Whole Foods Pizza

[Anonymous]

We ordered a cheese pizza from whole foods yesterday and it was vile. The crust and bottom was filled with loose flour it wasn't fully cooked, it was soggy and disgusting. It was not salvageable so we threw it out. Is this the norm for their pizza or did we get a dud?

[Anonymous]

I have an untested theory based on observing the pizza display when I pop into my local that after a stint post-Amazon acquisition during which they switched all stores to selling pre-made pizzas, they have now gone back to making pizzas in-house at locations where they have the ability (i.e., the giant pizza ovens). So maybe that's the case at your store and they're still re-learning! Personally I'm glad to see store-made pizzas back because the pre-fab stuff was gross.

[Anonymous]

That's not the norm IME. But their norm isn't very good either.

[Anonymous]

I went to Whole Foods for the first time this week I noticed when I walked in, and it smelled like a New York pizzeria! I had not smelled that smell in decades. So of course I went over to look at the pizzas…and I thought they all looked horrible and didn’t buy one lol.

[Anonymous]

Not unusual at my Whole Foods. I’ve gotten exactly what you describe. Occasionally a little better but never good or equivalent to pizza shop.

[Anonymous]

That’s not the norm. I’ve never had undercooked pizza, but, as others have said, their pizza is not very good. When the Friendship Heights store opened, their pizza was excellent. One of the staff told me that they imported their flour from Italy. Then, a few years ago, the pizza went from being excellent, to being just ok, to being meh — to the point that I would buy frozen pizza by California Pizza Kitchen before I would get pizza from Whole Foods.

[Anonymous]

It used to be better but has gone downhill the past few years as has most of their prepared food IMO.

[Anonymous]

My Whole Foods has passable pizza that is not amazing but not as gross as you describe. It’s on par with most pizza restaurants around here.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s passable also. Depends on how hungry you are! Pepperoni is better than the plain cheese. The dough does have an undercooked quality. The cheese coagulates and gets thick

[Anonymous]

As a NYer, I would never eat Whole Foods pizza. My DD has had a sample slice and always says if she weren't desperately hungry she wouldn't eat it.

[Anonymous]

Their pizza looks so good but has been terrible forever, even pre-Amazon takeover.

[Anonymous]

That’s consistently how the pizzas are at the Riverdale Park WF. Even my kids refuse to eat it, and their standards aren’t exacting.

[Anonymous]

I happily eat 7 11 pizza, and many brands of frozen pizza, but WF isn't great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I happily eat 7 11 pizza, and many brands of frozen pizza, but WF isn't great.

+1. Wegman's pizza is good. Whole Foods pizza is bad.

[Anonymous]

I ate a slice a few days ago. It sucked hard. Go elsewhere.