Lake Harriet Pizza

An update is needed! Just last night I tried Lake Harriet Pizza's newest pizza, "Sweet Heat." Fabulous. Spicy, sweet, crunchy -- a perfect combo that didn't rely on just the cheese to make it work. It's ingredients include onion, jalapeño, goat cheese, sausage, and hot honey. Emphasis on the "hot honey." Included is a separate container that you drizzle over the pizza. Really, so good. Adding a Caesar salad was a great compliment to the heat. Way to go, LHP!

Pizza: 5/5. Service: 5/5. Lake Harriet Pizza is its own experience. IYKYK. Skip the salads.

Visited 4/13/23. Ordered lake Harriet pizza for takeout and thought it was solid. Slightly on the spendier side for pizza, especially given that we ordered a garden veggie pizza (feels slightly strange that this would run for the same price as the other meat pizzas), but it delivered on taste and was enjoyed. Easy to pick up and was ready right when they said it would be. If I were to go back I would definitely be interested in trying one of their meat pizzas.

In my effort to support local restaurants during this "unusual" period, I have been ordering take out, curb side pickup and delivery from an assortment of establishments. This is the first in a series of reviews or updates.Recently my son and I took out bone-in wings (with Buffalo sauce), 3 pieces of cheese garlic toast and a 20" 1/2 pepperoni and 1/2 sausage & mushroom pizza. Wow, clearly our eyes were considerably bigger than our stomachs.Together we consumed the tasty wings and to me at least first rate toast. As far as the pizza, my son ate much of his pepperoni 1/2 while I actually made three meals out of my 1/2. Personally, I found the leftovers to be even more flavorful than when fresh.A bit on the pricey side but overall a very good neighborhood place for pizza and the like. Definitely worth checking out in my book.

We received a coupon in the mail and ordered delivery from lake harriet pizza. They arrived on the minute that they projected. We got the Bbq chicken pizza, pepperoni and Caesar salad. The pizzas are a lot larger than I expected and since they are cut into squares they will feed more than you think. The crust is thin and proportionally covered with toppings. I personally liked the bbq chicken one better but my husband is more of a classic guy so he liked the pepperoni better.

I have a major bone to pick with the owner of Lake Harriet Pizza, Gary Johnson, for how he responded to a terrible bout of food poisoning caused by his restaurant's food.tl;dr: He had the audacity to show up at our house at 8:40 PM the night before Thanksgiving and essentially accuse us of being liars, grifters, or both.It all started last Saturday. My wife, friend, and I shared only one meal together that weekend -- take-out from Lake Harriet Pizza. Included on our two pizzas were veggies such as spinach and mushrooms and artichoke hearts. 28 hours after eating the pizza, just before midnight on Sunday, the diarrhea began. Then the violent vomiting. Then back to diarrhea, then vomiting ... you get the idea. Three hours after my lovely night began (during which I was unable to sleep, and spent most of the night in a bathtub), my friend woke up at 3:30 AM with his own delightful experience with bodily excretions. Four hours after that, on Monday morning, it was my wife's turn to puke and poop and puke again. She and I spent most of Monday in bed; forget work, forget taking care of our 7-month-old baby, we were sick as dogs. The three of us were the only people to eat the pizza, and the only ones among our family and friends who got sick. And, again, it was the ONLY meal all three of us shared that weekend. It doesn't take a genius to connect the dots.I called Lake Harriet Pizza to report the illness and then notified the Department of Health. The next day, my wife decided to call and request a refund -- after all, it's not fun to spend $40 in order to get violently ill. Although he questioned my wife's claim that the pizza was the cause of our shared symptoms, the owner agreed to a refund. But rather than put the money back on our credit card, he said someone would be by that night with cash. Strange, but okay.Here's where the story takes a turn. At 8:40 PM the night before Thanksgiving, Gary Johnson, owner and operator of Lake Harriet Pizza, showed up at my house. The first thing he said was: "How strange that no one else complained about getting sick. Only you." Um, okay, I guess not everyone reports food poisoning? This is relevant why? Unless -- he couldn't possibly be insinuating we were making it all up, could he?Next, he asked (for the third time) what was on the pizzas we ordered, and I told him (for the third time) that they included spinach and mushrooms and artichoke hearts. His response: "so you ordered totally benign pizzas," even though leafy greens such as spinach are common carriers of food-borne illness.He had been giving off a hostile vibe to this point -- he still hadn't offered us our refund -- and so I said, "yeah, that night of diarrhea and puking sure was fun!" He raised an eyebrow, and, with a smirk, said, "diarrhea, huh? You had diarrhea?" My wife, who was standing nearby, said "Yes, we both did, classic symptom of food poisoning." To this he cocked his head and, still smirking, said "Well -- not really."Do a Google search, bud. Diarrhea is among the most common food poisoning symptoms.Anyway, at this point I had had enough. The audacity of this man to show up at our doorstep late at night of a holiday weekend and insinuate we were either lying about being sick, or lying in order to get a refund, was simply outrageous. I told him to give us our money and leave. To his credit, he gave us the $40; but this was never really about the money. It was about the principle of not paying for the "privilege" of getting violently ill for 24 hours. Even if he were dubious that his restaurant caused the food poisoning (despite the fact it was literally the only meal the three of us ate together, and all three of us got sick within 7 hours of one another), then the professional response would have been to say "I have my doubts it was us, but I'm really sorry you got sick, that's never fun," and give the refund. Either that, or don't offer the refund in the first place. What you SHOULD NEVER DO is show up to a customer's house and imply they are either liars or grifters, after they just recovered from being violently ill for 24 hours. This happened three days ago, and I'm still mad just thinking about it.I've given the restaurant 2 stars because the sauce and cheese is good (though the crust is too bland), and we previously liked to order from this local establishment. But after this experience, I will never order from Lake Harriet Pizza again.

GREAT pizza. I live in South Minneapolis and there is no shortage of good pizza in the area...Red Wagon and Broders are within walking distance of this place. I think they have a couple of tables outside but so seating inside. That being said, they are in my za rotation.A couple of orders ago I added wings. Super solid. On par with places that specialize in them. **Another thing I like about them is the local connection and cooperation**I went to Parkway Pizza (also great pizza) and they had some awesome seasoning on the table to add. We questioned the server on it. She said they get it from Lake Harriet Pizza.

Well, the pizza is always delicious with excellent product, lately. The ordering scheme has just been very chaotic. The last three online orders have been wrong. I've called and all I get is and I'm sorry. Best advice I have is do not order online. Call them. Look at your pizza when you're picking it up or having it delivered before you pay for it.

Great pizza, bad management.I love the pizza (lots of cheese and toppings and great sauce!) great cheese bread, and love their simple dinner salad. But I ordered during some snow a couple of weeks ago and waited 2 hours no pizza no one would answer- I double checked and they took online orders still. Finally gave up and had frozen pizza for all of us starving. I emailed that night, no response. I called after a couple days and the owner called me back full of excuses, no apology, not so much as a small coupon. He actually complained that he gets too many emails to respond and spent a lot of time telling me how his own ordering system wasn't his fault or responsibility. I'll be buying pizza from establishments that appreciate their customers in the future and actually care when they sit all night hungry. The very least they could've done was reach out and apologize he said there was many people who ordered that night and got no pizza. Not that hard to reach out and apologize the next day. Very disappointing as I've been a loyal customer since I moved to MN in 2020

This has been go to for take away pizza for the last 30 years. I always get the Rebel (pepperoni, sausage, mushrooms and extra garlic powder). Careful, you will end up eating way more than you intended. Call ahead and in most cases you will have a pipping hot pizza in 20 minutes or less.