Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana Reviews

Quick speedy service. Tried the white clam pizza and wasn t my favorite but still good to try

Unique pizza absolutely the finest anywhere!!!! I'm lifelong Chicago resident which has a reputation for great pizza but absolutely nothing comes close to being as good as Pepe Pizza!!

Great ambience. Great service. Above all.... Great pizza!

Delicious! A MUST when in or near New Haven. Had 2 of the specialty pies, tomato pie and the spinach, mushroom & Gorgonzola - both were really good.

Pizza was decent but not the best I've had. Salad plates could be replaced; scratched plastic plates from years of use.

Pepe s is delicious! We love coming here Friday night as a family with all of us sharing a large cheese pie and the girls getting pink lemonade. The waitresses are very nice and friendly too!

Best pizza ever
its worth the 45 min drive

The best clam pizza I have ever had! Great thin crust.....worth the wait!

Italian exam passed! I recommend the mushrooms and gorgonzola.

I have driven more than 25 mind for this excellent pizza

Great pizza, great service, great atmosphere. Have the clam pizza, but make sure all your friends have some too. Garlic breath for everyone!

I think the pizza is pretty fantastic but only if you have the patience to wait in line for an hour+, after you eat here go to Libby's down the street and get a cannoli or gelato to complete the Italian food vibe - HOWEVER comma, the thing about this place is that you have to be ready to deal with some pushy people. For example, today my family (party of six) was waiting in line right after another family (party of four). So the host comes in and says that a table for six is open, and my family stands up to go in and this lady from the party of four FREAKS out at us. She's yelling at us and the host "UM EXCUSE ME WE WERE HERE FIRST WE WERE IN FRONT OF THEM EXCUSE ME WE ARE NEXT" and pointing her greasy finger in our faces and just generally ruining my perception of human kindness. I would sort of understand if it was a busy night and we had been waiting out in the cold for an hour, BUT, it was a Saturday afternoon and we had both been there for about 10 minutes and like sorry that a table for six opened up before a table for four, SO CHILL LADY. And honestly, that's the vibe you get from some people here because they're just so freaked out about getting this "famous" pizza. Like chill. You'll get your pizza people.

I kept hearing about this place and we ordered the clam pizza, It is so good! The clams were cooked to perfection. The wait was a little long but well worth it !

The service could be better but the pizza was top of the line.

I have been eating here for years. I recently had a peppers and onions Pizza which was delicious and a garlic and tomato pie which had plenty of tomato sauce and plenty of garlic. The bacon is one of my favorites and the sausage pizza is good. On top of that they've got some great beverage choices. If you can't decide what type of pizza you want you could always go with classic cheese pizza or ask for a slice of anything they have available. If you've never had New Haven pizza before this is one of the many in the area you should try.

Ranks up there with best pizza I've ever had. Crist is perfect, cheese to sauce ratio spot on. My fiance had the clam pizza and loved it.

Best pizza in the U.S. So what if the service isn't great the pizza is fantastic.

I had the original tomato pie it was delicious! Pepe s can t be beat!!

love the coal pizza this way..although New Yorkers have the edge

The pizza was really good! The small pizza can easily feed two people. The menu is pizza and salad so if you are looking for something else, this won't be your place.
I only give four stars rather than five based on the service. Waiting for a table is a bit hectic and then the ordering/serving/cleanup is a little slow. The waitress was very nice though.
If you are planning on coming here, I would recommend before 5pm so you don't need to wait.

Pizza sauce tastes like fresh tomatoes crust Is crispy and I love e their salad.

It's famous pizza for years. It's very good. Is it great? I don't think so. Always busy. Always wait it line.... because of its name. No appetizers. Service is just ok. Have had better brick oven pizza. Another thing... parking is hard..

Dinner at Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana is an immersion in the savory art of making traditional pizza, or "Italian pie" as it has been historically known, using a coal-fired brick oven. The result of this process is a scrumptious delight, complete with a crisp, charred crust and the savory toppings of choice. This approach to satisfying the appetites of craving customers was conceived in 1925-era New Haven by Naples, Italy natives Frank "Old Reliable" Pepe and his love, Filomena, and resulted in the creation of "apizza" (spoken in their Neapolitan dialect as "ah-beets").

I ordered white clam pizza, to be honest, not as good as the one from modern pizza...

Excellent food! The pizza is second to none and the house salad is awesome! Get there early to avoid long lines!

Hands down the BEST pizza I ve ever eaten. If I lived here I would be in every month! We had the margherita pizza with cream soda and it was the perfect combination. Superb service and great tradition are served here

What can I say that hasn't been said already. Sausage and mushrooms pizza and a white pizza with whole clams. Along with a soda pop... A few special people with which to share this, what else is there to say! Bliss!

We got their seasonal tomato pizza. The way the pizza was cooked made each bite of tomato still have juice as opposed to being dried out. Couldn't have asked for a better pizza.

Awesome, thin crust tasty topping pizza. I ordered a Med. onion, bacon, sausage spinach. Yum. But it did take a very long time to make.

New Haven location is as amazing as its reputation. Worth a wait in line

Best thin crust pizza I have ever had. Lines are long to get seated but food is worth the wait.

Great food. Terrible setup and overall service. The employees were kind and professional, but the service seemed rushed and disorganized. They need to accept reservations. People frequently wait outside in inclement weather for tables. That is unacceptable in the digital age (e.g., Open Table). There were open tables inside the restaurant although what seemed like dozens of people were waiting outside in the cold. It seems the restaurant is purposefully making its seats scarce to increase the restaurant's value disappointing service but great food.

What can I say, I had my first Pepe's Pizza when I was a kid visiting my Aunt that was in Yale at the time. Well as a RI'er a drive lasting longer than 10-15 minutes qualifies as a foreign adventure. So when ever my travels puts me in that Rte 95 Corridor through CT all attempts must be made to make a stop at Peppe's. Now that there are more locations there's more options; but Wooster St still works for me!!!!!!! Ended up stopping there on the way back from Atlanta from an Ebay spree. Couldn't choose surf or turf so I ordered both: that was the atta boy stop of this expedition. Oh so good!

My friends told me this was the best american pizza and so I must try it. It is delicious. I very loved the light crust and melty cheese.

AMAZING. not sure if it's the best pizza in the country but I was definitely happy with it. Lines were long so I knew it would be good food

It's an authentic experience. The long lines validate it.

Great Pizza, clam pizza is great, all was good! Enjoy!

It's really hard to look for the right words to describe my experience here...

So I'll right it dry and simple:

This place definitely lives it up to the hype, their pizza's are so good, I'll be talking about it for years to come... Or till I'll be back,

Ps. This was my first visit so I can't relate to those who claim that it dropped in quality, to me it's still a world class pizza.

Truly a New Haven landmark and top 10 pizza in the world.

Historic. Wonderful food. Coal ovens make crispy slightly charred flavor. It's cheesy tomatoey goodness! The clam pizza is awesome! Explains why they've been in business for such a long time!! If you don't like slightly charred foods don't eat there.

A long wait time for a weekday night, but that's to be expected with world famous pizza. The staff were friendly and there was good service for a packed restaurant, but I was rather disappointed in the pizza. I love pizza of all kinds, it is delicious. Hearing that Frank Pepe's is one of the best pizza places ever I was hoping for it to be delicious. Unfortunately, I found that the pizza was about average to below average in quality :( It's an alright pizza place, though, ignoring the hype.

Amazing ingredients, amazing crust, got there 20 min late and the pizza was still delicious

westchester outpost of the original in new haven. not sure if it is the water or the ovens but not as good as the original. thin crust pizza is good but not worth the long lines

I read about this place as rated the best pizza, I think in a poll national wide, so on our way back home from Maine we stopped in. We weren't disappointed. Real pizza like I have had in Italy. We got a large cheese pie, and it was amazing. Can't wait for our next road trip to stop in.

Pizza was good, expected so much more based on reviews.
Service was good and attentive.

Yummy..what a pizza !1 Nice freshly made Veggie pizza.No wonder why All goes there.I love it.

Brought my own vegan cheese to Pepe's. The pizza is really good, thin crust and great sauce.

I love this pizza I swear this is the best pizza in th world 10/10 would recommend. And the service was outstanding and the pizza was even better. If I could choose one place to eat pizza for the rest of my life I would choose Franks Pepe s Pizza.

Wooster st in New Haven is the best place to get pizza. Forget New York style pizza or Chicago pan pizza. There is nothing better than New Haven original pizza.

One of the greatest pizzas you can get. The place is always packed so be ready for a line on the weekends

The absolute best accident I ever had. On a road trip and lucked in to this. Holy cow I still think about it 4 years later. The New Haven thing is the best. Period. Got lucky and came when quiet and demolished a pizza and some wine and beer. I'd weigh 400 pounds if I lived anywhere near this place.

It was the best Pizza I've ever had since moving to the states a year ago. Amazing.

My first time getting pizza from the Waterbury shop. It was soooo good,, crust to die for!. Great friendly service also. Thanks!!

Good fresh pizza. Staff are friendly but focused on speed over anything else since the place is always busy. It really is a New Haven experience, don't miss out!