Costco Motor City Pizza Co. Double Pepperoni Pizza Review

Do you love Detroit-style deep-dish pizza? Now you can enjoy it conveniently from the comfort of your own home without having to order takeout with the Costco Motor City Pizza Co. Double Pepperoni frozen pizza. Is this worth picking up for your next pizza party at home?

Costco Motor City Pizza Co. Double Pepperoni Pizza box sitting on a table.
Costco Motor City Pizza Co. Double Pepperoni Pizza.

Pizza is definitely one of my favorite foods, if not my favorite. We eat it roughly once a week and I never get sick or tired of it! I saw this new Motor City Pizza Co. frozen pizza at my Costco during my last trip and wanted to pick it up to review and have as a lazy dinner one night.

Other pizza products from Costco are the Kirkland Signature Pepperoni Pizza, Sabatasso’s Pizza Singles, Pizza Delight Garlic Cheese Fingers, Sabatasso’s Gluten-Free Four Cheese Pizza, Kirkland Signature Frozen Cheese Pizza, Molinaro’s Napolitano Pizza Kit and the Molinaro’s Gluten-Free Roasted Vegetable Cauliflower Crust Pizza.

Product and company description for the pizza from the back of the box.
Detroit-style frozen pizza at Costco.

Location in Store

You can find this in the freezer aisle at Costco, near all the other frozen pizzas. The item number is 1652977.

Closeup image of one pizza, cooked and sliced.
Looks good, right?

Taste

The pepperoni (which is on the pizza in both sliced and diced forms) is a bit spicy! It definitely adds some heat. There’s a fairly generous amount of meat on the pizzas, though it is a bit unevenly distributed. 

Closeup side view image of the pizza so the crust is visible.
The crust is very good, nice and crispy.

The crust is great for a frozen pizza. The edges get really crispy. Away from the edges, it’s soft, relatively light and somewhat chewy.

Top down image of the pizza cooked, on an oven stovetop, cooling.
The pepperoni could be more evenly placed.

The cheese and sauce on the pizza are both good. The amount of cheese is fine, but I could have done with a bit more sauce. I did find the pizza a bit greasy. There were little pools of oil/grease in a few places after baking it. 

Closeup image of a hand holding one slice of pizza.
A little greasy, but what pizza isn’t?

Cost

The box comes with two pizzas and costs $17.99 Canadian, which definitely isn’t cheap. However, it’s deep-dish pizza so I find it more filling than just regular pizza and it’s tasty as well as seems to be pretty good quality.

Image of the two frozen pizzas that come in the box with the plastic wrap still on, before baking.
The box comes with two frozen pizzas, each pizza is in its own cooking tray.

Convenience

The pizza comes already in a cooking tray which is really nice. We baked our pizza in the oven at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 21 minutes. The pizza turned out great after baking it in the oven. Obviously, the pizza needs to be kept frozen and for some reason, I couldn’t find a best-before date on the box.

The pizza cooking instructions from the box.
Cooking instructions.

I definitely think kids would enjoy this pizza and I also wouldn’t hesitate to serve it to guests as a fun dinner or snack. Sean and I both enjoyed it on a Saturday night.

Image of the frozen pizza being cooked in the oven.
Baking in the oven!

Nutrition

Calories

I knew this wasn’t going to be healthy and would have lots of calories. One-quarter of a pizza or around two big slices is 570 calories, 29 grams of fat, 51 grams of carbohydrates, three grams of fiber, five grams of sugar, 17 grams of protein and 1250 milligrams of sodium. Wow, that’s a lot of sodium!

Costco Motor City Pizza Co. Double Pepperoni Pizza nutriton facts from box.
Nutrition facts.

Ingredients

The thing I don’t like about non-homemade pizza is all the unnecessary ingredients, like palm oil, corn oil, soybean oil. If you want to save yourself some unhealthy ingredients I think making your own pizza from scratch is your best bet. This pizza is not gluten-free or dairy-free, it contains milk, wheat and mustard.

Costco Motor City Pizza Co. Double Pepperoni Pizza
Ingredients.

Scoring

Taste: 9/10

Cost: 7/10

Convenience: 9.5/10

Nutrition: 0/10

Overall

Must buy!

Although this isn’t healthy, overall, this is an excellent frozen pizza. The crust is awesome.

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7 thoughts on “Costco Motor City Pizza Co. Double Pepperoni Pizza Review”

  1. The nutritional values are horrific. Look at the ingredients too. A colleague loves this pizza and I wanted to buy it but the fat, cholesterol etc…insanity. I couldn’t do it!

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  2. Best frozen pizza ever. Must buy for real. Obviously not like a thin crust or Neapolitan style but those are never good as frozen! This is the way to go for a frozen pizza.

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  3. I hate Frozen pizza! Ever since I got pounded with chemotherapy, my tastes and smells are super sensitive. I reluctantly but this pizza, and was completely blown away. I think it’s better than any pizza shop could make, and being disabled and on a limited fixed income, it’s extremely affordable. Don’t change a thing! Going to recommend it to all my family and friends.

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  4. We absolutely loved this pizza. It was crispy, cheesy, a bit greasy and just that overall delicious splurge pizza I love once in a while. Because the pizza is frozen you need to redistribute the toppings on top as they probably slide off being shipped etc.. But no biggie, it was easy enough. My favorite store bought pizza ever! 10 plus

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  5. We tried the Cheese Breadsticks by Motor City and thought they were delicious!!! We served with veggie soup and was extremely impressed!

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  6. I tried this pizza and was not all that impressed. Taste was “fine” but not great. It didn’t fit my paradigm of deep dish. Still better than most pizzas from Trader Joe’s. It’s a good go to if you don’t have the time to visit your favorite pizzeria.

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