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Started 1 year ago by Paul
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Paul
Vancouver, BC
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America's Best 24-Hour Hot Spots
By Lyndsey Matthews

The atmosphere of this pizza joint may not be for everyoneÃ¢â‚¬â€itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s attached to the Ravari Room, a punk rock music venue and bar. Still, make the trip for the pizza and find out why locals revere it. Try a specialty pie like the Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza, or build your own by choosing from two crusts (SmokinÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ Joes, a thick crust coated with garlic butter, or regular thin crust), three sauces (regular, spicy, and howlinÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ hot), and more than 25 toppings from sauerkraut to hot Cajun links.

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Posted 1 year ago #
anillo
Marzipan City
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Nice to see they threw some shout outs to not-huge cities instead of just filling the list with places in LA/NY etc. And hounddogs is pretty boss.

Posted 1 year ago #
Cookie
Flyntonville
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I don't get the Hound Dogs love. They don't even have good pizza.

Posted 1 year ago #
jpizzow
580 N. Park St.
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Cookie wrote >>
I don't get the Hound Dogs love. They don't even have good pizza.

You're the first person I've ever heard say that. That pizza is amazing. To each his/her own though.

Posted 1 year ago #
lizless
Columbus/Hocking Hills
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24/7 eateries in Columbus hold a very special place in my heart. Nothing better than pizza & beer at 5:30am. I miss those days....congrats to Houndogs!

Posted 1 year ago #
chaptal
West Side
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I'd have loved to have been able to find out if their pizza was good or not. Their service was so lousy we ended up leaving without anyone taking our order.

Posted 1 year ago #
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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I like their pizza, but I've been burned too many times by poor service. We occasionally will call up an order for pickup but no longer will dine-in there.

Posted 1 year ago #
10sun
Columbus, OH
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I actually find that picking up I get the worst service ever.

Eating in, I'm usually drunk and go right up to the server station/kitchen entrance and tell them what my table wants and they have it out to us quickly.

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sean2outerspace
Clintonville
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I really try to only order before 5pm. or when I'm as drunk/ drunker than the kitchen staff, lately it's only been before 5pm. If I get late night sober pizza there, I am almost always disappointed.

Posted 1 year ago #
Paul
Vancouver, BC
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Service there is typically rude and slow.

Pizza is really pretty good, especially for an all-night joint.

@lizless, they serve beer at 5:30AM??

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I believe 5:30 am is when you can start selling beer in OH in the morning. Since they are open (and most bars aren't) why not!? :)

I have seen some scary looking characters waiting for the beer cave to open at Giant Eagle...

Posted 1 year ago #
lizless
Columbus/Hocking Hills
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Service industry workers typically wrap up work around 3 or 4am then head to Houndog's for some dinner until beer pours again at 5:30am. Service workers have a tendency to tip pretty obscenely so service wasn't bad at that hour or maybe we never minded it as it was the only option available.

Posted 1 year ago #
somertimeoh
Harrison West
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FWIW, I had good service there about 3am a few Sundays ago. Only one chick working the floor, though we were the only ones there, so that might have had something to do with it :)

Posted 1 year ago #
somebuckeye
Franklinton
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last time I was there we watched a large table come in, order, eat their entire meal and leave while we waited for our pizza. Haven't been back since. I recall them having better service about 10 years ago, or maybe I was just a dumb high school kid.

Posted 1 year ago #
mbeaumont
Italian Village
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Hound Dogs with the Smokin' Joe crust is my favorite pizza in Columbus. But they are such unbelievable rude assholes with atrocious service that I don't really order from them anymore. And I am extremely forgiving. It's a shame.

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Yeah, call in service would occasionally get the 'please hold (forever)' while they laughed. It is a Lord the Flies kind of place....

Posted 1 year ago #
geedeck
Witalian Willage
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They actually contacted me about this, wanting to use this photo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41894181365@N01/2732213906/

I told them they probably could illustrate Hound Dog's better than a grainy phone cam with CPD at the register. I much prefer what they chose.

Posted 1 year ago #
somertimeoh
Harrison West
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I feel kinda left out on the bad service thing. I've never really had it there. I mean sure it takes forever sometimes to place an order late, but if I'm ordering pizza after 11pm I'm probably wasted so my sense of time and how long I'm waiting is shot anyway. Also, I could be to blame because I somehow usually end up chatting with the dude on the phone because with my accent, and my slurring, my address is terribly difficult to get out. Sorry guys!! :)

Posted 1 year ago #
kelseyg

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I love Hounddog's. I agree their sit-in service is lousy, but I order pick-up all the time and have never had a problem.

Posted 1 year ago #
Corey A
Clintonville
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The horrible service is one of my favorite things about Hounddog's. It's so predictable it's almost comforting.

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