Dewey's Pizza - Grandview

We finally made it to Dewey’s Pizza in Grandview to try the pizza that we heard so much about. While I definitely won’t say it was bad, it was below what I was expecting. The building looks pretty small from the outside but appears to be rather large when you walk in, mostly due to the high ceiling. There isn’t a lot of seating, but since it was a Tuesday night at about 8:30, we were seated right away in a booth. A waitress came over right away to explain the menu and take drink orders. They have GREAT beer on tap...maybe 6 or 7 selections, but definitely higher quality beer, such as Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA, seasonals from Bell’s and CBC, and the like. I actually do not remember what I ordered for beer and it isn’t listed on the online menu…it was a heifenwiesen though, and it was VERY good. He had the Stone Pale Ale, which is good if you like Pale Ale…it had a “fall” taste to me, but I have weird beer assessments like that. They also offer a couple of domestic bottles as well as a selection of wine. So far so good.

We ordered a ½ and ½ pizza so we could have some variety. Half was The Green Lantern with red sauce, mozzarella, minced garlic, mushrooms (which we declined), goat cheese, artichokes and pesto, and the other half was Southwest BBQ Chicken with white sauce, smoked cheddar and mozzarella, black bean corn salsa, amish chicken, roasted red peppers, and BBQ sauce.

When the pizza was brought out just a short time later, it appeared to have a thick crust and plenty of toppings. We both tasted the BBQ chicken first and upon picking it up from the pan we realized that we would need to eat it with a fork, as the bottom crust was rather thin and flimsy and drooped downward. The taste was really good though. We both liked the BBQ sauce a lot and wished there was more on it than just a thick drizzle. There was only 1 piece of chicken on my slice, but it may have just been the piece that I picked. The outer crust was very fluffy, but by the time we got to it we realized that it was very airy and had squished down to about a 1/3 of the original size…good flavor still though. Next we tried Green Lantern slices. I thought that there was enough of all of the toppings and that it was a great flavor combination. It wasn’t very saucy, which was probably good for this one because the flavors of the goat cheese and pesto were really able to stand out and the red sauce would have taken away from them if it were thicker. I liked this one a lot, but the crust was the same description as above. He didn’t like the flavors so he ate the BBQ chicken and I ate the Green Lantern.

Service was excellent---several different servers stopped by to check on us, rather than just one, so I’m not sure if that’s customary or just how it happened that night. It was nice though because we wouldn’t have felt like we had to wait around if we needed something---we could have just waved anyone down.

So while the beer, service, and flavors were great, it wasn’t our favorite pizza and didn’t really seem worth the $17.95 for a medium pizza, mostly because the crust wasn’t what we were hoping for. I did love that we could split a pizza down the middle as far as toppings though, because that would be very useful to us. I do recognize that a LOT of people really like this pizza though, so I don’t want to discourage anyone from trying it. As a matter of fact, I think everyone should try it…..pizza is personal and everyone likes different things when it comes to pizza. We both agreed that if someone else invited us to Dewey’s, we’d definitely go back, but we probably wouldn’t suggest it ourselves. I’d have to say I prefer zpizza when comparing the two.
Have you been to Dewey’s yet? What did you try and did you like it? What is your favorite pizza in Columbus---we’d be happy to do some more taste tests!

Dewey's Pizza
1327 W 5th Ave
Columbus, OH 43212
(614) 487-8282


1327 W 5th AveColumbus, OH 43212(614) 487-8282

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Black Creek Bistro Happy Hour

Happy hour is one of my favorite things...it's a great inexpensive way to eat, drink, and wind down from the workday. We just visited Black Creek Bistro on Parson's just south of Broad and we were all very impressed. The Bistro, which labels itself a "restaurant, bar, gallery, wine shop" is an extension of the owner's farm, which follows sustainable practices and has an admirable philosophy. Between composting, recycling, buying from local business and farms, reusing vegetable oil for the farm trucks, working with culinary school interns, and hanging local art that can be bought with 100% of the sales going back to the artists, they are truly striving to give back to the community. The menus will change with the seasons to use the freshest local products. The website menu isn't exactly the same as the actual menu, as it hadn't been updated online at that time. We sampled several things from the appetizer and dessert menu and were thrilled with everything, as well as the service.

The happy hour is one of the best around, as the food surpassed typical appetizers served at a restaurant. The mini bistro egg rolls and the calamari are an absolute must---they were unbelieveable. We also had the lemon basil shrimp and the trio of hummus--both of which were also excellent. The ladies had pear martinis and the guys had the specialy beers, which this week were the Rogue Juniper Pale Ale (large--22 oz for $5) and Great Lakes Eliot Ness (12 oz for $3). We also split two good desserts, one was a chocolate mouse (cake-like) with peppermint syrup and the other was a small apple pie (picure a pot pie, but as an apple pie instead). We will certainly be back.

Happy Hour Mon - Fri 4 - 7 pm

Appetizers $5 each
Bistro Dinner feature $10 (Mon-Thurs, changes daily)
Select mixed drinks $3
Specialty Martinis $5
Featured specialty beers of the week - 12 oz. $3 - Large $5
Featured wine of the week @ state minimum, by the bottle and glass!

I emailed the restaurant the day before to find out if reservations can be made for happy hour (they can) and whether the happy hour applies to the whole restaurant (it does), and I received a response within 4 hours from the owner, Kent Peters.

Open for lunch and dinner Monday-Saturday
parking available across the street
Email -mailto:-eat@blackcreekbistro.com
614-246-9662
51 Parsons Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43215