Luke Kirtley ’15 | Graphics Editor

With lunch being open campus, students often travel across the street to get a bite to eat before their afternoon classes start. But at Extreme Pizza, expect to be in a hurry to get to class on time.

The first time I went, the restaurant was fairly unprepared for the onslaught of South students. After waiting, I received the pizza and bit into something I have felt like I have experienced before. It was average at best. The bread had no defining features, nor did the cheese or even the sauce. It was all just OK.

Not to mention, the atmosphere is fairly dry and the wall decorations and design give it a tacky look that makes me feel like I’m in an average pizza place. This factor is fairly important to me because what keeps me coming back to restaurants is the taste and atmosphere, even if I have to pay a bit more than I would like to.

That piece was just the pepperoni, and with Extreme Pizza specializing in more extravagant pizzas, I thought I should go about ordering a signature pizza. I called ahead because I knew I would have to wait if trying to order at lunch. After some trouble ordering over the phone due to pizza pronunciation problems, they did not tell me the cost of the pizza. An hour later, I went to pick up the pizza for lunch and located it sitting on top of the oven. The pizza was still warm, but it was not hot.

The real shocker of this was the price. I paid almost $20 for a large pizza. May I remind the readers that they did not tell me the price of the pizza until I was in the store.

I can not completely write a negative review, because it wasn’t at all poor. The redeeming factor was the taste. The pizza contains Portuguese linguica, smoked bacon, pepperoncini, roasted red peppers, tomato sauce, mozzarella, and fresh cilantro. After handing over $25 dollars for three drinks and a large pizza, I sat down with a few friends and began to eat.

The pizza I purchased was really no different than any other, it tasted average and did not impress me at all, but this still does well against the battle against Farms Market for best South lunchtime pizza in my opinion. Extreme Pizza offers a variety unlike Farms Market, which gives them the upper hand in this next-door-war.

Although it does compete well with Farms Market in taste, the true problem that brings this restaurant down is the time and money a person will spend here. I’m fairly sure I could have walked to Farms and purchased three slices of pizza three different times before having a slice at Extreme Pizza be ready.

With Extreme Pizza’s wide variety of choices, one can expect to never run out of options and be thoroughly satisfied with their lunch choice, that is, if they are a billionaire and don’t mind waiting around for all of their lunch period.

Extreme Pizza should save the rest of their marketing money that they spent whilst handing out free pizza for three days in a row and spend it on relatively important factors such as timeliness, quality of their pizza, and price adjustments.