The Great Plains Sauce & Dough Co.

We have 4 kids. Makes you really appreciate the luxury of being served at a table. Fun place of your kids are older. Order and pickup at the counter. The crust wasn't anything over any other pizza joint we've tried. But the people were great and cheerful! Also, way to go with the whole dipping crust in honey!Food: 3/5

Best pizza place in Iowa in my opinion. Great pizza, great service, comfy ambience and very affordable prices. Dinner for two was $18 plus leftovers! and free refills for soda too. The Denver thick crust is fantastic, and dont forget to add honey on the crust. Pizzas are very big so make sure you get a small for two people unless you're starving. Overall fantastic dining experience, with a great location on main street. Highly recommend!

All I can say is that Great Plains Sauce & Dough Pizza is some of the best pie we've had. EVAH. Been here a few times, but first time for a review. As with many of my reviews, I try to pick something about our dish that sets it aside from similar entre at any other pizza restaurant in town. In this case, it's the crust. Great Plains offers a variety of styles, and we like the "Denver" medium with 3 toppings, Canadian Bacon, Sausage, Pepperoni. picture Yep, we took half of it home for supper tomorrow. Here's where I knock 1, maybe 1.5 stars off my overall rating for Great Plains. THE RESTROOMS. They're down one flight on narrow stairs, then left turn to the 2 rooms. The restrooms themselves were clean, but I felt bad for this guy who looked to be in his late 70's who was walking up the steps as I got up from my booth. He was with his wife, who was helping him, and I wished I'd seen him go DOWN the steps so I could have helped him come back up. Now, I realize this is an old building and pbly little or no room for renovation. But what ya think Great Plains?

Not sure there's much I can say that others haven't said already so I'll just restate the obvious- this place is phenomenal. Amazing pizza! Cool atmosphere! A must try if you haven't already. I'm not a huge wheat lover so I wasn't a fan of the thick wheat crust, but we also got a thick white crust and that was right up my alley. Can't wait to go back!

Pretty mid tier pizza. The best thing that can be said is that it is a real pizza with real handmade dough and real cheese. However the dough was incredibly dense and bland, both the whole wheat and white crusts. Plus there was no sort of crust glaze to make the bland crust taste more lively. The sauce was the saddest part tasting like tomato sauce straight out of the can with zero seasonings to speak of. There was an adequate amount of cheese but it felt like too much given that they only use mozzarela with no other cheeses mixed in to break up the stringy dense layer of cheese. All the components of a good pizza are there but there is no seasoning or flavor added to it which makes the steep price they charge unreasonable.

Ordered late on our way down the night before a football game. Was ready and warm upon pickup and staff was very friendly Ordered the following night for delivery, gave us a 90 minute timeline, showed up shortly after the timeline, delivery gal was great very nice and apologetic- pizza was still delicious with just a bit of reheating.. Very well done - we love Great Plains!

Good pizza, totally unacceptable wait times. When ordering the staff should advise you how long of a wait it will probably be for you to get your pizza. We arrived at about 4:45 on a Wednesday afternoon and ordered a single pizza. It literally took 1 hour and 8 minutes before it came out for us. Really? If we had been told upfront the wait was going to be that long we would have just said thanks, we'll come back another time. Instead, we had the joy of sitting at a table for more than an hour with nothing but our drinks. Very frustrating. Kid-friendliness: Definitely not kid friendly because of potentially very long wait times for the pizza to be delivered. We saw two table of families with small children who also had to wait a very long time to receive their pizza and they were clearly not happy.

One of my all time favorites of anywhere in the world. I moved to Ames on my 3rd birthday and have great memories of my mom picking me up from preschool before my sister in kindergarten got out, and going on our secret pizza run. To this day I always put honey on my pizza because of the habit instilled within by Great Planes. There's really no other way! Now I live in Virginia but always make sure to stop and relive the memory when coming back to visit family.

Great Plains is my favorite pizza place. I always get the Denver style crust. Anytime I'm in Iowa, I make sure to stop by here at least twice. I only wish I could franchise this place out to the West Coast so I could eat it anytime.

There is a reason they’ve been voted best of Story county pizza year after year. It’s because their pizza is amazing. Everyone goes here for their wheat thick crust…but honestly try their thin crust, it is AMAZING!!