The Facts:
Pizza: Abby's Legendary Pizza
Business Category: Regional Chain (36 locations throughout Oregon and Washington)
Website: https://abbys.com/
Location: 2226 Shallock Ave. in Klamath Falls, OR (2 blocks from Sky Lake Medical Center)
Date of Review Visit: July 21, 2021
What I Ordered: small (10") deep dish pizza with Italian sausage and pepperoni; 1 fountain drink
Price: $16.79 (includes drink and tax but not tip)
The Micro:
Crust: Abby's Legendary Pizza offers 2 crust options: thin and deep dish. As will come as no surprise to any regular reader of this blog, I chose deep dish. The deep dish pizza has a nice golden brown pan crust that is about the same thickness as Pizza Hut's pan crust. My pizza was slightly overbaked and thus a little crispier than I would have preferred. I've had better pan crusts, but this one ranks pretty high. Score: 8/10.
Sauce: The sauce is very overspiced; I could not taste the tomatoes for all of the spices. As you would expect for a pan pizza, the sauce appears in high quantity. Score: 6/10.
Cheese: The cheese is a tasty blend of mozzarella and an orange cheese I could not identify. It appears in decent quantity but produces very little grease. Score: 10/10.
Toppings: The sausage is on the spicy side for my taste palette. The pepperoni is rather bland, and for good reason: they use Hormel pepperoni (like you would buy in the store), and they even advertise this fact. I hope Hormel pays them a kickback for the advertising, because I doubt it helps them sell pizza. Both toppings appear in high quantity. Score: 7/10.
The Macro:
Appearance/Atmosphere/Service: This pizza looks like a nice pan pizza that has plenty of toppings. The dining room seems to date to the 1990's with video games of slightly newer variety. The counter service was fast and friendly. Score: 8/10.
Value: This pizza has pretty high quality, but it is very expensive even though the counter service saves on the tip. Score: 4/10.
Taste: The spiciness and saltiness tend to overwhelm the taste buds, which is too bad because there are some interesting individual components here. Score: 14/20.
The Final Judgment:
This pizza tends to overwhelm your taste palette with brute force rather than impress it with a mouthful of flavor. While I have certainly had worse pizza, Abby's does not rank as legendary in my gradebook. Score: 57/80.
