by Liza Z.

A friend of mine who lives down the street recommended the place and we set out on foot for some pizza at 10pm. He managed to forget his wallet and had to return and I continued my quest following his directions which turned out to be useless because my nose showed me the way. And the soundtracks from the Baltic Room created a nice ambiance.

by michelle r.

What luck!  A place that serves freakinly awesome Vegan pizza.  You have so many toppings to choose from, as well as healthful additions like nutritional yeast to get your dose of B12.  You can customize your slice to your heart's desire.  The crust was thin perfectly crispy on the bottom - which you will need since boy, does the guy like to pile on those toppings.  Delicious, fresh satisfying pizza @ a hole-in-the wall place that I enjoyed pre-Veganlife, happy to say it's just as good Vegan style, if not better for the better.

by Devon Y.

My boyfriend and I stopped at Juliano's on a Friday night to satisfy a gluten-free, late-night pizza craving. It's open-late and reasonably priced. I prefer the GF pizza at Pizza Works in Kenmore, but they are only open until 8 or 9 and it's a bit further away from where I live.

by Sherah H.

Juliano's is a junky-looking hole-in-the-wall pizza place with crappy furniture and an old-ass menu board. The owner has his computer hooked up to a large-screen tv though, which provides a much easier to read version of the menu. On it is a very large assortment of vegan items (including at least two types of vegan cheese) and the special-diet items are clearly marked so you will know what is what without too much trouble. The owner is extremely friendly but not in-your-face; he plays music videos a la YouTube on his big screen and lets you pick out the songs! I'm not a big fan of chit chat but he didn't annoy me.We ordered a pizza with artichoke hearts, sun-dried tomatoes, mushrooms, kalamata olives, and fake mozarella. It was intense! The artichoke hearts, to our pleasant surprise, had been marinated, and the tomatoes were huge. The pizza was not soggy and the crust was crunchy but not hard. It was excellent.We went in around 8pm and there weren't many people inside. It took us only about 10 minutes to wait for our pizza. We'll be going back.Oh, the hours are nice for after-hours munching: the sign says he's open until 1 or so, but he told us he's usually there until around 4am.

by madame s.

I have decided to do what i've done with my Ethiopian restaurants and rate Juliano's in a relative scale against other Pizza parlors, to be fair. I want to give this place four stars just for creating a unique style of vegan pizza unlike any i have had before. But i can't quite break through the *weirdness* factor. The layout of the place is uncomfortable, there is a lot of wasted space and then a lot of cramped space, horrid color combinations and then that blasted Karaoke. He was playing ballroom dancing instructional DVDs when i was in there at 1am on a Tuesday night. And it took a very long time to get my pizza--partly because each slice was custom-made, carefully arranged and cooked to perfection (so i can't complain there)--but also because Juliano seemed very lonely and insisted on engaging me in conversation. He is an interesting, kind person, but that night i was very hungry and tired and was not in the mood to chat. I found this rather annoying and unprofessional, but then i thought that maybe in Italy it's just like that--people go and chat, hang out, get to know the owner, and eventually get around to eating. I tried my best to flow with it when he took me upstairs and asked for my advice on what to do with the unused loft space. The ceiling is way too low for it to be anything other than storage, or perhaps a hookah lounge with pillows on the floor. Then he wanted me to sing Karaoke. He sat with me while i ate my pizza (which by the way was delicious vegan). I tried to leave for about 25 minutes, but i think that Juliano really liked me, a lot. So all of this just about overpowered how good and healthy the pizza was, but luckily for him it also distracted me from how much i spent on those two slices--i think it came to $9 because of the fake pepperoni vegan cheese, which he buys in small quantities and can hardly afford to use. I am curious about the other toppings on the menu (spirulina, other veggie meats, etc), so i may go back. But this doesn't seem like the sort of place you can just pop in and grab a quick slice, so i will have to wait until i've got some time to kill.I, too, may revise and give Juliano's four stars after my second visit. Let's see if it's any different at lunchtime when he doesn't have so much time to romance me.

by kristin m.

Gluten, wheat-free pizza? Oh my. First off, I have to say as a New Yorker in a strange lovable place called Seattle, I still don't get along with most pizza made here. Couple the lack of good tomato sauce with my newly minted gluten allergy and you have...THE GIRL WHO WILL NEVER EAT PIZZA AGAIN! Until Juliano's was found.To begin with, I had this bias against the whole olive oil base phenomenon in Seattle pizza. Where I come from, that's called a white pizza. Here, that's the norm. (I will not go into the lack of diversity in other elements of this great city at this time.) So here's the scoop on Juliano's gluten-free pizza - it's the best pizza you are going to get without a real crust in Seattle, in my opinion. Maybe i'm a skeptic, but once you've tried several brands of gluten-free products, you will understand what i'm saying - fake bread is just not that good.We ordered a 12" gluten-free pizza which was oddly shaped and confused me to why it cost almost double the price of a 10", but part of a pizza experience is sharing, so we opted out of getting individual pies. Toppings ordered were tomatoes and prosciutto, and not being a vegan, i got the regular four-cheese and tomato sauce base (you can opt for soy cheese and many other toppings). This is great to be able to order part pain-in-the-butt and part carnivore. Just because I can't tolerate most bread products, doesn't mean i've joined the vegan wagon (no matter how nice they seem to be). So overall the pizza was great, if not a little greasy, and I wasn't a fan of what tasted like balsamic on my tomato topping (keep it simple folks - balsamic should be reserved for salads at a pizza joint). They (who I thought might be Juliano working behind the counter), were a little sloppy on slicing the tomato - big sliced chunks were strewn about atop my pizza - but I didn't mind the novelty, or the loud dance music coming from their video sound system. I don't know what the crust was made out of - some corn tortilla pita concoction perhaps, but who cares, I ate pizza g*ddamit!

by Rachel R.

i am probably the worst person in the world to review a pizza place . . . because i don't like pizza.  although after a night of serious boozing, and you're starving, and its past 2 AM - you eat what you need to eat.  i didn't even know this place existed. i must walk past it constantly and never noticed . . .  until last night. it was the final perfect cap in what was most definitely the most bizarre night ever.i don't even know where to start the bizarreness of this place . . . was it he rum and cokes or is the owner was a total trip? the music was crazy loud, and for 2 something in the morning is was kind of packed. lots of drunks and cracked out Israeli's that had been clubbing at the Baltic Room. While I sat patiently  waiting for the pizza admiring the insane neon decor and the overall grubbiness of the place, I was even promised a trip to Tel-Aviv! you can't top that!so as soon as i got my pizza slice, i booked it the hell out of there to eat in the safety of my home.  and you know  . . .  grubby decor, crazy clientèle, sort of insane owner aside - the pizza was really good! the toppings, cheese and crust all seemed real - like pizza should be, not the processed funk i usually associate with pizza.  and i loved that the crust wasn't thick and doughy. it was thin crispy and perfect! in short: i will most definitely return the next time i'm drunk and hungry on capitol hill after 2 AM.

by E S.

Alright, to those bitching about the colors on the walls, the lack of... well, anything, blah blah blah:  shut up now.I found this place on a whim and I'm totally smitten.  Juliano's is not only awesome, but cheap, fast, and Juliano himself is a riot.  Roll up there drunk (they don't serve beer, otherwise I'd be hanging out there a lot longer than I do), possibly single some karaoke on his LCD tv, and order any pizza you want, just make sure it has garlic and pepper on it as well.  That garlic and pepper is the secret.  Put that on any pizza and it automatically wins.To give you an idea of what the pizzas are like, apparently they're pretty close to your neighborhood pizza joint in New York.  Now, as I've said in other reviews, I'm a West Coast kid with no pizza style affinity, but a bunch of my friends are from NYC and really dig this place.  Again, the only thing missing is a brick oven but he gets all the rest right.  Pizza sauce is zesty, crust is thin and crunchy, toppings are very plentiful depending on what you get.  For example, Wednesday's special is tomatoes and basil.  What you get are massive tomato slices and an entire bushel of basil leaves just tossed on top.  Drizzle with olive oil and balsamic and you have a very hastily put together gourmet pizza.  Sun dried tomatoes?  Those are just whole sun dried tomatoes from whatever receptacle tossed on the pizza.  Distribute as you please.So what's keeping it from being 5 stars?  Lack of delivery, but that's not so bad.  No liquor license, but you can stroll down a block to Six Arms and get some beers before/after no problem.So a little story if you're still interested.  My buddies and I call the place Peepee G's Hyphy Six Five Oh.  Now, it got this name because Juliano had an old sandwich board dealy that he hung up near the restroom that still had some letters/numbers left on it.  After the years a lot of them broke, and there was a very limited selection of letters and numbers left  But, lo and behold, there were enough to spell "Peepee G's Hyphy 650."  I guess we thought Juliano's was spelled with a G, and Hyphy 650 is just my buddy's homage to their hometown of Palo Alto, CA and how totally hyphy they get.  You go, Mountainview.  Get dumb, and ghostride the whip.

by Jami M.

We got a 12" pizza with vegan cheese, veggie sausage, veggie pepperoni, bell peppers, onions, and mushrooms with garlic sauce.  Even my meat-loving bf wanted to go back for more.  The crust is absolutely perfect - thin and herb-y.  They PILE on the veggies - you won't believe it.  This may be my new favorite pizza place.As for the time issue that others had I don't know.  It was friday night.  There was only one guy behind the counter and one guy ahead of us.  It took about 15 mins - isn't that about usual?Ya it's a bit pricier than most ($22 for the above) - but I think you're getting better quality.  So when I'm not craving the greasy Hot Mama's type - this is where I'll head.

by Bryan M.

Weird venue, sure. But I value Seattle partially for the weird venues. Back home we only had chains and I like that I can stay away from them almost entirely these days.Crazy options here. Pizza's always been more expensive than alternatives in my opinion, but including vegan options among others that should please anyone looking to experiment makes it a unique joint in many good ways.More than once I've drunkenly taken a taxi here before going home due to craving some bread sticks which are of the "almost a pizza" but without the sauce design, leaving you with a pile of thin bread sticks. The late, after closing, hours definitely are a plus.

by Kayla P.

Just so ya know: I'm pretty much going to give any allergen-friendly place to eat 5 stars, unless it truly sucks.  Maybe 4 stars, if something negative sticks out in my mind.  I am just incredibly appreciative of places like Juliano's that makes it so I can safely and easily eat out.  The menu was clearly marked which ingredients were gluten-free as well as vegan.  I had a superbly delicious gluten-free pizza, and my partner seemed equally as satisfied with his [non-GF full of meat] calzone.  Really, it was good, and loaded with toppings.  The only downside is that you have one choice of sizing on GF pizzas (10-inches).  However-- oh well, I ended up eating the whole thing anyway.  Hey, it was my birthday and I was hungry.  Juliano was also very patient with our slow decision-making process, and yet eager to help us figure it out.  Personally I appreciate the hole-in-the-wall eateries.  The inner workings of the place really didn't seem that "different" to me, as some of the other reviewers suggest.   The complete lack of pretentious BS is just fine with me.  I felt pretty comfortable in there.

by Devin E.

Juliano's offers great food (much better than Pizza Pi) in a decrepit setting. The owner is a sweet, if slightly creepy man who provides a karaoke sing-along with the strangest videos (i.e. they have nothing to do with what one is singing about) I've ever seen. A bizarre but unique dining experience that all people and their friends should entreat themselves to.

by Billy A.

Best vegan pizza in Seattle (sorry Pizza Pi...you're awful).  Juliano's has tons of toppings to choose from, including vegan faux sausage, ham, turkey, pepperoni, etc.  Also, they're open really late.The guy who runs the place (I'm assuming he's Juliano) is very nice.Check it out!

by Kelly G.

Skip the pizza and get the cheese bread.  This stuff is garlicky goodness, without all of that pizza mess.  Yummy crust with crisp edges, cheese, spices, and a ton of garlic.Just make sure you have a minty prodcut closeby, preferably toothpaste.  Otherwise you (and everyone on Pine) will be smelling like garlic the rest of the night.

by Lindi M.

Alright, this place would have gotten more stars if it weren't for the annoyingly loud "karaoke" going on here. What the hell is that about? I hate to use cliche terminology, but "buzz kill" is a good way to describe the atmosphere. The inside is kind of drab, kind of sad, but I wasn't there for the atmosphere, I was there for the pizza!I ordered a slice, ONE slice of pizza and was surprised how long it took to get it. The pizza takes more than a few minutes (more like 30) to go through their little conveyor belt oven thingy. But, I had someone tell me he was convinced they put crack on their pizza, so I figured I might as well give it a try. I think he was right. It was really, really, really good pizza, especially when you are drunk at 1 in the morning. (Although, that's not always the best time to be judging anything).The good thing about this place is that it pleases everyone - whether you're a vegan, vegetarian or a "carnivore" like me - you'll find something to eat!

by Matt S.

Man, I don't know what's up with the reviewers here.  I don't go to a pizza place for a good interior.  I go to get some pizza.Juliano's isn't your run-of-the-mill late-night joint, but it's a godsend if you're out drunk, or even if you're just feeling like some pizza.  The pie itself is first-class, his toppings are awesome, and Juliano himself is a pretty nice guy.  The karaoke is a particularly nice touch, and if you're not feeling it, head to the tiny back room and fuck around with that empty letter board thing - my friends and I now only refer to this place as "Pee Pee G's Hyphy 650".The pizza is a tad pricey, but honestly, it's better than Hot Mama's, which is like Pagliacci plus.  This is a thinner crust, with better cheese, best ate fresh after he bakes it for you.

by Austin H.

I've walked past this place on my way home for the past couple of months, glancing to my right and seeing Julianos. Lately, I've been hearing this little voice in my head going: "Whats a'matta, you? Why you not-a go in an getta yourself some pizza? It's good. Capisce?"I finally gave in to the voice in my head and gave them a try. Let me tell you, their crust is the closet to true Italian crust that I've had in Seattle. The cheese bread, is in fact, the wonderful crust with some cheese, garlic powder and herbs. Yum. Mi piace!So, give in to that cheesy italian voice in your head. No, don't give Vinny a whack. Getta yourself some pizza. Capisce?

by Zach G.

I may revise upward, because I suspect he really can make a mean pizza.  Juliano, that is.  However, everything else about this place makes it about half as welcoming as your average Greyhound station lobby.  Garish splatter paint on every horizontal surface, very bright lights, and, in a final, heinous insult, country music karaoke backing tracks at eardrum shattering volume.The slices are not all that cheap, don't get made all that quickly, and honestly, are not all that large, but the quality of the pizza is good, leaning towards the gourmet end of the spectrum.  Two slices with toppings is probably approaching the $10 mark, and one slice isn't nearly enough to do more than take the edge off a decent hunger.  Still, I can imagine going again; it's right on the edge of being overpriced, but not quite over it.

by James E.

Just so we're all clear, fake cheese is simply that: fake. I've known many a vegan that attempted to make cheese out of almonds, water and nutritional yeast, but need I even point out how unappetizing that combination is? For the love of Sweet Merciful Baby Jesus, just eat cheese! Unless you're lactose intolerant, such as myself, at which point you have no choice but to use fake cheese.To date - nay, to wit - I haven't found a better place than Juliano's that can transform fake cheese into an amazing topping for vegan pizza.A friend told me about Juliano's, so I made a stop into the joint one afternoon for a slice. Most pizzerias I know back in NY are grab 'n' go, so it was nice to see seating. I ordered one slice but was given two, which apparently is how pizza's done here. Whatever, I got more for my money and was presented two slices of pizza: nothing more than thinly-sliced fake cheese heated just until it fused with the tomato sauce. Before I started on my second slice, I found myself wanting to suck whatever sauce may have trapped itself betwixt my finger and nail. This is the best vegan pizza that, to date, I've ever had.If you're looking  for ambiance, you got lost on the way to your final destination. If you're looking for stellar pizza that caters to the lactose intolerants of Seattle, bring a newspaper to read whilst you wait.

by Tim O.

Man, this place is a trip. You go in for a slice or two and you get an inadvertent comedy show while you're waiting.Oh, wait, Juliano! I'm not laughing AT you. No way, you rock. But your homemade advertising and massive choice of toppings was cracking me up. The slide show on his computer if you need to see what a pizza slice looks like.Get a hold of me when someone orders the vanilla protein powder, spirulina, raisin and cilantro slice. B/c I want to be there to see. Or I might already be there eating my own delicious slice.Mangia!

by Katie S.

Alright, people. For those of you who can eat cheese (*sigh*)- great, GOOD for you. Live your life, eat your chevre, your smoked Mozzerella with gusto, you bastards! MANGIA! Regular good ol' pizza, ain't too hard to find.So.. when a few fellow yelpers pointed me in the direction that is, "Juliano's", I was happy.. even happier when I saw the 'Vegan PIzza' text on the door. NO longer was I that kid on the kickball court who's always picked last.. NO longer was I that girl who sat at home on prom night b/c, well, "he's just not that into you'. I found a place. A place where the dairy free are no longer a statistic; no longer left out in the cold, cold 'dairy lovin'' world. A place where pizza and soy cheese reside in complete harmony. Finally.Juliano (who's a lovely individual, btw) makes your slices howsevers you wants 'em. He's got this giant flatscreen menu (yes, a little odd)- you just pick what you like (by the slice even) and he'll make it fresh for you! Kalamata, spinach, artichokes, pepperoni, etc, etc.The decor is pretty bad, but when a vegan or cheese free individual finds a place where they can eat pizza, they could really give two sh*ts about what the interior looks like.I ate the pizza like Kobayashi does his dogs. I almost ordered a second- hell, my company (albeit, a bit surprised at my binge) encouraged it. It was that good.Something odd- the menu with alternate toppings such as vanilla protein powder, raisins, rolled oats? Yeaaaaaah. Not so much..Juliano's is easily top on my list of cheap eats. Not super cheap in the grand scheme of 'by the slice' ($5- for two med size pieces) but pretty cheap for a quick, delicious bite. Good for anyone who enjoys a great slice.. Even cheese heads.. you dairy lovers.Yes, you people are allowed in here too, you know. He also uses that real stuff.

by Serene C.

"What do you think of my paint job, eh?"Shrugging, I reply that it's nice. I was lying, but I don't have the heart to let down this enthusiastic, charming Italian man standing before me.I'm glad I was nice, as I came to find out the charming man is the sole employee of Juliano's, which means he is also the man that will make your pizza while you wait. Yeah, it's that classy of a pizza joint.The ridiculously gigantic slices (two slices = half a pizza) come anyway you like it, including a completely vegan slice with faux cheese. And to compliment your awesome slice is whatever playing at The Baltic Room, which adds that bass-y ambiance that makes you want to work off what you just ate.But consider yourself warned: the warm-from-the-oven-melty-goodness on a plate is what people come for, not the aesthetic. The subtraction of one star is appearance: his hand written signs and depressing bathroom make my internal design snob weep out of sorrow.

by Michelle B.

The adventures of Alice in Wonderland have nothin' on the adventures of Yelpers in Juliano's. Just walking into this place you are not sure what rabbit hole you've fallen down. Multicolored walls, splatter painted geometric tables, hand made signs, and a 32 inch flat panel screen looming overhead dedicated to the sole task of taking your pizza order!Oh, but the fun and the confusion doesn't stop there - oh no! Since you order your pizza by the slice you are confronted with a dizzying array of toppings. You got your standard options (mozzarella, pepperoni, pineapple, mushrooms, black olives etc) and then you have your interesting vegan options (tofurkey, vegan cheese, sausage and pepperoni) and then you have your plain old bizarre options (raisins? nuts? oregano leaves? spirulina? protein powder?) what to choose what to choose....Actually, don't worry about it because if there is more than one other customer in the restaurant the slices are going to come out of the oven in no discernable order and they may not even have a combination of toppings that anyone ordered. *Shut Up Eat the Pizza!*Why? Because it took over an hour to get our slices. Yes, they were busy due to the Capitol Hill block party, and by busy I mean a dozen or so people - but seriously, an hour, and at random times? The pizza was only so-so and for some reason had a bunch of pepper dumped on top and the entire experience was painful. I suppose if I couldn't eat cheese I would be all about this place since apparently they serve up some tasty faux cheese, but luckily God doesn't hate me and I can eat all the real cheese I want so no more Juliano's for me.

by Joanne H.

Gluten Free pizza on Capitol Hill?  Just down the block from my apartment?!  Awesome.  That's the number one reason I give Juliano's so many stars.  The fact that it is really good pizza helps that along.  The sauce is really tangy.  Juliano piles on the toppings!  The pepperoni are HUGE. I get the hemp crust which admittedly is a rather unappealing shade of gray but is so yummy it more than makes up for that.  I haven't tried the brown rice one yet but I may sometime in the future.  For GF pizza, you only really have one choice - a 7" crust for about 9 bucks.  For me, it is a perfect amount since I eat 1/2 of it for dinner and then save the other 1/2 for leftover later.  And for those of us who are gluten free, he lists which items are GF right on the menu. You don't have to ask for the super secret GF menu and get someone who may or may not know what you're talking about.  My only issue, sometimes Juliano is bored or lonely and if you go in and you're the only one in there... he'll talk to you.  A lot.  And truthfully I'm not assertive enough to ask him to just take my order and let me go.  But that's a small price to pay for good GF pizza I didn't have to make at home!

by aron s.

More places like this need to exist in Seattle... soo off the wall and bizarre, you are immediately transported to another place.   The best part is talking as much shit as possible with the owner, and you definitely cannot be in any form of hurry, or have any real expectation on the final product... though the general consensus is that it is quite good for what it is.  It's no via tribnuli... but it is the *yum*This is the perfect tourist spot to take your eccentric/open-minded friends in the late hours.   Seriously, you can talk to this guy about ANYTHING, nothing wills suprise him... ridiculous.

by Ema N.

This place has really good vegan breadsticks topped with fake cheese. I love it only because I can't eat vegan breadsticks with fake cheese anywhere else and because this place is just down the street from my apartment. The only downside, I thought, was that if you order a full meal (pizza, side of breadsticks, toppings and salad) for 2, it can easily cost over $40 whereas at Olympia Pizza on 15th, it's at least $10-13 cheaper. I guess that's the cost for being lactose intolerant *shakes fist at sky*.

by Brian and Susan W.

My wife and i decided this evening to take a stroll to Juliano's pizza and check it out. We are both native New Yorkers. Not to be snobs but this was the worst pizza we have collectively ever had regardless of location. Once, i went to a pizza shop that doubled over as a deli. A rat ran across the pizza i was about to eat. That was better pizza than Juliano's. Actually, to say that Juliano's is bad pizza is actually wrong. It's not pizza. It's a greasy slopfest, complete with burnt cheese, unavailable toppings, and soggy seared crust. And it was sliced up with what looked like a chainsaw. If you want Juliano like pizza, here is the recipe: Take a sock from a bum and deep fry it with congestion as your cheese topping.The kicker: this 12" pie will cost you $18.49. 12 INCH PIE! RIDICULOUS! This man does not care about pizza. He wants your hard earned dough.

by Ben P.

Awesome pizza with all sorts of strange toppings vegan and otherwise.I only wish there was a proper menu of sorts...Theres only a list of ingredients on the wall and he happy to make whatever you want but with so many crazy options I wish he'd put together a list of popular combos or something.  Hell, even if it was as simple as customer favorites like:bobs special, joes special, the vegan madness, pepper basil insanity, etc...anyway, the website is down, but heres an internet copy of what he used to have up there. http://web.archive.org...Give it a shot, crazy owner, good pizza, funky atmosphere.

by Nina N.

what is the crazy music playing, holy moly it's not coming from the baltic room, but coming from juliano's muahahahhaha let's take a little looksie and see if I should order from here? The guy working there wasn't so pleasant but who would be when no one is in there ordering pizza? anyhow, so what should little nina order?let's do the usual, cheese pizza.... wow it took about 5 mins and they actually do the thin crust pizza pretty good, and the sauce was pretty tasty. I can't say it's the best, but it's pretty darn close to be five star for being in seattle!!!!!!! :)

by Sharon G.

I would boycott these assholes.  If I lived in Washington.  My sweet, amazing, vegetarian fiance, who happens to be very sick and the nicest person in the whole world and in Seattle working went in and ordered a Vegetarian calzone.  They made him a regular pepperoni calzone.  No big deal, right?NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.  The douchebag actually had the balls to LECTURE HIM about HOW EXPENSIVE IT WAS TO MAKE ANOTHER ONE.Are you fucking kidding me?  THEY lectured HIM.  Because they made the order wrong and the cheap bastards clearly don't have enough common sense to suck it up and do it right.  And to top it off.... they still MADE HIM PAY for his UNEATEN MEATY crappy ass calzone.So, skip the assholes and go to Cyber Dog, where you can get faux-chicken noodle soup and beer--- I mean, what else do you really need to make you better.

by Anthony P.

First off, the owner is out of his mind, freaky crazy. He kept asking my friend if he wanted vegan water and just laughing uncontrollably. Maybe that set the tone for the whole meal, but I just couldn't get into it. The food was mediocre (granted, I don't have wheat gluten allergies, so I do have more pizza choices, to be fair) and the toppings were dried out. I think there are definitely better pizza options out there.

by Leslie G.

Awesome pizza, crazy owner, a tad expensive but what isn't these days?Good vibe, especially at 1 am. :)

by Amanda L.

The owner is totally batshitcrazy and always wants to take your picture and watch youtube videos with you.That being said, the food here is consistently delicious... THE VEGAN CHEESE ACTUALLY MELTS!I usually get a tomato and basil pizza and it's like a freaking basil salad on my pizza. It's delicious. I love the silly vibe here, the crazy owner, the great vegan options, and the ability to watch whatever I want on youtube while I wait.

by erica r.

Juliano's is very exciting!  They have regular cheese and meat, which I'm sure is fine, but the real gem is the vegan cheese!It's thin crust pizza, and the vegan cheese is pretty good...definitely better than most vegan cheeses. It's very nice that you can get anything (including pizza w/ the vegan cheese) by the slice...there really aren't many places (in the world, much less seattle) where you can get vegan pizza by the slice.

by Philip L.

There's a lot I could complain about, but I just don't care that the pizza's take forever and more often than not it's not usually the toppings I ordered.  The pizza is great, literally piled high with toppings, and I have never been to a pizza joint like this anywhere in the world.  Juliano himself is amiable and somehow handles dozens of drunk hipsters ever night from 4PM to 4AM.  I hadn't been for awhile and was pleasantly surprised that a karaoke machine had been added since the last time I'd been there.  My friend's and other patrons had a great time belting out tunes and stuffing their faces at 2AM.  If you have no patience just avoid the place, but if you want some great pizza and a good time hanging out with your friends, definitely check it out.

by Suzanna C.

The first time I ate here I was more impressed.  This time... I came out of there a bit frustrated.  I ordered a sun-dried tomato crust and he switched my order for brown rice.  Now, to be fair, he swapped them out because apparently the sun-dried tomato is not completely gluten-free and he had assumed that I was allergic to gluten.  But to be charged $16 for an extremely thin (cracker thin!) pizza that wasn't even made out of the dough I requested did not make me a happy camper.  Overall, this place makes okay pizza, but it is way overpriced.  I do appreciate the choice of soy cheese, particularly since I can also pair it with real meat (I'm not vegan - just lactose intolerant!).  But I don't think I'll be going back here - I by far prefer Pizza Pi (which is also much more reasonably priced).

by Katie B.

I randomly stumbled upon Juliano's one night.  It was actually on the way home from eating dinner.  But Vegan pizza!  I couldn't pass it up.  So, full stomach and all, I convinced my boyfriend that we needed to order a pizza for later.  Because usually you get home from dinner and want to eat again anyway, right?  Ok, maybe not, but vegan pizza!  So awesome!  So I ordered vegan ham and pineappe.  And of course it wasn't as good as real ham, but close enough!  The pizza was delicious.While waiting for the pizza to be made, the owner played foreign YouTube music videos.  Weird, but also awesome.

by Nader A.

Ever have a "once in a lifetime" dining experience, that, no matter how much time passes, you can't get out of your mind? So memorable that every time you see, smell, or taste another pizza your thoughts are inexorably drawn back to that one night?Now, what if that experience was unique and memorable because it finally gave you the answer to that eternal question: what is the WORST pizza place on earth?Go ahead, ask me. The worst? Yep, Juliano's was simply the worst pizza I've ever paid for, served by one of the creepiest guys I've ever encountered, in one of the dirtiest and weirdest holes in the wall I've ever stumbled into or out of. Sweet Buddah, this was atrocious!It was late, My Lady and I were STARVING after 5+ hours with nothing but PBR and well drinks to eat at a nearby ska show we'd just gotten out of, all we'd seen were closed restaurants. We saw that Juliano's was open, and someone had just pointed us in this direction saying there was a late-night pizza joint that would still be open, so we gave it a shot.Upon walking in it felt like nothing so much as being teleported to a retarded youth hostel in Eastern Europe. Given that The Baltic Room next door was pounding out hideous dance music, and peopled with early twenty-somethings doing their best Eurotrash impressions, maybe they were going for a low-rent Estonian aesthetic.Inside the walls looked to have been painted with industrial-grade, white Killz basement paint. On these walls, the ceiling, and virtually every other flat surface were the scrawled missives of people who obviously had a tenuous grip on either sanity, sobriety, or both. It also looked as if Juliano's relied upon the transient visitors to do the basic housekeeping and cleaning (read: it was shabby, unkempt, and a little grimy).That cheap hostel feel was only amplified by the amount of foreign language graffiti and a flat panel screen playing youtube clips of foreign-language music videos, including multiple versions of "The Macarena"!Two young girls were making playlist suggestions and whatnot to the guy behind the counter but certainly NOT ordering any food. We stood there for a moment, peered up at the other flat screen monitor above the counter (this one featuring their menu), and waited patiently. Soon the girls noticed us waiting and mumbled something about him being their friend, they weren't ordering, they ambled off.We stepped up and the counter guy promptly turned and walked away. Awkwardness ensued where I wondered if this really was in fact a place of business, then he comes back and simply stares at us with dull, heavy lidded eyes and a slight grin. No greeting, no words at all. All I could think of was, "is this guy high?"We asked if they had slices, he ever-so-slightly inclined then tipped his head. "Uhhm, cheese? pepperoni? what's available?" He tilted his head and looked at the menu screen. Still no words.Figuring they would just be making whatever we ordered we went with a 1/2 pepperoni, 1/2 cheese pie. Finally words: "$15". Not a bad price, I thought as I handed over some bills.We sat down as he fiddled bit with the futuristic looking floppy rubber keyboard on the counter before returning to making youtube song selections for a couple minutes. After a while, he walked around to the kitchen area and started making...something. Funny, I had imagined since he didn't immediately start making our pizza they must have another employee in the back...but no, Stony McEcstasy was the only guy working.A few more interesting, less than sober folks arrived - one of whom thought I was "a cowboy" because I was wearing a straw Panama.Finally, maybe 15mins later, he makes hazy eye-contact with me, "box?" I tell him, "yeah, it's to go." We scoop up our pie, make a hasty escape from the twilight zone, and about 5mins later we're in our room, open up the box and...what the living hell am I looking at?It smelled like burned plastic. The pepperoni looked like slices of a SlimJim, and were strewn about like confetti tossed by Rip Taylor. The cheese was not properly melted - kinda like those vegan "Veggie Shreds" that refuse to melt no matter how hot the oven gets. Oh well, maybe it tastes better than it looks/smells.It didn't. The toppings fell off in a clump as I picked up a slice, leaving something like a soggy saltine in my hand. I took a bite and it crunched [?]; the sauce was thin and really sweet. Once I piled the cheese and pep back on it and took another bite it was like eating dirt. Greasy, alternatingly burned and uncooked dirt. Hideous, truly hideous!I halfway suggest you actually DO try Juliano's. Not because I have any faith that you might have a better pizza - I don't believe a good place having a "bad night" could ever be as epically horrendous as this - but rather, I want you too to be able to answer that question with personal knowledge: Where is the worst pizza place on earth? My vote goes to Juliano's.

by K H.

I'm not anti-gluten, so I'm comparing their pizza to any sort of pizza, and I'll say that Juliano's pizza is 3-star pie. It's very thin, which I like. But the ingredients are average. But what bumps it up to "Yay! I'm a fan" are the other factors. Juliano himself is a super nice Latin dude who likes to entertain everyone by playing old YouTube videos on the big screen. He played '81 Journey videos, 60s Astrud Gilberto videos, etc. And you can write on the walls, which is always a hit with me.

by Jennifer S.

What a dive!  I say that though with a lot of affection.  Its been a year since I lived on The Hill, and I miss it.  You don't get these type of restaurants on the East Side.  I ordered the gluten-free pizza with marinara sauce, 4 cheese blend, mushrooms, tomato, onion, and tofu.  It was so very good!  We actually were pretty disappointed not to think about ordering two, since we wanted more.  I will definitely be back.

by Jennifer S.K H.Nader A.

What a dive!  I say that though with a lot of affection.  Its been a year since I lived on The Hill, and I miss it.  You don't get these type of restaurants on the East Side.  I ordered the gluten-free pizza with marinara sauce, 4 cheese blend, mushrooms, tomato, onion, and tofu.  It was so very good!  We actually were pretty disappointed not to think about ordering two, since we wanted more.  I will definitely be back.I'm not anti-gluten, so I'm comparing their pizza to any sort of pizza, and I'll say that Juliano's pizza is 3-star pie. It's very thin, which I like. But the ingredients are average. But what bumps it up to "Yay! I'm a fan" are the other factors. Juliano himself is a super nice Latin dude who likes to entertain everyone by playing old YouTube videos on the big screen. He played '81 Journey videos, 60s Astrud Gilberto videos, etc. And you can write on the walls, which is always a hit with me.Ever have a "once in a lifetime" dining experience, that, no matter how much time passes, you can't get out of your mind? So memorable that every time you see, smell, or taste another pizza your thoughts are inexorably drawn back to that one night?Now, what if that experience was unique and memorable because it finally gave you the answer to that eternal question: what is the WORST pizza place on earth?Go ahead, ask me. The worst? Yep, Juliano's was simply the worst pizza I've ever paid for, served by one of the creepiest guys I've ever encountered, in one of the dirtiest and weirdest holes in the wall I've ever stumbled into or out of. Sweet Buddah, this was atrocious!It was late, My Lady and I were STARVING after 5+ hours with nothing but PBR and well drinks to eat at a nearby ska show we'd just gotten out of, all we'd seen were closed restaurants. We saw that Juliano's was open, and someone had just pointed us in this direction saying there was a late-night pizza joint that would still be open, so we gave it a shot.Upon walking in it felt like nothing so much as being teleported to a retarded youth hostel in Eastern Europe. Given that The Baltic Room next door was pounding out hideous dance music, and peopled with early twenty-somethings doing their best Eurotrash impressions, maybe they were going for a low-rent Estonian aesthetic.Inside the walls looked to have been painted with industrial-grade, white Killz basement paint. On these walls, the ceiling, and virtually every other flat surface were the scrawled missives of people who obviously had a tenuous grip on either sanity, sobriety, or both. It also looked as if Juliano's relied upon the transient visitors to do the basic housekeeping and cleaning (read: it was shabby, unkempt, and a little grimy).That cheap hostel feel was only amplified by the amount of foreign language graffiti and a flat panel screen playing youtube clips of foreign-language music videos, including multiple versions of "The Macarena"!Two young girls were making playlist suggestions and whatnot to the guy behind the counter but certainly NOT ordering any food. We stood there for a moment, peered up at the other flat screen monitor above the counter (this one featuring their menu), and waited patiently. Soon the girls noticed us waiting and mumbled something about him being their friend, they weren't ordering, they ambled off.We stepped up and the counter guy promptly turned and walked away. Awkwardness ensued where I wondered if this really was in fact a place of business, then he comes back and simply stares at us with dull, heavy lidded eyes and a slight grin. No greeting, no words at all. All I could think of was, "is this guy high?"We asked if they had slices, he ever-so-slightly inclined then tipped his head. "Uhhm, cheese? pepperoni? what's available?" He tilted his head and looked at the menu screen. Still no words.Figuring they would just be making whatever we ordered we went with a 1/2 pepperoni, 1/2 cheese pie. Finally words: "$15". Not a bad price, I thought as I handed over some bills.We sat down as he fiddled bit with the futuristic looking floppy rubber keyboard on the counter before returning to making youtube song selections for a couple minutes. After a while, he walked around to the kitchen area and started making...something. Funny, I had imagined since he didn't immediately start making our pizza they must have another employee in the back...but no, Stony McEcstasy was the only guy working.A few more interesting, less than sober folks arrived - one of whom thought I was "a cowboy" because I was wearing a straw Panama.Finally, maybe 15mins later, he makes hazy eye-contact with me, "box?" I tell him, "yeah, it's to go." We scoop up our pie, make a hasty escape from the twilight zone, and about 5mins later we're in our room, open up the box and...what the living hell am I looking at?It smelled like burned plastic. The pepperoni looked like slices of a SlimJim, and were strewn about like confetti tossed by Rip Taylor. The cheese was not properly melted - kinda like those vegan "Veggie Shreds" that refuse to melt no matter how hot the oven gets. Oh well, maybe it tastes better than it looks/smells.It didn't. The toppings fell off in a clump as I picked up a slice, leaving something like a soggy saltine in my hand. I took a bite and it crunched [?]; the sauce was thin and really sweet. Once I piled the cheese and pep back on it and took another bite it was like eating dirt. Greasy, alternatingly burned and uncooked dirt. Hideous, truly hideous!I halfway suggest you actually DO try Juliano's. Not because I have any faith that you might have a better pizza - I don't believe a good place having a "bad night" could ever be as epically horrendous as this - but rather, I want you too to be able to answer that question with personal knowledge: Where is the worst pizza place on earth? My vote goes to Juliano's.

by Jennifer S.K H.Nader A.Katie B.Suzanna C.

What a dive!  I say that though with a lot of affection.  Its been a year since I lived on The Hill, and I miss it.  You don't get these type of restaurants on the East Side.  I ordered the gluten-free pizza with marinara sauce, 4 cheese blend, mushrooms, tomato, onion, and tofu.  It was so very good!  We actually were pretty disappointed not to think about ordering two, since we wanted more.  I will definitely be back.I'm not anti-gluten, so I'm comparing their pizza to any sort of pizza, and I'll say that Juliano's pizza is 3-star pie. It's very thin, which I like. But the ingredients are average. But what bumps it up to "Yay! I'm a fan" are the other factors. Juliano himself is a super nice Latin dude who likes to entertain everyone by playing old YouTube videos on the big screen. He played '81 Journey videos, 60s Astrud Gilberto videos, etc. And you can write on the walls, which is always a hit with me.Ever have a "once in a lifetime" dining experience, that, no matter how much time passes, you can't get out of your mind? So memorable that every time you see, smell, or taste another pizza your thoughts are inexorably drawn back to that one night?Now, what if that experience was unique and memorable because it finally gave you the answer to that eternal question: what is the WORST pizza place on earth?Go ahead, ask me. The worst? Yep, Juliano's was simply the worst pizza I've ever paid for, served by one of the creepiest guys I've ever encountered, in one of the dirtiest and weirdest holes in the wall I've ever stumbled into or out of. Sweet Buddah, this was atrocious!It was late, My Lady and I were STARVING after 5+ hours with nothing but PBR and well drinks to eat at a nearby ska show we'd just gotten out of, all we'd seen were closed restaurants. We saw that Juliano's was open, and someone had just pointed us in this direction saying there was a late-night pizza joint that would still be open, so we gave it a shot.Upon walking in it felt like nothing so much as being teleported to a retarded youth hostel in Eastern Europe. Given that The Baltic Room next door was pounding out hideous dance music, and peopled with early twenty-somethings doing their best Eurotrash impressions, maybe they were going for a low-rent Estonian aesthetic.Inside the walls looked to have been painted with industrial-grade, white Killz basement paint. On these walls, the ceiling, and virtually every other flat surface were the scrawled missives of people who obviously had a tenuous grip on either sanity, sobriety, or both. It also looked as if Juliano's relied upon the transient visitors to do the basic housekeeping and cleaning (read: it was shabby, unkempt, and a little grimy).That cheap hostel feel was only amplified by the amount of foreign language graffiti and a flat panel screen playing youtube clips of foreign-language music videos, including multiple versions of "The Macarena"!Two young girls were making playlist suggestions and whatnot to the guy behind the counter but certainly NOT ordering any food. We stood there for a moment, peered up at the other flat screen monitor above the counter (this one featuring their menu), and waited patiently. Soon the girls noticed us waiting and mumbled something about him being their friend, they weren't ordering, they ambled off.We stepped up and the counter guy promptly turned and walked away. Awkwardness ensued where I wondered if this really was in fact a place of business, then he comes back and simply stares at us with dull, heavy lidded eyes and a slight grin. No greeting, no words at all. All I could think of was, "is this guy high?"We asked if they had slices, he ever-so-slightly inclined then tipped his head. "Uhhm, cheese? pepperoni? what's available?" He tilted his head and looked at the menu screen. Still no words.Figuring they would just be making whatever we ordered we went with a 1/2 pepperoni, 1/2 cheese pie. Finally words: "$15". Not a bad price, I thought as I handed over some bills.We sat down as he fiddled bit with the futuristic looking floppy rubber keyboard on the counter before returning to making youtube song selections for a couple minutes. After a while, he walked around to the kitchen area and started making...something. Funny, I had imagined since he didn't immediately start making our pizza they must have another employee in the back...but no, Stony McEcstasy was the only guy working.A few more interesting, less than sober folks arrived - one of whom thought I was "a cowboy" because I was wearing a straw Panama.Finally, maybe 15mins later, he makes hazy eye-contact with me, "box?" I tell him, "yeah, it's to go." We scoop up our pie, make a hasty escape from the twilight zone, and about 5mins later we're in our room, open up the box and...what the living hell am I looking at?It smelled like burned plastic. The pepperoni looked like slices of a SlimJim, and were strewn about like confetti tossed by Rip Taylor. The cheese was not properly melted - kinda like those vegan "Veggie Shreds" that refuse to melt no matter how hot the oven gets. Oh well, maybe it tastes better than it looks/smells.It didn't. The toppings fell off in a clump as I picked up a slice, leaving something like a soggy saltine in my hand. I took a bite and it crunched [?]; the sauce was thin and really sweet. Once I piled the cheese and pep back on it and took another bite it was like eating dirt. Greasy, alternatingly burned and uncooked dirt. Hideous, truly hideous!I halfway suggest you actually DO try Juliano's. Not because I have any faith that you might have a better pizza - I don't believe a good place having a "bad night" could ever be as epically horrendous as this - but rather, I want you too to be able to answer that question with personal knowledge: Where is the worst pizza place on earth? My vote goes to Juliano's.I randomly stumbled upon Juliano's one night.  It was actually on the way home from eating dinner.  But Vegan pizza!  I couldn't pass it up.  So, full stomach and all, I convinced my boyfriend that we needed to order a pizza for later.  Because usually you get home from dinner and want to eat again anyway, right?  Ok, maybe not, but vegan pizza!  So awesome!  So I ordered vegan ham and pineappe.  And of course it wasn't as good as real ham, but close enough!  The pizza was delicious.While waiting for the pizza to be made, the owner played foreign YouTube music videos.  Weird, but also awesome.The first time I ate here I was more impressed.  This time... I came out of there a bit frustrated.  I ordered a sun-dried tomato crust and he switched my order for brown rice.  Now, to be fair, he swapped them out because apparently the sun-dried tomato is not completely gluten-free and he had assumed that I was allergic to gluten.  But to be charged $16 for an extremely thin (cracker thin!) pizza that wasn't even made out of the dough I requested did not make me a happy camper.  Overall, this place makes okay pizza, but it is way overpriced.  I do appreciate the choice of soy cheese, particularly since I can also pair it with real meat (I'm not vegan - just lactose intolerant!).  But I don't think I'll be going back here - I by far prefer Pizza Pi (which is also much more reasonably priced).