It's been a decent amount of time since I've had a calzone and I was really craving one. I turned to Google and found that Little Nippers had some nice options. They have a decently diverse menu with all the pizza place standards: pastas, pies, calzones, wedgies, and more. I ordered the small plain cheese calzone. This place is pretty average, but that doesn't mean it's bad. The calzone was definitely good. It's just that nothing really stood out. This is the sort of food you'd want to eat as a college student (which makes sense, they have a location in Oakland). The calzone was not expensive, but I've had better deals before. Size was okay at 10" for $13 if you get a small. They use a pretty significant amount of what seems like butter on top. It was a little soggy, but not terribly so. They did stuff the calzone with loads of cheese and it had a good ratio of mozzarella to ricotta. There was cheese near the crust fold too, which I haven't seen too often. Fairly standard tomato sauce included on the inside and good packaging. All in all, definitely not bad and it hit the spot. If you want pretty cheap but standard pizza or similar items, check this place out. The calzone was pretty tasty. read more

Little Nipper's Pizza II - Cheese calzone - Pizza Near Me - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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I'm not sure what I even have here. I ordered pizza by the slice with pineapple. Opened the box to this. It looked like 3 day old pizza with new ish cheese on top with a good amount of pineapple. It also tasted stale and old as well. We did a delivery order on a Saturday around 12. Only ate a few bites as it was inedible but picked off the pineapple. Would not order from again read more

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A great place to order food... You never go hungry... Food is above par... High quality and fresh ingredients used... As always, dough is made fresh daily from a true authentic recipe from NAPLES ITALY... Staff is friendly and courteous... The owners are truely great... Will work with you to suit your needs and dietary concerns... On Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays,, ask for the driver and his son in a van... Truely. awesome guys... They are the greatest.. I highly recommend this wonderful pizza shop... read more

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I was scouring grubhub for pizza and randomly ran across this place. Their menu and specials looked decent so I took the plunge. ~$30 for an extra large specialty pizza with a medium cheese delivered seemed like a reasonable price. Delivery was pretty quick and I dug in. The pizza was excellent! I love the fluffy crust and how it wasn't greasy. The broccoli on the pizza was also nice and fresh, clearly not the frozen stuff. I would definitely order again! read more

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Pretty good pizza! Recently moved back to Oakland, and was excited to try out pizza options in North O. Little Nippers seemed like a good place to start. The crust is fine, the sauce is fine, the cheese is good but a little scarce if you don't order extra. The wedgies though! Delicious. If you've never tried one, Little Nipper's wedgies are a good place to start. read more

We love this place! Dream for takeout. Just all around good pizza. Even order it by the slice.

They deliver to the Cathedral of Learning! And they have gluten free pizza too. Everyone who works there is really nice.

Thus far, I've only ordered LNP2 for delivery via yelp's delivery service. As an individual living in Oakland, I find that there exists excellent pizza around me I.e Aiellos, Fiori's. But they don't delivery. LNP2 bridges the gap between excellent pizza in Oakland at the thats available for delivery. I would feel confident that LNP2 exceeds all other delivery pizza within a 2 mile radius. read more

Don't be fooled by the silly name. This place has great pizza! I've ordered a few times because my roommate (born and raised in Pittsburgh) recommended it. They have delivery and take out, both are super quick and not too expensive. You will like this pizza if you like a thick crust and greasy, which is honestly my favorite. The cheese bread is also very good. I don't know if you can eat in there, but it's not a big spot so it's better to take it home. It was still hot and delicious when I got delivery and take out. read more

I love ordering pizza from here! My boyfriend and I are regulars.i always get my plain cheese pizza from here. I am a simple person and only eat plain cheese, so nothing extravagant or difficult to master. But it's so good! My boyfriend gets the buffalo chicken pizza and he has always been a fan. Delivery is almost always under their 45 min wait time and the delivery persons are very kind. I love ordering from here read more

To widen my Craig St. pizza horizons a bit, I decided to give Little Nipper's a try tonight, since I was in the mood for some take out. When I walked in the door, I was immediately greeted by the guy behind the counter and a guy who I assume was the owner. I asked him if they served pizza by the slice, and he said that indeed, they did, though they'd have to make a fresh pie. I said, "But I can still buy just a couple slices, right?", and he assured me that this was the case. I told him that in that case, I'd have two slices of plain. He told me it would take about ten minutes, so I went for a walk around the block. When I returned about ten min. later, the owner told me it'd be one more minute and I said that was fine, and that I'd wait. At this point, another guy who I hadn't talked to before saw my CMU t-shirt and asked me if that was where I went to school. I told him that I'm finished with school, and that I work as a researcher now. He asked me what I research, and I told him, and he told me he thought my topic of research was really interesting, and proceeded to show me that he even knew a bit about it. I was impressed, since most people walking around don't know much of anything about my topic of research (though many people find it interesting, nevertheless!). Anywho, I took my box of slices back to my apt., where I opened it. The slices smelled and looked good, but they seemed a bit greasy, and the crust seemed a bit soft. After dabbing off a bit of the grease and sprinkling on a bit of Italian seasoning, I proceeded to eat them. As I predicted, the flavor was good--the sauce was a bit on the sweeter side, and the cheese was classic mozzarella--but the crust wasn't crispy. So, while they were good, they don't beat out the crispy-crusted slices of Pizza Prima, my Craig St. pizza standby. On the other hand, they're definitely better than chain pizza slices (Papa John's, Domino's, etc.). So, if other places on Craig St. are closed and the hours are conducive to your needs, if you need delivery, or if you're in the area and you'd just like to try something new, I'd recommend giving it a try. 3.5 stars. read more

Little Nipper's Pizza II - Pizza slices, as they arrived in the box. - Pizza Near Me - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The pizza itself was very good. Cheesy and greasy and it surely hit the spot when I needed to satisfy my hunger. But, there is always a but, they need to update their menu on here. The prices are way off. From what we ordered according to the menu listed here on Yelp, and what we paid when the food showed up, was really quite a bit difference. Asides from that, I couldn't see much else to fault here. Or maybe that was because they made a mistake in my favor and in order to rectify that they gave me a free small pizza. read more

We order from here very regularly. Their $6 large cheese pizza deal is great. The sauce is fresh and sweet. Most certainly a great improvement from other pizza places $5 pizza deals on campus. Their other menu items are a little overpriced in my opinion. Once I got mozzarella sticks and cheesy garlic bread, which were both very tasty but a little too much cost-wise for me to order those from there again. read more

We had this delivered via Ubers Eats. Food was very well packed, still hot and was very tasty. My wife had the 5 meat ravioli, salad and garlic bread and I had a cheeseburger and fries. We had an extra order of cheese bread which was not very good and we probably shouldn't have ordered because it was way too much. Prices were reasonable and if we lived in the area then we would be going back for more. Thanks. read more

Pasta was insanely underwhelming. 20 dollars for one of the most subpar Alfredo's I've ever had.

This is the best pizza in the area. Better service than the two other pizza options and colorful and visually appealing food ALWAYS! read more

Little Nipper's Pizza II - The best takeout! Food is always colorful and visually appealing and HOT upon arrival! Best food hands down!!!! - Pizza Near Me - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ordered a Philly Steak... I didn't expect much, but it was the worst I've ever had. Save some money and just go get a better sandwich at half the price from some cheap drive thru . read more

This is not a gourmet pizza joint but I crave this place so often. I started eating here at the nippers in Dormont. It reminds me of my favorite pizza shop back home. WOOP Johns! Anyway this is the best hangover food place in Pitt!. Lots, and tons of greasy melted cheese that dribbles over your big bites. I eat here like I'm in a food eating contest shoveling in huge mouthfuls of salty, doughy, cheesy goodness. The ham and pineapple pizza is pretty rad and I love the calzones too. It's so much cheese my heart is ready to stop with each bite. You would think that the 5 cheese calzone is what to get when going for the calzone but I have found that some of the different cheeses that are in it are an extreme salt overload. The meatball calzone or the ones I have gotten with filling then don't have enough cheese! The Goldilocks in me has me choosing the regular plain calzone it's juuust right! The pastas are pizza shop pastas, greasy, thicker gummy noodles reminiscent of Chef Boyardee comfort! I like the spaghetti and meatballs. Going simple here is the way to go. The taco pizza is interesting but again it's not fine dining but everything I have tried has been sending me back for 5 years! So if you wake up in the morning with a yearning for a down the block Pizza GO to the Nippers. This is a take out place so no eating in, and they have a wide delivery range... they even come out all the way to the boonies of regent square. One of the very few that does! read more

So, I was out in this neighborhood at that point of the evening when all you want to do is have some food you really wouldn't want to eat sober, then drink a tall glass of water and get to sleep. This place looked very promising from the outside, a hole in the wall Italian joint that offered pizza by the slice, according to a small whiteboard in the window. So I walk in and there is no menu board. Hmm. I look around for a menu on the counter, or a carry out menu near the door or something. No and no. A middle aged man and woman behind the stop their conversation in another language (not Italian) and the guy asks "What do you want". Me: "Pizza by the slice." Him: "We're all out." Then we just kind of look at each other for a while, as I wait for him to offer an alternative, or to say that the next batch will be in X minutes. No luck however, so I just walk out. . . As I'm leaving, I notice one other item advertised on the white erase board: a Gyro special. So, now that I know they offer at least two types of food, I decide to try again. I return to the counter and this time the woman asks me what I want. I say "A gyro" (pronounced "yee-roh"). Her: "A what?" Me: "A yee-roh" Her: "Wha?t" Me: "A Jie-roh." OK, I know that ""Jie-roh" is the more common pronunciation amongst non-Greeks, but how do you actually work at a restaurant that serves this product and not even know there are two pronunciations? This is what we in the amateur restaurant review industry refer to as A Very Bad Sign. But after crossing this language barrier it turns out that they are in stock, and I get one to go. How was my Jie-roe? Well, remember the gyros you got in the high school cafeteria, with the razor thin slices of pressed mystery meat, the flavorless limp white/yellow lettuce, one sad tomato and some white goo that has been prepared by someone who has never heard the word Tzatziki in their lifetime? It tasted like that. Other people seemed to have better luck with the pizza. That is the positive note I will end on. read more

Cheap, decent pizza? 2am and stomach growling? LITTLE NIPPER'S. There really isn't much more to say. Little Nipper's has been there for me every time and the staff is both speedy and courteous. Last week, I walked from East Carson to Craig (partially barefoot, because I made the idiotic decision to wear 5-in heels) and seeing the dimly lit 'OPEN' sign at 2:27am was salvation. I am forever yours, Little Nippers. read more

Not what I was hoping for. Will never order again... wasted $40.00 on food I threw away. read more

This place is my go-to pizza delivery joint. Ordering via GrubHub, my delivery is consistently on time, accurate, and hot. In the many times I've ordered from Little Nippers I have never had a bad order. Their pizza is pretty tasty for Pittsburgh standards. Hoagies are on point! Their prices are really reasonable--they're a great go-to when ordering out! read more

Little Nipper's is a pretty good college-town kind of pizza place, designed to be quick for delivery and take-out. The pizza is good but unremarkable; the prices are low; and the non-pizza offerings include most everything you'd want and expect from a place like this. Overall, my experiences here have been fairly unremarkable (either positively or negatively), so 3-stars seems appropriate. read more

This place is not too bad actually. It's definitely a rickety store front, but the food is not bad - you can get a small pizza with good toppings for a pretty good price. Not sure if you can get single slices, but you can get these personal pies. Not the best pizza you'll ever have, but if you're in the area and are pretty hungry it's not a bad option. read more

Ordered pizza on Grubhub and the deep dish was under cooked and doughy. They also did not include one of the toppings I paid for. Not worth it! read more

Stumbling around on Friday night in Oakland, my friend and I found ourselves needing some food. Luckily we landed ourselves in Little Nipper's before we ate our arms off. We needed grease.. more importantly, we needed wings. Though they took a while to come out and charged me like $7 bucks for a half dozen single wings, they were satisfying.. If I needed wings and I was in Oakland, I would certainly go back. read more

Pizza was solid, the sauce, cheese, and toppings were all decent. It also maintained its quality after refrigeration and reheating. The crust was a bit bland and they cut the pizza poorly, but overall, this place is worth the occasional revisit. Not much wrong with the pizza but it's not life-changing either. read more

I've tried their pizza, hoagies, and fries. They are alright. I wouldn't go back for pizza or hoagie. But try their bbq wings! It's delicious. I love their bbq sauce. read more

I give this 4 star review though I have only eaten two things there the pizza and the bread sticks,( great deal for large cheese with breadsticks... I give him a twenty)and I have either eaten them black out drunk or really hung over the next day. Let's face it pizza is like sex, when it's good it's good and when it's bad, it's still pretty good. This pizza is no different from any other take out pizza place. Though I think they put yogurt in thier dough (just a guess, I'm not very clear headed when I eat this). They deliver until late I want to say 2am but I really dont look at the clock and the pizza, at least in my mind, arrives instantaneously the delivery man is always happy and always has an accent and I wanna ask where he's from but my drunk self usually thinks it will be rude. Overall it's a great place to get pizza at 2am from. I will never order it when I'm sober for the simple fact that I do not want to mess with a good thing read more

This place is really convenient, near a lot of apartments and is a really good local pizza joint. They're open late on Friday and Saturday and they're on campusfood! And they have good prices too! What more could you want? read more

Ordered from Little Nippers II multiple times. Each time I have been happy with what I have received, but I wouldn't call it fast food. Good food takes time to make, and in the case of their mild wings, they are good! Skip the packet of dressing they give you and go home and put some quality blue cheese on these wings and you are in business! Their pizza is o.k., but I have to say that I have not found pizza in Pittsburgh that measures up to the ones I can get back in New York, but then again their is a pizza place on every corner in my hometown. I will definitely be back, but will also make sure to call in or grub hub my order before to minimize the wait time. read more

I like Little Nippers because they're open late. Their calzones are delicious and gynormous. The guy at the counter is super friendly. I think he even wrote me a poem once. They also carry large bottles of Pepsi for like a dollar. Their pasta.... isn't so great though. But man, those calzones. read more

Although I had found a good pizzeria on Craig St already (Pizza Prima), I decided to give Little Nipper's a shot. I came into the restaurant on a Friday afternoon and was greeted by the owner. I asked him the dimensions of the Large Pizza, and he couldn't even give me a definitive answer. He just said 12 slices, which gives me absolutely no information about how big it is. I ended up ordering a medium Nipper's Specialty (combination pizza). When I got back home, I was astonished that anyone could actually ruin pizza. The green bell peppers, mushrooms, and onions weren't cut thinly, and as a result, soaked the pizza. The pizza had no flavor because the water diluted all of the salt in the cured meats (pepperoni and bacon). Furthermore, the dough was chewy because they didn't bake it long enough to evaporate the water. Simply put, it was a bad experience. I will never come here again. $15 for a medium mediocre specialty pizza is a joke. I would much rather go to Pizza Prima, which is only half a block away. read more

The pizza was absolutely rancid. I live in a place riddled with horrible 99 cent pizza places which are so bad, a pita with ketchup and government cheese would be comparable. This is WORSE than that. The bread sticks were ... edible, the hotwings were about as good as Dominos (when they feel like being stingy with the sauce), but the onion rings were garbage. Probably frozen, definitely processed, and tasted like cold mashed potatoes that just got a divorce. If this is the only place open and you're hungry late at night, drink some water and have a good breakfast the next day. read more

I won't pretend that Little Nippers is crazy gourmet or anything, but it doesn't try to be. I eat here once a week and it's consistently good food. A great Pittsburgh establishment with friendly staff. I recommend the pastas -- baked ziti or mediterranean in particular -- and the artichoke hoagies. read more

Very yummy pizza, wonderful alternative for takeout if you don't want chain pizza. Excellent local pizza joint that doesn't skimp on cheese!

I ordered a pizza at 12:30 am and it did not arrive until 2:00 am. I was never contacted about a delay with my order. I made an attempt to contact the establishment but I was sent straight to voicemail multiple times even though I called before their supposed closing hours. The pizza was average and very poorly cut not pleasing to the eye whatsoever. I do appreciate the fact the pizza arrived at all but I'm still upset. read more

I've tried a lot of steak and italian hoagies in the east end and they may be the best and the prices are very good and the daily special of a whole hoagie for $5.99 is almost the same as a half hoagie at other places. Someone wrote a review about eating hoagies and being sick and well I've eaten many hoagies from them and never been sick. read more

Despite the mixed reviews here, I decided to give Little Nippers 2 a whirl since the bf wanted lasagna, and I read a few positive reviews of the lasagna here. I ordered that plus 6 Hot Wings and a Vegetable Calzone. The meat lasagna was a large portion and just above average in that Chef Boyardee kind of way (like Kat M. said). The calzone, though, was outstanding with fresh mushrooms, fresh broccoli, fresh zucchini, spinach (either frozen or cooked), and more. I also loved the hot wing sauce. Though the wings were not as crisp as I prefer, the sauce made up for it (I got the un-breaded wings). Delivery time was as advertised and the driver delivered with a big smile. Extra points for being on GrubHub. read more

DO NOT order the hoagies!!! I used to get pizza from here all the time and it was pretty good, nothing amazing but it was decent. Then I decided to branch out and try some other things on the menu. I ordered hoagies for me and my girlfriend and we both got incredibly sick. I decided it must have just been a fluke and ordered different hoagies the next time and got sick AGAIN. I will never order anything from here, any place that makes me that sick is not somewhere I want to order my food from. read more