Pizza Flame

A long time local favorite, the cheese toast is the best in town.

The pizza is really good, wether you get the normal crust of deep dish, you should be happy with your decision.

We also get the pasta from time to time, our Favorite being the Cheese Manicotti (Ask for Cheese on your Toast tgat comes with it)

Service was very good. Quiet restaurant as it seemed like people were mostly picking up their pizza so we basically had it all to ourselves at the time. My spaghetti was okay. Overall it wasn't bad.

The outside looks like something out of a horror film so I was pleasantly surprised at how welcoming the staff was and how attentive they were. Maybe next time I'll try the taco pizza I somehow didn't notice they had! I'm disappointed in myself for missing that. Not something you see that often on menus!

The first thing to note is they close at 10pm, I got there at 830pm and you could no longer sit inside. There is seating inside and I saw them cleaning, so they must have different hours on being able to sit and eat inside the restaurant. Not a big deal, just something to know.

This pizza joint has been in business for many many years and definitely has an older feel to it. I did like the icicle lights draped around the kitchen area.

Since we couldn't stay, I did a take out order. There were multiple people in the kitchen that just stared at us and I got the feeling they were very annoyed that we were placing an order, even tho their business hours say they are open till 10.

A woman finally came over and took our order. My 7 year old son loves SpongeBob and noticed she had a SpongeBob decal on her shirt. He mentioned it and told her he liked it a couple of times and again she just seemed annoyed. This did not leave a good impression with me. Everyone just seemed more interested in cleaning up. I understand wanting to go home but at 830 there is still an 1.5 before you close, it's not like we walked in 5 minutes to close....

It took about 20 minutes to get our food, totally fine and we left. The garlic cheese bread did not really have a garlic flavor at all but I did like the flavor of cheese bread with the meaty dipping sauce. Tasted similar to
something my grandma would make, and we liked it. Also the pieces of bread are HUGE! So 2 pieces was enough for us. I got a pepperoni pizza and a meat lovers pizza. Both were very good! The crust was the perfect Minnesota crust and the toppings were plenty!

I was torn on whether to give this place 3 stars or 4 due to service... In the end the food was good. I'm willing to give them another try at a different time. And I'm hoping the poor service last night was just a one off.

We took a pepperoni and sausage pizza as a takehome to cook, and it was OK but nothing special. Actually, I was a little disappointed. Number one, they didn't have instructions on how to cook this. Second, the flavor was a little off. I felt like the tomato sauce was a little too sweet and the cheese wasn't soft like where you could stretch it across from one arm to the next.

2/5

Observation: they may be new to the "take and bake" pizza so you may have to give them a break as they fix and enhance this new concept.

This has been my family's favorite place for pizza and food since my adult kids were little. The service has always been great. I will always come here!

This is my favorite pizza by far. I live in Arkansas, but make regular trips to Minnesota, and I always stop by the Pizza Flame when I am going anywhere in the state. My only complaint would be the times they are not open when I am around...

Pizza Flame may be the last "mom and pop" pizza joint in the Blaine/ Coon Rapids area.

Sometimes you will get a good pizza and other times you will get an amazing pizza.

Thank you Pizza Flame for still trying and not selling out.

My parents have been going here since they moved to the neighborhood (2008) and we love this spot. We've never had a bad pizza from here, we've never had any issues with any takeout order, it's truly a neighborhood gem! We love the house pizza and the antipasto salad for a night in with no cooking.

Pizza was HORRIBLE, we were in there for an hour, there was 4 guys cooking and barely any customers and yet it took them an hour and a half to finish the Alfredo pasta we ordered. DO NOT GO, IT'LL WASTE YOUR TIME!! The waitress we had gotten was being angsty and was a RACIST due to her, giving my BLACK, little sister dirty looks. would never return to this place, plus it smells like an old lady.

I first ate at Pizza Flame the night we moved into our house in 1989. Since then we've stopped in a few times a year for thirty years. It was a nice place to have in the neighborhood, since it was an easy walk and who doesn't like pizza and beer?

Well, I decided to walk there tonight and ... they no longer serve beer. The waitress told me "not since COVID." I don't know what that has to do with it except it sounds like an excuse--and I seem to recall having beer and pizza there last year. Anyway, this changes the value proposition. Previously, I could pay $25 and get beer and a pizza that was better than MOST frozen pizzas. Now I can pay $20 and drink water ... or drive to Aldi (their pizza IS better) and pay $7 and drink my own beer at home.

The pizza landscape is pretty bleak in Coon Rapids in 2022.