Rocco’s Pizza Apple Valley

"Last time I was in here I left a large cc tip intended for the kids providing me excellent service. I later came to find out the in-store employees (one of them being my son) didn't receive any tips unless it was cash handed directly to them. I spoke to the owner and he said the money was used for things needed around the business. Such as an air conditioner."

"Deep dish pizza had the cheese on top! And the house pizza came with plenty of toppings for us"

"I’ve just discovered Rocco’s and now it is one of my favorite restaurants. The service and pickup experience is top notch, but the pizza is truly where it’s at. The crust is up there with the best and the cheese is incredible. The sauce could be a little less rich, but it’s still groovy, and, to each their own when it comes to marinara anyways. However, one thing worth mentioning is that the menu is confusing. They offer several crust options, including both deep dish and Chicago style. If you’re a pizza purest like me, you’ll know that deep dish and Chicago are the same thing. Obviously, one of the options is going to be the authentic deep dish Chicago, with the sauce on the top, covering the cheese similar to a lasagna. The other is going to be a normal pizza with cheese on top where it belongs, but the crust is nice and thick underneath. We took a gamble and thought maybe Chicago style would be the regular kind, but we were wrong. That’s not to say that it wasn’t delicious, but I will always prefer cheese on top of a pizza where it should be. This peculiar style is like having a double cheeseburger with the two patties on the outside and a single bun in the middle. Oh well, it was still terrific and now we know better for next time. The toppings under the sauce could also be more plentiful, similar to what other reviewers said, but at least it wasn’t quite as skimpy as Dominos or something. Pro tip: stick with the “deep dish” and go the extra mile and get extra toppings."

"Rocco's makes a decent Chicago-style pizza but they certainly skimp on the toppings. The yellow circles show all the sausage pieces. And there weren't any under the cheese like the pepperoni slices had (this was a 1/2 sausage, 1/2 pepperoni pizza)."

"Pizza tasted great, only thing is we paid for a deep dish and we were given a pan pizza essentially. They told over the phone that the way they do deep dish is “just the sauce, toppings and cheese and we cook it pan style. That’s our deep dish” feels incredibly misleading. Just call it a pan pizza and don’t charge that much if it’s not going to be a true deep dish. The photo attached is what they call a “deep dish”."