Abby's Legendary Pizza

Basic Information:

Pizza: Abby's Legendary Pizza
Number of Locations: around 36 in 2 states: Oregon and Washington

Location Reviewed: 2226 Shallock Ave. in Klamath Falls, OR (2 blocks from Sky Lake Medical Center)
Website: https://abbys.com/
Date of Review Visit: July 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)

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Summary Review: 3.5 stars (out of 5)

Detailed Review:

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.

Overall Taste: The spiciness and saltiness tend to overwhelm the taste buds, which is too bad because there are some interesting individual components here.  Score: 7/10.

Pizza Appearance: This pizza looks like a nice golden-brown pan pizza that has plenty of toppings.  

Dining Atmosphere: The dining room seems to date to the 1990's with video games of slightly newer variety.

Customer Service: The counter service was fast and friendly.

Monetary Value: This pizza has pretty high quality, but it is very expensive even though the counter service saves on the tip.

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: 77/100.