Michaleno's Pizzeria West Bend

Ordered the ribs and a Mac and Cheese pizza. The staff was very accommodating in helping with gluten free options. The ribs were soaked with great taste gluten free BBQ sauce. Tasted great and messy as it should be. Good portion for the price. The pizza was like eating Mac and cheese ( with lots of cheese). I was happy it was not almost all cheese sauce - as some other pizzas we have tried in this fashion.

I grew up in the Rockford, IL area, where there’s a great pizza place on every other street corner. My bar was set low when it came to finding decent local pizza when I originally moved to Slinger and even then, I was still extremely disappointed by all of the local offerings I had tried in the first year or so that I lived there. I ended up working in West Bend and one day, some coworkers ordered what genuinely smelled and looked like extremely good pizza. Had never even heard of nor seen the place when they told me it came from Michaleno’s. I tried a slice of what I assumed was just basic pepperoni pizza and my god, did it taste GREAT. I was really hungry when this all happened and thought that had played a heavy factor into my opinion, so I wanted to try it by myself at some point. About 2 weeks later I ended up ordering it. Got a 10 inch cheese/pepperoni thin crust, 10 inch cheese/pepperoni “blanket” pizza (a double crust stuffed pizza), and my mom got the meatball sub. It wasn’t nearly as good as I had originally been lead to believe; being starved did certainly make the pizza taste better at the first time. However, I was still impressed that I liked it nearly as much as I did. This was good pizza, in the West Bend area! I was so happy to finally discover this. A lot of people will talk about how flavorless the food is, claim it’s a tourist trap because of the hotels nearby, all kinds of slander that don’t actually talk about the food itself. In my opinion, that’s unfair. Michaleno’s exists in a town full of flavorless food; West Bend itself is a bit of a food desert. If you tried literally any other local place within a 3 mile radius of Michaleno’s, you’ll instantly realize just how much better Michaleno’s is. They make their food with significantly more quality than any place around them. From someone who grew up in one of the biggest pizza towns in the country and was left begging for good pizza near me about a year into living in Slinger, I give a huge thank you to Michaleno’s for making sure the West Bend area has at least one good Italian restaurant to go to. You wouldn’t understand how big of a deal that is to a lot of people. Keep up the great work!