price. Pizza 2: The sausage was way too spicy even though there is no warning whatsoever provided to their customers that it is spicy. I added pesto and garlic this time but the crust was so soggy it was disgusting - inedible. 3rd order: gluten free pizza again - the shrimp was so rubbery it was inedible - had to be picked off just to eat the rest of the pizza so as not to waste the $25 it cost just for one tiny little pizza. I will never ever order from this restaurant again after they repeatedly refused to do anything whatsoever to make it right every single time I complained. HORRIBLE customer service!
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Pauline Cao
I was coming to visit my relatives in MN for the weekend. I asked my cousin what was a good place to eat and he told me that Pizza Luce was the best pizza place in MN! I gladly obliged. After a long day of mini golfing, we played 2 rounds, we were all starving!!! Parking was horrible that day because of some sporing event going on. We ended up parking in a $20 lot and had to walk a block or two just to get here. What We Ordered - Appetizer Sampler - Baked Potato Pizza - The Maximus Pizza The Appetizer Sampler came with 4 different dipping sides: artichoke dip, bruschetta, meatballs balls, and garlic mashed potatoes. The artichoke dip and bruschetta were very standard. The meatballs and garlic mashed potatoes were AMAZING! They were both very flavorful! Although, i think mashed potatoes on bread is weird lol. The Baked Potato Pizza was super good! It tasted just like a loaded baked potato!! The sour cream on the side was a nice touch too! I liked that the pizza was thin so it wasnt super heavy. The Maximus Pizza was also very meaty, in a good way. I wished I took pictures before we all scarfed down everything. I will be back the next time Im in town! :)
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Anna Genich
Matt the mngr was our server, took 40-50min to get appetizer out. Had to ask numerous times for honey for our tea. Had to ask for hot water refill, never got waters refilled, ordered a salad with meatballs for 1 dinner, got the salad 20 min before the meatballs ever came. It was an hour before our dinner was served at least! We were there before it was busy, a table of 2. 2 other tables came in and they ordered, were served and left before we got our appetizer! Those were big parties like 5-7. I love pizza luce and go to many of the other ones, we have had good service here before, I worked the block parties for this 1 but will never ever go back! The customers shouldnt have to work that hard to get service and food! Then to not have stuff comped.... wow!! The appetizer should have been no charge!! There went the tip!!!
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A Private User
As a regular, "I was supposed to know better" than to expect that we could order a slice and a beer at the counter and sit at a table. When we asked to do so, I was informed that we had to "dine in" so I politely said I would dine in and my friends who had already ordered would just sit with me. Bad service is something I typically overlook if the food is good. But knowing how much money I pump into this joint, I was more than slightly annoyed to be talked to like a child from the server (who then refused to wait on our table). The manager is an idiot and berated us in the parking lot "harrassing his staff." I love Pizza Luce, but will never spend another dime at that particular location. Funny, because my pizza and beer tips would probably have put half the staffs children through college;)
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Sunset Bliss
Giving them 3 stars because their food is delicious and fairly priced, but my boyfriend and I ordered the vegan spaghetti for delivery for the first time last night. THERE WAS SO MUCH OIL. Ive never had spaghetti or any other pasta that had this much oil in it! Oil was everywhere... sitting at the bottom of the containers the spaghetti was in (literally a puddle), and in the tinfoil they had wrapped around the containers (another puddle!), even on the the bag that the food was delivered in. It was so gross and disappointing how much oil there was. Oil isnt as good for you as some may think. Not planning on ordering from them again, unless they calm down on the oil usage.
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K Y
Order delivery from here. Delivery time was reasonable. Order the lasagna abruzzi and spicy peking wings with peanut dipping sauce. Lasagna was delicious and still cheesy when I got it. Plenty of sauce and meat, the pasta wasnt too thick to make it tough on chewing. Wasnt sure if it was garlic bread or just butter toast that came with it but it was a little soft (steam itself being wrapped) and not much flavor but wasnt expecting it either. The peking wings was damn delicious and the peanut dipping sauce was really good. Went with the wings very well and a very nice. wings werent spicy for me, but it was very good still. Will order from them again..
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Emily Boone
When I lived in Mpls decade ago I use to love slice of Pizza Luce after bar at the Downtown location. This week visiting Mpls from NY and went for a slice after Bar over the weekend just to run in worse night Manager Glen working there. These Guys had poor attitude they should consider working in different Jobs. I believe they hate night , specially weekend. Yeld at me over a sclice of Pizza as I requested a different toppings this Guy went ballistic over it something never happans in NY no matter how late at Night. After all bad attitude the cold pizza did not taste as good as I had itover decade ago when i lived in Mpls.
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Maharani Diaries
This was the worst experience ever. My husband and I had to walk out. We were seated right away but we waited 20 minutes and no one came to even ask us for water and this was after 8pm when the restaurant was not even that busy and there were a gazillion servers. The hostesss attitude was terrible.... before walking out my husband said, politely, that we have been waiting for 20 mins for someone to show up and she just looked at us like we were from Mars. She didnt even bother to apologize! This was a date night for us that we SELDOM get a chance to have... really wanted to throw a brick at their window before I left.
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Shane Whittet
Do NOT order Gluten Free pizza here. Dominos Pizza and Parkway Pizza have respectable substitutes for wheat crust, and Im pretty sure the Pizza Luce ingredients are not the problem, but cooking time/temperature definitely IS broken. I recommend the owner please taste Parkway Pizzas so you know what it should taste like when you remove it from the oven! Hmm, now that Im writing this I assume I should just go in and bribe a manager to let me help fix it. Huh. Perhaps once they fix Ill amend this review.