Wolfgang Puck All Natural Cheese Pizza

April 21, 2008 | Reviewer: Abi

Wolfgang Puck All Natural Cheese Pizza Price: $6.00 (on sale)
Serving: 1/3 pizza, 4.78 oz.
Calories: 360
Fat: 23%, 15g
Cholesterol: 12%, 35mg
Sodium: 33%, 780mg
Protein: 17g
Carbs: 13%, 39g
Fiber: 10%, 2g
Sugar: 8g
Weight Watchers Points: 8 points

Wolfgang Puck says: All natural cheese pizza with mozzarella, fontina and parmesan cheeses

Abi says: If you prefer astringent, watery chopped tomatoes to mellow, slow-cooked pizza sauce, then you’ll like Wolfgang Puck’s All Natural Cheese Pizza.

You’ll enjoy it if you adore pleasantly airy crust topped with light pink tomato water. If you’re also a cheese lover, you’ll be happy because this pizza comes topped with luscious cheese, all floating atop a lake of tart tomato juice.

I am none of those things and I do not prefer this new style of pizza. Biting in to that awful surprise, I realized that I’d have to take drastic measures. I lifted the cheese off of my pizza and scraped out the offending tomato water. This did not make it better. Instead it cooled the cheese into a single unappetizing mass. Left with little recourse, I reheated the pizza under the broiler, resliced it, and resolved to never go near this pizza again.

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11 Responses to “Wolfgang Puck All Natural Cheese Pizza”

lowderra on April 21st, 2008

Oh, yum. Uncooked tomatoes instead of sauce! What a…….incredibly lame idea.

Clearly whoever invented this concept has access to way better drugs than me. Thanks for the review I’ll definitely pass on this one.
MaryAnne on April 21st, 2008

I always wondered about these pizzas at the store. On one hand, it’s Wolfgang Puck so it must be good and on the other $6 (on sale) for a smallish frozen pizza with no toppings (when you can get Papa Murphy’s very large and fresh 2 topping take-n-bake pizza for $7.99) seems ridiculous. I shall wonder no more…
Laura on April 21st, 2008

My boyfriend and I tried one, I think it was the pepperoni, a couple of months ago. It was just terrible, same watery, yucky sauce. We were disappointed, especially since Freschetta, Tombstone, etc. are like half the price and twice the size. We will never again buy a Wolfgang Puck pizza.
Mindy on April 21st, 2008

I tried the uncured pepperoni pizza this last weekend. The sauce was so sweet I couldn’t taste anything else and the crust tore the roof of my mouth up. I don’t think I’ll try any more of these.
govtdrone on April 21st, 2008

All I can add to this is do not eat at his restaurant at Disney World because the food sucked there as well.
T on April 21st, 2008

My husband has a soy allergy and this brand, plus most of the Amy’s Kitchen ones, are the only kinds of frozen pizza we’ve found that he can eat. It’s not the best, but it’s the best we can do. (Actually, the barbecue chicken isn’t all that bad; much better than the plain cheese.)
Thank your lucky stars you can get something bigger and better for cheap.
Jill on April 21st, 2008

Needing to lift cheese off = bad.
Becka on April 22nd, 2008

I’ve never had his pizza but I had a frozen lasagne meal by him a few years ago and it too was horrible and watery!
Steph on April 22nd, 2008

It’s ironic that one of the things that helped him get his start is bringing his name into the mud like this. Granted, one can only expect so much out of frozen pizza, but dude — if you’re gonna put a reputable chef’s name on it, then it better be damn good. Quality control, hellooo!?!?

- S
Abi Jones on April 22nd, 2008

@lowderra - I think that someone on drugs would have by now produced the breakfast pizza I desperately wanted this morning.

@MaryAnne - It goes to show how brand-influenced we are. If it said ‘Johnny’s Cheese Pizza’ and didn’t have such austere packaging, I wouldn’t have looked at it twice.

@Laura - Freschetta is clearly superior to this

@Mindy - I didn’t think the pepperoni was that bad, but it wasn’t spectacular.

@govtdrone - Considering I will never visit Disney World, it should be easy to follow your advice.

@T - I didn’t realize it was so tough to get good soy-free pizza. Thanks for letting us know and I hope that you’re able to find more options in the future.

@Jill - That should have been the complete text of my review.

@Becka - I didn’t realize he had frozen lasagna. Was that Pre-HER?

@Steph - EXACTLY. I don’t expect his soup to be fantastic because he is not a soup guy. However, his pasta and pizza had better be perfect.
betty on May 13th, 2008

Just plain gross! I really wanted to like this pizza but alas, it is terrible. Like other reviewers stated, it does not have tomato sauce. It has cut up bits of tomatoes and the results taste sweet and weird. I did not expect ’sweet’ on a pizza. The cheese itself was clumpy and odd tasting. My husband got a Red Baron mini deep dish at the store instead. His pizza looked so good and mine was basically disgusting. I am very disappointed by this product. I guess the Wolfgang Puck name has gone down hill. Sad.