jockamo upper crust pizza

not all that. my wife works near here,and picks a couple of pies up,every month or so.she likes the pizza ok,but not her favorite for sure.on a friday evening there is no parking to be found,so she parks at the bank and walks over.my biggest complaint is they don't cover the pizza with very much toppings,and the whole pizza has a series of bubbles in the crust,also after tasting a strong flour taste i looked at the bottom of thecrust,and it was covered in white flour,obviously using way to much flour on the board when rolling out the crust.i now get a sub when she wants to get carry-out from there,and it is not anything to rave about.

extremely underwhelming. thecrusttastes like it is frozen ready-to-serve. the atmosphere is lacking any kind of personality. do yourself a favor, get dominoes.

add jockamo to the list of pizza that i will never waste money on again! "indy's best"? i feel sorry for indy! i've heard about this place for a couple years and chose a couple simple pies for a thanksgiving eve meal - sausage and pepperoni. how could a pizza place mess that one up?

i opened the carton on the kitchen counter with anticipation, and my first visual impression was 'not impressed'.

the ingredients were topped with a healthy layer of cheese, which was a good sign, but it lacked a certain 'lumpyness' that i was hoping for. i reserved judgement for the first bite. nothing impressive. thecrustwas like a saltine cracker - without the salt- dry, lifeless, flavorless. my sister mentioned that she liked the 'crumbly' sausage better than the 'chunk' here or there, and i lifted the cheese to have a look. 'what sausage'? i saw none on this piece! and the pepperone was 'hit or miss' also. so making up for an unspectacularcrustwith a healthy dose of toppings was off the list, too!

i did take the leftovers (more than expected) home with me. stepdad didn't want any. i will 'doctor them up' with some more toppings of my own and see if i can rescue them.

i had talked a picky stepfather into trying jockamo's over his personal local favorite and had to apologize to him afterward. i let the family down!
i'll just stick with a 'totino's' and my own toppings'!

i love the flavors of pizza they offer. the uniqueness is awesome. however they need wheat crust. how can a pizza place so unique and awesome not have wheat crust. i am forced to go to hotbox pizza because of this. i know if they can do it, you can too. and let the servers and staff know that gluten freecrustis not the same please. i would give this a 5 star if there was wheat crust. so if you do not require wheatcrustthen this is going to be a great pizza experience most likely.

great pizza & service. wife and i hadn't been back here for quite sometime. decided to meet up with a close family friend to have a bite. she started out with the "simple salad" and loved it. everything was extremely fresh looking and tasting. we opted for the "slaughterhouse five" pizza as our main course. simply can't beat this pie. only one close to it is one we've had from mother bear's down in bloomington (a favorite). also had ordered a "pepperoni, sausage, and bacon" pizza for the rest of the family and they loved it! we'll not wait as long to revisit this place. pics included. updated the menu photos too. enjoy!


-----03 jul, 2011-----

pizza let us down a little along with breadstick dipping sauce...!. i've really liked this place for sometime and have continually rallied for the hearts and minds as a good soldier in favor of jockamo uppercrustpizza for the local jockamo vs bazbeau battle.

just recently, my family and i decided to treat my visiting sister and son's girlfriend to a visit here after much bragging. it was a busy friday evening with an expected 40 minute wait. after only a 20 minute wait, we were gladly and cordially seated.

breadsticks & sauces -

believe it or not, during past visits, we'd never ordered the breadsticks. we finally decided to order them and for our dipping sauces, we opted for the nacho cheese sauce (double order), pizza sauce, and alfredo sauce. the breadsticks were very good on their own but the sauces were served cold! regardless, most of the sauces were good, albeit better if at least warm, with exception to the alfredo dipping sauce. this italian masterpiece had the consistency of mayonnaise with roughly shredded parmesan cheese mixed in and unfortunately tasted that way without even a hint of the expected buttery taste. the alfredo dipping sauce was a complete let down, and as a whole for all the sauces being served cold it totaled up to be a complete major appetizer foul!

ordered 2 pizzas.

pizza #1 - slaughter house five specialty pizza - 16".

our typical favorite and popular pizza we always order is the "pepperoni & sausage" at every place we visit. this place has been no exception in that regard and found it to always be extremely good!. this time the wife and i decided to try the "slaughter house five" specialty pizza to satisfy our recently new found love of all meat pizzas. all was good except two things. what happened to covering the entire pizzacrustwith toppings? at least 1-2 inches ofcrustaround the edges with not so much as a hint of tomato sauce, much less a witness mark of accidentally dropped toppings in that area! secondly, we've never acquired the taste of mushrooms on our pizza. one of the ingredients of this specialty pizza is italian beef. i swear this beef has a look, consistency, taste, and texture of finely chopped mushrooms but upon extreme scrutiny, it is in fact beef. regardless, it took away from our experience. for our own psychological benefit, we will order this pizza without the italian beef. in summary, aside from these two issues, the pizza was satisfactory. we will order the "pepperoni & sausage" classical favorite next time and add bacon!

son & his girlfriend wanted to try their own pizza combination.

pizza #2 - 1/2 spicy cajun sausage, jalapeno, bacon, pineapple & 1/2 pepperoni & sausage.

this ill created combo by young ones in love was delivered to our table wrong. it came even more in error with banana peppers. told our server and she graciously compensated with a 12" of the corrected ingredients (spicy cajun, etc.)... we got to keep the original good 1/2 of pepperoni & sausage.

not sure how the corrected pizza tasted. wouldn't try it even on a bet. however the 1/2 pepperoni & sausage was fantastic as expected and experienced in the past!

our server kept our drinks topped off and checked on us from time to time albeit they were quite busy.

hopefully i'm wrong, but there may be a developing crack in the alliance in regards to the battle of jockamo vs bazbeaux. or maybe it was just a busy quirky night we visited. until our next visit, i am downgrading from favorite status to like.

hopefully just a quirky visit. we'll be back to confirm.


-----20 feb, 2011-----

excellent tasting pizza... should be ranked in indy's top 3.... we've tried this place twice. we would definitely visit more often but is across town from us. this place should be consistently ranked higher than bazbeaux's. great crust, sauce and fresh toppings. great little hole-in-the-wall pizza joint.

good, but not great. great atmosphere, but the pizza itself didn't match the hype. i'd heard word-of-mouth this was the best pizza in indianapolis, and while it was good, it didn't rise to great. thecrustwas dry and lacking; goodcrustshould add to the overall experience but thiscrustdetracted a bit. more positively, the spinach/artichoke bread was delicious, soft and tasty and a great way to start the meal. i'd recommend this place for sure, but i wouldn't call it the best pizza in town. (see: bazbeaux.)

for the life of me i can't understand why anyone likes this. i went there because dufours was closed sunday afternoon. got a small pepperoni pizza. i asked for thincrustbut apparently they don't know what thin is.crustcame out thick and doughy. plus,the whole top of the pizza was covered with yellowish-orange oil. i used about eight napkins in an attempt to get rid of this oil. i thought what i got was sickening. however, the check for 2 only came to about $20 so you can't complain about the price if you get bad food.

i was really pleased with jockamo uppercrustpizza. the flavors are original, thecrustcrispy and chewy, and the people watching made this a great place to visit for a meal. i’m looking forward to my next visit when i can order a 16-inch half meatball pizza and half sausage and mushroom with banana peppers topped with smoked gouda and feta cheese.

if it wasn't the only place to go. to take your family for a meal on the near east side i'm not sure jockamo would/could sustain. i want small family owned places to open, thrive and improve our neighborhoods. so this review is hard. but this is the third time in so many months (evidence there are too few options!) that we have had poor quality product, extraordinary wait with contradictory rushed table service, filthy/greasy tables, seats and dishes.

we were seated at the table at the end of the runway (geez only 15 other tables were cleaned and ready and set, but obviously that was the table closest to the bathroom walkway, bus/dishpans, kitchen door, and cash register, since we got there at 8:00 we wouldn't want to make anyone take too many extra steps.) the table had grease munge all over it, the cheese shaker looked like a toddler had licked the container and re-rolled it in the parm, and the bench seat was covered in missed-the-hole bite scraps that my son (yes, my 18 year old son even) had to wipe off.

our waiter asked if we were ready after he handed us the menu and before we opened it and returned three times within approximately three minutes of being seated after we had been waiting over thirty with empty tables throughout. when taking our drink order i asked about the local taps and after i ordered the fountain square pilsner he (at the ripe old age of 21?) asked "do you know what a pilsner is?" to which i replied, "um, yes, like--budweiser?" at that he turned and brought back my lipstick schmeared pint.

a variety of near east side teenagers are the primary workers who are delightful (as are my own) but they are far too interested in one another to be flagged down for a fork. they are also pretty interested in getting their evening wrapped up to get on to the friday night festivities so they interrupt table conversation to ask you every ten seconds if they can take every paper/scrap/spare plastic container/plate/bowl away. i started to count how many times we would be interrupted and twice tried to stop two different bus boys/girls for another “pilsner” during their interruptions before they turned to walk away and they didn't bother to stop. i was never asked if i wanted a second even though i was finished with the first while i was waiting for the pizza.

there was an odd cash register receipt debacle that made us really uncomfortable. we actually paid for someone other than ours’ food and drink bill! he left us with a tab and rambled something about not to worry and didn’t let us get a word in edgewise. he assured us we had “come out better” and that “he would eat the difference because it was his mistake” but i can’t imagine how he would eat the difference if the other people never actually got a bill and we paid for theirs and ours was never rang through?

now for the reason why we actually go out to dine--the food. the pizza was originally an amazing change of pace and served in an eclectic uber-hip for near east side venue with one of "our own kids" managing the place. having local people serving locally crafted noms using locally purveyed vendor choices (smoking goose and papa roux--also our own kids) is amazing. however, if you produce an inferior product with their superior ingredients it's sort of embarrassing. if i were them, i would be concerned. the pizza toppings/ingredients are now scanty, lumped dead center, and thecrustis consistently soggy these days due to running the pizzas through too fast.

yes--friday is big night out--you're busy--so is everyone else in the metro area but they figure it out.

clean up your act, literally--yuck. hire a room mom at the very least to keep the kidlings in check with some manners and get some order back in that place.

i'm a proud east side mom. you're disappointing me. you may be a cash-cow now because you're the only gig around but for pity's sake, put some pride back in it kids--we're all counting on you!

...it was so much stuff piled on a style ofcrustthat just isn’t me. there is nothing interesting about this crust...

we paid for this?. granted, we don't get to have pizza often -- so we were all the more excited to order and then all the more sad when thecrustwas like the supermarket cardboard, the cheese was thick and solid like concrete and the pepperoni was teeeeeeeeeensy and too few and far between. the side salad for lunch was about a 1/2 cup of iceberg. and when it was delivered they forgot the forks and the napkins. oh, and they were like an hour and half getting to the hotel. waste of a meal in indianapolis. makes me want to give up pizza forever.

best cheap lunch in town. i've been coming here for lunch at least 2-3 times a week for the last couple of months and it's always great. i get the lunch special with a slice of pepperoni pizza, a small salad with creamy gorgonzola dressing and iced tea. only 5 bucks!! can you believe it? it's the deal of the century.

i love thecrusthere and jockamo's cheese and pepperoni are so flavorful. that's more than i can say for a lot of other places in town.

if you're ever on the east side of town or even if you're not, stop into jockamo's for lunch. you won't be disappointed.

i had recently been introduced to jacamo's uppercrustpizza during a recent business lunch, so we decided to drive to greenwood and give this place a try for our friday night chow. we picked up garrett at home and headed south, 28 miles, to have pizza! i know, you're already questioning my sanity….why would anyone drive 28 miles for a pizza?? afterall, we must be passing a hundred pizza joints along the way. crazy? yeah, like a fox! when we pulled into the parking lot, we were immediately disappointed. the lot was packed, people were waiting outside, and it looked like the wait was going to be longer than the drive was. we dejectedly made our way across the lot and checked in with the hostess, who told us we'd be waiting about 45 minutes for a table. yikes! we were starving! we tried bribing the young lady with a big fat tip…but she didn't bite. we reluctantly decided to wai

best pizza in indy. jockamo's has really re-vamped irvington. the pizza is wonderful! so many choices, all are good! the atmoshere is what a pizza place should be, not uptight but not a hole-in-the-wall, a perfect middle ground. service is young,friendly,and efficient. they all seem to be having fun. it's not cheap, but you get what you pay for. fresh (sometimes unique) ingredients, made to order pizza costs more than something thats been sitting under a heating lamp for hours. thankyou jockamo uppercrustpizza for bringing irvington back up to it's potential!

this is as good as it gets...... ...when it comes to a neighborhood place that has good beer, good pizza and an efficient wait-staff. been there many times, but we always meet someone new that we can strike up a conversation with while we enjoy the pizza. mmm-mmm.
they offer a nice selection of beer, both national and micro-brews. a constantly updated selection allows you to sample different quaffs dependent on the time of the year: we had some wonderful octoberfest from sam adams.

the pizza is usually terrific. so far, we haven't had a bad one and it always shows up hot, just out of the pizza oven. thecrustis uniformly cooked with no doughy spots. all the ingredients are distributed evenly, making all the pies tasty no matter what side you start from. the staff are always willing to change your seating (we've changed to the bar on several occasions and they have always been able to keep everything straight.) on top of that, the locals that frequent the place are easy to talk and friendly.

this is as close to my favorite pizza in the whole world, uppercrustin boston.