Ate their the other night after a meeting. Its on Main just east of Walker, next to Coney Island and across the street from the Montgomery. Excellent authentic NY style pizza joint. I got a custom made calzone for around $4 bucks. I also hear they have a great lunch menu. Huge selection of sauces, toppings, etc. And if they don't have something on the menu let them know and they'll usually make it for you. On a scale of 1-10 for pizza joints, I give it a 10. Go support another downtown food landmark in the heart of the Arts Quarter, you won't be disappointed.

Went there again today for lunch. It's becoming one of my new spots for authentic food. It reminds you of an old pizza joint on in the northeast. The lunch buffet $4.99 is your best bet for lunch. It includes all you can eat pizza, pasta, calzones, and salad. It is from 11-2. I got there at 11am and had to wait about 20-25 mins for the pizza to come out although the salad and spaghetti where already ready. If your doing an early lunch I recommend waiting until about 11:30 to make sure there is plenty of food to choose from. The pizza is excellent, probably the best you'll find on a buffet. Didn't try the pasta, the salad was good. Didn't have calzones ready but can say they are excellent from past experience. Other than the wait, I'd give this place a 9 out of 10 for pizza joints.

Have you seen the huge rats out back?

I ate there Monday for lunch. Had their lunch buffet which includes a salad bar. Although the interior isn't very fancy and is quite out of date, the pizza was excellent, as was the salad bar. I'll be back. Interior atmosphere didn't bother me too much. The pizza was definitely worth it.

We used to eat there a lot, until rumors surfaced after the Murrah Building bombing.
Supposedly, the Arabic owners/employees cheered when the bombing happened. Does anyone remember hearing this? Does anyone know who the current owners are?

It seems to me those rumors always surface after something gets bombed in the U.S. When 9-11 happened, there was a rumor at UCO that some of the Middle Eastern students cheered, but the rumors were completely unfounded.

We used to eat there a lot, until rumors surfaced after the Murrah Building bombing.
Supposedly, the Arabic owners/employees cheered when the bombing happened. Does anyone remember hearing this? Does anyone know who the current owners are?

You ought to go there and ask them whether or not they cheered.

That's a ridiculously offensive thing to assume about a group of people.

At the time, it was not ridiculous.

I lost friends and co-workers in that building, and my mother was injured and homeless.

I watched a burning head roll across the street and held the hand of a friend who lost her two sons.

I agree - judging without knowing the facts behind the question is presumptious.

Looking back now, perhaps my readiness to believe was hasty, but the source was credible. That is why I asked.

Pizza Town does lack ambiance but they have a pretty good buffet. They're also a very good choice if you need a few pizzas delivered downtown. The made to order pizzas are a little better (more stuff) than the buffet pies in my opinion.

At the time of the bombing they were on Robinson - across the street east of the Journal Record building. Because of the damage up there they reopened at their present site on Main Street.

I've heard the rumors too but I've never gotten sick eating there. You're probably safe unless you want to eat out back in the alley.

Laurie,

As offensive as it may seem that others would cheer destruction in our country, it is certainly their right to do so. They don't *have* to like us.

Rumor or not, I'd try the place out. The Murrah bombing was awhile ago, and I know this will seem offensive to you (because of the personal impact the event had on you) but sometimes we can move on while remembering that which was lost.

No Laurie, at any time, such an assumption is ridiculous. It's people who believe that such assumptions are not ridiculous that beat perfectly innocent middle-easterners to death following 9/11.

Racism is never okay.

No Laurie, at any time, such an assumption is ridiculous. It's people who believe that such assumptions are not ridiculous that beat perfectly innocent middle-easterners to death following 9/11.

Racism is never okay.
Why don't you and bandnerd give it a rest? I have a better idea, Midtowner. Since you are so high and mighty, why don't you go in and ask them that question? Geez.

Laurie, I am really sorry about what happened to you and your friends at the Murray Building bombing. I was there also, and saw some things that nobody should have to see. If your information about the owner of Pizza Town was from somebody that was credible, then you did your part by letting us know. Thanks.

Thankfully, the majority of the members on this forum, from what I see, are sympathetic and understanding. Unfortunately, there are a few that aren't, and you just heard from them.

One more thing. I have eaten at Pizza Town a couple of times, and that's all it took. When their buffet was out, they had very little to choose from, and their dining area was always too hot. The last time I ate there, I found two hairs in my pizza, and I know it didn't come from me, because I am bald. I don't go there anymore, and most other officers won't eat there either.

Why don't you and bandnerd give it a rest? I have a better idea, Midtowner. Since you are so high and mighty, why don't you go in and ask them that question? Geez.

Laurie, I am really sorry about what happened to you and your friends at the Murray Building bombing. I was there also, and saw some things that nobody should have to see. If your information about the owner of Pizza Town was from somebody that was credible, then you did your part by letting us know. Thanks.

Thankfully, the majority of the members on this forum, from what I see, are sympathetic and understanding. Unfortunately, there are a few that aren't, and you just heard from them.

One more thing. I have eaten at Pizza Town a couple of times, and that's all it took. When their buffet was out, they had very little to choose from, and their dining area was always too hot. The last time I ate there, I found two hairs in my pizza, and I know it didn't come from me, because I am bald. I don't go there anymore, and most other officers won't eat there either.

So Adam, what you're saying is that racism is okay?

I always heard that there were a few cops out there who worked like that. You one of those?

If you're trying to find grounds to attack us on here, you're on weak ground. I was pointing out that racism is bad. Is that so bad? Oh.. right on Mr. DWB.

So Adam, what you're saying is that racism is okay?

I always heard that there were a few cops out there who worked like that. You one of those?

If you're trying to find grounds to attack us on here, you're on weak ground. I was pointing out that racism is bad. Is that so bad? Oh.. right on Mr. DWB.
Racism was never mentioned, except by you. The post was very innocent, with some information from a credible source. I never mentioned racism. You turned it in to a racial issue. Maybe you are the one with the problem.

Attack you? Never. I agree that racism is bad, and I don't associate with cops that I know are racist.

What credible source would possibly say something like that. Credible sources don't say things that are untrue.

-- that would mean that they aren't credible sources.

See how that works?

What credible source would possibly say something like that. Credible sources don't say things that are untrue.

-- that would mean that they aren't credible sources.

See how that works?
Re read Laurie's post. She said she had a credible source that told her the truth.

Credible sources speak the truth.

Now, do you see how that works?

No Lauri, at any time, such an assumption is ridiculous. It's people who believe that such assumptions are not ridiculous that beat perfectly innocent middle-easterners to death following 9/11.

Racism is never okay.

Oh, for crying out loud!
Not once did I ever say I was prejudiced against Middle Easterners. You are carrying my inquiry way out there to the edge of reason and f**king with my words.
I simply asked if anyone had heard this rumor - and if you read my post, you will see that I said "rumor". My credible source was an OKC fireman.

You made an assumption from my post that I was a racist - do you not find that ridiculous? Or do the rules only apply to other people?

And bandnerd - until you walk a mile in my shoes, please don't tell me to move on. For the most part, I have, but there are some things in life that you never ever forget.

Personally, I could care less what color or race the people are that were that are running the place. The guy at the register was middle eastern, but that doesn't bother me. And I'd bet he's Muslim, but that doesn't bother me either. He treated me with respect and the pizza was great. Sure, the atmosphere is a bit old and not the best, but the pizza was decent.

Re read Laurie's post. She said she had a credible source that told her the truth.

Credible sources speak the truth.

Now, do you see how that works?

Okay, so her credible source said that the middle easterners at this restaurant celebrated after the Murrah bombing...

See how that works?

Gosh you can be slow.

Lauri, I understand that it is difficult to move on. That's why I included the personal parenthesis that excluded you from the bunch. I have had my own personal tragedies, don't you worry. I understand the universal feelings of loss and pain and hatred, certainly in a different way than you, however...but as I said before, I think these rumors tend to surface whenever something happens to the US that the more crazy US-hating Middle Easterners would like to see happens, like the Murrah bombing or 9-11. Those rumors really did surface at UCO, and they really were unfounded...though I remember Channel 4 doing a story on it...I wasn't trying to be rude, seriously. Don't take my lame attempt at understanding to be that way. I know you feel the source you found this information from was credible, but maybe check into it a little more before completely boycotting the business. It may end up being completely untrue and your favorite pizza all at the same time!

Please get back to topic. This thread is about a review of a pizza place, not racism or supposed racism. Start a new thread in a different forum.

so i've been on the search for the perfect slice. hideaway is currently tops with me, but i'm always searching for different/better. i've got a lead on chicago style, now i've got two leads on new york style. so... how's parking at the pizza house? am i gonna have to park a mile away just to pick up a pizza? -M

Wow...the first ever Pizza/Middle East/Racism/Murrah/Cop Bashing thread ever in the history of chat...Just wanted to be a part of history

Please get back to topic. This thread is about a review of a pizza place, not racism or supposed racism. Start a new thread in a different forum.

Thanks, but you're not a moderator. Appreciate it!

At any rate, had some pretty good pizza last night from Hemi's. New York style pepperoni. Was terrific, except for the fact that they got my order wrong (I ordered a Hemi's Special, Pan and somehow he heard "New York pepperoni"). The SOB manager actually argued with me on the phone -- and by argue, I mean the dude was yelling and not backing down. I appreciate a good yelling match as much as the next guy, but I wasn't wanting to wait another hour to eat, and it wouldn't have been fair to the driver to make him go get me a new one, so I just accepted the wrong pizza.

Despite being not what I wanted, it was pretty damned good, and only 11.91 after taxes and delivery charges.

Try Gaetano's mmm.. Check out the review I posted the other day. I highly recommend them for NY style pizza.

I've really done my dardness to avoid political discussions here. Most often, they are pointless and, usually, harmless. Such things are not "my thing". Among other things, "I like world peace," (ala Sandra Bullock) even if it never happens.

But did any of you see the Tom Browkaw piece on the Discovery Channel last night? And, right, many politicos, republican or democrat, doubt or ignore the existence of empirical data about global warming and its consequences within 50 or certainly 100 years from today which could result in a sci-fi reality movie were it captured before the dawn of the event? If you've not seen the Brokaw Discovery Channel program, if you have an open mind and if you can handle future terror-shock, you really should have a look. It is not a comfortable thing to see. I'm one who likes "comforatable things to see", 100%.

Maybe the theme of the Brokaw program was "believe me, we're looking at world-wide disaster by the year 2,100" (94 years from today), and maybe it wasn't. But we'd all be forceably sticking not only our heads, but also our children's and grandchildren's heads, in the sand if we gave it no heed all and failed to look at what the politicians seem to be reluctant to do.

I mean, we're talking about a possible cataclysmic devistation of your chidren, or grandchildren, and mine. Wouldn't you say that's a REALLY SERIOIUS toic?That's not so far away from our present "day". The immediacy of this possibility is just plain "scarey". Don't we have a duty, for those we care for, to look at the issue very very closly, and not just accpet what those who are running for office present to us in a comfortable no-think kind of way. I'm not saying who's right or wrong, but I am saying that is your duty to "think" ... to obtain data as you can, and make your best judgment.

So, whether Brokaw's Discovery Channel program presented correct or incorrect information, don't we have at least have a duty, for our offspring, to evaluate it very seriously?>Is Brokaw (and, actually his report relied upon scientists quoted there and upon which is report was drawn) right or wrong?

I'm not a person skilled in the knowledge of those presented in Brokaw's Discovery Channel program. So, my contribution to the scientific debate is zilch.

But, caring (as I do) for my immediate progeny, maybe even a little more than I care for myself, I'm certainly not willing, even if its painful, to be unattentive to what these scientists (not Brokaw, a reporter) had and have to say in this program. It's not an issue of "believing", it's an issue of parental responsibilty.

Switch gears to the politcal.

Aside from the above, politically speaking, every now and then, my sensitivies get piqued so much so that I feel a need to say something. This is such a time. I guess than I'm loading up here with 2 disctincly different issues. One has been described above.

I've never had (to my knowledge) a Pizza Town pizza. I've wondered about it (as to whether it was good "pizza"), but I've never wondered about it politically.

But, in honor of this thread, I'm for sure gonna get me some based on the pizza-quality reports, as opposed to the quasi-or-not-s-quasi-political stuff that I've read in this thread ...and after doing so, I'll give a report as to the succulence and good/bad taste of the pizza.

Maybe tomorrow, but, if not tomorrow, soon.

Americans are Americans, and anyone who is an "American" is good enough for me, whatever their national stripe, religion, creed, race, or national origin.

Should we start wondering about interning Dr. Zhuidi (sp?)? God help us, if anyone says so.

Some parts of this thread bring to mind the Japanese internment "camps" (i.e., prisons) in WWII. Is that what we want to be, and don't we want to be better than that, today?

Please, tell me that I'm not out of line in saying these kinds of things. This is America. This is America. This is America. I said it 3x to pinch myself and hope that it was (is) so).

Pizza Town is the best pizza in OKC, the supreme is my favorite, I think they call it something else though, 2 slices and I am done for. I like really thick crust. if you haven't tryed their pizza you need to get some. a coney island pizza, pizza with chilli and weeners and a Frosty mug of coit's root beer.lol

p.s. I have met Dr. Zhuidi many times when I worked in surgery at baptist, He is a very nice man, and he smells great too, I commented to him one day about how good he smelled, and he laughed and said.. David I have it made special for me in Paris.

Pizza Town is the best pizza in OKC, the supreme is my favorite, I think they call it something else though, 2 slices and I am done for. I like really thick crust. if you haven't tryed their pizza you need to get some. a coney island pizza, pizza with chilli and weeners and a Frosty mug of coit's root beer.lol

p.s. I have met Dr. Zhuidi many times when I worked in surgery at baptist, He is a very nice man, and he smells great too, I commented to him one day about how good he smelled, and he laughed and said.. David I have it made special for me in Paris.
Doubtless he did. So, what's he to be in the "Okc conservative stratetgy"? I won't answer that question and I hope that the need to do so will never exist.

Viva la Americans! All Americans, I hope.

But, of course this thread may be much less important that wheither it is OK to drive past the speed limit in the left lane, or not. Everything is relative.

So, whether Brokaw's Discovery Channel program presented correct or incorrect information, don't we have at least have a duty, for our offspring, to evaluate it very seriously?>Is Brokaw (and, actually his report relied upon scientists quoted there and upon which is report was drawn) right or wrong?

It's that kind if hysteria that rationalizes the insistence on the investigation of the absurd merely for the potential of cataclysm. Thirty years ago, there was "incontrovertible" science that we were in a massive "global cooling" era, and that a new ice age was "inevitable" unless we Did Something Now, or Cataclysm would Surely Result!! Guess what? That was junk science then, and it's junk science now.

If you want a great refutation of Al Gore's garbage, head over to www.junkscience.com and click on "The Real Inconvenient Truth" link. It takes Al Gore's "science" and shreds it with - shock of shocks - facts and science rather than hysteria and politically motivated conjecture.

I reject Brokaw's offerings out-of-hand because he is not netural on the issue; he is merely another of the numerous media lemmings who have listened to the music from Al Gore's idiotic junk-science flute and has started dancing accordingly.

I do know at least *some* of the science behind the global warming controversy, and it is unqualified crap. If you knew nothing else about the atmosphere's aborption of carbon dioxide to be logarithmic, rather than linear, and how much theoretical CO2 has already been "absorbed" in the last few centuries, you'd realize that changing CO2 emissions now won't do a *thing* to control temperature changes. It's the same kind of hysteria that led us to ban DDT thirty years ago, and consequently killed untold *thousands* from needless malarial infections (from unkilled mosquitos) in underdeveloped third-world nations. We're only now admitting how idiotic our past decision-making was in that regard, and how the science then was based on - guess what - junk science. We're merely repeating history.

It isn't about global warming; its about jeopardizing US sovereignty and transferring its wealth to other nations to achieve the broader "social justice" agenda the UN, the Clinton's, and the broader body politic of the left has been pushing for years.

I know, I know, this is a pizza topic, and I'm participating in a thread hijack. I'm sorry. But Global Warming and its adherents infuriate me, and I'm going to do my dead level best in my tiny, insignificant bit of the world to stop the insidious propaganda mill that Herr Idiot Al Gore has stirred up on this ludicrous non-issue.

And the best cotton' pickin' pizza in town *used* to be Godfather's Italian Sausage Original Crust. Now, these days, I don't think there is *great* pizza in town, but Hideaway comes darned close.

-SoonerDave

To the guy that ate Hemi's, I am so sorry. If you ever saw that place, it's filty. I had to do a quote for the owner on some work, and I never want to go back. I saw more roaches than pepperoni's. Plus, the owner seemed a little loopy. Guess it shows in his store. Yea, it may have been cheap, but you get what you pay for.

What does that have to do with Pizza House? I was looking forward to a new review of pizza house, not a bash on a place that's out of business.

Who knew pizza was so controversial? :numchucks

I tried it once when I was desperate, low on cash, and needed a quick and nearby place to grab something to go. The buffet certainly had slim pickings, and I kind of got a creepy vibe from the place - dark, empty, rather "lifeless" like they don't do a lot of business.

Most people I know who office very near there would not touch the place.

I don't know about rats, though. I pass through that alley almost daily and have never seen one, so that could just be rumor.

That being said, I have heard from a select few people that they have special sandwiches and calzones that are outstanding.

If I had to choose, I'd rather go to Coney Island next door.

When I first moved near downtown, I decided to give Pizza House a try. I called and the guy told me that he would make me a pizza so good I would never want to get pizza anywhere else. So, I was excited. However, what I got was the hugest pizza ever, stuffed with so many toppings it was almost impossible to eat. I didn't like it at all and so I haven't been back.

I suppose if you ordered just a single topping or something maybe it's better, but I went with the owner's reco and was disappointed. That's my experience.