Royal Pizza

I ordered a chicken gyro platter and a side of jalapeño poppers. It was my first time ordering anything from this joint. I ordered online from Unilocal.The order confirmation said it would take 45 – 60 minutes for delivery even though I live 6 blocks down the road. Thirty minutes after placing my order the restaurant called and told me they had messed up and just received my order. They were not polite or apologetic. I still agreed to get it. Another 45 minutes later the food arrives. The gyro was nothing special, especially because there was no real chicken chunks in there just strips of frozen I don’t even know what. The fries had burnt into the styrofoam container and were unsalted and cold. The poppers were average at best.
Probably going to try this place one more time, different items and if it doesn’t improve then it will surely lose my business.

Being a vegetarian, there isn’t much I can order from most restaurants, but I must say the Grilled Vegetable Hoagie was amazing. The veggies were grilled just right, the sauce was perfect, and it was filling. I would definitely order more veg items from here.

Went here really late night last weekend and talked to the manager for a bit while our pizza was getting finished. The inside could certainly use some updating, but the pizza was great! They’ve been in the nieghborhood for about 30 years and have seen quite a bit of change between then and now. Good pizza, good people.

My favorite pizza place in the area. Yes, the food is really greasy, but you don’t eat at a pizzeria for your health. It’s a guilty pleasure. The owners are super nice and they joke around with me all the time. Great service!
Try their Delta Chi special. It’s one of my favorites!

one of my friend’s lives right around the corner and orders from here all the time… prob a little too often, according to her. she says that they’ve always been super nice and accommodating.
she brought a pizza and some wings to a party one night and i thought both were pretty delicious… better than the other pizza joints that i’ve ordered from in the neighborhood. the only thing is, i haven’t been able to order from here because their menu isn’t available online and i don’t have a physical menu :/

Tiny family-​run business on the border of Penn and USP. Awesome cheesesteak. Other stuff is good, but the cheesesteak is as good as you’ll get in University City.

all the food sucks but the Cheesesteak. The Cheesesteak is the only reason why this place is open just as good as Pats caliber if not better. In my top 5.

Really good turkey club, low prices, and quick service. Plus the owner is really nice. Haven’t tried the pizza but it looks good. Not a bad place to pick up party food and a couple of cold 2-​liter sodas.

Great food, open late, owners are awesome!

I’m a USP grad so I lived on this place for years.
Food is pretty tasty but very greasy. Prices are low and the service is fast. Take out only. Not my kind of pizza but it tastes alright and is definitely better then god awful franchise pizza places.
The stromboli is the real deal super duper gut buster! Sweet, acidic, fatty and cheesy with a little tomato. Yum!
My brother swears by their cheesesteaks and they can really load it up with everything! Every time he comes to Philly he has to have one. Fries, fingers and wings are all pretty standard corner shop taste. Pizza fries are awesome.
Gyros and greek fare (owners are greek) are better then you would think from looking at menu.
Hmmmm, I could go for some Royal’s with a side of nostalgia right now.

Delicious! West philly classic Mega Fries, kills it! (fries with mozzarella, provolone, ranch, and bacon.) I get mine with hotsauce. Turkey clubs is great, service is quick and gus and Maria are awesome.

Best wings in West Philly. I’m also in love with their Italian stromboli.

Two stars because once, when I was there, I saw a gigantic roach on the floor. (I still eat there. I am lying to myself that it just came in through the open door.)
I literally live across the street from Royal Pizza, which makes it very easy to justify dropping in. It is cheap, the food is decent, and they are really fast (calling for a personal pizza will have it ready in under 10 minutes, depending on how busy it is). The same personal pizza, probably enough for two meals, is under $ 5. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever spent more than $ 10. There is no seating so it’s only good for takeout… not that you’d really want to eat in there. It’s always a billion degrees and you can smell it 100 feet away!
The food is nothing remarkable. I like the buffalo chicken cheesesteak although it is not great as far as those go – it just tastes like hotsauce and is light on the cheese. The pizza is more of the crispy, buttery crust that you sometimes find in this city… not bad but not always what you want for a pizza. It’s very greasy, so it’s satisfying late at night, but you feel a little ill afterwards. My favorite thing to order is the chicken souvlaki, however, which you wouldn’t think to find at such a pizza place. But the pita is warm and lovely and salty, the meat is well seasoned, and their tzatziki offers a nice, cool counterpart.
Every tim I go in there, though, I picture that bug. :(

I hate to give it two stars because I dig the owner, but the food is not great (although I really like the buffalo chicken cheesesteak) and if you walk in there, you are going to smell like deep-​fried food for days… still, it’s a good local spot that is worth ordering from (once in awhile) if you live in the area.