Donatos Pizza

This well-reputed Columbus pizzeria serves top-notch thin crust! In addition to crispy and delicious pizza, cheesy bread is similarly good, and they even have decent boneless buffalo wings. They prepare familiar "American-style" pizza such as you would find at a major chain, but with the higher quality of a smaller local chain.

Ordinarily, considering that pizza is round, it should be cut into "triangular" slices like a pie. I find the popular Chicago habit of cutting pizza into square pieces like a grid obnoxious, both due to the obviously suboptimal "grid cut" (crust pieces are fine, but nobody wants those lousy inner pieces... so unappealing and where do you start eating?) versus "pie cut" (where crust serves as a "handle") and due to the arrogance of many Chicagoans that thin crust pies should be cut in such a faulty way. To Donato's credit, they at least cut the pizzas in long rectangular strips with only one column of "middle pieces" and cheese is applied in such a way that even those pieces are not reduced to a gooey inedible mess.

We really like the pepperoni. They fervently advertise the "spicy pepperoni" and, though I totally see why it is popular, it was not exactly what I expected... Not bad by any means, I did not dislike it, but I'll stick to the regular pepperoni, thank you.