BrickYard Pizza

Pizza in the University area is in no shortage. I can think of a few just off the top of my head Papa John's, Domino's, Il Vicino, and Saggio's to name a few. Recently, a friend and I had the problem of no plan. We didn't really have anything on the agenda except mail some bills and eat lunch. We were in the University area and had a lot of options. I mentioned that I had never had BrickYard Pizza and that's how we came to eat there. Like many restaurants in the University area, parking is horrible. We parked in the rear and had to go through the back door by the restrooms. BrickYard Pizza is pretty small with a bar area. There are a few TVs mounted to watch sports. The restaurant could probably accommodate around forty customers. The selection of alcohol here pretty good. On tap they carry Guinness and PBR so it seems to run the whole spectrum of beer quality.

When we arrive we grab a seat where ever we want and waited a few minutes to be greeted by a server despite the fact that they were not too busy. We get some menus and a few minutes. The menu is very simple. They carry basic pizza place menu items like salad, wings, calzones, subs, and of course pizza. The server takes our food order before even before she ask what we wanted for drinks. She may have been off that day, but an observation of what happened. We ordered the large Caesar salad and a medium Meat Lovers pizza. The choice of pan or normal pizza was given and the normal pizza was ordered. When the salad arrived, we were asked if we wanted salad plates and the plates here are smaller metal pizza pans. So we each had two sets of small pizza pans which I thought was pretty cool.
The Caesar salad pictured to the left was pretty good, but your typical Caesar salad: Romaine lettuce, Caesar dressing, Parmesan cheese, and croutons. The portion size was generous for an $8 salad. The pizza pictured below was really good and reminded me of Pie Shack Pizza due to the great garlic crust. The garlic is brushed into the crust and put in with another method the waitress told us, but I cannot recall. I think it was put into the dough, but I'm not sure.

The service was good, but not great. The server like I mentioned before may have had an off day. The decor is simple with a good bar. Overall I would give BrickYard Pizza three out of five stars.

http://www.brickyardpizza.com/