Little Caesars

5.8 Average

Food  9      Ambience  5      Service  3      Value  6     

Great pizza. Love the dessert pizza's. But waiting for an hour for the pizza and constantly walking in and out to check if it was ready through the narrow walkways. Crazy I tell you. If you want pizza from this place (which I recommend), be prepared to wait and don't eat it there. It is much more comfortable eating it at home!

Apr 23, 2010 

8.3 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  8      Service  8      Value  8     

It's not often that a place actually lives up the hype. I have now been to the Mundaring store twice and the Leederville store once. Sure it's always busy as all get out, but that's because it's so good! Among my friends our technique is to each order a pizza and then swap slice for slice if you want to try other flavours. This way I must have tried at least 15 of their selections, with my favourites being Chicken Fettucine, Greek Island Prawn, Greek Lamb and Cinnamon Girl.

Plan to eat elsewhere because the seating is not that comfortable and it's crowded. But I found a certain charm in eating in too, they have a very clever system to stack pizzas so they don't take up as much table space.

Mar 10, 2010 

1.5 Not Recommended

Food  2      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  2     

As soon as I arrived I was immediately disappointed. The place had all the ambience of a Dominos pizza store, but with more expensive furniture. A lot of my friends raved about Little Caesar's so it was a bit of a downer. I could see what everyone else was eating and it didn't look that appetizing but looks can be deceiving so I was willing to give it a go. But the food was as bad as it looked.

I ordered a Roman Empire and there was way too much topping, to the point of saturation. For some reason they felt it was necessary to cover every square centimetre of the pizza with massive chunks of what they claimed was Italian sausage, I’ve never eaten sausage like that from Italy, it was pretty cheap and nasty. The worst part though was the eggplant, which was entirely raw and sour. I didn't think that anyone would serve raw eggplant. It was so bad that we only ate half of our pizza.

We wouldn’t have eaten any if we hadn’t been starving. They also sliced the pizza into pieces that were no more than 3cm wide, how anyone is expected to eat this without all the topping falling off I don't know. If the food wasn't bad enough, the service was no good either. I and another few customers went to stand at the counter when we arrived and spent almost 10 minutes trying to get some assistance whilst staff looked at us and walked past, or stood around chatting amongst themselves.

They seemed quite content to make the pizza, but not serve customers at the counter. I got many a blank stare as I looked questioningly at the staff out the back. Not one of them made any attempt to come over until someone who had already eaten came up wanting a doggy bag, they served him before all of us who had been waiting. Yes they were busy, but there were at least 10-12 staff and that should have been more than enough to comfortably serve everyone.

Another thing that annoyed me was the bottle neck created by the tables barricading the door (which was only a gap of about 0.8 m, try squeezing through that to get out, while 20 people try to come in at the same time, it was a nightmare).

Overall the service was rude, disorganised, the restaurant itself cramped and unappealing and the food below average and totally unappetising. I would not recommend it to anyone. If you want great pizza I suggest you go to Delizioso or Ecco (both in Subiaco) and both consistently high quality, tasty and good service. You can’t run a restaurant on reputation alone and it appears this is what Little Caesar’s is doing.

If they’re going to serve food of the quality of a local suburban take away joint, then they should drastically lower their prices and stop promoting themselves as selling gourmet pizza, there was nothing gourmet about it. I don’t know how they have managed to win any awards, I can only guess, by not serving customers the high quality they present at competitions. The other thing that annoyed me is that the menu online said it was going to cost me $16.50 and I was asked to pay $19.

Yet another way to irritate customers and ensure they don’t come back. I certainly won’t be. After making an official complaint they did agree to give me my money back, so that was the only good thing to come of it.

Feb 19, 2010 

8.8 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  7      Service  9      Value  10     

I have been to Little Caesars on numerous occasions and it has become our local pizza shop. Yes the wait is long and you should always ring a head so they are ready when you arrive. The wide range of pizzas and toppings are great and the dessert pizzas are wonderful. We very rarely eat there as it is crowded and very noisy, we normally go to the Kookaburra Cinemas and enjoy it there. The pizza is very tasty and fresh with it never being to greasy, I look forward to trying the Leederville restaurant to see if it keeps to its values and the quality that has made it a Perth Icon. Highly recommend the place.

Jan 31, 2010 

2 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  1      Service  5      Value  1     

My friends who I was visiting told me about this place and we trundled off to try out one of their Pizza's. I'm sorry the pizza we had was very lacklustre and I have had way better pizza's from other places. I do not see how this place has won any awards, it just boggles the mind.

This was actually the second time my friend's had tried Little Caesers and they were disappointed the second time as much as the first time.

Jan 14, 2010 

7.5 Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  6      Service  7      Value  8     

This local pizza shop has become quite a phenomenon in the pizza world, having won many awards. So many (rumour has it) that they've been banned from competing in some competitions!

Be prepared for the long drive, if you're a suburbian, as Mundaring is located 45 minutes away from Perth CBD, heading eastwards along the Great Eastern.
Seating capacity is limited, and of the two times I've been there, I was lucky enough to score a table. The pizzas are simply superb, chunky topping, creamy sauce, and fluffy (but not too thick) crusts.

Favourites listed below...

SAVOURY: Greek Lamb, Chicken Fettucine, Pisagne

SWEET: Eskimo Joe, Black Forest

Jul 22, 2008