jockamo upper crust pizza

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 upper crust pizza 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 toorderthem 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 alwaysorderis 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 pizza crust with toppings? at least 1-2 inches of crust around 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 willorderthis pizza without the italian beef. in summary, aside from these two issues, the pizza was satisfactory. we willorderthe "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.

i was really pleased with jockamo upper crust pizza. the flavors are original, the crust crispy 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 canordera 16-inch half meatball pizza and half sausage and mushroom with banana peppers topped with smoked gouda and feta cheese.

i enjoyed the food—boring creole pizza aside. i’m relieved that i made the last minute decision toordertwo smaller pies versus one; based on the creole alone, i wouldn’t have even considered a return visit. i’m interested to find out if the original irvington location differs in quality.

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 drinkorderi 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 the crust is 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 someorderback 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!

we paid for this?. granted, we don't get to have pizza often -- so we were all the more excited toorderand then all the more sad when the crust was 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 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 toorderpizza costs more than something thats been sitting under a heating lamp for hours. thankyou jockamo upper crust pizza for bringing irvington back up to it's potential!

amazing place, staff, service & food! breadsticks are awesome with the sauces-wow! you gottaordersome with the spinach salad. as for pizza, no matter which one i've ordered, they are all fabulous from vegetarian to meat lovers "slaughterhouse five" yummy

brunch pizza. let me say that this pizza place is one of the best i have ever had, but recently i tried the farmhouse and the denver pizza and it was just... awesome. seriously anyone that would put sausage gravy as a sauce, and eggs... oh my. truly great and ya'all shouldorderit as well. i ordered it today and they were out already at 1:30!!! so get there early!!!

love it!. can't wait to go back. we had the po boy pizza & the slaughterhouse five along with the spinach salad. wonderful house dressing! we alsoorderthe bread sticks but they weren't anything special but the parmesan dipping sauce was yummie.

rude owner/great staff and pizza. computers went down,did not want 2 take a phone order. owner got on the phone told me he would not do it. been a cust 4 3 yrs and i insisted to place my order. owner said hold on (w/ attitude) picked up the phone"what do u want" then he said 30 min slammed the phone down. when i went 2 p/uorderhe told me i was rude and said "you got your pizza what more do u want" bad business for anyone not to mention an owner!! everyone else is great and the pizza is the best!! word of mouth in irvington is a powerful thing!!! get this man some customer service skills right away!!! he should be a poster child for how not to treat a customer!!!

6 thumbs up (there's 3 of us) the family and i were traveling from the east coast to the midwest and stopped in indy on the south side. was looking for a place to eat and perused the 'ole urban spoon. saw all the reviews and thought we'd give it a try.ordera pizza half pep and half a whole bunch of funky toppings my wife likes (spinach, roasted red peppers and a bunch of other thing that would cause me to loose my man card) the pizza was terrific. cheesy, flavorful, and oh so tasty. well worth the stop!! it's now on our top 10 list of favorite pizza joints!