Cent’s

Adding Cents Pizza to my top 5 favorite pizza places in Cleveland! Came here around 6:30 PM on a Saturday evening. It was a 30 minute wait so we walked around the block and got seated at the bar! Ordered the Shroom Pizza (add Speck), the Pink (add meatballs) and the Caesar salad. Shroom pizza was delicious and the spicy vodka sauce on the Pink was delicious! The Caesar was okay, it was slightly bitter because they used Kale but overall the vibes and food were amazing!!

I really like the atmosphere at cent's pizza, the decor is really cool and minimalist which I love although it would be great if the space was a bit bigger. It gets really packed for dinner and the waiting space is quite limited and when you sit down the tables are quite close to each other which I don't particularly enjoy too much. Despite that, the food is great! Their pizzas are delicious and very tasty although I think they could potentially offer the option to have two flavors in one pizza like many other places do (half and half) so that you can try more variety :)Great quality and would definitely recommend!

Cent's Pizza is one of my favorite pizza joints in all of Cleveland. It's a little hidden gem on Lorain Ave. The restaurant itself was clearly carefully designed and had a retro type of interior design. The service here was also great. The staff are friendly and attentive.Now to the food: I am usually not one to get appetizers, but I was recommended the Wonder Bread, and wow it was wonder-ful bread! It was both soft and doughy, yet with a slight crunchy exterior. For pizza, we got the Sunday Gravy with Pepperoni, and it was so good, we wanted to get more. If we were not already stuffed, we would have gotten another one! This pizza had lots of flavor and not overly greasy.Overall, this is a must try pizza place in Cleveland. I will be taking all of my out-of-state friends here when they visit!

I came to Cent's with my friend to celebrate her new out-of-state job offer. We had both heard a lot of good things about Cent's but hadn't found time to visit until recently. It's a small space but we came pretty early on a weeknight and had no problems getting seated. We were both impressed by the decor - it has a very well curated retro pizza parlor vibe, and though we were spooked at first by a gigantic "Cash Only" sign, once we found out it was just decor and not a serious sign, we really appreciated the decor. Our waitress was very helpful since it was our first time and we settled on the wonderbread with house butter, an eggplant special, and the cherry pizza (plus a Mexican Coca-Cola to share). The wonderbread was interesting - it both reminded me of/tasted like a baked pizza dough but also had a unique quality. It paired well with the house butter as well as our eggplant appetizer. I wasn't sure if I wanted to order it at first because it is quite expensive ($12) in my opinion but I am glad that we got it since it is something that makes Cent's quite special. If I came with a larger group of people next time I would consider ordering it again, it was a bit too much for 2.My friend was very intrigued by the cherry pizza before we even sat down, and I agreed to share it with her not fully realizing that it had Luxardo cherries on it (honestly just assumed it was cherry tomatoes and didn't feel the need to fully read the menu). It freaked me out a bit at first but honestly I think the cherry, ricotta, and mint worked pretty nicely with the cheese and pepperoni (without the pepperoni it definitely would've been way too sweet). I didn't love how much ricotta was dolloped on the pizza and I wish there was more sauce, but I really enjoyed the crust, and even though I thought the combination was kind of weird I wasn't against it (although next time I might try something more tame!)For dessert we got a tiramisu to go and it was fine - a little on the small side (looked like basically 2 ladyfingers) but no complaints about the taste.Cent's has a certain novelty to it and they seem to use really nice, high-quality ingredients to make their unique pairings work. I would definitely come back and try some more things on the menu. The staff were super nice and accommodating and I appreciated not having to wait a very long time for a nice pizza (something that can be hard to find in CLE!)

This place is excellent! I stopped in with a friend for a quick weeknight dinner. We shared the Papa-- it had a tomato sauce base, hot peppers, sausage, and mozz. The dough was amazing! The right amount of chew and the right balance of toppings.The vibes in Cent's are top notch. The orangey-red counters are an elevated version of the classic pizza shop. They also have a very well curated shop of tinned fish and many wines.Cannot wait to return. Thanks, Cent's!

Great experience in a super unique atmosphere and format. We had to wait a bit for a seat but it wasn't a big deal as we were able to browse the wine selection and eclectic array of merchandise with cocktails in hand. My "Olive's Dirty" martini - black and red pepper-infused Watershed gin with the brine from their olive dish - and my wife's "Bandito" - a delicious chile-infused mezcal with two Amari and lemon juice - were excellent, very much in line with LBM, Cloak, or Porco.We were waiting for a friend and when spots at the bar opened up we snagged them - really recommend the bar because of the direct view on the kitchen and you can watch the kitchen at work. Staff, from the bartenders to the owner to the gentleman who recommended our wine, were all pleasant and knowledgeable. All of our food was phenomenal - the stracciatella was so good it made me cry - seriously if you go you must have this. It came served as a loaf of "wonder bread" with a mass of mozzarella in cream in a separate bowl... we took small bits of bread, tore them open to make small pockets, pinched off globs of mozzarella, dipped in chili sauce, and....heaven.The kale Caesar and endive + frisée salads also fantastic, and then the Shroom and Pepp pizzas. Might be the best pizza in Cleveland. Honest. But if you don't trust me there were chefs there from three other well known area restaurants (it was a Monday, all at different tables) so if those guys are going there on their day off you know it's a thing. Can't wait to go back.

Stopped in here when I was visiting friends one night. Had a decent wait time on a Saturday (45min). We just got a drink from the bar and hung around waiting in the little sitting area. We got sat at the patio which was quite a pleasant area. On to what matters, the food! Service was fair for how busy they seemed. We started with the stracciatella with some chili oil which was great. Then followed that up with the Mr. White which was phenomenal and by far our favorite. Would 100% get that again. Second pizza we got was the papa. Pretty good but not a necessity. Overall def recommend. Had some unique cocktails also.

Paid Cent's an overdue visit after hearing so many good things about it and was not disappointed! First of all, the decor/music/overall vibe is super cool. It's giving retro, 60s, disco vibes. The service is great as well. The pizza itself is made to order and delicious. We got the Mr. White, which was our favorite, and the Papa, which we felt could have been salted more and was a little overdone. The tiramisu was good as well, but nothing to write home about. Overall, I had a great time at Cent's and will definitely be back to try more of their pizzas. Note: their decor features are huge framed sign that says "cash only", but they do in fact accept card payment.

Cent's is aesthetically perfect. I can't even believe someone nailed the design so hard. The gift/wine shop that functions as a waiting area is a nice touch. I'll be stopping in next time I need something cool to bring to a friend.If you want to purchase a bottle of wine from the front there's a $20 corkage fee. The prices weren't terribly high even with the fee, but we went with cocktails anyway. Both drinks that we had were somewhat savory (one with ancho reyes, one with rosemary) and that seemed to be consistent with the rest of the spirits menu. Beers (with the exception of Bud Heavy) are cans. There were also a few non-beers (a seltzer, cider and kombucha). Our server helpfully provided the run down of the snack menu. She said not to skip the Wonder Bread and that was very wise advice. I would come back solely for the Wonder Bread and butter. We also got the 'Njuda, which is a warm spicy pork spread, and the Fontina vs. Fontinella. For the main event we went with the Cherry Pie. Luxardo cherries...on a pizza (!!!) On this day they subbed pepperoni for hot sopressata so it didn't have the heat I was expecting, however the addition of chili flakes did the trick. The pizzas are approximately 12 inches and 6 pieces. After the Wonder Bread and snacks, we still had a couple slices to take home between two of us. I can't wait to come back and try another pizza. Might come real hungry and double up on the Wonder Bread. They have a small patio area, and I'm looking forward to seeing what they make of it in warm weather.Thank you Cent's for helping lead the way on creating a Lorain business corridor!

Great pizza, Dog*hit cocktails, deeply uncomfortable seating. Let's start with the pizza, which is the positive part of this review: the Mrs and I decided to try Cent's on our latest food tour of Cleveland and the pizza didn't disappoint. We tried the white pie and the gravy (meatball/red sauce) which were both very tasty. This isn't a cheap slice type of joint but the quality of the ingredients is there, as is the circa 2013 gentrified Williamsburg, Brooklyn vibes and prices, in a sea of non-blue color folks cosplaying in Carhartt brand clothes and truly 2010s era hipster glasses. Now for the bad: I initially ordered the house Negroni, a simple three ingredient cocktail so hard to F up, it's almost always a foolproof choice. Tonight was not one of those times. Genuinely the worst Negroni I've ever had, at any bar, in America. 10/10 would not recommend. We next tried a gin and tonic because surely a 2 ingredient cocktail would be impossible to mess up. It was fine, but for an $11 price tag, the twee little glass it was served in was almost an insult. TLDR: Go for the pizza and leave the drinks to a qualified bartender