Fuel Pizza in Charlotte, NC

Basic Information:

Pizza: Fuel Pizza

Number of Locations: 1

Location Reviewed: 500 S. College St. in Charlotte, NC (Update: this location is now closed.  The only remaining location is at 1501 Central Avenue in Charlotte.)

Website: http://www.fuelpizza.com/

Date of Review Visit: August 2014

What I Ordered: 1 slice of extreme (all meat) pizza and a fountain drink

Price: $5.72

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Summary Review: 3 stars (out of 5)

Detailed Review:

Crust: Like Pie in the Sky, the first of my two downtown Charlotte pizza indulgences of the day, Fuel Pizza makes New York style pizza.  The crust has nice thickness and texture, but the taste is a little stale and bland.  I wonder how long that slice of pizza was sitting in the display case before I came along and ordered it….  Score: 8/10.

Sauce: The sauce has light quantity, as you would expect for a New York style pizza, but it seems almost pasted on.  This sauce has no spices to flavor it, but it does have a good tomato-ful taste.  Score: 8/10.

Cheese: Fuel Pizza does not use a lot of cheese, but the cheese that is on this pizza is baked to a nice golden brown.  The cheese is not greasy, and it has pretty good flavor.  Score: 8/10.

Toppings: The toppings should be the strength of an all meat pizza, but they are not in this case.  All toppings appear in good quantity, but all of them have very little flavor.  The toppings just sit there, and that’s not good.  Score: 5/10.

Overall Taste: This pizza does not have much taste.  Everything from the cheese to the sauce to the toppings is pretty non-descript.  Score: 6.5/10.

Pizza Appearance: The pizza’s appearance is OK except for the low quantity of cheese.

Dining Atmosphere: The dining area at Fuel Pizza features lots of historic oil and gas signs and antiques.  Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz of American Pickers would love this dining room.

Customer Service:  The service was passable but nonchalant.  

Monetary Value: True this is an all meat pizza, but I only ordered one slice, and I got a small slice at that.  You can get 2 slices of pizza and a drink at Pie in the Sky just a few blocks away for about the same price.

The Final Judgment:

Fuel Pizza makes a passable product, but there are better pizzas around.  That statement holds whether you look from the value or quality perspective.  Score: 73/100.