Pizza Hawaii Deli - Hilo

Our pizzas were like that. The worst was the man who made the pizza and also took our order, had filled a huge pile of chewing tobacco into his mouth and constantly looking for a place to spit. Just rough. If you eat in the restaurant good luck finding a clean table. If you eat outside on one of their tables, good luck will get your order. Good luck getting your order hot. Good luck finding the workers after finally eating your order for utensils.

Ok, this is NY style in a very loose sense of the word. The crust was good and the toppings good quality. The salad I had was very fresh and the staff lovely, but man oh man, the sauce on the pizza tasted like it was from a frozen pizza in the 80s and they just discovered oregano. So much thick and pasty sauce loaded with 5 times more oregano than you can even conceive of. Otherwise it's was good and I hope I just caught them with a bad batch of sauce. Not the worst slice on the Big Island.

The only reason I keep going is because the pizza is actually good. HOWEVER they often mess up the pizza, ie missing toppings, wrong toppings altogether, etc. Called recently about a half hour after they opened to order a pizza. I was told it would take another hour before the oven would be heated up enough to make my pizza. If you open at 11, wouldn't it make sense to turn them on at 10???

Nice lunch special, good salad (feeded chicken) two topping pizza slice (big w/generic meat) was delicious.

Mediterranean pizza and cheese bread was good. It was prepared in time. With the phone ordered to pick up and the person who answered my order was friendly and helpful. It took about 8 call attempts over 10 minutes to order. Luckily, they picked up my last attempt before I wanted to go somewhere else.