John’s Island Pizza, Johns Island, SC is a cubicle sized pizza shop located in a small strip mall dominated by the grocery chain Food Lion. This small footprint can seat perhaps a half dozen people and so its mainstay is take-out. Locally referred to as ‘JI Pizza’ it was well known for turning out unusually well prepared gourmet pizza. And I don’t mean the designer pizza’s of California and NYC. JI Pizza set the standard for producing homemade dough transformed into a sweet perfectly done crust supporting a rich and tangy tomato marinara topped with an abundance of meats intermingled with real cheese. We frequented JI Pizza for years as much as twice a month and the consistency of the pizza never wavered. And yet this business has plummeted to ineptness. Perhaps ownership has changed?; we don’t know. The same crew we came to recognize over the years has disappeared. The product that was so proudly served is now relegated to the pizza chain variety and quality (still not as bad as Hunts Brothers pizza, but hey that is a long fall off the ladder). There is no longer a reason to trade dollars for such mediocrity.
We last ordered take out in 2017, never to return (well we did once in 2018 and the pizza was still mediocre).
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