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This pizza is so good! The service is outstanding. This pizza is like what my mama use to make. The menu is to die for. You will love it! Juliano Fern…
JULIANO FERNANDES
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This place is one of my local favorites. The pizza is simplistic but full flavor. The ingredients shine on the dough, might I suggest two toppings for…
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Great place for authentic pizza. Fresh ingredients in every dish. Pizza and onion rings are by far the best in town. Local, Fresh and Constant.…
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9 Reviews on “Pizza Palace”
Great place for authentic pizza. Fresh ingredients in every dish. Pizza and onion rings are by far the best in town. Local, Fresh and Constant.
Pizza Palace has been on my hit list since, like so many other out-of-towners, I saw it featured on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. While not nearly as plentiful as they were when my parents were growing up, drive-ins have always been something for me to seek out whenever possible, in my hometown or out on the road. The food tends to be reliably good, not necessarily for the health conscious, and the service is usually friendly. These qualities just come with the territory. If nothing else, that proved to be the case in Knoxville. It does seem a little strange to seek out a place called Pizza Palace to try their signature spaghetti rather than a pie, but that was the primary target after seeing the feature on television. This highly regarded meat sauce had plenty of hype to meet, with every other variable an unknown on the way in the door. The one detail that gained some bonus points with me from the minute I walked in: cash only. I love it when places will only accept cash, if only because it’s a throwback to a simpler time.Thankfully, despite the aging appearance of the place, outside and inside, the quality of the much ballyhooed spaghetti has not degraded with time. The plate is piled deep, served in a carryout container, I’m sure, partly because they assume that part of it will be taken home. The meat sauce is just as advertised, rich and flavorful, slightly sweet, and full of beef, topped with fresh shredded Parmesan. With so much pasta in the dish, there has to be plenty of sauce to go with it and that is certainly not a problem. The only problem is having a stomach to accommodate it all. That’s a nice problem to have. A disappointing detail was the bread being served with the spaghetti. Look, I like simple things as much as I like complex things when it comes to food, but there are times when shortcuts and simplicity become a detriment. Is it too much to ask for some decent quality garlic bread with a spaghetti dinner? Apparently, it is. Instead, it’s sandwich bread, toasted, with a little butter and maybe some garlic, maybe not. I couldn’t tell, and that should speak volumes. A little more effort there would have gone a long way, even with pre-made frozen bread that is prepared on the fly with each order.The Pizza Palace Special burger is decent but, despite the name, nothing special. The quarter-pound beef patty is flat and round, but cooked well in spite of the dull, lifeless color that suggests it has been frozen and placed in a box on a truck at some point. The special component of the burger is, as expected, the Pizza Palace meat sauce that, admittedly, will make just about anything better even when there is precious little of it on the sandwich. If not for the sauce, the burger would not be a great pick on the extensive menu.Overall, the hype surrounding the spaghetti was legitimate, but the delivery of the menu top to bottom fell a little flat. Not bad, not great, just average, but worth a return visit just to dive head long into another plate full of spaghetti and meat sauce. Next time, I may even try a pizza.
We saw it on Diners, Drive-In’s and Dive and thought we would give a shot. We didn’t care for it all. Probably the most over rated place in Knoxville. I get it, if you grew up eating their pizza then you love it. But if you haven’t (like us), then you don’t have the emotional connection to the place. It’s a ‘one and done’ for us.
delicious food! Great atmosphere. enjoyed the pizza it was definitely a big hit with the family. i would recommend visiting the pizza palace. the drive-in and food are a sure hit for kids and adults alike!!!!
Pizza. With sausage and few veggies
One of my favorite spaghetti dinners. Haven’t been down in past few years but the food is just as i remember. Big fan of the mushroom spaghetti. Sauce is just right and one of those places had i just past up and never given a shot i would have missed out on a special treat.
My first visit to Pizza Palace, which has been featured on the Food Network’s Diner’s Drive-Ins & Dives. Three of us stopped in for lunch while in Knoxville on a vacation/business trip. We tried the Super Pizza minus bell pepper, the Famous Spaghetti and chicken tenders with onion rings. Overall, I enjoyed the pizza most, but I am not too fond of spaghetti anywhere. It was enjoyable to experience and mark another Triple D restaurant off of my ‘must try’ list.