Just off of Interstate 494 and Valley Creek Road in Woodbury rests Ronnally’s in a small strip mall. Inside is dimly lit with dark tables, booths along one side and a big gum ball machine.
Around since the 1970s, I’ve visited periodically over the years as it isn’t far from my office. Others have the same idea too: sometimes there’s office folk in business casual and golf polos with notepads. In the back I tend to remember seeing either a guy with a beard wearing a flannel shirt or maybe a couple mothers and their kids. You get the idea.
Signs hang near the cash register joking that prices may change due to customer attitude and there’s paid advertisements for local businesses on the paper placemats. For kicks, Ian, Nick and I asked what beer they had on tap and they have only one: Michelob Golden Draft Light. Heading back to work after lunch we opted to get sodas and water which came in extra-wide and tall red tumblers.
We got some cheese bread which came simply as very thick toasted slices with liberal portions of cheese on top. Our pepperoni pizza came soon after. Thin, crispy crust with a generous serving of sauce and an even more generous serving of cheese. This is midwestern style pizza at its finest — that is if you define “finest” as being the closest embodiment of its stereotypes. Midwestern style is generally known for the abundance of cheese, the square party cuts, the thin cracker-like crust and, well, more cheese on top of that. If that’s your thing, this is it.
Ronnally’s Pizza
1560 Woodlane Dr
Woodbury, MN 55125
651-739-3823
Comments 9
When I saw this picture in your Flickr stream I thought to myself, “wow that pizza seriously looked disgusting.” It doesn’t look any better here.
Posted 18 Jan 2009 at 11:46 ¶And it’s elegantly served on a cafeteria tray. That’s fucking classy!
Posted 18 Jan 2009 at 11:47 ¶Having grown up on Ronnally’s pizza in the late 70s and 80s all I have to say is that Ronnally’s pizza is what I expect pizza to be. Square cut, tons of cheese, the best sausage out there, and tastes great. We had it on a weekly basis.
And the bonus is that the place is gleefully devoid of people like Bill Roehl! What other reason do you need to go!?
Posted 18 Jan 2009 at 12:36 ¶There’s something about those red cups that makes pop taste fantastic…maybe it’s just my fond memories of going to Pizza Hut in my mom’s hometown and playing Pac Man.
Posted 18 Jan 2009 at 22:54 ¶Damn.. That photo makes me hungry… I miss Ronnally lunches.
Posted 19 Jan 2009 at 22:11 ¶It looks like typical midwestern strip-mall pizzeria pizza. Nothing too fantastic but for me it’s the flavor of the sauce. Too sweet and it’s worthless tome. Tell us more about the flavor of the sauce.
Posted 20 Jan 2009 at 12:24 ¶sornie-
Not much to report there.
Posted 20 Jan 2009 at 12:29 ¶This place is awesome… yup it is more like home town place… very small, not much room to sit… but it doesn’t matter the pizza is great and we will continue to go back. They also have a GF pizza for my son. One of the reason we always go there. It’s at least a 15 min drive there… so technically we would get one for our own city but the 6 pizza places can’t figure out that GF crust is a good thing to have on hand.
Posted 28 Feb 2009 at 19:33 ¶Even if the food was good the service is terrible. They treat you like crap on the phone. Very rude!
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