I almost gave up on Village Pizza. When the campus restaurant opened a few years ago, it didn’t keep consistent hours. I would stop by, and it would be randomly closed, with no notice anywhere. Even Yelp lists this place as closed.

Over the last few weeks, when I’ve ordered online, many items were out of stock. But, I was finally able to order enough of the menu items to cobble together this review.

For pizzas, you either can build your own on thin crust, double dough, deep dish or gluten-free, or you can pick among the specialty pizzas, which disappointingly come only on thin crust in 12″, 14″ and 16″ sizes. Although I enjoyed the pizzas, I thought they were overpriced.

The Just Meats pizza ($17.49 for 12″) is loaded with pepperoni, Italian sausage, Canadian bacon and bacon. There was nothing I didn’t like about this pizza, and I appreciated that it was generous with the toppings.

I also enjoyed the Plato ($17.49), which has sausage, spinach, green peppers and lots of bacon bits. In fact, there’s so much bacon, that that’s the main thing you’ll taste (not a bad thing)–like it didn’t even need the sausage or spinach. I like green peppers on pizza, but I thought the peppers needed to be cooked for another couple of minutes.

The Mexican pizza ($18.49 for 12″) was tasty but didn’t wow me. It had spicy chorizo (which wasn’t spicy), plus jalapenos, onion and tomato, but nothing made it seem like it was a Mexican pizza.

The only sandwich I was able to get was the Italian beef ($7.49), packed with tender beef and a tasty au jus–yum! It’s topped with Italian seasoning, a thick layer of mozzarella cheese and your choice or hot or mild peppers. I got the former, and they did have a bit of a kick.

Just to try something else on the menu, I order the bone-in wings ($7.49). They were plump, juicy and drowning in barbecue sauce. You also can get the wings in garlic parmesan, sweet chili and lemon garlic, among other flavors. I also tried the boneless wings ($6.99) but thought the breading was too much.

Village Pizza is currently open for dinner and carryout every day.

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