PizzaRev is one of the latest “Make Your Own Pizza” places to pop up in San Diego. It’s similar to restaurants such as Project Pie, Blaze Pizza, Pieology Pizzeria, Pizza Studio, and Social Life Pizza. Basically, these places are the “Subway” of Pizza. I always find it interesting when one concept comes into town and sets up shop, there’s sure to be a bunch more to follow! I recently went to visit the Scripps Ranch location of PizzaRev after a nice walk with Maya. Luckily they have outdoor seating so Maya could join me for a quick dinner.
Sorry, I didn’t take any photos inside. It all pretty much looks the same as the other restaurants – a long line with all of the toppings you could possibly pick are set out for you to drool over. There’s a pizza crust person at the front who was using a big round machine to flatten out the doughs. He would spray the pizza pan and then spray the dough then run it through the machine. A few seconds later – boom – a pretty flat pizza dough, ready for alllllll your toppings.
I got a pizza with white sauce, mozzarella, ricotta, a few slices of fennel sausage, mushrooms, red onion, and a little garlic. They have a few “preset” pizzas available if you don’t want to think about what to order. It’s unlimited toppings – no extra charge.
The pizza cooks for a few minutes in the hot fire oven. It turns out a nice crust. The crust has a little bit of char and a nice crunchy texture.
I made the mistake of putting on too many toppings though, as the middle was a little too soft and soggy. The ingredients kind of weighted it down so I folded over the middle so I could still pick it up. The flavors were good overall and the outer edges of the crust tasted nice. I can’t say it was my favorite pizza ever but it was decent and the price is right for a mere $8.25.
They also have an Oreo dessert pizza here but I didn’t want to wait in line for that and opted to try the cake truffles instead.
One chocolate, one red velvet. Decent flavor, very moist, quite sweet. Nothing to write home about though.
Maya was mostly a good dog – there was a bit of whining and crying when I was out of sight or walking away but that’s just how she is, my anxious little dog. It was a nice evening to sit outside and enjoy my pizza. I wasn’t blown away by it, but it was decent enough. I’d probably just go for a cheese only pizza next time (which is only $6) and hopefully eliminate that soggy middle.
PizzaRev
Multiple Locations
10393 Spring Canyon Road
San Diego, CA 92131
(858) 433-0080
Hours:
Every Day 11am – 10pm
I always try and restrain myself with toppings because I know it’s easy to make the pizza overloaded and heavy. But sometimes it’s really, really hard when you’re faced with so many little bins full of tasty bits!
I’m not a fan of dessert pizza, but I think they should offer cinnamon sugar pizza knots or something. Or, I guess, I could just go to Rita’s for dessert.
I actually prefer Pizzarev to Pizza Studio (which is just as close to us, but in the other direction in Poway). But I also haven’t been to Pizza Studio in a long time, so maybe I need to revisit it.
Hi Leanne! I know… all those bins of toppings make it hard to just go totally crazy pants! Oreo dessert pizza only seemed mildly interested but obviously not interesting enough for me to try it on my own. Cinnamon sugar anything sounds better to me.
I went to the Pizza Studio in Kearny Mesa (it’s closed now) but my photos were terrible so I never posted about it… but I didn’t like it at all. I didn’t like the conveyor belt a la quiznos style they had for baking the pizzas and the sauces and toppings and the crust were all just kind of meh. I think Blaze is my current favorite place, though I haven’t tried Project Pie or Pieology!
After the excitement of these customized pizza places a couple of years ago, it’s kind of died down. I’ve also learned not to overload the crust since it gets too heavy and makes the crust all soggy and gross. I do like Project Pie and I liked that place we went (Social Life) for the red velvet cupcake tasteoff. I’ll take thin crust over thick any day.
I almost went to project pie, but it was too crowded so we ditched it. Yeah, I think the hype of it is dying down now. I wonder what the next trend will be! I kind of just like getting cheese pizzas now with no toppings so the crust stays crisp.