Black Dog Pizzeria

First things first, I love the decor, its werid and fun. I've been wanting to try this place for a while, and the pizza is soooooo good. 16 inch old world pep pizza, garlic cheese sticks and hot doggone chicken pizza. Staff were very friendly and nice, and while there isnt a ton of seating there are games you can play while there. The ny style was amazing, nice bite to the crust and the sauce isn't sweet, which is a huge win for me! The chicken pizza had a nice smokey flavor and had a ranch base which was really good. The garlic cheese sticks were strong on the garlic flavor, which I liked! All around a great experience, will definitely come back to try other items on the menu!

So I decided to check out some of the Diamond star restaurants for the Columbus area and I love pizza so I decided to come check out the black Dog pizzeria i’m not sure what the gentleman‘s name was at the counter, but it was right before I put this post in. He will know who he is. I told him I was in town from Destin, Florida, but he did an amazing job of helping me pick out what pizza to get since I’ve never been there before. The cheese breadsticks are amazing and the spinoff of the barbecue chicken pizza was delicious and to top it off of some buckeye pie by the way Go Irish!! thanks guys. I’ll definitely be back.

We’ve wanted to try Black Dog pizza and their famous garlic knots for a while now. Had the chance to go sit down and it was very busy and has virtually no seating. That’s OK. The garlic knots were outstanding. Very worthy of their praise. The pizza, and I’m being honest was OK. Way too greasy and we got the ricotta and meatballs. Something that shouldn’t be super greasy but it was. If they want to improve their pies, I’d figure out how to make them not so greasy. Over hyped pizza but definitely great garlic knots.

Very disappointed. Such a waste of potential. First, the wings were not good (fast food pizza chains have way better wings, heck I suggest you cut costs and get Costco frozen wings. It would be worlds better.) Second and most importantly the pizza. Too much pepperoni. I get that people really like it, but bc there is so much pepperoni the dough becomes wet (wasted potential). I say this because the dough is so incredibly good. HOWEVER, 92% of it is wet and mushy due to the grease (inedible). If you would use 70% less pepperoni you would not only cut costs, but might POTENTIALLY have an incredible pizza where I can enjoy the tasty dough (trust me, people definitely push off a significant amount of pepperoni off the pie before eating it, bc it’s too much). I’m very sad.

There's plenty of pizza places in Columbus, but Black Dog has something special. I think when people enjoy their job and the people they work for, it comes across in the product. Ended up getting two sandwiches and some wings and you could just tell the folks working there, including the owner or manager (wasnt sure who he was!), was having a good time. Got the meatball sub and Italian sub and both were great. Wings were traditional with Carolina gold and they were a good size for the price and sauced well. The place had a constant line of folks doing pickup and I think thats for very good reason!