Lorenzo & Son Pizza Inc
(215) 627-4110
305 South St, Philadelphia, PA 19147
Near Center City East and Center City
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great
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drfear- youre obviously a complete idiot. do yourself a favor and dont talk unless your gonna speak the truth. The owners dont work there? rightttt.. considering the owners (2 of lorenzos children now that he has retired) work their assses off there. They keep a low profile so you dont know they own it but i promise you they are there working the counter- how do i know? lorenzo is my uncle. Considering i grew up in there and used to help out I can guarentee you there is nothing cheap about the sauce or cheese you ignorant twerp- ""a laundry mat for mob cash"" youre funny and thats ridiculous. \r \r also for everyone wondering why there arent seats- there were seats for years but legally if you have seats in a restaurant you have to also have a public bathroom. When they had seats little idiots (probably like drfear) used to go in there and shove paper towels in the toilets and sinks causing it to flood. The thing that made them remove the seats was someone set the bathroom on fire one time (a drunken idiot trying to smoke in there) and it caused a lot of damage to the upstairs of the building- it also ruined the old mural of lorenzo on the front. \r \r Lorenzos is a family owned and run business. Theyve been around for decades for a reason- because its great and a great value for the amount of pizza you get.
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Good pizza, especially on a summer night…
Good pizza, especially on a summer night. Stays open very late.
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South Street Sushi
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South Street Sushi is a mirage, a hallucination, an eruption of passion lined thinly with a nightmarish hue. Like a tribal rite of passage, its essence cannot exist outside of the hours of 2:00 am - 4:00 am, as if a greasy, grungy Brigadoon bloomed and blossomed from the bitter sidewalks of South Street every night.\r To attain this level of enlightenment, the subject must consume enough alcohol that they would be considered a ""crying out for help"" by certain audiences. Next, after a confused, sometimes frightening trek through the shadowy South Philly streets, the subject must obtain one cheesesteak from Jim's Steaks, at 4th and South streets. The cheesesteak is carefully transported to Lorenzo's, one block east, and kept in its wrapping while the subject purchases any one slice of Lorenzo's gargantuan pizzas.\r The subject carries the two items outside, and in a fit of gluttony, drunkenness and shame, wraps the jumbo slice of pizza around the cheesesteak, and shovels the sickening combination down its throat like a snake swallowing a helpless mole.\r But like a river in the deep, dry desert, it is but an illusion. For when the feeling is gone, and the day is new, your life-changing accomplishment sends you spiraling back to Earth with a long, long lecture - courtesy of the porcelain god.\r Only those who truly with to live their lives to the fullest will experience this miraculous disaster. It will change your life.
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Eh
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Often undercooked. Often overhyped. It's okay if you're wasted and need something in your belly. Otherwise, avoid.
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NOT BAD IF U R DRUNK
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AND TO CORRECT MISTAH ""PHILLY FOOD CRITIC"" DIS AIN'T DA SAME THING AS LAZARO'S ... AT ALL!!!\r \r LAZARO'S IS GOOD SOBER AND DRUNK.. LORENZO'S FAIR SOBER AND AMAZING DRUNK...\r \r DA SERVICE IS LEGENDARY AND U CAN MAKE SOME GOOD CONVERSATION IN LINE WHILE WAITING.. A WORD 2 DA WISE SLASH HIP...\r \r DO URSELF A FAVAH AND ONLY GET IT BY DA SLICE AS DA ENTIRE PIES AREN'T AS GOOD.. \r YO I KNOW DA SECRET RECIPE BY DA WAY... AND NOT TELLIN YO :-)
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Same pizza as Lazaros, but no where to sit
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Love the pizza--- good sauce, giant slices, nice and thin. I guess the location is good(being on south street), but its literally the same pizza as lazaros at 18th and south. Both pizzas are great, but I like to sit down to eat
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Best Pizza...On the weekend
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This is a place to go if you are a pizza lover. The slices are huge and the price isn't bad. This is one place you get what you pay for. you can get one slice and walk away satisfyed. I just have one issue. For some reason the puzza here is always better on the weekends
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Love the giant pizza
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I try to get out to Lorenzos once a week if I can. The pizza doesn't taste like cardboard and has the right consistancy always. Of the many times I've been there, I had one pie that was so so and it was still good. There is no need for toppings when the pizza is that good. As for the mirrored back room... I personally think its kinda cool. Kind of a throw back to the quirkiness that South Street used to have. Price is right and the staff moves everyone through there very quickly even if there is a line. I can only eat one slice and my bf can only eat two. Thats saying alot for two people that love to eat and have a huge appetite.
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Fabulous pizza! The perfect midnight snack...
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The pizza here is outragously good. No, there really isn't proper seating, there is always a line, they charge for boxes, BUT THE PIZZA IS SO DAMN DELICIOUS! Take it home to enjoy or eat it on your way home. Huge slices of mozzerella goodness. Yum!
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The opposite of good is South St. Lorenzo's
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first off, you can't trust any pizza place that the owners don't actually work in, but who can blame them, being that the place is clearly a converted public restroom, which is fitting, since eating the half-assed pizza is something like munching on a sopping handful of used toilet paper. Weak sauce, and too little of it, gobs of cheap, flavorless cheese, and a thick, gummy, barely-done crust make it tedious going after the first few bites. It seems like a laundromat for mob cash, the pizza being an afterthought. So if you're in the area, and are really desperate for pizza, go for it. I guess you can always imagine that it's good.\r \r The person who recommends the Italian Market Lorenzo's is dead on, except it's on 9th and christian.
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Best pizza in the world -- for sure!!!!!
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My husband took me to his favorite spot (Lorenzo's) while he is working near South Street sometimes and it was incredible!!!! We took our five year old son who is a pizza phanatic too and he loved it as well. Anyone who is from Philly can vouch for this place and knows that the ingredients are fresh and not cheap as some of the other reviews may be claiming. I love the way the pizza just melts in your mouth. Excellent all the way around. There are no need for toppings because you wouldn't want to be covering this pizza up with anything more. I am from Southwest Philly origininally and now live in delco and I'm going there tonight for Good Friday for a whole pie to bring home to my family too!
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Drunkin' Pizza
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So, Lorenzos is not, ""I'm just walking around South Street and I'm hungary"" kind of pizza. Lorenzos is a ""I just had a long night of drinking and I've never been so hungary in my entire life"" kind of pizza. I agree, Lorenzos is average pizza for those that are casually hanging out. But if you're drunk, or even better, hammered, and the bars have closed, and you need a snack, Lorenzos is the absolute BEST THING EVER!!!! It cures your hangover for the next day too!
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did i miss something? why the hype...
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i'm not sure how this 'restaurant' got in philly's top 10 pizza places. it sure seemed popular by the long line and crowd out front, but the pizza tasted average at-best. your only option was cheese pizza (unless you bought a whole pie), and there was no place to sit down (only a strange back room with mirrored walls and paper-plate-width counter). definitely not worth a trip unless you're already on south street.
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you cannot beat it for the price
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I think the rude service and crappy ""standing dining area"" only add to the charm of this cheap pizza place. We still go there every time we are on south street.
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Great on late nights
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You can't get toppings. There is no seating. You just walk up and say how many slices you want and if you want a soda. Their huge slices have a slightly sweet sauce which is typical of Philadelphia pizza. Pay if you want it in a box to go, which I almost always do when I stop for pizza before heading to a concert at Electric Factory. Much better than the other pizza I've found in this city. Not quite like New York style pizza, but pretty good. The pizzas are huge so I've never gotten a full one to bring home.
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There's a better Lorenzo's 6 blocks away
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The pizza here is only OK. Nothing special about it. It's cheaply made with cheap products, yet when people drink everything tastes better. Go to Lorenzo's on 8th and christian if you want real pizza with real fresh ingrediants. This Lorenzo's suffices my midnight craving not my mid day lunch.
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Hands down, best pizza in the city!
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They might not have parmesan or slices with toppings, but their plain old cheese pizza is out of this world. After being in California for 8 months I truly have a deeper appreciation for Lorenzo's. If anyone is visiting from out of town, we will definitely make it a point to stop here at least once. Yeah...so you have to stand in a single file line and choose between eating out on the street or back in their closet of a ""dining room"", but the pizza is so good, it's worth the aggravation.
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OVERRATED
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I've had better pizza in Germany. Lorenzo's was good back in the 80's but has since fallen off by using cheap ingredients. I think the reason people rave about it because 1. Philly lacks a real good Pizza parlor and they have nothing to compare it against. 2. Lorenzos is open late and there is a lack of late nite eateries in Philly. When you're drunk and hungry almost anything will taste good.
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Oh how I crave Lorenzo's
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There's a lot of bad reviews about this place, but I know why that is. Probably most of the reviewers are from Philadelphia and have lived in Philadelphia their whole lives. Let me tell you why this is significant. I was born and raised in Philly, and was spoiled by delicious pizza from the NE to South Philly to Trenton. A couple of years ago, I moved to Chicago. Ever hear of ""Chicago deep dish pizza?"" It's HORRIBLE. You cannot get a decent slice of pizza here. The thin crust is awful too.\r Whenever I come back to Philly to visit, the first thing I want to do is get a decent pie. The last time I was there I got Lorenzo's and it was a slice of heaven. Yea the lines are long, the counter people are rude, and there's no variety, but the slices are HUGE and the taste is pure Philly.
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Inconsistent
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Sometimes it's great. Othertimes, it's marginal. A slightly doughier Brooklyn style slice for just $2... but I think most people like it because it's only $2, basically the cheapest lunch on an otherwise expensive tourist trap of a street.
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