De’Crispino’s

Went for lunch while waiting for a family members surgery at the nearby hospital. Had an hour to eat, got to eat the appetizer (spinach & artichoke dip was delicious), but food wasnt ready by the time we had to leave at the end of the hour, so it was just taken home in a to-go bag. It seems like a nice place to have some drinks and an appetizer with friends.

We were planning on stopping by a friend of ours house for a small party this evening, but they were feeling under the weather so we switched things up and went to Crispy's Jax over in Springfield. We've been to Crispy's a handful of times over the past few months and tried a few things on the menu. Nearly every time we've been there we've seen pizzas go by us and thought "dang, we really need to try their pizza some time". So when we decided to go there tonight I figured we'd finally do that. In addition to that, my wife informed me that she was going to have Garlic Knots no matter what. So yes, we ordered Garlic Knots to start. I don't know why, but I was expecting them to be a bit tough. I guess maybe I've just had them at other places and they're usually thick / tough, so that's what I figured these would be. They weren't. They were really soft, in the best way. Not doughy or under cooked, just soft, warm and very good! We debated what pizza to go with and eventually settled on The Klutho, which is more or less their meat lovers pizza. We also did the garlic butter crust at the suggestion of our server. I'll start by saying thank you to our server for that suggestion because that was some good crust. I'm happy to report that we both thought the pizza tasted as good as we both thought it looked every time it went by us before. Let me put it this way: if the pizza in my photo looks great to you, yes, it's that good. Like I said, we've been to Crispy's a few times over the past couple of months and we just like the place a lot. We didn't plan to go there tonight when the day began but I'm glad it worked out that we ended up there. Now we've got about half a pizza to split for work-from-home lunches over the next few days. This review originally appeared in the Jacksonville Fun, Eats & Drinks Facebook group.

We had a Christmas Party here and were seated upstairs. It was the perfect spot. Our server Isaac was dedicated to our party of 15 and he learned every single person’s name and remembered it, gave us prompt and accurate service. The food was excellent. The place was hopping because it was Trivia night also. The new owners have made amazing improvements and we love our neighborhood pizza spot. Crispy’s is a great place.

Boyfriend is super into trying new pizzas and says he doesn’t usually like meat lovers style pizza, but he loves the Klutho pizza and says it’s the best meat lovers he has had. Downside is, on Jags away game Sundays- apparently they don’t have enough staff. Waited about 45 minutes before someone came up to us to get our drink order. More family showed up (only four total of us) and they ended up waiting 30 minutes to get their drink order after they got here. In total, 1.5 hrs of waiting til we ordered pizza. I had to get up multiple times to ask the waiters for things. It was only ok and we didn’t leave because of the Jags Watch Party. Otherwise, definitely would’ve left after 20 mins. The manager guy (if thats the manager) is nice though!

Crispy's was the perfect spot to hit for a local beer and good food. The wings looked great but we choose the pizza instead and it was amazing. Good people and new now ownership so the atmosphere and life is getting better. Worth stopping in!