I should start off saying that the kids and I order pizza evey week or two. We have a great local family owned pizza place right around the corner that serves up great pizza at a great price. Two medium 3 topping pizzas, delivered, comes to $16.85. I usually give them $20 and tell them to keep the change. They usually argue that I’ve paid too much. I insist. And every so often they sneak an order of garlic bread with cheese “on the house” into my order. Unfortunately they don’t offer a gluten free crust option, they’re a very small family run place.

On Friday, after spending the day moving furniture and boxes around (I’m not moving but I’m rearranging, getting ready to paint, etc.) I was in no mood to figure out food. Pizza. I wanted pizza.

A quick bit of research showed that I had two GF pizza options in my area: Pizza Nova and Pizza Pizza

Both Pizza Nova and Pizza Pizza charge an extra $3.25 per pizza for gluten free crust and both offer only medium sized pizzas. At the time we were ordering we could not access Pizza Pizza’s web site (it’s working today though) so decided to try Pizza Nova.

Two medium gluten free pizzas, delivered came to just ove $32! I’m used to paying less than $17 for 2 pizzas! Pizza just doubled in price

Now for the pizzas themselves – we ordered a “Bruschetta” white pizza and a “Portebellismo” pizza. Pizza Nova did not list the prices for their pizzas on the website so we were flying a bit blind on pricing. I’m sure had we ordered some basic toppings the prices would be a little lower.

The crust is a “multigrain” crust with flax seed in it. It’s sort of a dense, flat, chewy crust – not really awesome. While we all ate the pizza none of us were too excited about it. Leftovers the next day were so hard that you just couldn’t eat them even after reheating.

Overall, after the initial excitement that we could indeed have gluten free pizza delivered, we were very disappointed in the results and the wasted uneaten pizza that was left.

We do intend to try again with Pizza Pizza for comparison but we’re not feeling very hopeful at this point.