There are so many pizza places here in good ole' Bakersfield, and most of them are big chain pizza places. So to the little pizza parlor or delivery pizza place you have to have niche or you won't last. The big ones seem to push them out of the way. But now and then a place comes along that has decent pizza, not cardboard and when it's just delivery, it's at a good price. My family and I discovered Best Bite Pizza years ago, when one of many door hangers were placed on our door. Now times were pretty tough so pizza was not always an option, lets face it, when your on a budget pizza sometimes was a treat and still can be. Well we couldn't believe our eyes to see the excellent deals on the advertisement, now if only the food was as good. We've been let down before by promise of great deals, and get bad food.Well Best Bite Pizza after all this time hasn't changed. Same great deals, same good pizza. Now Best Bite pizza is a delivery only pizza place. So for a Friday Family Movie or Game night it's perfect.
So my family and I ordered their Large Family Pack special. This includes 2 Large (16 inch) pizzas, 1 order of wedges, 1 order of Buffalo Wings and a 2 liter bottle of soda for $26.99(delivery charge may apply). That's a lot of food for a low price, so it really works out well for my family of 5.
Best Bite's pizza is of the had tossed variety, no deep dish or thin crust here. From when I have done a pick up the kitchen is open to view by the public, so everything is out there, and it is very clean and white. Not a lot of fancy decorations on the wall to gather dust. Shoot most people won't see it any way since they're delivery and carry out only. But it's nice to know that you food is coming from a well maintained , clean atmosphere. From what I can tell, dough is made fresh daily, with fresh ingredients. This is always a plus.
Since I have kids, pizza in our house is usually ordered pretty simple, except by myself, who likes to be adventurous and my son who has become a carnivore and like his pizza with multiple meat toppings. So we get 1 pepperoni pizza and 1 just extra cheese. I get the BBQ buffalo wings ( they have a choice of hot or bbq) which is about a dozen, 1 order of wedges, which is a pretty decent size order by most standards, and a 2 liter bottle of Sunkist (they serve Pepsi products). We were told it would be about 45 minutes for delivery, and after tax and delivery charge it's $32.93. Which is not bad, we get hit with a delivery charge because of our location from their base, which is at 1010 Chester Ave. and we are way in the Stockdale Area. Of course our experience when ordering from Best Bite, is 45 minutes is an extreme estimation. We usually get it in about 25 to 35 minutes, this was the case once again when we received our pizza in about 25 minutes, and nice and hot.
Like I said the pizza is the hand tossed variety, so you have a nice thick well cooked bread crust, the sauce is the only plain part of the pizza, its just tomato sauce, but it's not drowned all over the pizza, it's well applied and spread out. Plenty of cheese which looks and tastes like a mozzarella/monterrey jack/cheddar combination. It's well spread out over the pizza with the pepperoni added then more cheese, so it really bakes in well. The pizza was very good, nice taste, and very light on the grease that you find on a lot of delivery pizzas that you have to dab off.
The BBQ Buffalo wings are of a nice large size, and well covered in a tangy BBQ sauce that is not BBQed on but sent trough the pizza ovens so the chicken cooks and the sauce cooks on. The wedges to me are the only down side. The are nothing more then lightly breaded, lightly seasoned wedge fries. Not like the battered ones you get from most pizza places. They still good, and you get free dipping ranch and ketchup to go with it. The service on the phone was ok, but maybe a better phone system. They had a hard time hearing or understanding us on the phone. And delivery while quick, the drivers really need to know Bakersfield a little better, we were called from 3 blocks away saying they couldn't find us, and believe me our home is very easy to find..
So for Best Bite Pizza's rating:- Surroundings: for Carry out only it's well maintained and clean: 4 Stars
- Service: Difficult to hear us on the phone and couldn't find our home well: 2 Stars
- Food: Hot & Tasty, not overly extravagant, but good just the same: 4 Stars
- Overall: Fast, Clean, Good, and friendly: 4 Stars
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| Address | 1010 Chester Ave. Bakersfield, CA, 93301 | ||||||||||||
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| Phone | 661-323-3535 | ||||||||||||
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