Review: Sir Pizza

Sir Pizza is a chain of pizza restaurants in central Tennessee. They have been in business for 40 years and in 2007 received the “Ruthie Award” for best pizza restaurant in Rutherford County (TN). We visited the store on TN Hwy 231 in Murfreesboro.

The theme at Sir Pizza is medieval. Knight helmets are used as lights, family crests grace the walls, and the furniture is dark and heavy. In my opinion, it’s an unusual décor for a pizza restaurant, but no one asked me.

We visited Sir Pizza on a Tuesday night which is 2-for-1 pizza night. Erica, our waitress, explained that we could get two pizzas for the price of one. We had never run into such a deal, so we questioned her about the promotion. She advised us that we would receive one free pizza for every pizza we ordered. We ordered a medium sausage and mushroom pie, and a small cheese pie for Louis. Erica said we would receive a free medium sausage and mushroom pizza as well as a free small cheese pizza. What a deal!

We had high hopes for Sir Pizza, but I’m afraid we were let down. The crust at Sir Pizza was crisp and had a sweet taste. This was probably the best part of the pizza.

The sauce was rather blah. Kim detected a slight wine taste in the sauce, but I suspect that the taste was something else. In any case, the sauce did not have much taste.

Sir Pizza went pretty light on the cheese. The sausage was finely ground, but again, didn’t have a lot of taste. The mushrooms were cut large and there were a fair number on the pizza.

Obviously, we were disappointed in the pizza at Sir Pizza. However, the thing that made our experience even worse was the poor service. It took way too long to get our pizza. Then, when we went to pay, we were charged for the two medium pizzas and given the two small pizzas for free. Kim argued about this with the guy at the counter. He finally agreed to charge us for a medium and a small and give us a medium and a small for free. However, he never apologized and he obviously wasn’t happy with giving in.

On a scale of 1-10, I’d give the pizza at Sir Pizza a 5. However, considering the poor service, I’ll downgrade their score to 4.