American Pizza Manufacturing - La Jolla, California

RobynandByron O'Berry

A Must Try! American Pizza Mfg is a Take and Bake Pizza establishment -you order one of their signature pies (or create your own pie with whatever ingredients you want), it is assembled, and shrink wrapped fresh to take home to bake at your leisure. These pizzas are not cooked, just assembled with the ingredients you love, and packaged with instructions to bake at home. It’s like your own refrigerated pizza from a local grocer, but without the preservatives and freshly manufactured on-the-spot especially for you. They also have nice dessert options - we ordered the take and bake chocolate chip cookie, but will try other dessert options at a later date.

What we especially love about American Pizza Mfg are the extensive veggie offerings, the goat cheese option on the menu, and the Cutie Pie Kit for a kids pizza party. As a vegetarian, it is nice to find a place with plant-based options, and to be able to create your own vegetarian pizza or vegan pizza is not an easy find. We did curbside delivery for our order, and Andrew had the best customer service and common courtesy with the delivery of our order. We are a military family of six and we appreciate that our sacrifices are appreciated with a 15% military discount offered (military families need to call in to receive this discount or show military identification before payment). Thank you Andrew and Thank you American Pizza Mfg for being military-friendly! Our family plans to make American Pizza Mfg part of our weekly meal rotation.

Bridget Farhat

Have always wanted to try this spot and today was the day after 4 years of passing it so often! I have to say I was impressed and when I say I love pizza… I love pizza and have pretty high standards. This place definitely brought it home!! 10/10 recommend.

Nika Sedghi

This place is so freaking cute! The owners did a great job designing this place and you can really tell they care about every order that walks out of these doors. I enjoyed my pizza last night and can’t tell you how delicious both my pizzas were.

FUN FACT: I ended my dinner with the cookie & it truly grows to be as big as your face!!!

As a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach, I really like having an option that doesn’t have all of the extra preservatives and additives as a traditional pick up frozen pizza. You could really taste the difference in their high-quality sourced ingredients & I’ll forever recommend this as a healthier alternative for all my clients!

In summary:
- they don’t skimp out on quality ingredients
- their customer service goes above and beyond.
- you can peek in through their window and watch every step of their transparent and open manufacturing process (nothing to hide!)

@neeks93 on insta & I APPROVE!

Jewel Arter

My husband and I celebrated our 1-year anniversary with a meal from American Pizza MFG, and it was fantastic! The pizza and giant cookie were phenomenal, but what made it truly special was the kindness of the owner, Andrew. He took our order, was super fun to chat with, and even wrote a congratulatory message on our pizza box. Such a thoughtful touch! Overall place was really clean and great atmosphere. Highly recommend this place for great food and wonderful service. Thank you for making our day so memorable! Will be returning in the future!

Paul Burke

Hands down best place to grab pizza and salad in San Diego! Pizza is outstanding and creative. The dough, OMGosh the crust and flavors are delicious. The staff, the owners are wonderful super friendly people - only way to make the place better would be to offer sit down, cooked pizza onsite to spend more time there!! And it’s the easiest way to have high quality restaurant food at home when you’re ready for it. Order online, pick up pizza and salads and cook at home when you’re ready. Great concept, excellent quality and executed with a really nice atmosphere. Highly recommend!

Mindy Terry

Sweetest people!! The pizza is amazing. This is a take and bake but they can cook personal sized pizza for you. We got a cheese pizza for our daughter who just got braces and they were above and beyond kind cutting her personal pizza into bite size pieces for her.

Jay Schimke

Instead of getting a pizza from Costco, consider swinging by American Pizza Manufacturing and take home a fresh pie made to order. These guys rock, they don’t make your take home and bake pizza until you order it. You can phone in, use their webpage or just walk in and they will greet you and make you feel at home while you wait for your pizza to be made. Their pizza is delicious, we have tried almost every one and we love them all. Just set your oven to 425 and cook for about 10 minutes and you are done. Nothing better than a fresh hot pizza out of the oven. They have classics like pepperoni and Margherita but they also have some signature dishes which use top quality ingredients including caramelized onions, prosciutto, burrata and Italian sausage. Their pasta dishes are also awesome, we love the lasagna and macaroni and cheese. We always get a salad, our favorite is a palm desert, with candied walnuts and grapefruit slices along with Gorgonzola, delicious!

Greg Carlson

Love this place! Grabbed a pizza, salad, and their giant cookie last night. All three were phenomenal. Quality of the ingredients is top notch- local and fresh. So happy to see that the take and bake model has come to San Diego.