Only In Texas: 37 Inch Pizza!

[TimManuParker]

Menu choices aren't just big, they're biggest

Web Posted: 03/03/2005 12:00 AM CST

John Griffin
Express-News Dining Editor

Sure, this is Texas, where everything's big. Bigger than big, actually. But some folks just don't know when to stop.

Why have a 1-pound hamburger, when you could have two pounds of ground beef sandwiched between your bun? Why have a bottle of Budweiser, when you could enjoy a 32-ounce beer off the tap served in a frozen schooner? Why have a modest danish, when you could lose yourself in a cinnamon bun that weighs more than three pounds?

Some of the truly Texas-sized dishes and drinks available in San Antonio are not meant for one person. Who could eat a 37-inch pizza? Please don't answer that. Just remember your health and portion sizes when contemplating these belt busters.

Big Lou's Pizza, 2048 S. W.W. White Road, (210) 337-0707 — Pizza lovers, are you ready for what Big Lou has in store for you? It's a pizza so big they had to order a special oven.

That's right, Big Lou's is selling a 37-inch pizza. Think about it, that's more than a yard wide.

The massive pie is meant to feed 10 to 12 people, owner Brian Lujan says. Since it was introduced a couple of weeks ago, the restaurant has only sold a dozen or so of the pizzas, which start at $33 for cheese. Word will start to spread, of course, and you might expect to see more of them moving out the door — but they won't fit. They're dine-in only.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertai....fc68c039.html

[I3oostedCubes]

I eat at that place a lot and I will say this. They have the best pizza I've ever had in my entire life. it's a good thing my GF lives down the road from them.

BUT!!!... They are the worst run store I have ever seen. You will wait an hour for ANYTHING(nothing is organized) even after you waited the intial hour to hour and a half they say to wait before coming in. They are rude and the price is GOD D*** REDICULOUS. This is the only place that I eat at currently that treat me like **** but the food is so good I can put up with it.

Try it out, you won't regret it... well maybe! ;)

[Blake]

I like Chicago's Pizza @ Blanco and Oblate. Best deal in town. $3.99 for a large 14" pizza....and it tastes pretty darn good......
they also sell awesome authentic deep dish pizza pies for about $12, that are so filling I can only eat two slices, max before I'm stuffed.

[I3oostedCubes]

Hmmmm 4 bucks for a large.. better than the Caesers deal right now... Hmmmmm....

[TimManuParker]

Wow, you experiences with Big lou's is completely different from mine.

I eat their pizza a lot too and have never been treated rude. Never in the old smaller place and not once in their new much larger restaurant. And the "cook" time has never been longer than 30 minutes for me,

But I order over the phone and then go pick it up. Do you eat there? I never have. Maybe that's when they're rude. I don't know.

[TheBronze]

You can't takeout that jumbo because they don't have the box to put it in.

[Blizz™]

ok so i had to go get one of their pies tonight because of this thread. round trip it took me an hour to get there from I10 and DeZavala but it was worth it! that's some GOOD pizza!

[Hantler]

How does that compare with our local pizza place?

http://www.pointersdelivery.com/faq.htm

[FoldedSpace]

http://pizzatoday.com/features_artic...c3c2VjcmV0ODQ=

Best pizza in SA....best Italian food in my opine as well....

[TimManuParker]

Originally Posted by Hantler

How does that compare with our local pizza place?

http://www.pointersdelivery.com/faq.htm

9 inches smaller. Not bad though.

[bandito]

Is this why SA was said to be America's fattest city a year or so ago?

[Hantler]

Originally Posted by TimManuParker

9 inches smaller. Not bad though.

Originally Posted by SpursFanInEllay1

Didn't see anything about the Spurs on the link. What article was it linked with?

but it weighs 10 pounds. I think it said it feeds more people, but that could be because it's talking about people in Missouri not Texas

[TimManuParker]

Originally Posted by bandito

Is this why SA was said to be America's fattest city a year or so ago?

Funny, San Antonio's never been number 1 on any of those "fattest cities" lists. It's been in the top 5 a couple of times but number 1 usually goes to Houston or Detroit.

And actually San Antonio's not even in the top 10 in the lastest mens magazine's fattest cities.

[I3oostedCubes]

Originally Posted by TimManuParker

Wow, you experiences with Big lou's is completely different from mine.

I eat their pizza a lot too and have never been treated rude. Never in the old smaller place and not once in their new much larger restaurant. And the "cook" time has never been longer than 30 minutes for me,

But I order over the phone and then go pick it up. Do you eat there? I never have. Maybe that's when they're rude. I don't know.

Now I've never eaten there though I'd like to catch a Spurs game there maybe once. I'am seriously a nice person and I'am in the Page Ranking field so I know how things work. I just never been happy with their customer service but oh well. I can tell you right now my wait has never been under an hour(I call in my order), maybe we order at different times of the day so maybe I hit the busier hours.

I can over look all that since that pizza is just so damn good, lol.