Straight Up Pizza

Sunday seems to have a special feel to it; maybe it's the church thing, the long lunches, or the deep breath before the start of the work week. For whatever reason it seems to be the slower day of the weekend. This past Sunday, before running a friend and I talked about where we want to eat after running. It's sort of a treat to indulge after a good run. She mentioned to me that she had a leaning towards pizza. She asked if Village Pizza was open and I told her that it was. I like Village Pizza, but we had been there a few times before. I then asked here if she had been to a few other pizza places that were new to town and Straight Up Pizza came up in the discussion and won in the Sunday post run battle. I have eaten Straight Up Pizza a few times, but I had not set foot inside that building since it was Woody's Sports Cafe which was late 2008. The first time I ate Straight Up Pizza I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was. It's great that despite having the same space it did not carry on the legacy of Woody's. We rolled in about 1 PM on Sunday and there was one family eating when we arrived. The decor of the place remained unchanged from the Woody's days, but Woody's was pretty nice on the inside or like I wrote before "an upscale Weck's." We decided the large combo with a salad was the way to go. This combo was a good sampling of the menu at Straight Up Pizza. The large combo we ordered came with a large three topping pizza, a dozen wings, and a two liter of soda. Since we were going to eat there we opted for the two large sodas. We ordered a spinach salad to go along with the meal. The wings we ordered were the BBQ, Habanero, & Chipotle flavors. The BBQ were nothing to write home about, but the Habanero and Chipotle were really tasty and the texture of the wings were great. They were crispy on the outside and moist on the inside. The three topping pizza we got was green chile, sausage and peperoni. The sum of all the parts makes a good pizza. Straight up was good, but not great. I would give Straight Up Pizza a rating of two and a half out of five stars.

http://straightuppizza.com/