409 Pizza & Wings

Went here on Saturday after the game and even though I’d say it was fairly busy, that still did not warrant the fact that it took them 50 minutes to prepare our food. Portion sizes are great, I ordered a small Stromboli and could only finish half. Another thing that bothered me was that they charged a $ 0.25 carry out fee applied to each item I ordered. Not sure I would go back

After reading about it on Onward State the other day, I tried for lunch (on 31 July) 409 Win[g]s and Pizza, ostensibly named for the number of wins that Joe Paterno amassed in his career and located on College Avenue just east of Sowers Street (next door to McDonald’s). I ordered two $ 1 plain slices. That was, hands down, the worst eatery pizza I’ve ever eaten! It was almost ten minutes from when the order was submitted to when I was served the slices. The pizza was certainly straight out of the oven when I got it, but I noticed immediately that the skimpily applied cheese was burned, almost black; I almost sent it back. Biting into it, I found that the sauce had the same saccharin sweetness that makes me despise Papa John’s pizza. Furthermore, I’m pretty sure the cheese was synthetic. The crust had a cardboard quality about it. It was also thick crust, almost consistent with the Chicago-​style thin crust, but it wasn’t cut into the squares that are customary to that style but rather the triangles that are common to the New York style; thus, it was difficult to eat. Overall, I feel that it was not even in the same league as the other by-​the-​slice joints in downtown State College and that it was a good deal worse than typically bad bowling-​alley pizza and perhaps worse than Chuck E. Cheese pizza. I didn’t even finish my second slice. Just like I never waste beer, I never waste pizza — except this. Very disappointing.
Corrinado’s isn’t too far away, and Canyon is centrally located. Both provide much better pizza late at night!