Homemade Pizza Company

This is a nice neighborhood pizza place, although it is small. The staff were okay at best, I felt a bit rushed when I was making my order, and only one of them asked me how I was doing when I walked in. Otherwise, the pizza was very good. I only tried the pepperoni so far. I ordered pizza by the slice instead of whole. The pepperoni was a bit burnt around the edges, but it was good overall. I might come back again at some point to try some of their other kinds of pizza, and maybe a good local craft beer to go with it. Although they could expand their craft beer menu a bit and I found out the hard way that they stop serving single-slice pizza after a certain time on Friday. On the upside, I almost forgot to mention that the service was very quick as well, which I was pleased with… my single-slice pizza was ready within five minutes of ordering it.

This review is a bit overdue. We discovered Old Dominion a few years back and it has been our go to pizza place many times over. Given the quality of the pizza, we've found the prices to be fair. The pizza is incredible and we love the knight and patriot pies. We've found the staff to be great. We look forward to many more pizza nights from Old Dominion.

A friend of mine I regularly shoot pool with in Sterling has over the past several years lauded Old Dominion Pizza when the topic of favorite pizza pops up. Last Friday we played pool for the first time since mid March and the topic of pizza came up among our group. I live in Vienna and finally made the modest 9.2 mile journey to ODP based on David’s strong recommendation over several years last Sunday early evening. I discovered ODP is primarily a take-out operation (non pandemic related). Dave did not include that information. His focus was praise for the pizza. The only seating inside is 3 stools at a short front window counter. On the sidewalk on the other side of the window is a patio style table. I think there are a couple tables outside the back door on a small patio. That is what I heard the order taker say to several of the walk ins. I ordered a small pepperoni and mushroom pizza, easy on the cheese and request to burn it which is my exaggeration really requesting to insure non soggy bottom. I like lager beer or pilsner with pizza and decided to try Manassas Station American Lager I spotted in the small beer cooler behind the order counter. I sat at the window counter and opened the box finding piping hot pizza having perfectly dry underside which was a good sign. It was light on the cheese as I asked and I noticed the surface was plastered with ultra thin sliced pepperoni. The first bite was a sodium shock. Admittedly, I am salt resistant but this was way over the top. I struggled through a few slices trying to taste the other ingredients unsuccessfully. I had the sense the MSAL was pretty good but enjoyment of the beer was severely diminished by the salt knocking out my sense of taste. In my sight line through the window at the counter I noticed a Seven Eleven across the street and I hot footed there for a Häagen-Dazs ice cream bar and gulped water to mitigate the sodium assault. Regaining my senses I decided to go back in the interest of fairness and to be thorough. On my return yesterday ordering small sausage pie, easy on the cheese and burn along with a MSAL my experience was completely flipped around. Balanced pure sausage flavor allowed me to taste terrific cornmeal pizza dough. That is cornmeal is sprinkled on the pizza stone that rounds are baked on which adds to the flavor profile and helps make the crust crisp and dry. This pizza was definitely 5 stars. There is no ambiance here, it is a takeout joint and while I was there on each of my visits there was a steady stream of customers picking up go orders. The kitchen is an open kitchen that is well organized. I saw 3 pizza makers making pizzas nonstop on each of my visits and both times I was handed boxed piping hot pizza in under 10 minutes. I also overheard several mentions of cookies from takeout customers on my second visit. The order taker told me ODP makes fresh oatmeal/raisin cookies and chocolate chip cookies in their pizza ovens in the morning before opening. On my way out I ordered one of each. I enjoyed the oatmeal cookie last night that was delicious and I am sure the chocolate chip will be as good.