John’s Pizza

(4) ~ very good overall food & service. Highly recommend their Cheese Steaks, which are my pick for best in the Philly Suburbs;) And there’s plenty of seating inside.
FAVORITE:
** Cheese Steak = (4.25) Very good overall flavor & the Rolls are Fresh & Soft. Best in Burbs;)
OTHER:
* Plain Pizza = (3.75) Good… Note: The crust is soft & chewy.
* John’s Special Italian Hoagie = (3.5) good
* Fuse Ice Tea (fountain) = (3.5) good
* Old Bay Fries = (3.5) good
* Onion Rings = (3.25) pretty good

We live in Atlanta, GA area. My husband is from the area and introduced me to John’s during Thanksgiving. Oh. My. GOD! The cheesesteaks and hoagies are fantastic! We will definitely be back every single time we go back to PA now. Sorry it took so long to write a review, but I guess I just kept dreaming about it and forgot to actually sit down and type.

My favorite spot for lunch and customer satisfaction is #1 I love the tuna and cheese on rye.

Have not been in the area in ages, and alot has changed but not John’s. You still get treated like a member of the family, and are served some of the best food you’ve ever had!

They’ll get 2 stars for the quality of the Chicken Steak. It is very good. Everything else though… not so much. Extremely slow service. My kids pizza was overcooked as was my other kids cheese burger. How does this place have a 4 star rating? A table of nuns were also here for lunch. They wanted a sandwich with white bread… No luck, they only have wheat today. Overall not a good experience.

Absolutely yummy. Wish I lived closer. Very local feel with regulars coming in and calling the owner by name. On second thought, its probably better that I don’t live close, otherwise I’d be here all the time. The food is really good.
From the guy from Texas, thanks Chris and Desire for showing/​serving me a real Philly cheesesteak!

I don’t want to even give this place a star after I what I witnessed the other day. I randomly decided to stop here to pick up dinner on my way home after work when I witnessed the owner yelling at a senior citizen. She was sitting at a table with her family and he was seriously yelling in her face while holding what appeared to be a personal Stromboli of some sort. I don’t know what happened but this guy will never get my business! He stormed away from the family and they just sat there. I walked out without ever placing an order… the family should have left too. To the owner, You don’t treat customers like they are meaningless and you never, ever disrespect a woman.

Say what you want about all other areas of criticism for this place, but you cannot get a better cheesesteak /​buffalo chicken cheesesteak anywhere else nearby. Good quality steak/cheese/roll/onions&peppers. Real philly Italians!

I lived in the area for 30 years, and John’s was always a favorite place to grab a great hoagie or cheesesteak. The pizza is good too, but it’s much easier to find good pizza than it is to find a really good cheesesteak. The staff can be a bit quirky, but anytime I’m back in Chester Co. I come here for the food. If you’re looking for a great cheesesteak or hoagie, look no further. The only other place in the area that’s equally good is Joeys in Thorndale.

Best Hawaiian Pizza i ever had!
Owner Chris… great fella!
I will come agaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!

I cannot call this place a top cheesesteak place compared to Westtown Meat Market in West Chester, or Sonny’s Famous Steaks downtown.
Since John’s is a long way from Old City, but only 8 miles from Westtown Meat Market, they are a 3-​star cheesesteak in our book.
John’s staff was very friendly, but not very accurate about the wait. We were on our way to Lancaster the day we stopped in and asked if it would be a long wait (the place was PACKED that day), because we had to keep to our schedule and we’d just try them another time if needed. They seemed very understanding about it and we were assured it would be no more than 10 minutes… but it was over 16 minutes. When you’re fighting traffic on 30 to get to Lancaster, that is frustrating. Otherwise, the service was kind and helpful.
The food was decent. We particularly appreciated the vent-​holes they cut into the container with our fries, because it allowed the steam to escape and allow our fries to stay crispy, which is a nice touch that few other places bother to consider.

Food: 4.5
Service: 3.5
Value: 3.5
Absolutely delicious cheesesteak here.

All you hear about Philly is «their cheesesteaks are great!» I moved up from NC earlier this year and found this place (it’s near work) and tried it out. This was the first cheesesteak I’ve had where I’ve said «ok I get it now about actual Philly cheesesteaks.»
Great food. Every time I’ve been in there is later in the day so it’s not been crowded but I’ve enjoyed the food immensely and the people there are really nice.

Understaffed but great food and the bickering that goes makes it kind of like dinner and a show. It’s a fun place with great food.

This is the real deal when it comes to a cheesesteak! I have had tony Luke’s and his is dry compared to johns pizza. They get their meat fresh every two days and use top of the line steak so you don’t need as much oil so if is a greasy ball of cheese whiz you seek this is the wrong place. However if you want a roll that was baked fresh that day with the best ingredients and real creamy American cheese melted everywhere you have then chosen wisely! Also try their pizza the dough and sauce is made on site and I prefer it to some of the top pies in NYC. Check out my pictures and thanks Chris for making me a believer in the almighty cheesesteak!

I would always drive by John’s Pizza on the way to and from work. I was curious about this place because I would see a lot of cars during lunch. After looking the place up on Unilocal,I decided to give it a try since it had a lot of good reviews. I tried the Cheese steak chicken with onions and mushrooms. It was delicious. The two ladies working at the place were nice. I didn’t notice the employees arguing or screaming at each other like the other reviewers. They have some video games inside and plenty of tables.

I am, by nature, an agressive driver. I am a firm believer in DRIVING in the left hand lane. If you want to ride, there’s a whole lane reserved for you and all the other grandparents on the right, so move your lame minivan out of the way. When i know I’m on my way to get John’s, though, my driving gets downright mean. If you come between me and my cheesesteak, expect to get run straight off the road, Mad Max Style. How good is this place? So good that it is still isted in the «frequently visited locations» section of the GPS on my phone. And I live in Tennessee!
While I haven’t driven all the way from Tennessee to Malvern, PA just to get a cheesesteak, I definitely stop in whenever I am in the North: Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Deleware, Rhode Island, Conneticut, Western PA, Central PA, New York, New Jersey; no amount of distance is too great for me to travel to get my hands on these amazing cheesteaks. This is the best cheesesteak in Pennsylvania. I not equivacating, embelleshing, lying or exxgerating. Game over, man, game over. From the regionally sourced bread, to the thinly sliced steak, to copious amounts of provolone cheese (Chris, John’s son, doesn’t even carry a cheese whiz option on the menu. Ask him for it. I dare you), this is the ONLY way you should make a cheesesteak. Throw on some relish, mustard, ketchup, mushrooms, and peppers, and you too will be making 3 hour roundtrips to suckle at the teat of nirvana.
I don’t understand a lot of the criticisim surrounding the service, either. These guys have been banging out cheesesteaks for longer than I have been alive. They have NEVER been rude or disrespectful to my family. In fact, we roll so deep up there that they often have to order another supply truck when we are in town. (My grandpa used to call ahead and tell them «the family» was coming. That’s my grandpa, his wife, my mom, my aunt, my mom’s four kids, my aunt’s four kids, and my cousin’s 3 – 8 kids, depending on who’s in town. And we all can eat.) We roll in, order our 20+ cheesesteaks, 2 – 3 calzones, and 2 – 3 pizzas, and then I ask the family «what are yall eating»?! *drum flourish* Cracks em up everytime. The family may be loud and argumentitive, but so is mine, so who am I to judge?
If you get tired of the cheesesteaks, try a pizza or a calozone or whatever else they have. I promise you it’s worth the drive.

Well worth the drive from Baltimore! Meat stacked heavily on the 12″ kaiser roll. The bread was fantastic and the steak was cooked perfectly. We also had a pizza which was rather tasty. 5 star service to match the cheesesteaks.

Came for good pizza and the legendary experience of watching the staff argue with each other to the point of discomfort on the part of the customer, left empty handed.
The pizza was a mess. Cheese and sauce everywhere, very underwhelming crust. It didn’t reheat well and while both employees were really nice, it felt like they devoted much more of their time to the rest of their menu than to their pizza.

Thank you Nicole for being the best waitress and the only employee that actually cares about this place. She’s always very nice and apologetic about the poor work ethics from the rest of the staff here. If it wasn’t for Nicole, this place would’ve closed a long time ago!!! The owner here… he’s a whole another story… very foul-​mouthed and bad tempered (extreme understatement) is all I can say. Four stars for Nicole, yummy cheesesteaks and cold hoagie sandwiches. Zero stars for everything else about this place…
I phone ahead my order and take out now, the service is much faster that way!!!