This pizza was recommended to me from a true NYC transplant. (I've also lived just adjacent to NYC, in Jersey.) Between here & Amante, I'd like to know what other pizza joint in Troy better represents big city pizza. (Sure, there's DeFazio's- but that's not like NYC pies... though, also super delicious!). I don't think anyone could possibly be disappointed! read more

This establishment is incredibly convenient for all college students. As RPI does not have a dining hall open after 10:00pm, this is the go to late night dining option. Fresh Bapple pizza is one of the few great pleasures of life. read more

I'm very sorry to write this review. The people that work here are great. I just wish the food was at least fair. It's just awful. Sorry guy. read more

When it comes to a pizza, this is my go-to!! I can't get over just how good it is!! Everyone is so timely too especially with delivery! I recommend it to my friends, it's my personal favorite and more people should try! read more

I order a Philly Steak sub n 2 Slices of Cheese Pizza the Pizza was terrible it was cold it taste bad the Philly Steak was good. I personally will not order from this place again. I ask for a refund o the 2 Slices of Pizza, and they would not give it to me. Bad customer service period. read more

Ordered a pizza at 12am didnt get it yet and its almost 3:00 in the morning. Worst experience ever driver said he was outside then wasnt and said "hold on hold on" and hungup and hasnt been heard from since. Pathetic read more

First time order through Uber Eats. Both pizzas were great. I can say that there is one place around here that puts enough cheese on their pizza. Otherwise everywhere else, you have to ask and pay for that extra cheese. After all what's a pizza with none or less cheese. Loved their pizza. I should order in future. Thank you, I didn't feel like cooking tonight. read more

Big Apple Pizzeria - Buffalo Chicken Slice with onions n olives and Pepperoni Slice - Pizza Near Me - Troy, New York

Good food for price. Hi

I live around a few different pizza places but this one is my favorite. They're garlic knots are amazing, by far the best I've had, my only complaint is they have gotten smaller recently. also a big fan of their chicken parm pizza and pepperoni roll. Highly recommend for good pizza and garlic knots! I've also ordered delivery from here and they are very timely. always very nice when I pick up as well. read more

This place was a really excellent surprise! My buddy and I came to Troy to visit his school RPI and to be honest, we were searching for another pizza place that had unfortunately closed. Still with Pizza on the mind we walked around and into this place and were not disappointed. I had the Buffalo chicken pizza and their bbq chicken pizza and both were soooo good. They have nice big slices with loads of flavor and the pricing was fantastic. They have a couple of tables inside and a nice sitting area outside as well with some nice local murals to enjoy as well! Great place and good stop for lunch or dinner! read more

Big Apple Pizzeria (formerly Empire Pizzeria) is conveniently located at the corner of College Ave and 14th St, across the street from the RPI campus. This cozy pizza place offers an impressive selection of regular and specialty pizzas by the slice, about 20 pizzas on hand (Pizza Da Vinci has a similar concept). The specialty slices are $3.00 a slice and are pretty filling. They have cheese, pepperoni, meat lovers, buffalo chicken, ziti alfredo pizza, Greek, Hawaiian, veggies, steak & cheese, and eggplant, chicken parm, and more. The pizza crust is very firm with a pizza bread texture and loaded with tasty toppings. My favorite pizza slice is the breaded eggplant with red peppers. The slices are heated up in the oven and come out quick. Pizza is the ideal food for the hungry college student! I would eat here a lot and try every slice if I were going to school again. Back in the day for me, I had to settle for Hole In The Wall for much of my pizza needs during study time crunches. Besides pizza, they offer calzones, strombolis, garlic knots, rolls, salads, wings, appetizers, subs, and pasta dinners. See the menu and prices at http://www.bigapplepizzeria.com There's seating inside and outside seating along the College Ave side. This place is open pretty late until 3AM (Sun-Thu), 4AM (Fri-Sat) and 2AM during the summer. RAD is accepted here. read more

Big Apple Pizzeria - cars parked on the side of the road - Pizza Near Me - Troy, New York

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Pizza dough is out this world, would highly recommend to anyone in the area. Working staff is even better welcomes anyone with open arms. read more

If you are going out to get some pizza for a party, or you're going to have a little celebration at home or something like that I would recommend Big Apple pizzeria. It is amazing. My father used to own the place and then we recently moved but now we moved back to New York so I go to Big Apple Pizzeria every now and then, even though my dad is not the owner anymore I think it's still amazing, and always will be. The service is great but if you get like a burger french fries, it might take some time, but if you get a pizza slice you'll be in and out in like 3 to 5 minutes. It is very clean and sanitary, they service napkins and there's a sanitizing machine. I have seen the stars go down since the owner has changed, and they also kinda messed around with the restaurant, for example they changed where all of the coolers for the drinks and stuff like that go. But if you are looking for a pizza and appetizers, I would definitely recommend Big Apple Pizzeria. read more

Big Apple Pizzeria - This is a really lighted restaurant. - Pizza Near Me - Troy, New York

horrible took 4 hours to get a pizza that wasn'tice cold it was still cold and was cursing at 15 years old and a 12 year old when they tryed to ask when there pizza was going to be here read more

The pizza is very good. Very nice costumer service. The pastries complement the food exquisitely.

run, don't walk from ordering here. pizza/fried ravioli came ice cold 1/2 hour after delivery was supposed to be here. driver brought food back to restaurant and reheated and refried . Paid for toppings not received as well. pizza was so hard it tasted like they put light sauce and old cheese on a pizza box. they tried making the order over but why wait for another lousy pizza all over again. don't order here unless you like giving your money away. $30 for garbage read more

Big apple is great. Always friendly staff that makes very good pizza. The pizza is so good, and very consistent. Also open late all week long so that's worth more than five stars to me. read more

Super friendly and helpful. Prepared a full order for a visiting college ice hockey team with a smile and had it ready early!

Absolutely unprofessional Rude and almost frightening. I ordered through GrubHub the process was smooth up until the driver for the restaurant delivered to the wrong address and I cancelled my order after trying to come to a happy resolution they guy over phone cursed me out for cancelling the order that I paid for and told me to never order from there again why would I after that.. Good Luck getting your food delivered to the right door! read more

Ordered a dozen wings mild. They got here 40 minutes later and look like soggy wrinkly skin. Drenched in a thick sauce. Not your typical mild sauce other places use. Gross, these people clearly don't specialize in wings. read more

Big Apple Pizzeria - 12 mild Buffalo Wings - Pizza Near Me - Troy, New York

they are the absolute best. they really are so sweet and the pizza is so amazingggg really good service

They kept telling grub hub they were coming and never did...like straight up lied about it??? It was so weird ...

This is, or how I see it, the Holy Grail of pizzas and calzones! Here's the place where I got my first taste of NY Pizza when I moved from little old Compton to go to college (RPI alumni). You seriously cannot go wrong with any slice that is available, but my favorite has to be the buffalo chicken pizza (or, if you're really hungry, a calzone). No blue cheese to mask the buffalo chicken, just buffalo chicken on the pizza. As you take a bite, close your eyes and listen to Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 as you savor the tasty, crispy, flavorful pizza. I use their buffalo chicken pizza as a measuring tool whenever I venture off to other pizza places across the world. Only one in NYC has gotten 85% close to how this one tastes...but none have matched it. Always make a stop to pick up a slice, a pie, and/or a calzone when driving through RPI! read more

These guys care more about the money than the people they are serving. They won't offer any refunds for any mistakes they make. Speaking of mistakes, they do make a lot! Make sure to have them read out your order before you pay because they might try to sneak extra stuff on you. This happened to one of my friends and they refused to refund it seconds after he had paid. At the end of the day, these guys thrive off of "misunderstandings" so watch your step if you go here. read more

Bumping to a 3 because their chicken on rice is pretty good. Shame I only tried it recently.

Lovingly called "Pizza Bella" by RPI students who have been around long enough, this is your typical college pizza joint. The pizza here isn't particularly stellar, but it's tasty and gets the job done on those late nights. I came here with C. last Saturday night at around 2 AM. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out they extended their hours to 5 AM on Friday and Saturday nights, and 3 AM on Sunday nights. This remedies the 4 AM hunger pang nights I had during Freshman year and everything was in the area was closed. Of course, the place still has a crowd even at this hour - party night, you know? I ordered a slice of barbecue chicken pizza ($3) and a can of ginger ale ($1). C. ordered some specialty slice and a cheese slice ($5 total). Pizza is medium-crust, and the barbecue chicken was plentiful and flavorful - delicious and hit the spot! I almost never eat the crust, it gets too hard/chewy by the time I get to it. I threw it out this time. Always a RPI favorite, and will definitely go back again. Good times. Credit card/RAD can only be used on orders that are $5 or over. read more

Do not trust the hype, fellow RPI students. I firmly believe that you have to be 100% hammered to be able to enjoy this "food." Bella is some of the worst food you will ever be tricked into paying money for. It is awful. It's greasy as all hell, the crust is flavorless and stale, and the toppings are legitimately disgusting. They are all either super salty or just gross in general. The sausage in particular forced me to throw out like 80% of my slice, which is something I would never do to a slice of pizza under other circumstances. The only reason this place is popular is that it's open stupidly late and it's really cheap. But do yourself a favor and order Domino's to eat a little later so you don't have to subject yourself to this nest of mediocrity. I've had better food from Commons. I've had better food for 50 shillings in a rural village in Kenya. Do not eat here. I'd rather starve. read more

I ordered parmesan chicken wing. Not mc chicken from McDonald. This is an extremely unfair service. This post is to warn others to make sure when they order wings from them, ask "are they actually full size wings". See picture for complete understanding. read more

Big Apple Pizzeria - Pizza Near Me - Troy, New York

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It's a pretty nice pizza place. This is no mass-plain-cheese-pizza manufacturing joint. I'm not kidding when I say all the pizzas really look like art. I met the owner once making the pizzas himself in the middle of the day. Each one was uniquely different and absolutely LOADED with toppings, and the price per slice is really good. I'm also really impressed that they don't just dump on the cheese excessively like your average pizza place, but actually care about the ingredients used. They also offer gyros I think so I'm kind of surprised that so many people go to the nearby Moes for lunch instead. Those guys always end up getting a giant cup of nacho-butter-cheese and a free bag of chips so it becomes way way worse than eating a slice here. The only trouble I have with the place is that you can't choose what kind of pizza you want sometimes because they're all so good haha. read more

Our former roommates used to work here, so for a while my fiance and I enjoyed lots and lots of free Big Apple! Since they moved out, we order from them whenever we have company. The pizza is delicious and service is usually fast. They are open super late so it's great for a late night snack. Unfortunately there is a $5 minimum for credit cards, so if you're stopping in for a slice you'll need some cash on you. read more

Sure, they changed their name to "Big Apple" - but anyone who is anyone still calls the place "Bella." This is the first place I want to go when I go to Troy. Pro tip: best when coming home from a party. read more

Fantastic food all around. I come here every week and it is always delicious. The prices are good for the quality of the food and their Buffalo Chicken pizza is some of the best. Orders are made fast, and I never feel like I've had to wait too long to get my order out the door. Amazing read more

this place is a complete joke when it comes to service and overall quality of food. I got a sub from their place and they didn't have sub rolls so they put it on a wrap. Which should be cheaper and they never offered me back the difference. Besides that, they used trash processed turkey and Single plastic-wrapped American cheese to make my crappy wrap with none of the veggies or dressing I wanted on there. Chicken wings mediocre asked specifically for extra blue cheese not to mention they sent me a receipt literally stating what I was buying and how I wanted it in writing, and EVERYTHING was wrong. I absolutely do not recommend this place to anyone. It's a complete front read more

Really bad. I give them credit, though. They are open to 5am on Friday and Saturday nights and open at 11am. I respect them as a college pizza place, but there pizza is awful. I can't think of one good thing to say about it. I usually write really long detailed reviews, but don't want to this time. If you are an RPI student, go to DeFazio's or even eat pizza in the Union and use Flex. I guess if you are coming home from a party or bar or burning the midnight oil, it suffices as calories to fuel the body, but that is it. read more

RUN AWAY! This place scams customers. My son came in to pick up his order and they said they didn't have an order with his name on it. He told them what he ordered (2 pizzas and some garlic knots) and they said it was in the oven. They asked him to pay and he swiped his card and when he stepped to the side to look the receipt it was for $176. He immediately went back to the counter and he asked for it to be corrected and they said no - he ordered 10 pizzas (TEN!) and this was the charge. They refused to refund him and he ended up taking the 10 pizzas home even though he clearly said he was there to pick up the order for 2. Apparently this isn't the first time they have done this so my advice is to steer clear. read more

Love big apple! The nicest people around. Made my experience at RPI so much better. Love them. They made me and my friend fried pickles for the first time ever when they weren't on the menu and they were delicious. We appreciate you, big Apple read more

As an RPI student, my review may be biased. But, that being said, I have got to make this review in hopes that someone working at Pizzabella would understand that there is still work to be done. First, the good thing. I do like the pick-up via phone or in person system that they have. It's usually not that bad. For pizza slices that they have in the restaurant itself, it is a fast service. For items that require longer time to make, being able to order on the phone and pick it up later is also very convenient. Next, the average, it is a pizza restaurant, but it could be better described as an Italian restaurant. The quality of the food is average and there is nothing special about the pizza (with the exception of the cheese slice) or the pasta. What keeps this problem balanced is the sheer variety and quantity of food that you get. Finally, the bad. Delivery is a horrid affair. First, let's talk about the accuracy of the delivery. More often than not, if you are ordering with a group of friends, they will mess up at least one order and send you something that you didn't want. You still pay for the pizza and the delivery tip only to find out, after opening the box, that they put the wrong pizza in. Second, the good thing about the way this restaurant works with slices of pizza is that you can see what slices are available if you walk into the restaurant. The delivery, however, make this process a pain because you cannot physically see what is available. Sometimes, I would order certain slices only to be informed that they do not have any of the slices available. Other times, they make their own substitutions, leading to the first problem I have with the delivery. The point is that while this restaurant is average and there is still room for improvement, especially with regards to delivery. read more

Amazing pizza and late hours. Gave us a set of 24 free wings. 10/10 would come again!!!

Worst customer service. After waiting over an hour for my delivery, I called to see where it is. On May 7th 2019, the rudest woman answered the phone and said if i want my pizza to come get it. Stating the delivery person already came to my house. I was sitting outside, no one ever even came down my street. I explained this and also i do not have a car, and that the pizza was already paid. Was again told i would have to come get it. Paid for pizza, never received, no apology, no regund. read more

- Great lunch time spot. I was doing work for R.P.I. down the hill and would come up here for lunch. Great varieties of pizza for great prices. The only thing preventing this place from getting 5 stars is that the pizza isn't fresh. It's made earlier in the day, but then not cooked so when a customer wants it they slide it in the big oven for a few minutes to melt everything then give it to you. It's still very good. So it's like exchanging time for quality. read more