Anyone who’s tried nailing an oven-fresh pizza pie to a wall knows that pizza looks best briefly propped on a five-finger pedestal. Today’s Groupon puts $20 worth of dine-in, carry-out, or delivery pizza, guzzle, and Italian eats in your paws for $10 at Papa Pilo's Pizza. Papa Pilo's hand-tossed pies are favorites for their crispy crust and generous dollop of tongue-tantalizing tomato sauce. Vouchers will be given for any leftover balance.
All pizzas are available in four sizes (from $8.75–$18.75) and can also be procured in calzone form. Meat lovers masticate Pilo's Deluxe, a traditional pie sprinkled with generous cuts of pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms, olives, bell peppers, and onions. Or go garden fresh with a vegetarian pizza dotted with chewy mushrooms, olives, onions, tomatoes, and bell peppers. If you're thirsting for a more basic pie, plain and build-your-own pizzas are available from $6.15–$16.65 plus additional toppings ($1–$1.75 each). The menu also has Italian salads, cold and hot sub sandwiches, pasta, and dessert.
Papa's satiates budget-conscious pizza enthusiasts with lunch specials weekdays until 4 p.m.. Weave friendship bracelets out of a half-order of spaghetti with salad or bread ($6), or slurp creamy fettucine alfredo later in the day (with dinner salad and garlic bread, $9). The cozy, down-to-earth Italian eatery is open daily from Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. This Groupon spares you the disgrace of carrying a cold, frozen pizza to your domicile; slide a warm, freshly cooked, and perfectly prepared mound of meat and cheese under your door instead.
If you use your Groupon toward delivery, there will be a $1.50 charge.
Reviews
One reviewer on OCRegister.com gives Papa Pilo's Pizza five stars, and seven Yelpers give four:
- the best pizza ever!!!!!!!!!!!!! yummy calzone & the linguini red sauce to die for – pilos, OCRegister.com
- great quality pizza. nice small pizza parlor. if you're looking for a noncorporate style pizza place, great hole in the wall. – Tom W., Yelp
- We were not disappointed. Everything was hot when it got to us. The pizza was great and looked even better than the pictures on the website. My youngest son (who expected it to be crummy[)] gave it two thumbs up. – Jean B., Yelp
Papa Pilo’s
Head Chef Ray brings more than 20 years of culinary expertise to the kitchen of Papa Pilo’s, where he champions a menu of Italian recipes that won CityVoter's Best Italian prize in 2011 and 2012. Thin-crust, New York–style pizzas don toppings such as fresh tomatoes and meatballs, and specialty pies include the breakfast pizza with eggs, bacon bits, onions, canadian bacon, and a snooze button. Papa Pilo’s also whips up dishes such as chicken parmesan, fettuccine in spicy fra diavolo sauce, and meat lasagna with ricotta, romano, and mozzarella.