Home Slice Pizza
Categories: Pizza, Sandwiches [Edit]
Neighborhood: 78704 (South Austin)1415 S Congress St
Austin, TX 78704 (512) 444-7437
- Hours:
Mon, Wed-Thu 11:30 a.m.-11:00 p.m.
Fri-Sat 11:30 a.m.-3:00 a.m.
Sun 12:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. - Price Range: $
- Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
- Parking: Street, Private Lot
- Attire: Casual
- Good for Groups: Yes
- Good for Kids: Yes
- Takes Reservations: No
- Delivers: No
- Take-out: Yes
- Waiter Service: Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
- Outdoor Seating: Yes
- Good for: Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol: Beer & Wine Only
146 Reviews for Home Slice Pizza
Had one slice (pepperoni), one soda (Coke), one time...and it was great! A humble four stars for Home Slice. And I just love the name "Home Slice".
We love Home Slice so much, everything is excellent there. When they aren't serving slices (7-9:30 or something like that), go for the subs, they are just as amazing as the pies.
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Mmmmmmm.......... pizza... I Love you.
I used to go to this place with a friend, and I haven't been disappointed yet. The pizzas are fresh, the calzones are gigantic, and the atmosphere is delightful.
My dogs also love the crusts!
Do I really need to write a review for this place? Yes because I need to add it to my list.
So like most, I was tired of hearing the hype and decided to go for a visit. It's a lot bigger inside then I was expecting. It was also nice and cold inside which is a big plus for me. My companion wanted to get the clam pizza so we ended up getting 2 pizzas because I was having none of that nonsense. I went with pepperoni and meatball (my new fav combination).
While we were waiting, they were kind enough to give me prime fidgeting tools. I proceeded to see how fast I could spin my "plate" which is just a personal size pizza pan while fooling with the table candle, and contemplating getting a tattoo of "Slicey" the Home slice mascot with his motto "Pizza is your friend." No truer words were spoken.
The pizza itself is good. It is surprisingly light. For how much I ate, I didn't feel as miserable as I was expecting. The crust was light and fluffy and crunchy throughout. The meatball chunks were very good. Also, it's extremely non greasy for the type of pizza it is.
That said, there is equally good pizza closer to where I live, and they have easier parking. Plus, while I felt pretty good upon leaving...all I'll say is I am surprised I was able to make it out of the bathroom to get to work this morning. I felt like Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon 2, except the bomb wasn't attached to the toilet, it was in my stomach, and it went OFF!
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Down to visit an old buddy and had to see if the New York style was being done right in the heart of Texas ,,,,,
Like the atmosphere ,very friendly staff .Really good pizza , good crust , sauce and right mix of cheeses . Really good salads ...WHAT!!!! That's right I said it and I stand by it .not some little side salad but a huge "meal of its own " size with a perfect house italian style dressing that wasn't too oily or vinegary (did i spell that right ?)
Have to say we had a small "glitch" in the food prep but all was taken care of by our waitress and the manager and to our suprise the house picked up the check! A Great Way to make a first impression and keep a regular happy. oh and the deserts were good too ..try the chocolate ice or the cheese cake
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The hype surrounding Home Slice started months before the first time I ever set foot in Austin. More times than not, this leads to a disappointing experience since I'm essentially expecting the culinary equivalent of a unicorn emerging from a field of pastel laser beams. Nonetheless, Home Slice managed to impress me.
The crust could be a little more consistent; it's wonderfully crisp in some bites and swampy in others. The flavors are great, which is especially obvious in their simpler pies. The calzones are so amazing that if one were left half-eaten on a nearby table, I would go-go-gadget grab it and shove it in my mouth.
I do wish they offered a bit more variety in their slices. Only once have I encountered anything other than cheese, margherita and pepperoni. But, for the most part, Home Slice delivers. Although they don't deliver.
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Top Notch NY Style pie. Just the right amount of quirky Austin and traditional NY Pizza Place atmosphere. You will NOT be disappointed.
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The creator of pizza is often a topic of heated debate. Was it really Neopolitan creation? Was it a product of the Greek soliders? Was it Mr. Lombardi in Little Italy?
Who knows. And frankly, I could give less than two flying horse craps where it came from. All I know is that it's here, it's now and some of the most delicious triangular slices of sweet, sweet heaven are created at Home Slice pizza on South Congress in...out of all places...The Great Nation of Texas (TM)...specifically Austin.
Pizza is one of those things...so simple, yet like William Wallace's giant-ass claymore. One edge contains the power of creating the most perfect meal which could, depending on your pizza preferences, provide you with sustenance from all four food groups in one nice compact triangle. Genius. The other edge contains the potential for disaster. If one were to visualize beheadings, disembowlings, and maimings, that is what one feels like participating in (or at least I do. Does that make me a bad person?) when just ONE of those things is out of balance in a pizza. You feel destroyed. Ripped off. Sapped of your will to live when you realize that you'd probably rather be eating a bowl full of hot garbage than the entire entire ruined pizza you've just ordered
You cannot have one thing wrong on a pizza without the overall experience being soiled.
Cheese on the pizza burned? CHOP OFF THE ARM.
Sauce too sweet? Sour? Chunky? Thin? GOUGE AN EYE.
Dough underdone? Overdone? Too chewy? BREAK 6 TOES.
Too little pepperoni? Sausge to fennel-y? BEHEADINGS FOR ALL.
And that, my friends, is where Home Slice is extremely successful. They make creations worthy of the yin yang symbol. When I think of Home Slice pizza, I think of Zen masters and Buddhists and bald martial arts monk dudes that are able to break brick walls with chi focused into their small toe.
The owners of Home Slice have perfected the art of creating a pie so balanced that I am humbled and thankful to Darwin, Dionysus, Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad...hell, even Joseph Smith...that good pizza making genetics converged on the owners/cooks of this place and they decided to open a restaurant to serve their product in the city where I happen to live.
I know they make amazing pizza for two reasons:
1. I'm generally pretty picky about what goes on my pizza. If there's something I don't like on it, I won't eat it. At Home Slice, I'm happy to shove whatever they put on a pizza into my digestive system. For example, last night, there was one with pepperoni and mushrooms and one with spinach and tomatoes and some other fairly nasty non-meat vegetarian junk. But I huffed down a piece of both like I had been eating and loving mushrooms (I freakin' HATE mushrooms) and tomatoes (I'm Italian...and I hate plain tomatoes. This makes me somehow less...) since I was a wee lad.
2. I can eat more than a couple of pieces. I'm a fairly controlled eater, but when I start eating Home Slice, it's like my stomach turns into a black void that leads to the nether world. It's like some weird kind of quantum physics happen in me where I like to imagine the equation is this:
If AndrewsStomachxn=y2 x 1400000(SQROOT)x-factorElecticity=isTheLumpSum of 1000(n-finity)pcs.Of.pizza, then TheLumpSum + pizzaConsumed = neverending
...or something like that. I barely passed high school level algebra II...the bare minimum to get me into college...so cut me some slack.
But my overall favorite pizza is, I believe, a #4, which is sausage, ricotta cheese and red peppers. While I've never attempted it, and don't ever plan on it, I'm pretty fairly certain that if, say, I had 8 minutes to consume one version of the aforementioned pizza or a tiny nuclear explosion would destry a block full of baby kittens, I could probably do it in about 6 minutes.
OK. More likely 5.
Please...for all that is good and just in the world...do yourself and whomever else you know a favor and go eat at Home Slice pizza. The ONLY downside is that you'll have to wait for it. I don't think I've ever been there at a time where it's not really super busy. But I swear that it's worth it. The service is good. The atmosphere is good...albeit a little loud. They've got pretty good beer and wine there for you to sip on while you wait. It's on South Congress. And you live in Austin. Be happy and be patient because you'll leave a better person.
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I haven't been to home slice in over a year. The place reminds me of my ex a lot, so i tend to stay as far away from those places as i possibly can.
Well, today i had a hankerin for some pizza and thought "eff him, I'm going to homeslice". After taking two busses (and seeing Kevin N And Allison P eating at Lulu B's) I had me a slice of the cheese pizza.
It was good. It wasn't orgasmic or anything, but it was good enough. Not enough cheese, though. The service was friendly, but a bit slow. I'm sure I'll go back again, but it's not like a desire to sell my firstborn or anything for a slice. :)
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Sooooooo Gooooood......the Calzones haunt my dreams.......
Often loud and crowded, but it works there. Seriously good pizza, atmosphere is kick-ass. Parking isn't bad.
Do it.
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This is as good as pizza gets in Austin. The staff and environment are great too! They have a small bar with a few yummy beers on tap and my favorite part, a take out window which serves late night slices.
What is the downisde? The wait. There is always a wait to sit down. If you call in an order for pickup the wait is usually an hour before you can go and pick it up and sometimes, the wait for slices at the window can be 15 - 30 minutes.
PS - try the clam pizza.
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The best pizza in town, that's for sure. They got all the standard favs, but some unique varieties too, like parmesian pizza and artichoke. Delicious, heavenly, perfect. Oh yeah, and they have an excellent selection of beers on draft and wine selections. Now, if only someone from the city could do something about that dirt path along congress, instead of a sidewalk. It's like some sort of civic joke, watching ladies in high heels trying to scale the side of the hill and cross over the wood planks to get to the hippest spot for pizza in town.
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What a BLESSING to the neighborhood!!!
can you BELIEVE the wine prices???
what about that white clam pizza???
what a sweet staff! this place is THE BEST! !!
(as long as you get there and get out before all of the children show up --yuck, ugh, it's awful, they take over the place)
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Great pizza, nice staff...but what? you're closed on Tuesday?! Why Tuesday? What have you got against Tuesday? Is that the day your family goes to Holy Tuesday Mass? Open the friggin' pizza joint! I only ever want pizza on Tuesdays! Don't ask me why, I have no answer.
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Great pizza. Atmosphere is very nice and gennerally thier are some nice people hagning out you can chat with!
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I have been to Home Slice twice and both times I got the same pizza...the Eggplant. I have no idea what made me order it the first time, because the thought of Eggplant pizza really doesn't' appeal to me...but that stuff is Da Bomb! My friends are all carnivores and wrinkled their noses when I ordered it, but, whatdoyaknow! The eggplant was the first pizza to be devoured....lonely pieces of the meatball were left on the pizza stand at the end of our meal.
-1 star for the 1 hour wait for a table and the one hour wait for our food. For some reason our waitress waited until we finished our salad before coming near our table to take our pizza order....so there is a real chance that we thought the pizza was so good because they starved us for 2 hours before putting it on the table!
I probably will only go around 3-5 pm to avoid the wait...I am too old to wait 2 hours for a pizza.
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Home Slice Pizza is blissful. It's a go-to place for a long lunch break from the office. Oh... and lunch time is where it's at for Home Slice.
While most days of the week I'd give up my first born for a spinach calzone, the lunch special of salad, a slice and a drink can't be beat. You can get a Lone Star instead of a soda too. That's pretty bitchin.
If you don't want a big wait, go around 1:30-1:45pm in the afternoon... the lunch rush is pretty much over so seating is available.
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Best Pizza in the World.
They'll give you pepperchinis on the side if you ask for 'em, they serve Lonestar and Mexican Coke, the staff are fun and friendly, and they do have the best pizza in the world.
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Hands down, the best pizza in Austin (and I've been to most- Austin's Pizza, East Side Pies, Rounders, Conan's, etc.). The crust is always the perfect texture, not too tough and not too soft. It is also garlicky, so it's not the typical kind of crust that you leave on your plate. Since the slices are New York style, too, you get A LOT for your money. They have really good specials on their favorite pizzas (including Margherita), and the atmosphere is unbeatable. Afterwards, I always walk a bit down the street for some Amy's Ice Cream.
Overall, the pizza is fantastic. That's all I've ever had there, and it's been a favorite of mine for a long time.
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good pizza, but too busy for it's own good. have fun waiting 2 hours on the weekends.
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:: YES! I'm the 125th person to review (can I get a pizza prize?) ::
Pizza :: Great! (not as good when taken home, ironically. I think the crust gets to soft from the internal box steam)
Wait :: Long as hell ~2 hours once your done. (I prefer to order the pizza at the window and sit out back with there drink service. ~1 hour or less. You may have to vulture for a seat but most people are waiting for a table inside)
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Solid pizza joint in funky part of Austin. We got the family size greek salad and pizza with ricotta and sausage. Both were amazing, including the bread that came with the salad! Can't really think of much else to say about pizza... :(
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This is among the best pizza I have had in the country.
No I don't work for Homeslice.
I actually live in Los Angeles and have had pizza in many major cities around the country. This is in the top three.
Oh yes, and the Mexican Coke is fantastic because it is sweetened with cane sugar and not death-dealing corn syrup.
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Best pizza in town, closely followed by Mangia!
That and the name is hilarious!
"What up Homeslice?"
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The pizza is wonderful and the staff is really cool but it takes too darn long to get the food. I had to wait about half an hour for a table then it took over 45 minutes for them to get the pizzas to my table. If you have plenty of time to spare and drink with your group, great....If you are looking for something fast, uhh no...
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One more review to agree that this is the very best pizza in town.
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homeslice makes a solid pizza and has a really chill atmosphere. i think it might epitomize the austin local dining experience. i personally hate when you ask someone, "who has the best [insert whatever] in town?" and you get a recommendation for a merely mediocre place. when i first came to austin, i was told that huts has the best hamburgers in town. it was a normal, greasy hamburger. i thought that austin people didn't know what they were talking about. but i can safely say that homeslice is the best pizza joint in town. and there's really nothing else to say about that.
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Edit: Mea culpa, Home Slice. After toiling in my garden all day, I decided that I was in no condition to cook dinner, and ordered a pie from Home Slice instead. Takeout wait time was about 35 minutes. When I showed up at the appointed time, my order was ready to go. We got the #6 (sausage, ricotta, and roasted red peppers), a half caesar salad, and a half pear gorgonzola salad.
The pizza was REALLY good. No burnt crust this time. In particular, the sausage was awesome. The caesar salad was disappointing. The dressing was a little off-balance...perhaps too much lemon. The pear gorgonzola salad was pretty yummy, though.
It's not QUITE as good as real NY pizza, but it's an acceptable substitute.
My old review:
Home Slice? I don't get it.
My pizza credentials: spent the first 13 years of my life in New York (Albany and then Westchester County), and go back to visit frequently. I have pretty high standards.
I just don't think that Homeslice is very good. Each time I've had their pizza, the crust was burnt. Pizza, particularly New York style pizza, should be substantial. It should not crack when you fold the slice. I feel that folding is part and parcel of eating a slice of pizza, and Homeslice denies me this pleasure.
The sauce, cheese, and seasoning are all OK. And my heart was warmed slightly by the person who gave me my slice. I had a book in my hand, and he informed me that "Reading leads to harder stuff."
Admittedly, I've never ordered an entire pie from Homeslice. I've only ordered at the window. In the interest of being fair and balanced, I will actually dine in at some point. I'm especially interested in trying that eggplant pie. But until then? Three stars, for the overall flavor (minus the burnt part!) and the fact that the guy working there made me smile.
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My favorite pizza in Austin. And that is saying a lot from a girl who just spent seven years in Chicago. Love that you can just walk up an get a slice! I've sat on those 2 front tables with a slice of margarita pizza, a Mexican Coke, and my dog more times than I can remember.
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With the excitement of a little boy buying a Willie Wonka Chocolate bar and searching for the gold, I hurried through the back alley entrance and eating area tonight. (searching for a great piece of pizza and the 100th review!)
Big welcome sign on the back door screams "Come On In!" with a funny 50's grafik of pizza boy/girl with moustache.
Interior: red, warm, sweeet smell of fresh pizza and fun. Place was packed. Bar seating only. I pulled up a bar stool next to a guy who had just eaten all but 3 pieces of a beauty of a pie.
We started up a conversation about the za and he said it was the best he has ever had and he is STUFFED. I said that I came in for a piece of pizza because all of my friends said it was the best in town. He said it is, but you cannot just have a piece. You have to order a whole pizza. Huhhhh right. He said that I could have the remainder of his, he was not going to eat it.
I said "my name is Kimberly" not wanting to eat free pizza with a guy who I do not even know his first name.
"Charlie. I am not from here." - c
"How did you know to come here?" - kk
"I have been in Austin for 3 months and I have eaten only where people have told me to go." - c
"What brings you to Austin?" - kk
"I am a songwriter and am making a CD with a producer here." - c
"A lot of musicians love it here...why don't you move here?" - kk
"i have a great life in oxford, mississippi. my girlfriend is there and she has a full-time job. my family is there. lots of friends. I get to travel around the world doing what i love to do and return home. i do not have a day job, but to do what i do, I have to travel around a lot." -c
"Are you someone who I should recognize? What is your last name?" -kk
"Mars, like the planet. No, you shouldn't recognize me... there are a ton of musicians travelling the world doing what they love to do and neither of us would recognize their names." - cm
The waitress across the bar says "Can I get you something." - wab
"yes, please, a plate and a glass of wine." - kk
"red or white?" - wab
"red - what's good?" - kk
"my favorite, do you want my favorite?"
"yes." -kk
i take a bite of warm mushroom-pepperoni-sausage pizza. mmmm. just the kind of pizza i would have ordered, had i ordered an entire pizza. great cheese to crust ratio. slight hint of garlic in the sauce. still warm...
"why is this still warm?" - kk
"because when the pizza arrived i just looked down and didn't stop eating. i didn't have lunch today." -cm
Fun to sit at the bar because you can watch the pizza dough boy throwing pizza frisbees into the air to later blossom into the PERFECT crust. "My favorite" wine was a bit tart, but good. Not my favorite.
"My sister and her husband lived in Laurel, Mississippi years ago." -kk
He looked at me with an expression akin to deer -in-the-headlights and like i had hit him in the face with a brick.
"I am from Laurel. I am 33 and lived their for 18 years. Did you ever visit?" -cm
"Yes, I remember this huge park with a creek and large homes nearby." -kk
"Do you remember a huge antebellum mansion on the corner of the park?" -cm
"YES!" -kk
"That is where I grew up. Fifteen foot first floor ceilings and fifteen foot second floor ceilings and bedrooms on the third floor. My parents paid $85,000 for it in 1972." -cm
(I can hear the mcmansion laws turning in grave)
"What a cool place to grow up." -kk
"It was very baptist and Religious in a suffocating way." -cm
"My sister told me that Kristy McNichol from the TV show Family lived in Laurel and cut hair and was a lesbian." -kk
He looks at me like, Kristi McWHOOObian???
Not missing a beat, he said that Jeb from Green Acres was from Laurel and lived close to his home. Parker Posey lived next door and is a good family friend.
"Steve Forbert has a song about Laurel." -kk
"Great Songwriter! I saw him once." -cm
"Do you know Scrappy Judd Newcom?" -kk
"Scrappy?? No, why?" - cm
"I just thought if you are making a CD here, you were probably working with him because he plays on about half of the CDs produced here." -kk
"Cool. I will keep my ears peeled." - cm
I finish the third piece of pizza and my glass of wine and hand him money for wine and pizza and he only keeps $5 as he pays the bill.
"I have to go now...Tell me your name, I will remember it." - cm
"Kimberly K. Thanks for dinner... and conversation." - kk
"Thank you Kimberly K. for joining me. Please come to a show sometime." - cm
He leaves out the front door and I leave out the back door. I see a funny list on the back chalk board with the title/order :
"Mime It. GO."
I found the golden bar.
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All the cool kids are doing it, so I'm going to write a Home Slice review, too.
Basically, I loved it. Had a gigantic, size-of-my-head salad, glass of wine, slice of pep (very good), and a couple of garlic knots for $13.
I don't know if you can beat that for a Sunday lunch deal anywhere. Apparently, they also have PBR in cans. If you drink that sort of thing.
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Wow, I don't even really like pizza...but this place is good! I had the margherita and it was fantastic. Loads of fresh basil, easy on the cheese and a crunchy crust. Very yummy. If I ever get a hankering for pizza, this is the only place that will do.
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You are what you eat, right? Well then, fellow yelpers, I am figuratively a pizza, which is probably scarier than if I were one literally.
My husband made me the happiest woman today when he suggested we go to Home Slice for lunch. I had been wanting to go because I am a pizzaphile and this place has gotten rave reviews. I tell ya, if good pizza places don't stop popping up around town, Mexican food and barbecue are going to start missing me.
When we got there it was completely crowded. A wait for a table for two was 40 minutes, so we decided to sit at the bar. This was a good idea because you get to see all the magic happening.
After Betts, the coolest waitress in Austin, took our order, we drank our beers and watched the pizza process from start to finish. Even neater was that we saw the dough of our pizza grow as it was tossed in the air, we saw it get sauced and seasoned, then we saw the toppings added one by one... pepperoni, meatballs, and fresh mozzarella. Then our pie was put on a rack to await a place in the oven. At that point, I was just so happy and couldn't wait to get my pizza. Not very long after, our pizza came out. It was so delicious. The crust under the sauce was thin and the end crust was nice and crisp and doughy. I wanted to keep eating, but I could hardly finish my second piece.
We ordered the largest pizza they offer because we wanted to use our Food Saver on the leftovers. Including tip, we dropped $50 for a large pizza with one regular topping and two special toppings and 5 beers. We tipped $10 bucks, so we actually only spent $40 on food and drink plus we left with leftovers. Not to bad for us since it's the only meal we'll eat out all weekend.
I am not sure what else I can say except that I will be back to Home Slice with regularity as I make my transformation from human to pizza.
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Great pizza & beer. Totally worth the wait. This place is always packed and never fails to deliver good food, beer & friendly service!
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This was the second stop of the evening, after Continental Club. I had never been here before, but the reviews were solid, and I love the name of the place, so I thought we'd give it a go.
I had heard that it gets really busy, but I wasn't expecting a 90 minute wait to be seated at a pizza joint (and once you factor in the wait for the actual food, and then time to eat it, you're talking a 2.5-3 hour dining experience). Truth is though that at that point we were going to have to wait pretty much wherever we might have gone, and I'd been dying to try this place, so we got on the list (in retrospect though, getting on the list BEFORE going to catch The Blues Specialists at CC would have been the prudent course of action).
After standing around out front for a few minutes, One of my brothers said:
"What's this path around the side that goes out back?" - none of us could answer him, so he set about investigating.
He returned a couple of minutes later and said "There's a pretty cool patio out back, and it's empty - let's just hang out back there".
My other brother then said "If it shortens the wait, why don't we see if we can order carryout and eat it on the back patio?"
We asked, and the folks inside said sure, a carryout order will be about 45 minutes, and you are more than welcome to eat it out back - so we ordered our food, grabbed a couple of pitchers of Live Oak, and adjourned to the patio.
It was a little chilly, but we're yankees and that doesn't really bother us - and the truth is, sitting out back by ourselves made conversation much easier and more relaxing. I am glad we didn't sit inside, where the cacophony would have made effective conversation challenging.
On to the food:
The pizza was good - not the best I've ever had, but certainly better than most in Austin. Definitely in my top 3 or 4 Austin pizza joints.
The Spinach Calzone was fantastic - I liked it better than the pizza.
The Greek Salad was very tasty - I even had two helpings, and when there is pizza around, I'm not one known to double up on the salad.
As we were getting ready to leave, my brother said he needed to go use the bathroom - when he came back outside he said "Clever signs on the bathrooms, if I'd had a few more beers I might still be in there trying to figure it out". f you've been there, you know what he's talking about, and if you haven't - well, I'm not going to tell you.
Do yourself a favor and experience Home Slice for yourself.
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When my Texas two-step partner suddenly disappeared from Ego's, and I found myself feeling pretty drunk & lonely, I remembered the sign in The Continental's front window reminding patrons that Home Slice is open late-night on Friday's & Saturdays (i.e. early morning Saturdays and Sundays). I jaywalked South Congress and did an all-out drunken sprint (seriously) up the hill to Home Slice.
Excellent pizza, of the caliber I have learned not to expect anywhere outside the NY metropolitan. The semolina (or cracked corn?) on the bottom of the slices reminded me immediately of Two Boots in NY (not the best pizza in NY, but would be the best in most cities). Anyway, I probably felt a lot better the next day, thanks to Home Slice, and the ATM directly across the street made it possible for me to recharge the wallet and get my ass in a cab back to the hotel.
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Home Slice Pizza has good, hand-thrown NY-style thin crust pizzas - both in slice and pie forms. It's located in the heart of the SoCo area of S. Austin which is a plus (since I leave nearby).
HSP also has some excellent subs (try the turkey with the optional cherry peppers) made on bread that I understand is flown down to Austin each week from NYC. Good stuff. The Greek salad is very good and comes with a couple of pieces of the garlicky rolls that are made several times a day. Can't say that I am a big fan of the Caesar salad, however.
The pizza has a good sauce and the ingredients are top notch but I still preferred my pies coal-fired - something that I haven't seen in Austin. Try the fresh chocolate chip cookies for dessert. Good place. Crowded but worth the wait.
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Have I seriously not reviewed Homeslice? I was just looking through the reviews and didn't see one from me, this is an injust oversight on my part. I'm sorry Homeslice.
I have a weird love for dine-in pizza. It reminds me of being a kid, and my mom and her friends would take all the kids to Mr. Gatti's (this was back when Gatti's wasn't ghetto) and we would play (sit down!) Pac-Man and watch the big screen TV when all of the dads were out of town.
Homeslice reminds me of that, but without the TV or Video games, which is just fine by me. Also? In high school, there was this girl named Nikki who I was friends with (well, I always said she was fun to party with but I wouldn't trust her fars I could throw her, so maybe "friends" is too strong a word) who used to thrust her crotch out while grabbing it and go, "Fuck off, Homeslice." So the name makes me giggle all the time thinking about that chick doing that.
As for the pizza, damn that is good pizza. I like foldable, thin crust pizza with minimal toppings. In fact, I prefer just a plain cheese pizza and Homeslice does a mighty fine job indeed. The sauce is super fresh and not too "pasty" or sweet. The cheese is ooey and gooey and a perfect ratio to the sauce and crust.
In addition to the pizza, I love the Greek salad. The dressing is tangy and a little lip puckering, but make sure you ask for the feta on the side as they have a tendency to over-feta.
At work, we've decided that when the lone male on our team isn't with us, we're going to go to Homeslice for "Cougar Lunch" because the boys on staff are so damned cute! And so young that a few of us could probably have birthed those boys.
Great pizza, awesome salad, and cute young boys. What more could a cougar ask for in a restaurant?
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the best pizza in Austin for sure. which isnt saying a lot because Austin doesnt have much good Italian food but you have got to give the props where they are due. Also a nice selection of beer and wine and the staff all seem really friendly (so far). Nice place to bring your kids too.
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