The crust on the pie from Northern Lights just keeps getting better and better when added to the fresh ingredients. When ordering the wait staffer sounds eager to make sure your product is exact when taking and handing out your pizza upon pickup. The pepperoni with green olives and extra cheese was beyond delicious at a very reasonable price. As you arrive for pick up the wait staffer professionally checks to make sure the pizza is as you ordered. The experience is totally refreshing knowing your order is as expected in a very calming environment. read more

Northern Lights Pizza - Double PepperoniSpecial with green olives - Pizza Near Me - West Des Moines, Iowa

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Grand Avenue is the BEST when it comes to Northern Lights. Not the closest location to our home, but worth the drive for the quality and service! Absolutely get the parm tasty crust for your pizza! :) read more

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Northern Lights offers a decent pizza at a value price. Their carry out special (large pizza with 2 toppings) is just a little more than $10 and can feed a family of four. The crust is little too bready for me, but others love it for its similarity to breadsticks. The lack of exceptionality in taste is made up for by the value and the ability to get a quick dinner on the table for the fam. read more

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Great thin crust and excellent delivery. Our go to pizza place delivery drivers are nice and professional. Arrive hot and tasty.

It's hard to find good customer service these days. I went to pick up a pizza and they gave me 2. They messed up the order and put sausage on all instead of half. They fixed it with a complimentary 2nd pizza ! Good za and breadsticks can be found at many places but this place understands customer service too. Please keep it up. read more

By far my favorite pizza in the Des Moines area! We have ordered a different pizza each time and have yet to be disappointed. I love the option of putting an extra flavor on their crusts. Highly recommend this place! read more

Pretty good pizza for the price ! Make sure to check out the deals they have. My fiancée and I ordered a medium 2 topping thin crust ham and pineapple with breadsticks and two 20 oz bottled sodas for 15.99 plus tax. I like the original crust better than their thin crust. The Marinara dipping sauce is really good ! The thin crust lacks flavor. There wasn't very many toppings on the pizza. They should put more sauce on the pizza too. The cheese amount was heavy. read more

Oh pizza, why are so good, why can you be delivered to my mouth in under an hour! This was my first time ordering from this local legend when it comes to Pizza. I was very happy that while ordering over the phone the gentleman taking my order took the time to listen that I wanted no cheese and he made sure I knew their normal pizza sauce has cheese in it, but they are able to use Marinara sauce to make it vegan! So if you are ordering and vegan make sure you get Marinara sauce! The pizzas arrived in about 40 minutes from when I ordered at busy time 7pm on a Friday night! I dig how they have lots of options and the website is easy to navigate and you can order directly from the website! As far as the pizza goes, it was really good, not booming with amazing flavors but I dug the crust, and they did not go light on the toppings! All and all this was a great experience and I will order again! read more

I order from Northern Lights almost four times a week . I always tell them that I don't eat pork and I order a chicken cordon bleu sandwich with no pork . Lately there's been pork on it and because I call and ask them to resend another one without pork they feel like I'm messing with them . They argued me up and down about how they made it themselves and they know there's not pork in it and I'm sitting here looking at the bacon asking them to come look at it he said he doesn't have time to Quality check . I asked him has he read his reviews because a lot of people have problems with them putting pork on there he said he doesn't have time to read reviews. So I am understanding that they don't care about customer service even though they stress they do . They say they go out of their way to make sure they have quality service but they're arguing with me telling me if I don't call in a certain amount of time I won't receive my order telling me that I'm lying about the pork telling me that my account is red flags for complaints. Why would I complain unless you're doing something wrong? If you really care about your clients or your paying customers because we all know that we are not borrowing food we pay for it if you really care why wouldn't you read your reviews? Why would you take the time to argue with a paying customer ? If I'm telling you I'll send you a picture I'll let you see the order and you still refuse how does that match with you caring about your customer? They will never get another dime of mine . The customer service is terrible the delivery drivers beg for tips and get upset when you don't tip them . They'll bring you one thing and leave the other and then blame you for it. I don't sell drugs everything I buy I work hard for . I don't ask them for credit and I don't buy my food with food stamps so I just don't understand why the customer is to blame for their mess up. When are the aliens coming because I'm so tired of humanity . I loved Northern Lights . And they just lost a very valued customer . Not just one because I ordered for my salon where I have 12 clients a day they've lost a few value to customers because I will make sure anybody that I know or do business with doesn't do business with them. I might just start making them myself and selling them . So if you do eat here eat at your own risk and be ready to argue read more

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Good Pizza starts with good sauce...and crust.Northern Lights has both. To me...the best delivery pizza in Des Moines. They used to be p0retty slow on deliveries...but not know. Pizza is great...and I just had a bacon cheese burger Scoobie snack...a type of folded over pizza...it was great..and I don't normally order something like that. If their delivery is this good...I can't wait to go to their place and get it right out of the oven. read more

Great place to grab a pizza. Prices are good. Pizza is excellent. The garlic oil is soooo good. Always friendly when I pick up my pizza. Would highly recommend them. read more

Decent pizza that we order for delivery routinely. Like most GF crusts, theirs is lackluster. I've taken to just eating the toppings. The prices are good and the delivery drivers are always friendly and appreciative. read more

Northern Lights Pizza rocks. Get the taco pizza, to die for. After an afternoon at the pool with my 8 year old daughter, we headed to Northern Light on Grand to get a pizza. Normally you show up for take out only, otherwise everything is delivered, but we were hungry and hadn't called ahead. Although very busy, the employees were very friendly and accommodating. My daughter got to watch them make the pizzas, which was awe inspiring in some ways for her. The pizza was done in about 12 minutes (fantastic) and was hands down the best race pizza I've had. You can't go wrong with this locally owned and operated pizza joint in Des Moines. read more

Thin crust is the best. This pizza place is phenominal and I recommend trying out every pizza they have!!! read more

Northern Lights Pizza - Pizza Near Me - West Des Moines, Iowa

This is my favorite "fast food" pizza in Des Moines. Asiago crust and Asiago breadsticks is where it's at. I could bathe in the garlic butter sauce. Puts Papa Johns to shame. My husband likes the taco pizza but we've stopped ordering it because the last two times we did for delivery they forgot to bring the toppings. Normally we like that they keep the toppings (Doritos, sour cream, taco sauce...) separate because it saves better for the next day but they still have to make it to us via delivery. But if they forget NL has always been good about comping us a free pizza and/or bringing our ingredients back ASAP. Also, for whatever reason the grand location pizza tastes the best. read more

This is my go to pizza place. Always fantastic and the tasty crust is the best! The delivery time is almost always much shorter than promised and this the BEST pizza for delivery. Thank you Northern Lights for the great pizza!! read more

Northern Lights pizza has always been my favorite pizza place. but this delivery driver has made it the final time i will be ordering from them. Todd Rossmanith was extremely rude and began shouting in my hallway after i paid for my pizza. I paid for my pizza even made a kind gesture to him. But I am over 9 months pregnant and i will not tolerate anyone being rude. read more

I definitely like the food, but the cost for pizza is rediculous. All I ordered was a 3 topping pizza, & it came to $30 with tip. I remember when they started in Desmoines & Scooby Snacks & 2 cans of pop was $12. It's like the prices rose with they're popularity read more

Just spent over $20 for a large taco pizza. The toppings came on the side and included one small bag of Doritos which barely provided a dusting on a large. When I said something I was informed I could purchase another small bag for $2.50! Not a good value at all, blatant attempt to bump up already high prices. read more

Well, I ordered a pizza at 6:21...web order carry-out. They said 25 minutes. I got to the store at 7:00. They still did not have it done and a flood of others just kept coming in and getting orders and leaving. Ontop of that, no one said anything, just wandered off, looking confused and battered by the hard job of making pizza...It is 7:20...still waiting, no word if they are even working on it. This place will not get my business again. read more

The pizza's are really good and not oily. Service is fast! Great for a quick run in for a slice or makes for a great pizza night for the family! read more

I feel like Most people only write reviews when they have a negative experience. I wanted to take the time to share my experience, all be it not positive, I'm very happy in the end. I placed an order online late at night on the weekend and was given a hour wait time. I expected this and was ok with it. At about 50 min I received a call stating my order was going to take longer than expected. I appreciated the call but was not satisfied when they preferred to cancel my order instead. After calling James he was very apologetic for the misunderstanding, completed my order, and got it out to me immediately. The reason I am writing the review is because as I understand that things happen, I personally was being a difficult customer and instead of James getting defensive as most people would (including myself) he handled it very professionally, came up with a solution and satisfied this customer in the end. I always appreciate good customer service especially at the most hectic times. Kudos James and I'm giving you 5 stars even with the mess up. Thank you! read more

I ordered par baked. Person on phone confirmed they could do par baked...but of course it was delivered completely baked and cut. The bread sticks sounded yummy especially since they "could be delivered par baked as well". They arrived sitting in s large pool of butter. Food was ok tasting but nit wonderful.enough to overcome getting the order wrong read more

I definitely enjoy their pizza and breadsticks, but there are a few issues that make me say 4 stars instead of 5. When you order garlic as a topic, there is no flavor. I love garlic but I do not order it anymore because you can't taste it at all. The other thing is that the size difference between a medium and large is non noticeable (it comes in the same box), but there's a noticeable difference in price. Also, when employees get off work, I've seen guys changing their shirts in the parking lot. Not appetizing as I go in to pick up my dinner or lunch. read more

Eating this pizza reminds me of that old episode of the Simpsons where Homer is trying to get fat enough to be declared disabled. At one point Bart suggests that if whatever the food is wrapped in turns clear then it must be fattening. Well my friends, this is the only pizza I believe I have ever encountered that is greasy enough to turn the bottom of the box clear. And their breadsticks are unholy works of the devil! Delicious, but they are lubed with enough oil to declare them the largest reserve in North America. This could be the solution to our energy crisis! I do love, though, that you can get various flavorings on your crust. read more

We were in town for the Des Moines Marathon and had not had Northern Lights pizza before. We ordered a Large Veggie pizza and breadsticks delivered to the hotel. Their service was fast, especially for a Saturday night and the food was really good. The order of breadsticks was much bigger than I had expected for $6. Will order from again when we're in town. Wish we had one in Iowa City. read more

We have ordered from northern lights often and from several location many times we have had quick and amazing food from here but the last two times I have been severely disappointed, food was cold and has taken well over the estimated time to arrive (last time taking more that an hour and forty five mins) and we were told a credit would be applied to our account due to the inconvenience. tonight while ordering I mentioned said credit, and was met with a rude attitude and put on hold so she could speak to a manager and was met again by a rude manager who said she had no credit on record and the left me on hold again for 7 mins till I hung up and call d Casey's so much for shopping local read more

The person that charged me for my pizza was scratching her head and handling the money and made my pizza. They also don't wear gloves and the place inside doesn't look clean. I paid 20 dollars and threw my pizza away. Not going there again or recommending that place. read more

We ordered delivery, they said 45 min. It was 1 hour and 15 min :( cold pizza. Will not be ordering again.

Gluten free options which are great, but it's not gluten free "done right". Always saggy in the middle, I ask for well done each time but I have to preheat my oven so it's ready for another 10 minutes by the time it arrives. My husband loves their pizza & breadsticks and doesn't have celiac, so it's good I can actually get something; albeit a generally undercooked pizza. Great staff though, just wish they'd stop advertising as the best gluten free, it's kind of an insult. :( read more

Good specials. Great selection of beers and alcohol. The people who work here are the best! We come partially because we feel better when we leave. read more

I ordered delivery from this location. The delivery driver called to find my address. At the time he was less than five minutes away. It took another fifteen minutes on the phone, and myself and my roommates standing outside our townhouse flashing a flashlight in order for him to find our house. When the driver finally arrived, he was rude, refused to address our complaints, and told me that it was my fault for making it too difficult for him. When I called the store to complain, the manager on duty hung up on me rather than listen to me. This would not be a place I would order from again, and I would advise that no one else do so either. read more

Order pizza online got a call back from the store verifying my order which was a good thing because I messed up online we were able to fix it! great customer service.favorite pizza place! read more

Horrible service. We were told 35 to 40 minutes. An hour and a half went by only to find out the delivery driver could not find our address in a development that has been around for several years. We asked to speak with a manager who offered no apology or credit of any kind. read more

We love Northern Lights! I love the Graziano sausage and black olive thin crust. It always arrives on time, fresh and hot. The best pizza for the price in the metro. read more

I love their pizza! I wouldn't say it's the best pizza around, but there is no better pizza for the price.

Tried to use the "order online" function that aligns with their menu, and the site crashed out twice during ordering. So I called the store on Grand, and he put me on hold twice, only to drop me for good. Weak service...I went to little Caesars instead. Kids gotta eat. read more

Absolutely worst service ever. Gave my full address and paid for my pizza only to be told an hour later that they did not deliver to my address. When I called in I was directed to a "manager" named James who told me "it was actually only 43 minutes" instead of trying to find a remedy for THEIR mistake. Never will ever order from here again and urge noone else to order from here. read more

Horrible customer service. This is sad because they were my favorite pizza place. I ordered a pizza on their website for delivery. After it being almost an hour late I called the store. They assured me that it was on its way. After 1.5 hours late I called again and was told the same thing. At this point I was annoyed and requested to just have my order cancelled and money refunded. The lady told me to wait for a manager. The manager got on the phone and seemed to have a hard time even finding my order. After finding it she told me.. "oh, your order came through as a carry out." I told her that I had requested delivery, but beside the point why was I told 2x that it was on its way? And if you have a pizza sitting there for carry out for 2 hours.. why didnt you call me? The manager told me she would cancel my order and refund my money. I waited a week and never got my money back. I sent a message to the. Through their website. Have not heard anything. I sent me a message on facebook and they read it but didn't respond. If this is how they conduct business, they lost a customer. read more

I love how they have an app. It was very easy to use. Delivery was fast, the driver was very polite. The pizza was absolutely delicious and the breadsticks were even better than I imagined. Will definitely order again. read more