Clifton Park Pizza Shop

Best pizza in town. I’ve been going since I was a little kid. I live in Scotia now but I will make the trip there just to have some! Spuds are the best!!!

Not a fan of deep dish pizza, which this is for me. I like the real thin crust Italian pizza. My toppings weren’t baked enough and pizza was too cheesy.

Spuds are the way to go and wings good too. Last family get together they chose a different to go place for much of the food but had to make a special trip for spuds and wings. Always craving them.

Good pizza, just basic flat pizza. Would possibly eat there again. Chicken wings were very nice, also enjoyed the nice potato spuds thrown into my wings: D

Their pizza is fine my GF loves it. My gripe is with their other offerings. I ordered lasagna for take out the other evening along with a six cut pizza. The pizza as usual was fine but the lasagna was the worst I ever had anywhere, too much watery sauce hardly any meat to speak of and so so pasta. If you want better pizza & Italian food I suggest you head a little farther north on Rte 9 you will find Primavera Pizza in Parkwood Plaza. You won’t regret it

Tried the pizza last night and wings and spuds. Pizza was real good with a generous amount of toppings. Wings were real tasty and spuds too. Seems like a nice family run place.

First and only legit pizza shop I have found in Saratoga county. Pizza is made properly, taste right and the dough is nice, not too thin as everyone thinks it should be around here. Oh, and as everyone knows — no good pizza joint has sit down, take out only!!!

Clifton Park Pizza is an institution. I’ve been frequenting this establishment since ’89. I now live on Long Island with access to the best pizza in the U.S. Been to most of the top rated places in NYC and nothing touches Clifton Park Pizza. Oh, and don’t be afraid to order extra sauce, a twist I recently discovered. Nothing better.

Very expensive for low quality food… found two long black hairs in our pizza and they charged $ 4.00 for extra ranch… will never go back

Really yummy tom, bacon, ranch pizza!

We sampled pizza, spuds, and subs. The pizza could have used some more sauce but the toppings were delish. The spuds were ah-​mazing just as I remembered, can’t go wrong with fried potato wedges tossed in wing sauce.

The best wings I’ve ever had, period. Their pizza is tasty, their other foods are also good but something about their wings and the potato wedges they put in the container with them, just makes my mouth water thinking about them!

Their pizza just isn’t doing it for me lately. It’s quite expensive for the amount of food you get (their dough is very light, so it will take more pieces to fill you up than many other pizza places).
My one major pet-​peeve with them still stands — they don’t sauce their wings! When you order wings from here, they come with the wing sauce on the bottom of the styrofoam container. As any wing snob knows, you need to sauce them immediately. Doing it at home is awkward, and invariably leads to a mess. Unfortunately, the wings also tend to have a prominent «frozen» flavor.
Their spuds are good — but again — they’re not sauced (you need to do it yourself).

O’ Clifton Park Pizza, how I’ve missed ye.
It’s been a very long time since I’ve eaten from this place, and I really couldn’t tell you why that is because I’ve always loved it. I finally went back there last night and I can safely say under oath that Clifton Park Pizza is still great. It’s just as good as I remember it: browned just right and with a great sauce.
As others have mentioned, their game is simple here: take-​out only. There’s no place to eat inside (because it’s even smaller inside than it looks from the outside), and if you want delivery, you can deliver it to yourself.
Clifton Park Pizza has Frank’s Seal of Approval.

«Love is spelled S-​P-​U-​D-​S»
by Josh K.
Growing up in Clifton Park, there were 5 options for where people got their pizza. Where you ordered said a lot about your personality.
1) Venezias– the transplants from NYC craving a slice and taste of the city
2) Mammas-​the oldest perhaps? pizza place in the area, a place for the old-​timers and as it does delivery, for the lazy. The pizza is served classic upstate NY sheet style in contrast to the traditional triangle slice.
3) Pizza Hut– one of the first corporate enterprises to hit what is now suburblandia and strip mall Clifton Park. Pizza Hut was where the yuppie suburbanites got their pizza because it was fast, easy, and because of great TV advertising, in their subconscious.
4) Villa Pizza-​same NYC style as Venezias but bigger and better but stuck in the Clifton Park Center Mall. It was and still is the go-​to for a mid shopping snack with the soccer moms and their kids.
And finally the best of them…
5) Clifton Park Pizza Shop– A greasy hole in the wall in very unpretentious setting with a loyal cult following. If I asked you what your favorite pizza place was growing up in Clifton Park and you answered CP Pizza, there was an immediate trust and probably friendship soon after. If you said somewhere else, there was always suspicion… CP Pizza shop is that kind of local place. And this is the pizza I was raised on! The 18 years I grew up in Clifton Park and a few years I lived there after college, my family and I have been ordering their family special almost every Friday night. It’s up to people who know me, read this review, and have ate at CP Pizza Shop to make the call about what this says about my personality…
Simply put, Clifton Park Pizza shop is takeout and cash only. They serve sheet pizza, subs, wings, pasta dishes, salads (who gets that?) and a beautiful invention called the «Spuds”-which I will mention in a little bit.
As I mentioned, the Pizza is sheet style. To some (by some I mean the downstaters) this is off putting. But this is upstate NY, and that’s how we do pizza… and just because it is, doesn’t mean quality is sacrificed. Only form not flavor is changed.
The pizza is saucy, cheesy (baked till its almost crispy), the crust is garlicky, and most deliciously messy with grease. I am a big fan of greasy pizza and Clifton Park is the greasiest mess of a pizza out there.
When my family orders, we always got the «family special». For about 20 bucks we got a large 12 cut half cheese half veggie with 20 wings (10 hot and 10 mild), and a 2-​liter soda. The wings are also cooked in mounds of their own grease and the hot wings are covered with a special kind of hot sauce I have yet to figure out.
The meaty wings are breaded and deep friend and get soggy in the sauce but mostly the extra frying gives it a layer to soak up all the sauce and grease.
The best part of ordering wings is that they come with Spuds! Spuds are a Clifton Park Pizza shop invention (the product not the name of course). Spuds are potato wedges that are also tossed in the wing/​grease sauce. The spuds soak it up the best, and thinking about them right now makes me salivate.
Yes, Clifton Park pizza is probably very unhealthy. All that grease cannot possibly be good for you.
But my god is it delicious.

This is a public service announcement. If you’re trapped in Clifton Park… AND you don’t feel like making the pilgrimage to Albany… AND you want a pizza or a sub or a simple Italian dinner then there is hope. You don’t have to go to Bellini’s (ugh) or Pizza Hut (ugh squared) or Domino’s (ugh divided by zero). You can spare yourself that humiliation. You are saved. Your sins are forgiven. There is Clifton Park Pizza.
I’ve been there more times than I can count. It’s a genuine take-​out-​only «hole in the wall» pizza joint that knows their demographic, knows what they have to offer, and absolutely nails it. Set in a roadside ramshackle old building that would make Popeye proud. It’s gruffly pleasant. And they’ve got it all down to a science.
Family run. For the most part it’s always the same staff on duty. Though every once in a while some young girls turn up. I imagine them in one of those ‘lingerie prison’ movies… «Innocent young vixens sentenced by a cruel judge to a steaming pizza-​hell for a crime they didn’t commit». Boom-​chika-​boom-​boom.
Anyway, I digress… Bottom line: Stuck in Stripmallistan? You can still get pizza and subs made to order… and a few dinners to balance it all out. Like a very passable lasagna and chick parm. That’s the story. That’s what they do. Consistent; decent quality; fairly priced; fast and friendly.
On the downside… it’s a bit grungy. Not filthy mind you, but hardly sparkling. And don’t get the wings or the spuds or the salads… really, don’t.