That being said, I know enough people that like the food and Sauced is still in business. They must be doing something right, even if they make more revenue from beer than food. I have no idea if this is the case or not, I’m just saying.

Funnily enough, I’ve never driven there. I’ve only been on a bicycle. It makes me wonder if I’d go there at all if my only mode of transportation was a car.

The food started out okay when it was new. But once it was established, it seems that the place just stopped caring. Too cool to care as one commenter above put it. That’s spot on. I don’t have a lot of money so if I’m going to spend it on food, it’s going to be a place that cares.

Not only is the food mediocre but it takes forever, they are usually out of everything and the staff is so flippant its not even worth sending it back.

That said, I am so glad that Sauced exists and I think it’s a huge asset to our community. I’m glad that it serves the population that it does but if Sauced ever decides to expand clientele, changes will need to be made.

I’d happily put up with a miasma of pizza, patchouli and cigarettes if the food was worth it and the beer I liked was almost always available. And I’d happily tolerate average food and service-with-a-slacker if the atmosphere was more comfortable. (Once, the crappy chairs tore a hole in my husband’s pants AND even snagged his undies!!)

But Sauced isn’t really designed to appeal to me and that’s okay. If their current model brings them the steady business that I see there in the spring and summer, then good for them. I hope they continue to do well. Maybe we’ll try it again when they get some newer chairs. Until then, I’ll be at Picasso’s sippin’ a Pimms and having a fig and bacon pizza.

I went about a month ago and my pizza was really good. Huge as well. We took half of it home and it was yummy as leftovers.

The guy at the counter was really friendly, the atmosphere is great. The building is really interesting. Has a groovy eclectic feel like a coffee shop, they also made me a tasty Italian soda. The have a great outdoor patio with a fire pit (granted a bit too chilly outside when I went). I think they host poetry occasionally.

Is it a 5 star gourmet restaurant? No. But it is tasty food in the Paseo run by local people. I’ll certainly be going again.

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I think JerzeeGrlinOK said it best: “I even find it insulting, to me it says ‘well we’re so cool that we don’t care what you think of our food.’” If that’s your thing, have at it. Personally, there are so many places in OKC with better atmosphere, friendly service, and far better food, I think I’ll pass.

We ordered toppings — just a couple standard pizza toppings, nothing unusual — and we got (for our $3.75-$4.00 per slice) a thin cooked crust, a loose pile of tepid, not very cooked toppings, and some threads of room-temp, very unappealing, dead-white, barely melted cheese on top.

Sorry, even a NY style pizza is supposed to be cooked on top. A little golden browning of the cheese is a GOOD thing. Cooked food is appetizing, you know?

It’s a shame, because their sauce is tasty. (I wish they used more of it.)

They need to get a new oven and/or learn to cook pizza in a more careful and professional manner. If you have to eat here, it might help to stick to a plain cheese slice.

I would love to hang out there more often, and I have friends who hang out there, but I’d much rather hang out at a place that’s trendy AND has great food, like The Wedge. If Sauced actually tried to improve their pizza, I think only good things could come of it.

That being said, I really do love the pizza here, and I’ve never thought of it as expensive. Pizza by the slice is in the ballpark of $3.50 plus a quarter or two for toppings, so I can easily grab lunch for $5 or less. Sure, I’ve had my fair share of burned pizza, but all the other elements that go into Sauced make up for it.

I guess that’s where I’m going. Sauced is a social experience, not a culinary masterpiece.

When I get the need for pizza I think I’ll just drive a little further north and hit up Falcone’s.

One good note–it’s one of the few places I can find in OKC (excluding Taco Bell/breakfast places/etc) that will serve food right up until 2am.

I would like to try their coffee drinks, or something else from the menu, but I just can’t bring myself to go in there. Out of the five or so times I’ve gotten pizza, three of those included trips inside (because they *never* answer the phone, and after an experiment with a cell phone, it’s because it apparently doesn’t ring) to order (takes the convenience out of a pick up order), and *all* included terrible staff. Every time I’ve been in there I’ve been made to feel (through glares or being ignored for five minutes while the cashier chatted with a non-paying “customer”) like I’m pestering them for stuff. Unlike some folks in this area, I don’t care if people in the customer service industry just coast by with the “bare minimum” amount of service, I don’t expect all smiles and life stories while getting my ass kissed – all I want is to be waited on promptly, and not treated rudely because I dared step foot into a *restaurant* and ordered food. Sauced is mostly a place for the owner to have friends over, and anyone not falling into that category is a nuisance. Next time you’re in the Paseo and want pizza, check out Galileo Bar and Grill. Their five cheese pizza is amazing, and comes without attitude.

Places to chill are great, everyone needs such a place, or two or three. Long ago, for me it was two places in Norman, one for its food, the other for adult companionship sans the undergradish flack smack that is overbearing in so many college town establishments. These days I’m more homebody than anything.

Sauced sounds like a place to meet up your friends, or even make some new ones, and maybe get a snack so you can hang with them a bit longer since you’re already there.

That’s all well and good, and if it can survive, even thrive, on that basis, more power to its peeps and its owners.

But it does seem like the food is almost an afterthought, just sort of there if you’re not overly eager to enjoy something more tasty. Again though, if the company your in is more comforting than a happy mouth and tummy, ain’t nutthin’ wrong with that at all.

But yeah, review sites are review sites, and cheerleader sites are cheerleader site. I like that this one is in fact a review site. Too many aren’t.