The pizza was really good. The crust was thin but tasty. Topping were good. Service was quick. read more

Food and service is great. It's tucked back and hard to notice from north oak. It's definitely worth a stop. We tried the mushrooms to start then the carnivore, bbq and buffalo pizzas. All were delicious and crispy thin crust. We will be back now that we know it's here. read more

Hot Rocks Pizza Kitchen - Fried mushrooms - Pizza Near Me - Kansas City, Missouri

Cute little place on North Oak next to Sun Fresh. They have an arcade for kids to play, area to sit and eat and even a bar for just adults. You seat yourself. Staff is really nice and on top of the service. The food was so good. They have a variety of options to choose from an even happy hour menu from 2-6 and 9pm to close. A place I'll consider to go back. read more

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Great service, great pizza, love the sports they play, usually college football or nfl or nfl highlights

Sundays are 10% off and the service was fantastic! Our server was friendly and attentive. We ordered a 16" pizza and large salad and it was plenty for 4 adults, with some leftovers. The pizza is a thin crust, which we like. They have a small arcade on one end and that gave us some room for our little one to run around in while waiting for our food. This could be a great family spot if you lived in the area. read more

Pizza was deliciously crispy!! Definitely love for a tavern style..cheese pull was outstanding..and Sundays you get 10% off your tab! read more

Hot Rocks Pizza Kitchen - Pizza Near Me - Kansas City, Missouri

My girlfriend and I tried this last night. It was our first time being here. The service was pretty good. The food was just so so nothing to write home about very normal type pizza. They did have a nice menu. The facility was clean the bathrooms were clean. The prices were on average. It's not a bad place. It's just not amazing. read more

Meet my new friend Grinder, Meatball Grinder that is! So, yesterday I was wondering what I might do for dinner, and the word Pizza popped into my mind. And then the more I thought on it a sandwich sounded better. But what kind of sandwich? There's a place up on North Oak called The Hot Rocks Pizza Kitchen, and I hade been there right after it opened. During that trip I had noticed several interesting sandwiches, so I thought that it would be a good time to return. So off I go and when I get there I marched right up to the bar and ordered a frosty glass of iced brown barley soup and a menu. After some serious study I decided on a The Meatball Grinder. I placed the order and sat back and relaxed, sipping on a delicious cold beer. And in just a short time they brought me out a basket full of heaven! They take a lovely roll of bread, split it down the middle, load that with four monster meatballs, add some pepperoni, Italian sausage, onions, mushrooms, and top it with red sauce a pizza cheese, and then toasted the whole kit and caboodle! When you bite into this beast you are biting into a meat lovers paradise! Tender and juicy meatballs with lots of flavors from the sauce, cheese, and the crunch of the bread puts this grinder over the top! Well Done Hot Rocks Pizza Kitchen Well Done Indeed! read more

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Good pizza and great salad. Hubby really enjoyed the pizza with lots of meat and nice thin crust. The Greek salad has wonderful homemade vinaigrette dressing, and was very fresh and tasty. I got the feta on the side since I wanted to limit how much dairy I was eating and that made it easy. I'd get that salad again any day! read more

Hot Rocks Pizza Kitchen - Meat pizza + olives - Pizza Near Me - Kansas City, Missouri

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Hot Rocks, wow! This was a pleasant surprise as I did not plan on eating here until some other plans fell through. We showed up around 2pm so it wasn't too busy. Perusing the menu we opted for a Carnivore. It was fantastic with plentiful toppings! All the ingredients tasted fresh and we really felt we got our moneys worth! If you are in the area you should definitely check them out! read more

Hot Rocks Pizza Kitchen - The Carnivore - Pizza Near Me - Kansas City, Missouri

First, they are open on Sunday. Yelp says closed. I came with my 6 year old Grandbaby girl. We came to eat pizza but an 8" cheese was $11 and there isn't any pizza on the kids menu. I instead had a Pesto Turkey Bacon sandwich and it was average at best. They brought my granddaughter's Kid's Menu Penne Alfredo in a extremely hot bowl. Like Mexican restaurant wearing oven mitt hot!!! I didn't like that much. Why would you give a 6 year old a hot bowl to burn herself on? Server did great with what he was given though. Grand total with tip for 1 adult sandwich w/ a coke and one kids meal....$42.06!!! We could of gone to a sandwich shoppe for $20.00 and got the same meal. read more

Hot Rocks Pizza Kitchen - Turkey Bacon Pesto (GH) - Pizza Near Me - Kansas City, Missouri

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A new pizza place is always a hit with the family. It's nice to see a non chain pizza place here in this location. They offer a variety of pizzas and some other dishes like nachos, wings, calzones, mozzarella sticks,etc. The nachos are definitely a item you can share with a few people and they are pulled high. Service was nice. They have an arcade if you're interested. read more

Pizza was good but nothing outstanding or amazing to say about it. They did a bad job of cutting it and made it a real pain to serve the slices up at the table. Pretty thin crust. But not really crispy a bit too chewy for my liking. The pizza rolls were excellent. Service was fine. Plenty of parking area. read more

Really wanted to give it 3 stars because of my first experience. (8 days ago) They had good customer service, the person answering the phone was knowledgeable of the menu & surprisingly timely, and the online information was accurate. This afternoon at about 2 o'clock I had ordered a personal cheese pizza ( an 8' ) and an order of nachos over the phone. When I arrived at the restaurant I wanted to add six cans of pop to my order but unfortunately the register system forced two separate transactions. I'm displeased with the look of the cheese pizza. -from the person who was going to eat it "where is the cheese and it does not look good." The first time I had ordered jalapeños or banana peppers, I did not mind the seeds left in the slices I figured simple mistake. Unfortunately by the order of nachos I think it's just how they do it. read more

Hot Rocks Pizza Kitchen - 8 inch cheese pizza and a order of nachos. - Pizza Near Me - Kansas City, Missouri

One of the best pizzas in the Northland. Love the crust. Fast and friendly carry out service.

Great people and pizza! The menu selection has a lot to offer. The bar is well stocked.

Okay I really like nachos. I mean I really really really like nachos. It's a good group. These are in another level! Love the peperoncini peppers are just awesome. Just love it. The supreme pizza was just delicious. I'd eat it again. But next time I wanna try their taco pizza. read more

Hot Rocks Pizza Kitchen - Supreme pizza was outstanding. I'll be back! - Pizza Near Me - Kansas City, Missouri

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Pizza was excellent as was service. We tried the Hawaiian - which had the fun twist of cream cheese dollops. The pesto on the margherita was delicious addition as well. read more

Hey, so I'm a fan. I wasn't too sure after seeing the mixed reviews on here, but I was pleasantly surprised. And I'm super excited to have more casual pizza options in this part of the Northland. My favorite part was the sauce. Tons of flavor without being too sweet or too tangy. What you need to know about the crust is that it's thin, but still chewy. So you're not going to get that crispy cracker-type crust but neither is it a doughy-fluffy hand-tossed style. (I like both those types of crust; this isn't to say their crust is superior to those, merely to explain what it's like). Personally, I find it comparable to similar pizza places like Minskys, Sarpinos, and Stone Canyon. No, it's not gourmet pizza, but a good old classic pizza pie sometimes just hits the spot perfectly. read more

Amazing food, great atmosphere, friendly staff, clean facility! There was so much more food than we anticipated, you definitely get you money's worth! Highly recommend, we will be back! read more

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Got the penne Alfredo and a kids butter noodle. Yikes. Can't really call it an Alfredo sauce. It's really stringy. Chicken tasted old. There's a weird mix of chicken thighs diced up fairly small and a fried breast also diced up really small. Potentially a reheated dish of pasta for carry out but I'm not sure. Garlic bread is WAY over seasoned with Italian seasoning. Got garlic cheese bread also. I don't think it was heated properly, cheese was just to the melting point but the garlic butter underneath still hadn't melted. I'm really hungry and debating if it's worth a roll of the dice risking food poisoning. My little man has already tapped out and is looking for bologna. Pretty sure a microwave is the head chef. There were people there to take my money and bring out a sack of food. Seemed under staffed but plenty of time for phones. Nobody was rude. The restaurant appeared to have a decent crowd of patrons. Now that I'm eating I wouldn't have been surprised for Gordon Ramsey to come out and yell, "shut it down!" Not finishing this meal. read more

Chicken bacon thin crust is the bomb ... regular crust is so so.. pricey and no specials I've ever seen and we've ordered from there a lot..but some of the better pizza around. read more

Working out of town this place came up most definitely coming back again great drinks full bar and a lot of food for the money your going to pay read more

Brett the bartender was awesome. Had an ice cold IPA and ice water within minutes of sitting down at the bar. My beautiful wife and I split the pizza rolls (Think Totino's style but homemade) and the Meatball Grinder. Both were amazing. read more

My workplace has a monthly meeting for all staff and we ALLWAYS have pizza. In the last 8 years that I have been there we have alternated between Minsky's one month, then another place for the following month. My unofficial count tallies about 16 different pizza places we have ordered from in the northland. Today we did carry out from Hot Rocks with 8 large specialty pizzas for 20 people. We ordered 7 different styles and I sampled the breakfast pizza and the Hawaiian. I was excited to try the breakfast pizza and pushed for it to be included. My 2 biggest take-away's was that the toppings were not "piled high" as described on their menu and that the crust was a big disappointment - thin and cardboardish. I left my crust rim on the plate and noticed that a majority of the 20 staff had done the same. The consensus from all was a glowing "meh". Actually I did hear a couple of co-workers proclaim; "it's pretty good" but an equal number compared its overall taste and appearance to "gas station pizza" with better toppings. Always glad to try a new place, but Hot Rocks won't be going into our rotation read more

One of the best pizzas I've had in quite some time and a welcome addition to the northland where good quality pizza isn't an easy thing to come by. The crust was thin and crispy. The cheese was of good quality and had nice flavor. And the meat and sauce was also good. The customer service I received was also excellent. The only criticism I can come up with really is that the chairs absolutely suck. They're extremely uncomfortable. So you probably wouldn't want to visit for the purpose of sitting there for hours watching football games. Other than that I loved the place and will be looking forward to visiting again sometime soon! read more

Hot Rocks Pizza has a variety of delicous cheesy pizzas, calzones and fresh salads!! Don't forget the drummies and nachos.

I would say that this pizza was really good. I like a simple thin crust pizza that is crisp on the bottom and crust, good cheese/topping ratio and I'd say they delivered. I do not like chain pizza, and this is definitely not chain pizza. I would absolutely eat it again. I also tried the wings. It's more of a lollipop style going on. I thought it was alright. I'll try them again and ask for them well done which is my preference. That being said I'd still recommend them. Overall I'd say this was a good experience and I hope this restaurant makes it. read more

Ordered for the first time and it was delivered via third-party service....amazing first experience! The pizzas were fresh and hot. The taste was on point and loved the crust. New favorite in the rotation! read more

One of the best pizzas I have ever had. We have tried them all, and they make any pizza into a Calzone if you are eating alone.

Okay, so I have some issues here. We ordered Buffalo hot wings, The Italian Pizza, and Cheese Bread to go. My first issue is when we called to place an order, no one could answer my questions. How many wings come in an order? What's the Go-Jam BBQ? What's on your cheese bread? No one knew. The pickup was easy, and we didn't have any issues. Now on to the food. The wings were really good. 4/5. I like my wings saucier, these were kind of dry, but I added my own Buffalo and they were delicious. I've never had the French style and really liked them! The pizza was ... okay. It was supposed to have fresh basil, which it didn't. That was disappointing. The crust is good, but there was so much sauce that the cheese and toppings fell off the slice instantly. Also, I had an end piece of a pepperoncini with a stem on it which was gross. Lastly, the cheese bread. No one knew what was on it, and the menu doesn't specify, so we ordered it. It has goat cheese on it. Fine for some, but goat cheese is so gag-inducing to me, and I never would have ordered it it I knew. I asked, and never thought it would be on there, so that's probably on me. Overall, not sure I would go back. I was very disappointed in the pizza and the cheese bread was inedible for me. I'm frustrated that the employees had no answers to my questions. I understand that Covid can alter restaurants and service, but other than the employees being unknowledgeable, all my issues were food related. read more

This is a cute place and fun find in the Northland. They have an arcade with a wide variety of games including skeeball and a basketball game. The pizza was large and delicious. My cousin said the sandwich was really good. I was less interested in the cheesy bread but only because there was cream cheese on it and I'm not a fan of it. However, my husband liked it. We will be back. FYI there are booths inside for seating and several large TVs for watching sports. It was not loud though. read more

First time trying this place. It wasn't super busy for a Friday afternoon. Our server went above and beyond for us! Very attentive. I had the turkey pesto. Pretty good size sandwich, my bread was a little more toasted than I like but still a good sandwich. My husband had the carnivore calzone, he said it was good but the crust was a little over done as well. The prices were pretty average for Kansas City area and with inflation prices have went up on many things. It was still a little pricey for very few people, but overall it was a good experience. read more

Disappointed. It was ok. Definitely better options available in the area. Crust was ok, not much flavor in the sauce. Topping quantity was ok. read more

I will say this .. this spot is not ideal for selling handcrafted pies... But they do . Food is okay beer was amazing but the best part? The still delicious but ever so cold Chicken Wings or "Drummers" I'd suppose idedley read more

We love their Irish nachos, Italian salad and any/all pizza. Great for family night or date night.

The attention to detail is what really set them apart. Everything is always exactly as it should be. Make sure to get the Pizza Rolls!

Not filling for the price. Crust is disappointing- thin, dry, no flavor. Could not taste the sauce. Toppings and cheese tasted fine, although we had to hook it up with more toppings at home. One side with double meat, but looked like single. Was ready quickly. Just not what satisfies the yearning when I think of pizza or $25. read more

The pizza here is really good and Super nice staff. definitely recommend this pizzeria to friends.

First time trying this place, the pizza was great. We had the carnivore. Crust is a thinner style and you can tell it's hand made which is nice for a change. Support local businesses, they are few and far between in the Northland. read more