Monte's Restaurant

Pizza was ok, not all the rave that Dave gave it. This is not South Shore bar pizza on the North Shore. At best it is somewhat of a hybrid. If you want good bar pizza you have to go south of Boston!

Frozen pizza style but better ingredients. Great sauce and decent cheese but crust thin/dry

I expected more from this one, I really did. To start with the bad, it was the cheese. There just wasn’t enough for me. The dough to this pizza bordered on downright ugly. Although the center had a good flop to it, the edge was perhaps the hardest part to get through with just how hard and crunchy it was. The good and perhaps great part of this pizza is the sauce. The tomato flavor to it combined with the herb blend made it such that eating this pizza was still enjoyable. All in all, not a bad option if you’re in the area but certainly not worth making a pilgrimage for just because Dave rated it a 10.0.

Alright, Monte’s...not a 10...not even close. BUT...the sauce is excellent. If not for the sauce this would have been in the low 6s. Crust is thin and floppy with very little flavor, but the sauce is so good it pulls up the score. Cheese is good and not too much or too little. Bar pizza. That’s the review.

To start the service was amazing. Now to the pizza. The crust had so much flavor and it's carriage was on point. The crust was also perfectly crunched. It was well done on the bottom while the inside had it's fluff. The sauce was absolutely amazing. Definitely the stand out for the pizza. It has so much flavor. It's a nice savory flavor with a hint of sweetness to help the bread stand out. Overall the sauce is great. Now the cheese. I'm not going to say the cheese is bad because it absolutely isn't. It's great cheese. Not greasy at all and holds it's own. However the pizzas needed a little bit on tang and the cheese would have been perfect to do that. Overall you cannot go wrong with the pizza. It's cheap price and outstanding quality is absolutely outstanding.

Great taste, love the old fashion setting, While I’m not a fan on flatbread pizza I respect this one.

Overrated

Good sauce, thin, good pizza but just expected more for a 10.

Dave! Please go back and fix this score! Please! I’ve been to 6 or 7 joints you’ve scored and I agree with you whole heartedly. This pizza is trash! Drove 2 hours out of my way for a 10. Trash

Of course I had to go to the place Dave infamously gave a 10 due to hometown bias. Anyways, I thought it was solid, nothing special though. Could’ve had more crisp apart than the crust, and also very light and thin which isn’t necessarily up my ally.

I heard about this holy grail of pizza from old Dave’s boy. So I gathered up my family of 9 to the promise land this is Monte’s in Lynn, Mass. We drove all the way from Utah risking life and limb only to find out their pizza taste like it’s from the frozen food aisle in Walmart! Shame on you Dave, giving this trash can pizza a 10. HOW DARE YOU!

Great pizza. Thin as a cracker. I’ll think about this pizza forever.

Awesome pizza...not quite a 10 in our opinion but worth the drive on a rainy Saturday with my son!

Very good pizza. Always enjoy a chance to get a pie from Monte’s.

This is not a 10 lol

Great pizza, I think the expectations were too high which left room for disappointment. Make no mistake, great pizza though.

Crispy crust, sauce is on point. Waitress was Linette and she was awesome!

Great Pizza

Good pizza

Portnoy, I don’t know what you got paid for this but I’m here now and this pizza is garbage. I had better pizza at the rink when I was a kid playing youth hockey.