Pizza Pit?

[dahliaclone]

Not sure if mentioned...but the BEST place for pizza when I was there was DaVinci's in Campustown...can't believe they closed that place down. Hands down my favorite.

 

[ornryactor]

Little Taipai is moving out of their original place to where Davinci's used to be (it was Cafe Shi for a while...). My guess is that the booming bass from below (Dangerous Curves) at night encouraged them to look elsewhere.

I still prefer Cocost, which is still around. Does anyone know if it's true that the owners of Cocost and Taipai used to be married? Or did I just dream that up? I think the Cocost guy lives out back in an RV.

Gah... Cocost, are you serious? I don't like that place too well. It's not always bad, but it's seriously inconsistent- very hit-or-miss. Sometimes I get a huge pile of a delicious food, other times I get a yogurt carton of lukewarm crap. The only thing that happens EVERY time there is that the old dude at the cash register is always pissed at me because I woke him up from his nap to place an order. Insolent, I know... At least Cocost is better than CHC. Every now and then I'll hear someone say, "CHC for MSG", and they're right. They're the most expensive and really shady. Besides, why eat there when the always delicious Flying Burrito is 15 feet away?

Little Taipei is the way to go. Now if only they'd open up their damn new location! I've been without quality Chinese food for an entire semester, and I will be DAMNED if I go home without gorging myself on Little Taipei as often as possible in what time remains.

 

[herbiedoobie]

Was Pizza House located on the SW corner of the Welch Avenue / Lincoln Way intersection, across Welch from People's Drug? If that's the one, I agree with you!

As for Pizza Pit, I lived at 2515 Hunt Street my senior year (1986) with five other guys (house now gone :sad9cd: ). We'd walk out our back door and go 150' down the alley to the Pit's back door for the $1.50 lunch special! Dinner was usually "two burgers for a buck" at the Hardee's on Welch...

Yes, indeedy. Run in that location since 1957; had a real Italian feel and bottomless glasses before the rest of the restaurant world headed that way. Little booths in black vinyl, and using the bathroom involved heading down the stairs into the basement in a very, very narrow hallway. My future wife and I used to love to study there over a salami pizza and a couple of bottomless glasses of diet pepsi.

A couple years before they closed, they stopped serving the salami pizza, but the owners and I reached a deal where I could bring in my own salami and keep it in the freezer, and they'd make salami pizza just for us.

I miss that place. But I live in Europe, now, and when the wife and I go out for salami pizza, we go to a "real Italian" place, and talk about how nice Pizza House used to be.:rofl8yi:

 

[josh777]

Hardee's on Welch?? When was that?

 

[OWLCITYCYFAN]

Hardee's on Welch?? When was that?

1986 & prior! It was on the east side of Welch south of Hunt Street, if memory serves correct...

 

[cyclonenum1]

1986 & prior! It was on the east side of Welch south of Hunt Street, if memory serves correct...

Basically, right across the street from where they put the McDonald's in.

 

[johnsonjj]

OK, for an old fart this thread brings back memories. Little Taipei with the $2.99 Happy Family (extra rice was free) was a great meal on Monday nights in grad school before my 6-9 pm class.

Someone mentioned Minsky's pizza, but all I remember there was the Long Island Ice Teas in Bahama Mama glasses!

Pizza Pit was great college pizza when I was in school (Grad '86) because of all the coupons in the daily.

I still thought Great Plains was the most unique.