My experience this evening with Extreme Pizza in Issaquah, WA was not a good one. First off, I'm a fan of Pagliacci-style pizza, so maybe that's what my underlying problem is. Tonight I was too lazy to drive over to Pagliacci and decided to give Extreme a try because they're in town and had a nice write-up recently in the Issaquah Press. What a disappointment!!! The internet ordering option didn't work for me because not all of the toppings were available for selection online, so I phoned in my order. The young gal working the phones seemed to have a hard time grasping the concept that one side of the pizza should be traditional (i.e., cheese and tomato sauce) and that the other side should contain some additional toppings (pepperoni, et. al.). Once the confusion was sorted out I was told the pizza would be 25 minutes. The pizza was ready when I arrived, but I had to look at the backside of one of their employees for several long minutes before I was acknowledged. The pizza was kept warm atop the ""cooking device"" (but despite this it didn't maintain it's temperature for the 5 minute drive home). I say ""cooking device"" because Extreme doesn't use a real pizza oven, but instead, one of those chintzy, conveyerbelt driven pizza cookers. So rather than having a crisp-bottomed pizza, I ended up with a conjealed mass that had lots of little burnt cheese spots that resembled freckles. In my world the mark of a good pizza is the balance between the crust and its toppings; Extreme's pizza had neither. Another mark of a good pizza is that it's still edible later on, whether it's in a cold or reheated state. This pizza was not edible beyond the 2nd slice and will be thrown in the kitchen waste recycling bucket when I'm done typing. My advice: if you're 10 years old or less (or if you have no tastebuds) then Extreme might be a perfectly fine place to get a pizza. If you don't fit either of those demographics you might be best off ordering elsewhere.
Pros: Close, in-town Issaquah location
Cons: Not real pizza
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