notgoodvalue wrote:As a local in Michiana Shores I have to say that Stop 50 is too highly priced for the area. Yes, the pizza is good but the starting price is $12.00 for a personal size and $8.00 for a dinner salad. Then you add the wine and this is not a good value. Maybe rich Chicagoans are willing to drive an hour and a half just to buy overpriced pizza in a loud establishment but the locals can get a better value elsewhere.
notgoodvalue wrote:As a local in Michiana Shores I have to say that Stop 50 is too highly priced for the area. Yes, the pizza is good but the starting price is $12.00 for a personal size and $8.00 for a dinner salad. Then you add the wine and this is not a good value. Maybe rich Chicagoans are willing to drive an hour and a half just to buy overpriced pizza in a loud establishment but the locals can get a better value elsewhere.
'That's just crazy talk.' If you like Neopolitan style, Stop 50 is as good as they come, it is a great value for the quality. If you mean there are cheaper places where you can get deep dish or more volume for your money, by all means that's true. I'd rather eat at Stop 50 once than ten times at Pizza Hut, Villa Nova, Miller Pizza, Domino's, and all those places...YMMVnotgoodvalue wrote:As a local in Michiana Shores I have to say that Stop 50 is too highly priced for the area. Yes, the pizza is good but the starting price is $12.00 for a personal size and $8.00 for a dinner salad. Then you add the wine and this is not a good value. Maybe rich Chicagoans are willing to drive an hour and a half just to buy overpriced pizza in a loud establishment but the locals can get a better value elsewhere.
Mike G wrote:To be fair, if I lived near it, I might well find evenings when I just wanted a lot of old school pizza for not an exorbitant sum, and would order from my local old school place. It's a different thing from an out of towner passing through there only once or twice a year and feeling the need to maximize my proximity to Stop 50.
There are many pizza paths to happiness.
But, to be fair, would you go out of the way to trash it as a poor value on a message board?
trudie wrote:Their new restaurant Soda Dog just opened and I think it will do well.
BTB wrote:I've been to Stop 50 twice and will not return for a third strike. Am reluctant to say anything about it because it seems there is a group on LTH who are greatly in love with the place and are quick to be negative to non-supportive opinions. I don't know about the value thing. I thought they were a little expensive, especially for what you get, but then again I see at some of the other pizza places that prices are rising rapidly also.
I guess my problem is really not appreciating "gourmet" Neapolitan pizza and I am quickly coming to the opinion that most (but not all) of this style pizza is synonymous with the term "soggy." Only the rim of the pizza, generally, has a little crispness to it and the center is most often very limp, soft and . . . well . . . soggy. The pictures posted on here are very nice, but the actual taste didn't match my taste bud's expectations. Again that may be just me and my circle of friends. And contrary to the above report, the pizza center in my two experiences was "mushy" (only one main ingredient for those who will jump on it and say I may have had too many ingredients).
The owner does a fantastic job trying to provide for a good place to eat, but I think the style is a kind of niche thing and I don't think -- my opinion only -- that it generally can have a very popular reception. But that shouldn't be the criteria on which to select a place to dine, I guess. Will have to try the hot dog place, though. I love "fresh cut" fries along with a good all-beef hotdog.
A perfectly fair minded opinion. All I can tell you is the place is typically very crowded especially on Fri & Sat - you get there early or you wait. However, seems a little slower this season, the economy is hitting them just like everyone else evidently.BTB wrote:I've been to Stop 50 twice and will not return for a third strike. Am reluctant to say anything about it because it seems there is a group on LTH who are greatly in love with the place and are quick to be negative to non-supportive opinions. I don't know about the value thing. I thought they were a little expensive, especially for what you get, but then again I see at some of the other pizza places that prices are rising rapidly also.
I guess my problem is really not appreciating "gourmet" Neapolitan pizza and I am quickly coming to the opinion that most (but not all) of this style pizza is synonymous with the term "soggy." Only the rim of the pizza, generally, has a little crispness to it and the center is most often very limp, soft and . . . well . . . soggy. The pictures posted on here are very nice, but the actual taste didn't match my taste bud's expectations. Again that may be just me and my circle of friends. And contrary to the above report, the pizza center in my two experiences was "mushy" (only one main ingredient for those who will jump on it and say I may have had too many ingredients).
The owner does a fantastic job trying to provide for a good place to eat, but I think the style is a kind of niche thing and I don't think -- my opinion only -- that it generally can have a very popular reception. But that shouldn't be the criteria on which to select a place to dine, I guess. Will have to try the hot dog place, though. I love "fresh cut" fries along with a good all-beef hotdog.