Red's Savoy Pizza

Always on the lookout for good pizza, we stumbled across Red's Savoy Pizza on the east side of St. Paul this weekend.  I've seen other outlets for this pizza, but this looked like the original location.  They had plenty of parking behind the restaurant, so we parked and stepped inside.

It took several minutes for my eyes to adjust to the dimly lit restaurant.  It has dark walls, dark tables, dark seats, and minimal lighting.  You enter in on the bar side, but there is a restaurant side of the establishment.  If you are eating with kids you have to sit on the restaurant side unless it is full, then you can sit in the bar.  That wasn't an issue for us, but it was an interesting sign nonetheless.

We ordered 2 diet cokes to which the waitress suggested we might want a pitcher.  Done and done...ordered the pitcher which was a smart move.  The pizza comes in two sizes - regular and large.  We asked the size of the regular and was given the hand gesture of about an 8 inch pizza.  We went ahead and decided to split it - we didn't know if it would be good or not.

We waited quite awhile and then our pepperoni pizza was delivered to the table on an old school plastic tray with a piece of wax paper holding the awesome looking, cut in squares za!  The hand gesture was incorrect....this pizza was going to be plenty for the two of us. 

The pepperoni was hidden under the cheese instead of on top of the cheese like many pizza chains make them.  They had plenty of toppings on the pizza.  One piece I ate had probably 4 slices of pepperoni stacked high on one slice.  The pepperoni had a little spiciness to it.  I think next time I would get sausage for something different.  Pepperoni tends to add a lot of extra grease to pizzas in general and this pizza was no different.

We drank our entire pitcher of Diet Coke and ate the whole pizza.  We were pleasantly surprised by this find and happy to know there are other Red's Savoy locations around the cities!  I'm assuming they will have as good of pizza as the original.

The only downside of the visit was the service.  It seemed they were understaffed and hustle didn't seem to be in their vocabulary.  They stayed busy and were continuously moving around.  Just felt like we had to wait a bit longer for beverages than we should have.

All in all, a great find and I'm looking forward to trying the pizza again!

Happy Eating!

(Note:  I could not find a website for this particular location, but here is one for the Uptown location.)