East Side Pies
A pizza menu organized by sauce, nine of them, including black bean, hummus and spinach curry.1
Why go
The menu is not sorted by topping, it is sorted by sauce: red, ricotta, black bean, hummus, spinach curry, extra virgin olive oil, chimichurri, tomatillo and pesto.1 That is an unusual way to build a pizza list and it is the reason the pies read the way they do.1 The Infatuation's Jordan Haro picks the Half Nelson, pesto sauce with jerk chicken, as the best execution of the idea, and files the whole operation as one of the best pizza takeaway and delivery jobs in Austin.1 The outlet leaves the page unrated under its own revisit policy.1
Order this / avoid
- Order: the Half Nelson, pesto and jerk chicken.1
- If you want the heavy one: the Moon Dingo, five cheeses over ricotta sauce with bacon and mushrooms.1
- Spicy: the Homer, meatballs and habanero on red sauce.1
What locals & experts say
- The Infatuation Austin, Jordan Haro:
It's broken down into pizza sauce categories: red, ricotta, black bean, hummus, spinach curry, extra virgin olive oil, chimichurri, tomatillo, and pesto.
Unrated under the outlet's revisit policy, recorded as policy rather than as a poor result.1 - The Infatuation Austin, Jordan Haro, on the format:
East Side Pies has some of the best pizza delivery and take-out service in Austin.
His verdict is about the operation rather than the room.1
Good to know
- It is several shops, and the register proves it. Austin Public Health carries five separate premises under two spellings. Eastside Pies at 1401 Rosewood Ave, facility_id 2802928, scored 91 on 22 July 2025, 90 and 97 before that. Eastside Pies Too! at 5312 Airport Blvd, 10487262, scored 94 on 13 March 2025. East Side Pies at 5530 Burnet Rd, 12398082, scored 84 on 23 April 2026 after a 91. A North US 183 store, 12029818, scored 98 on 3 April 2026. The airport outlet, 12143492, scored 100 on 15 July 2025. Every reading is a pass; the lowest anywhere in the group is 84.2
- Which branch is which. The bylined review is written against the original at 1401 Rosewood Ave, and the inspection scores for every branch are above.2
Verdict
could-visit — East Side Pies is a long-running East Austin pizza group whose menu is organized by sauce rather than by topping, nine of them, black bean and hummus and spinach curry among them. The Infatuation's Jordan Haro picks the Half Nelson, pesto and jerk chicken, and rates the takeaway operation above the room. The page is unrated by policy and undated, and Jeff's pin does not clearly pick a branch, so this sits as a reliable neighborhood option rather than a destination.