Magoo's California Pizza

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Best pizza in Indianapolis!!!!

If you are Pakistani seeking for a place where every food is zabiha, then you need to stop at Magoos. They have Pakistani foods such chicken tikka, chicken tikka pizza, chapli kabab and several beef pizza's. If you are Muslim or Pakistani and seek zabiha beef restaurant and have not been to Magoo's you should try it some day. I like their (Philly) steak sandwich. They make great zabiha supreme pizza. When we go to Indianapolis, it is a must stop for our family.

Great place. Tasty items. Try their Creamy Garlic sauce.

This is another unique mom-and-pop ethno-pizza combination along the lines of Brownsburg's Adriatic Pizza, but close by on West 38th street, just west of Georgetown Rd. His business model is similar to Eduardo's "Charlie Biggs Chicken with Filipino-on-the-side," i.e., cater to American tastes to pay the bills, but also share your own speciality on the side.



In short: Indian/Pakistani Halal-Zabihah* Pizza !



The owner, from either Pakistan or India, wants the restaurant to be known as _American_ cuisine, specifically California style pizza. Their signature pizza crust is crispy on the bottom, and soft and delicate on the top. I loved the crust on the pizza I had, it was not heavy and chewy "industrial dough" like most of the big chains.



The menu includes standard American pizza shop fare, cheese sticks, wings, potato wedges, curley fries, onion rings, garlic bread, green salad, Philly steak sub, New York steak sandwich, cheeseburgers, California style cheese pizzas with your selection of the standard toppings (but no pork products), oven baked chicken, and fried chicken pieces.



However, the attraction for us ethnic food lovers are the Pakistani items, and the Indian style pizza with ginger.



They offer chicken burgers, chappli burgers and chappli kabab, based on Pakistani recipes. Chappli is minced beef with spices.



They also have a "Chicken Tikka Pizza," and an Indian style vegetarian pizza with _ginger_. I tried it, and YUM!



Their other speciality pizza is a Chicken of Beef combo, with Halal-Zabihah* meat of course. (All meat served in the restaurant is Halal-Zabihah.) The Chicken or Beef combo Pizza comes with either a Red Pizza Sauce, or a Creamy Garlic Sauce.



I also had the Indian style vegetarian pizza with ginger. They ask you what level of ginger spice you want. I requested "medium", but that was still enough for the ginger to have a noticeable after-bite, and lingering after-taste. But that's what I like about ginger. The toppings (mushrooms, olives, green peppers, onions, tomatoes) were cut in small pieces, but were generously applied.



I'm going back to try the chicken burger and the chappli kabab.



But even as a "pizza only" place, it's worth going there just for the pizza.



They don't deliver at present, but do have carry out. The dining area is very large, with a large screen TV. They invite you to hold your party there, with free room rental when you order the food from them. Hours are 11am to 10pm.



The dining area was clean and orderly, but without decorations. The men's room was cleaner than I expected.



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* "Halal" means "permitted/allowed" [meat] (sort of "kosher") to a Muslim, and "zabihah" means it was slaughtered according to Islamic regulations.