Really great food. Great atmosphere. Detroit style is fantastic.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Truth Told Not Sold
Fantastic pizza!
Update: came back a year later and still FANTASTIC!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
N “Tipasa” Z
Truly delicious deep dish pizza, the best I’ve had in Alameda
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
California Computer Consultants
Sooooooo I hate writing a poor review but it warranted. The place is very quaint… Old bank and minimal inside. But I love that. Plenty of spaces between tables so you aint bumping into everything. Our server was not rude and very kind and nice. Her service was no better no worse than what you would expect a server doing their job, seated us, took our order, brought our drinks, brought our food then brought the check. Food was meh… Certainly not what the prices were next to the food. We got the deep dish and it was alot slower in coming than what I expected for a deep dish.. but it helped kill the time. There are better offerings that are far less expensive. I would pass on this place. I dont intend to go back
Daniel
Great if you have kids and money. Prices are 25-50% higher than you would expect, probably to pay to scrub crayon off the walls nightly. Staff are super patient. Would not come again for a date night though.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 5
Cuyler Thompson
Great spot for lunch!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Lee Loftiss
Slow Monday afternoon. 30 minutes before appetizer arrived. Pizza 5 minutes later with burnt pepperoni. Large areas with no toppings. Why would a server even deliver such horrible product? Was a special occasion. Waited a week to go. Won't be back now.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 3
Lidiya Alexander
We love this pizza!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Kenneth Tong
It’s been a long time since we ate here and decided to try it to see the quality of the food now.
Food quality has improved and previous issues we had is no longer an issue. The difference now comes down to the type of crust between Zachary and the Star. It is now personal preference that makes the choice or to have different types of deep dish.
Service was on the slow side and part of the issue is that they have a good number of employees there but seems like inefficient assignment leading to server taking a long time to come by from taking order to needing to get drinks refilled.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Linda Murphy
Great Happy Hour and delicious drinks and pizza. Their cauliflower and broccoli apps are so good! Try the sangria it's so sassy!
Guys , hands down best STAR location for me. Just moved to Oakland from Portland ,PNW and these guys a very generous with their toppings 🤩
Food: 5
Service: 5
Ryan P.
There are meals that sing, meals that shout, and, on rare occasion, meals that whisper so hauntingly, they linger in the memory long after the plate is cleared. The pizza I encountered was none of these.
It was a murmur — indistinct, unsure of itself, a culinary composition struggling to decide if it wanted to be taken seriously or not.
I ordered a deep dish pizza, that most indulgent of formats — a pie that rises like a monument to excess — and requested it topped with pineapple and pepperoni. I did not expect tradition; I expected risk. What I received was something far worse: hesitation.
The crust was, I admit, a triumph — golden, buttery, and firm without falling to the soggy demise so common in its kind. It held its structure with pride, as though unaware of the mediocrity it bore.
The cheese, alas, was the edible equivalent of elevator music — pleasant, inoffensive, and utterly forgettable. It neither delighted nor disappointed, but hovered in that gray purgatory of mediocrity that so many cooks confuse for “safe.”
Then, the sauce. Oh, the sauce.
What a sad little affair it was. It arrived on the tongue like a promise unkept — there, and yet... not. One searches in vain for herbs, for acidity, for any echo of the sun-ripened tomatoes that should be its soul. Instead, it is a wet red smear — passionless and mute.
And now, the toppings — or rather, the conflict.
Pepperoni, the eternal provocateur: salty, oily, brazen. Pineapple, the eternal controversy: sweet, tangy, defiant. Together, they could have danced — a fire-and-ice pas de deux. But here, they simply coexisted, glaring at one another from opposite corners of the slice. They did not marry; they merely tolerated. A cold civility, nothing more.
In short, this pizza was not a disaster. Disasters at least possess the virtue of decisiveness. No — this was something far more damning.
It was forgettable.
And in the world of food, as in art, there is no greater sin.
Food: 2
Jeremy Schmitz
Great tasting food. Now if they would only actually read orders. We ordered a gluten free bbq pizza and a lengthy note to remove the cheddar because we also have a dairy free diet in the house. They need to take more care.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 3
Heart ATK
I've been here before and will again. The pizza is good, service is on point and the atmosphere is perfectly what you'd expect.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Kathleen Valerio
The food here is good, they offer a nice selection of cocktails and appetizers that are easy to share. Staff is friendly, but they seemed understaffed the night we went. On the other hand if you're looking to just hangout and drink with friends the slower pace may be just right. One thing that surprised me is they shut down at 9pm.
Really great food. Great atmosphere. Detroit style is fantastic.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Fantastic pizza!
Update: came back a year later and still FANTASTIC!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Truly delicious deep dish pizza, the best I’ve had in Alameda
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Sooooooo I hate writing a poor review but it warranted. The place is very quaint… Old bank and minimal inside. But I love that. Plenty of spaces between tables so you aint bumping into everything. Our server was not rude and very kind and nice. Her service was no better no worse than what you would expect a server doing their job, seated us, took our order, brought our drinks, brought our food then brought the check. Food was meh… Certainly not what the prices were next to the food. We got the deep dish and it was alot slower in coming than what I expected for a deep dish.. but it helped kill the time. There are better offerings that are far less expensive. I would pass on this place. I dont intend to go back
Great if you have kids and money. Prices are 25-50% higher than you would expect, probably to pay to scrub crayon off the walls nightly. Staff are super patient. Would not come again for a date night though.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 3
Service: 5
Great spot for lunch!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Slow Monday afternoon. 30 minutes before appetizer arrived. Pizza 5 minutes later with burnt pepperoni. Large areas with no toppings. Why would a server even deliver such horrible product? Was a special occasion. Waited a week to go. Won't be back now.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 3
We love this pizza!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
It’s been a long time since we ate here and decided to try it to see the quality of the food now.
Food quality has improved and previous issues we had is no longer an issue. The difference now comes down to the type of crust between Zachary and the Star. It is now personal preference that makes the choice or to have different types of deep dish.
Service was on the slow side and part of the issue is that they have a good number of employees there but seems like inefficient assignment leading to server taking a long time to come by from taking order to needing to get drinks refilled.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Great Happy Hour and delicious drinks and pizza. Their cauliflower and broccoli apps are so good! Try the sangria it's so sassy!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Guys , hands down best STAR location for me. Just moved to Oakland from Portland ,PNW and these guys a very generous with their toppings 🤩
Food: 5
Service: 5
There are meals that sing, meals that shout, and, on rare occasion, meals that whisper so hauntingly, they linger in the memory long after the plate is cleared. The pizza I encountered was none of these.
It was a murmur — indistinct, unsure of itself, a culinary composition struggling to decide if it wanted to be taken seriously or not.
I ordered a deep dish pizza, that most indulgent of formats — a pie that rises like a monument to excess — and requested it topped with pineapple and pepperoni. I did not expect tradition; I expected risk. What I received was something far worse: hesitation.
The crust was, I admit, a triumph — golden, buttery, and firm without falling to the soggy demise so common in its kind. It held its structure with pride, as though unaware of the mediocrity it bore.
The cheese, alas, was the edible equivalent of elevator music — pleasant, inoffensive, and utterly forgettable. It neither delighted nor disappointed, but hovered in that gray purgatory of mediocrity that so many cooks confuse for “safe.”
Then, the sauce. Oh, the sauce.
What a sad little affair it was. It arrived on the tongue like a promise unkept — there, and yet... not. One searches in vain for herbs, for acidity, for any echo of the sun-ripened tomatoes that should be its soul. Instead, it is a wet red smear — passionless and mute.
And now, the toppings — or rather, the conflict.
Pepperoni, the eternal provocateur: salty, oily, brazen. Pineapple, the eternal controversy: sweet, tangy, defiant. Together, they could have danced — a fire-and-ice pas de deux. But here, they simply coexisted, glaring at one another from opposite corners of the slice. They did not marry; they merely tolerated. A cold civility, nothing more.
In short, this pizza was not a disaster. Disasters at least possess the virtue of decisiveness. No — this was something far more damning.
It was forgettable.
And in the world of food, as in art, there is no greater sin.
Food: 2
Great tasting food. Now if they would only actually read orders. We ordered a gluten free bbq pizza and a lengthy note to remove the cheddar because we also have a dairy free diet in the house. They need to take more care.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 3
Service: 3
I've been here before and will again. The pizza is good, service is on point and the atmosphere is perfectly what you'd expect.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The food here is good, they offer a nice selection of cocktails and appetizers that are easy to share. Staff is friendly, but they seemed understaffed the night we went. On the other hand if you're looking to just hangout and drink with friends the slower pace may
be just right.
One thing that surprised me is they shut down at 9pm.
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