Drove from NJ to here to try Pepe's and Sallies pizzas. We went to Pepe's 1st since they opened earlier... One of the best pizzas I've eaten... Went to Libby's bakery next door... Very good cannolis.. N the plan was to take a pie from Sallies to Lighthouse park overlooking the LI Sound... I went in Sallies n the old... More

The best I have ever had. Service is fantastic. Pepes is a standard in CT for years. They don't kid around. There is always a line out the door no Matter what night of the week it is.

Run over to the SPOT and enjoy the exact same pizza. In the know diners KNOW this is where to get your fix.

Found this place across the parking lot from the original Pepe's and went in instead of waiting outside Pepe's in the cold. It's been a few years since we went to the original, but the pizza did not seem as good. It wasn't anything special and for what we got, not worth the price. The salad was great and the... More

Sour tomato sauce, commercial mozzarella, cheap olive oil, rubbery crust and no salt or flavor. Very disappointed. The marketing of nostalgia and knee jerk hype has the working class obese crowd waiting in line to drink super size soda and eat cheap pizza. I'm sorry to be so blunt but I take pizza seriously and have eaten suburb pies in... More

Eating pizza in New Haven requires that you wait in lines -- sometimes in the cold. But unlike Sally's and Modern (the other neighborhood pizzerias in the Big Three) Frank Pepe's has a backup copy of itself at the back of its parking lot, to the left of the main building. In the IT profession we call this N+1 redundancy,... More

If you want to skip the line and you are really hungry, The Spot is a nice alternative, offering quicker seating and good service. The menu was the same as the original Pepe's. The pie was not the same, they must use a different oven because it didn't have that distinct Pepe's flavor. The inside atmosphere was newer and had... More

We went on a busy Sunday afternoon and the line was so much shorter at The Spot. Had the fresh tomato pie, but the table next to us got a shrimp and bacon pie and now I'm planning our next trip!

We stopped here for dinner on a cross country trip just for Pepe's pizza. We used to live in New Haven and remembered it being delicious. We were not disappointed. Even at 5:45pm, the "main" location was full, so we went to "The Spot" right next door. Same pizza and all--just now wait. The staff are very friendly and helpful... More