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I've been here a few times since my review, and I have to say it's really growing on me. They have a lot of weekly specials and I'm loving the pizza more and more.
The fam went here a couple weeks ago and we still got the happy hour price on our beers tho the time looked about 2 minutes over. nice.
We ordered one extra large half cruz classic (omg wonderful) and half cheese because the kids didn't want any toppings. There was plenty of entertainment around for the 2 kids to do while waiting for the pizza, and the grown-ups had our delicious beers. The pizza came piping hot but was full cruz classic. Great for me, but the kids were disappointed. The server didn't miss a beat and went to go make a separate cheese pizza for the kids. Wow!
If you're not totally stuffed after all that pizza, the dessert pizzas are good too....
Pros:
Spacious place to sit with friends
Some video games
Gatorade on the soda fountain!!!
Whole wheat…
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They don't sell pizza by the slice after 4pm or before 9pm so I ordered a personal pizza to-go instead. Within 15 minutes of consumption, I threw up due to my pepperoni and mushroom pizza being undercooked. I re-baked the remaining slices the next day and everything was fine.
I've been a big fan of Woodstock's since my Davis glory days but this incident puts the Santa Cruz location 0 for 1 in my book.
Like the last reviewer, I hadn't necessarily planned on reviewing Woodstock's but seeing how ridiculous everyone else is, I felt I had to step in. This place is consistently good, high quality, fresh pizza (comes close to Papa John's imo). They don't scrimp on toppings, offer wheat crust (which is excellent), have loads of tasty sauce and specialty choices, and have great coupons and specials, not to mention that if you get one of their little keychains, you never have to pay full-price for a beer or pizza again. I have given up going anywhere else in this town for pizza. Highly recommended.
Oh and for all you complainers: it's not the restaurant's fault that your girlfriend is a vegetarian and that you can't pour beer without spilling. Stop hating.
Great pizza. The sauce is perfect and the crust has to be the best part!
I had to take a star away. Went here again last night, and although the pizza was good it took 50 minutes to get it. Not cool! I thought they might have lost our order, so I went to ask about 45 minutes after we ordered. They did not seem to think 45 min was a long wait (they were not even busy), and just said it would be ready soon. Bleh.
The pizza here is pretty standard....And good.
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Consistently fresh, consistently delicious! Made with all-fresh ingredients, they fold the crust over the cheese & sauce so every bite's delicious. Their staff are extraordinarily positive, and going there always picks up my day for that reason alone. With UCSC in session they now close no earlier than midnight, sometimes as late as 1 or 2 in the morning. They even have a late-night deal for an X-Large 1-Topping pizza for $14.99. Dollar Beer Wednesdays, Trivia Thursday nights where you can win schwag - they really do a lot. I've checked with their staff - they get a free pizza per shift they work, and even some of them are still wowed by their pizza even though they make it day in, day out. Awesome job guys! Keep it up!
Yes I went to Santa Cruz again. Well we were on a time crunch since we had a show to catch in San Jose. We end up ordering pizza from Woodstock. So we ordered the Pesto Primavera pizza but added the Kauai Chicken to it. The chicken was suppose to be spicy but didn't taste spicy at all. Taste more like BBQ Chicken. The pizza itself was not bad and I got my veggie and pizza fixed. I love the patio and it seems it was the place to be and hang out. Overall the pizza was okay.
We (4 adults 6 kids) happen to roll in here looking for any pizza joint after a nice day at the beach. After consuming one slice all adults were starting to comment that this was some damn good pizza. The kids were all happy too and soon all pizza was gone to the last sliver. For sure we will be back next time we are in Santa Cruz!
Only negative point: it took rather long for the pizza to show up ... not too handy if you have 6 hungry kids that are longing for their beds. But one look in the smoothly running kitchen made it clear that it was a matter of too many people that knew about this excellent pizza before we got a chance to find out.
Great pizza (I like the choice of wheat crust too!), good salad and fun atmosphere. Will return :)
I finally tried Woodstock Pizza. A lot of friends had told me about the place, and I finally got around to it. I usually make my own pizza, but this was pretty good.
First off, this is not a deep dish pizza, so if people are expecting that...keep going.
Its not New York style either.
But its just a good pizza. Love the patio seating. Litre beers are always a good thing, though I would love to see more of a beer selection, but hey, I love beer.
Overall it was good. I'll definitely go back.
I have been here twice and have been disappointed twice. I have eaten luke warm pizza both times. I have nothing against the variety of the pizza or the taste, which is why this gets 2 stars instead of 1.
Great pizza! Friendly service! I like the whole wheat crust with spinach and mushrooms. Good parking, lots of students, there's a fun trivia night one night a week. The organic spinach salad is delicious too.
It's clean, I'll give them 2 stars for that.
The pizza?
This place reminds me of why I hate California.
I hate doing this. I like their pizza. I like having almonds as an option for toppings.
However, the customer service sucks. First, I changed my review because of some delivery issues. When I first moved to Live Oaks area, they delivered, then they told me that technically I was outside the delivery area and they would only deliver if they weren't busy. I understand that I'm outside, but they should have just let me know that from the beginning.
So, after I changed my review I was contacted by someone on Yelp saying she was one of the owners. She didn't like the change in my review, and she wanted to know what was going on with it. So I told her. She told me she'd talk to the manager and get back with me. Well it's been two weeks, and apparently it's not really that big of a deal because I never heard back from her. I also find it funny that when I originally emailed them with the complaint, they never responded, but when I change my Yelp review, they get worried. Obviously not worried enough.
To me, customer service at restaurants is one of the most important things. Several of my reviews were at very nice places, with good food, but with completely shitty customer service, and they are places I really don't want to go back to.
I hate that they have good Pizza, because I would feel better about changing my rating yet again.
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I'm not sure why we went for pizza the other night, but we did...probably because all the rest of the stores looked to be closed at 9pm...in retrospect, we should have looked harder.
We ordered the Pesto Primavera Pizza and decided to add chicken. Actually, not a bad pizza in terms of the topping portions which were very generous, but there was WAAAY too much tomato (like there was so much tomato that it just looked like a tomato pizza at first glance), and the broccoli wasn't all that fresh. The cheese was actually under the toppings which was a bit odd seeing that it wasn't a deep dish pizza, and the final price for the medium was $20--which i thought to be a bit high considering it was only a 12" pizza.
A lot of their other pizzas looked pretty good, but seeing that the gf wanted to eat healthy, i had to suffer through all the veggies...:-P
I gave them 3 stars because i'll assume that a more "manly" pizza covered with loads of meat and more cheese would have provided better results (per the rest of the reviews).
Happy Eating!
Great palce to go for pizza, and one the best palces to take a friend..Just love all the pizzas they have
Woodstocks Pizza, whoever told you to market to college kids at college campuses should get a raise!
This place is awesome. First of all the pizza is pretty epic.
BBQ Bird...mmmm...mmm...mmm. yummers
And all the other pizzas are just as good. However the BBQ Bird is definitely a must, and you would be missing out on life's essential qualities, if you are not putting a BBQ Bird in and around your mouth when you come here.
Not only is the PIZZA excellent, but the they serve beer. But not only do they serve Beer, but they show sports games! This is one of the best places to watch a sports game with beer and friends in Santa Cruz.
The NBA playoffs started today. And I cannot wait to come to WoodStocks with my friends to cheer the best team in the NBA...the LAKERs! I came here year almost every weekend with all my friends and yelled, cheered, and rooted our hearts out. Too many Celtic fans though. That was the only downside of this place. They shouldn't be allowed in the restaurant.
Aside from that, this place has excellent food, excellent environment, and excellent memories. I can't wait to come grab some pizza N Beer, and watch the LAKERS WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP!
GO LAKERS! GO WOODSTOCKS!
pizza was great not very big portions but still filling like crazy not to expensive and a great student discount
We musta caught this place on a D&D marathon night. I have never seen so many 30 sided die.
The food was good - nothing spectacular, but perfectly suitable. We were starving; a long day down the PCH and we literally wanted to pig out. My mother is little woman, who can get away with eating crap on a daily basis and still be a little woman. I am a 30 yr old that gains 11 pounds per slice of pizza. Hence the reason I avoid pizza like Joaquin Phoenix avoids reality. (Allegedly.)
We split the medium pick your own with sausage, pepperoni, onion, bell pepper and something else. Maybe strawberries. I forget. But it was good. We also split a salad which does a body good.
Atmosphere is cool - very diverse crowd, (as I eluded to in my headline,) we were blessed with hearing a discussion regarding the HP on a royal orc and the effects of a wyvern's magnum wing flare on said HP while we waited in line. I am cool with D&D though. I did it when I was 8. (I just choose to do it these days on my PS3!) Otherwise, they have a heated patio and plenty of TV's. Huge plus. Something for everyone, obviously. Good sauce.
Oh my goodness, this place is one of the best. If you want greasy, go to pleasure point or pizza my heart, if you want cheap and fast domino's, but if you want a the best pizza perfection balanced perfectly with tons of toppings and a thick rolled crust you go to Woodstock.
And let me tell you, if you go there you HAVE TO get one of their dessert pizzas. I fell in love with their chocolate Carmel pizza dessert, make sure to be careful if you take it to go though... its delicious-ness may spill drip out onto your clothes. They also have reasonable prices for everything, and all in all, their a great pizza place.
I have high Pizza standards. But I am not the gal who will keep on going to the same place over and over because I can't believe anything could be better than what I am eating now.. There is always better. There is always different.
Yelpers, it is not even a viable comparison to compare Pizza My Heart to Woodstocks. These are both two completely different styles of Pizza. Nuff said.
Woodstocks however has incredibly fresh ingredients, and I can hang out at the restaurant with my kids, and not have to worry about the homeless guy bumping into my children on the way to the bathroom. I love that I can choose to have my tomatoes added to my Pizza after its been baked (yum!) awesome little fire pit, the man is happy with the sports on, and I am a happy girl that they sell Fat Cat Chardonnay, a very hard to find Rombauer taste-alike...
In conclusion, try it out. Its a great atmosphere, the ingredients are fresh, the place is big and clean, and they have my favorite cheap white wine.
I feel less guilty ordering my late night pizza cravings from here than from dominos, but really, I don't enjoy this pizza all that much.
Sure, as a chain they have introduced some interesting signatures, such as the folded over crust. At first I was like "cool, sauce under the crust" but then I came to realize that by doing this I get a whole lot of crust and not as much pizza. And I'm the kind of person that doesn't eat crust (unless it's really delicious, which let me assure you, it is not)
I also have problems with how expensive they are. Perhaps they know we are all fed up with dominos and as the only other place that delivers in the west side (RIP pleasure pizza) they can jack their prices way up. But let me say this, for 16 dollars I should be getting a fuckng amazing medium pizza, not some mechanized attempt to offer creative pies.
as a side note, has anyone figured out how to eat the pizza without the oversized veggies falling off? It's always so disappointing. perhaps they could cut them smaller (like every other pizza place I have ever visited)
Le crap. Ok atmosphere but thats about it. Two stars for the patio,
Woodstocks is a fine place, the service is fine, the food is fine, the options fine, always over crowded, and trivia night sucks because the guy who does it always chooses questions that his friends would know the answers to and ridicules people for thinking that the questions are hard.
Some of the best pizza we've ever had.
We were visiting Santa Cruz from the Sacramento area, and were in need of a lunch spot. We had 3 small boys to feed, and they were getting cranky, as we had a delayed lunch time. 2pm + small children + haven't had lunch yet = potential train wreck for the parents.
Anyway... we were stompin' around downtown Santa Cruz and came up on Woodstock's. We knew the kids would like pizza, so we ducked in and ordered up.
The staff was VERY friendly and courteous. We had a greek salad, a 1/2 Cruz Classic and 1/2 Hawaiian, Wildbread with cheese, and (because it happened to Monday) they were having Monday Madness, so we got a free small cheese pizza to boot! I must mention that we also ordered the pizzas with the wheat crust... more on that later. The breadsticks and salad were out in no time, and the pizzas were RIGHT behind the appetizers. Talk about fresh AND fast!!!! Needless to say, they turned our potential train wreck with the kids into a pleasure cruise! The boys LOVED all of it (including the salad).
The salad was great, the breadsticks were much heartier than your normal pizza parlor breadsticks, and the pizza was AWESOME! My wife and I have had lots of pizza, and this place moved right to the top gun pizza parlor category for after the first bite. The wheat crust on the pizza was incredible! The flavor and texture of the crust was seriously top-notch. I wish I could make pizza that good!
Woodstock's Pizza has now become a primary 'must-go' restaurant for our family when visiting Santa Cruz. Clean, laid-back (but not boring) atmosphere and awesome food for when you're doing the Downtown Scene!
Thanks guys!
Did I mention that the prices were good? (at least to this thrifty family!)
I've been coming here after class at UCSC for several weeks now. Good pizza and free Wi-Fi. Today I had a slice their tomato-basil pizza and it was great.
We ordered takeout from here last night: half veggie, half cheese. While they had a special, XL for $16, it still kind of sucked. The whole wheat crust was amazing, but the sauce barely made an appearance, and the cheese was sort of... flavorless and.. stiff? The veggie mix was also unimpressive, and added after cooking--pale raw tomatoes, green peppers, a few olives, mushrooms, nothing special. Also, we ordered ranch, but we got caaser under the guise of ranch. Gross with pizza.
I wish I could combine their crust with Xtreme pizza's overall flavor and quality.
TV. Football. Beer. Pizza.
'nuff said
Decent Pizza with a variety of topping choices. Trivia night is always a good time, althought those hipster kids are poor losers and blame the host for their lack of knowledge!
I haven't been to Woodstock's in 7 months. But before that, I had gone 2-3 times since their opening. The reason for that is because the pizza they sell is for BALLLLLAs, and i'm no balla. I can't afford $25+ for a pizza...I just can't.
The whole concept of Woodstock's is cool though. They cater to the college crowd and supposedly sponsor school events and whatnot. They also e-mail out coupons, which helps you NOT go too broke when you buy their food. The pizza itself was pretty good. I wasn't overly amazed with it because it didn't punch me in the mouth like good food does, but it wasn't a bad pizza. They have such a large selection of toppings and sides...I don't even remember what I got. I do remember the BBQ chicken pizza being one of the better ones though. I also ordered buffalo wings from here, which weren't too good. I lost my appetite after eating them because they were still cold in the middle and felt soggy on the outside--I like my chicken wings somewhat crispy.
I'll probably never come back here unless it's with a big group of friends or something. It's not the best spot for a 2 person lunch unless you're there for the happy hour beer specials or the sports on the flat screen TVs. Check it out...
good food, friendly staff and great Sports = a good time
If they don't give me the free slice of pizza they advertised for this review ima come back here and give em 1 star
Come on Wednesday nights for Pint Night!
geez...i didn't really feel like reviewing woodstock's, but there are a stack of people who are being completely ridiculous with their ratings, and i feel compelled to stick up for THE BEST PIZZA IN SANTA CRUZ.
the key word with woodstock's is fresh, fresh, fresh. the pizza always tastes like it's made with farmer's market veggies.
they have a few decent beers on tap, which i can't say for any other pizza joints in town.
the staff is super-friendly and the place has a great atmosphere in general. if it's the right night of the week, this is one of my top two or three places to bring out-of-towners.
i can't give five stars because the pizza costs more than i am usually willing to pay for dinner...especially given that i can eat a full pizza by myself. if they found a way to knock the price down by maybe two bucks a pie, my vote would change.
anyone giving bad review because they prefer NY style, or Chicago style, or japanese style or whatever: don't be an idiot. this pizza joint isn't any of those styles. don't buy a burrito and get angry when it doesn't taste like cheesecake. please, i promise we won't miss you when you go back to wherever they make your favorite sort.
i'm not saying that it's impossible that some voters have had bad pizza at woodstock's, but it would be surprising. the overall average rating of this restaurant is in no way indicative of its quality. trust me, if you like california style pizza, you'll love woodstock's.
Maybe it is due to the lack of decent pizza places around here - pizza places with good beer, outside seating, a fire pit, whole wheat crust, decent toppings and good house red - but I really liked this place. We came on a Friday night, early enough for happy hour and outdoor seating. Huge salad and breadsticks later it was time to bring on the pizza.
Not too shabby.
Actually the best whole wheat crust I have had. Chewy with a crisp bottom - some may say that is how I am described.
The Hemp ale, Newcastle and red wine all hit the spot - yes Im a lover of anything with an alcohol content.
The dessert pizza was okay, nothing great but at that point anything with melted chocolate was welcomed.
After we left everyone from this side of the hill were begging for Woodstock's to come to San Jose.........
It is alright.
I've had it twice.
When the decision is left to me -- I would never pick Woodstock.
PIZZA MY HEART!!!!
what do college students want more than pizza and beer?? um, nothing. and woodstocks has a lot of both. go on wednesdays for pint night! the more you drink, the more economical you are being... first pint is $5 (and you get to keep the cup!! oops, ive always given it back!!) then each imported beer after that is $2... they are usually generous with starting happy hour prices early on other days too. thursdays is trivia night, which is fun if you're with a big group - no cheating on your iphones!! takes the fun out of it.
ok, now for the pizza - wheat crust is amazing, and the toppings are all so so so fresh and hearty tasting. i go for the pesto primovera, which is basically like one day's worth of veggies per pizza. (probably not, but i have to justify eating this much pizza!) and i love sitting on the patio by the fire. the salads are nothing special at all, but who orders salad at a pizza place anyway? woodstocks, you are forgiven.
Woodstocks has one good thing about it lately (was much better months ago)...the salads. They are actually better than Kiantis.
Of course the monster beers are a plus!
I have been let down by Woodstocks. I saw the peppers and cheese being filled in a very unsanitary manner. I have waited 30 minutes just to get my SALAD, let alone my pizza.
I also have a gripe about the crust. It is not consistent and really could be cooked more.
I do like the ingredients available and want to keep coming back but there are some things that need to be worked on to keep the adult population returning.
Their crust is mouth-watering, one would say, the bomb diggity, if not the shizznittle bam snip snap sack!
These people giving one and two stars all own Dominos or are just A-holes who bash places for kicks. Woodstocks has some great pizza especially with the two for one email coupon. You complain because you too big of glass of beer???? Go back to the valley and leave santa cruz for the locals.
Santa Cruz, CA
Category: Pizza
Santa Cruz, CA
Category: Pizza
Santa Cruz, CA
Category: Pizza
Santa Cruz, CA
Category: Pizza
Santa Cruz, CA
Category: Pizza
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