Fresco Pizza Shawarma

227 reviews

1338 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109

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+14154404410

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Fresco Pizza Shawarma is a Pizza restaurant located at 1338 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109. It has received 227 reviews with an average rating of 3.7 stars.

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Hours

Monday9AM-4:30AM
Tuesday9AM-5:30AM
Wednesday9AM-5:30AM
Thursday9AM-4:30AM
Friday9AM-4:30AM
Saturday9AM-4:30AM
Sunday9AM-4:30AM

F.A.Q

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  • The address of Fresco Pizza Shawarma: 1338 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109

  • Fresco Pizza Shawarma has 3.7 stars from 227 reviews

  • Pizza restaurant

  • "After a groovy night out with the bros witnessing all forms of shenanigans on Polk st"

    "Avoid this place even if you are in a pinch"

    "We are in town visiting San Fran with our family and the hotel gave us a menu for this place"

    "Visiting San Francisco from Las Angeles and found this place because i wanted to try something different then what i usually eat"

    "Cheapest garlic bread in San Francisco and hands down the absolute best tasting"

Reviews

  • Hassan S

After a groovy night out with the bros witnessing all forms of shenanigans on Polk st. We land at fresco pizza, in desperation for food. We enter this tightly packed drunken joint of bafoonery, forced to bump and grind our way through the crowd, until finally we got to the register. So what if I had a slight stiffy, don't hate, appreciate, alleviate, initiate, masturbate. Anyway.. I ordered 3 pizzas, 2 cheeses and one veggie.. It cost me 9 buckaroos. I receive my pizzas, turn around and begin handing pizzas over to my two bros, and in the midst of the transaction, I dropped a slice. Approximately 5 seconds upon purchase. Here's where all hell broke loose all because an incompetent cashier assumed that every customer he deals with is a drunken son of a biznaatch. Sani- hey my man, I just bought $9 worth of pizzas and I dropped one, can you replace it. Cashier- eh you drop, too bad. Sani- wait what? Have you ever heard of customer service? Why can't you replace my slice. Cashier- eh you drop.. Eh no. Drunken bro- listen you ass clown.. Give us a new sanwich! Sani- pizza. Drunken bro- pizza, ass clown! Sani- ass clown? But why? Drunken bro- I don't know, I'm drunk. I'll just sit down. Sani- seriously man, can I talk to a manager or something. You're obviously have a deficiency in communication. Cashier- I no deaf! Don't call me deaf! get out! Sani- who called you deaf? I said deficient, anyway let me talk to your manager please. Manager- what problem is? *Sani explains issue* Manager- ok ok talk nice, I give pizza. Sani- can you please teach your employee what customer service is. And potentially provide a class in basic English, you might need it too. Thank you. Drunken bro- ass clown! *crowd of people cheer*

  • Andrea HG

Avoid this place even if you are in a pinch. The food was bad and the experience with staff felt shady. We ordered the fish and chips ($12 each), gave a 15% tip and the total came $42. That struck us as unusually high (should have been closer to $30) so we looked closer at our bill. To our surprise, the receipt added up the total wrong. Even with the bs credit card fees, the total should have totaled only $35 but it added it up to $42. The cashier gave us $7 back but he didn't seem overly concerned about it. It felt shady and we immediately regretted being there. Unfortunately the food did not make up for the cost. The fish looked like frozen fish sticks you buy at the store and loaded with grease. The tarter sauce was ranch dressing. You can't tell me that some store bought fish sticks and a handful of French fries is worth $17 USD. The reviews that I've seen that are positive are about the pizza so maybe that's a safer bet. Also, apparently the food prices are cheaper if you use cash so don't waste your money on card fees here.

  • Jason Good

We are in town visiting San Fran with our family and the hotel gave us a menu for this place. They asked on the phone if we would pay cash and we said we would be paying by credit card. They said they would send the delivery person with a card reader. Which they did not. The delivery guy recommended we go to an ATM. He then called the restaurant but couldn't get anyone on the phone. We called and someone picked up right away. The guy tried to take our card over the phone but had trouble understanding the information. Someone (I guess from the restaurant) called the delivery person who then asked if they could take a picture of our credit card. We then told them to forget it and went back to our room and ordered from Dominos. I also turned off my credit card in case they did try to charge it. We also told the hotel to throw out their menus. The bottom of their menu says they take credit cards, too. I'm guessing they run this game regularly to avoid paying credit card fees.

  • Gino D

Visiting San Francisco from Las Angeles and found this place because i wanted to try something different then what i usually eat. I ordered delivery so by time the food made it to me it was pretty cold and not so tasty. The French fries tasted horrible, it reminded me of being in high school eating those disgusting fries they would serve us for lunch. My fish was cold and tasted like it's been sitting out all day. The wing's were the only acceptable thing I ordered. And also what i don't get is i order from uber eat's and it pop's up as Wings wiz but it doesn't show on Google maps, it show's this place but from the pic's I viewed it is definitely the same place.
Service
Delivery
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$20–30
Food: 1
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 1
Recommended dishes
Wings

  • Hendu Guru

Cheapest garlic bread in San Francisco and hands down the absolute best tasting. You would never know it from looking at the place, but they have the most amazing garlic bread you have ever had, in a half order or a full. Straight magical like a unicorn goo-jizzing-gle rainbows! :) And to top it all off a half order of garlic bread, more than enough it's huge, and a slice of cheese pizza is about 5 bucks and the slice is the size of two or 3 slices everywhere else. Oh and unless you feel like standing in line for time and dealing with a bunch of drunk a-holes don't go after 1:30 a.m. because douchebag Bros are out like 7 days a week being super cool and EXTREME. But for real. A++ garlic bread, chronic , quick & also super light on your !

  • Andrew Foster

Frisco's was highly rated by Concierge at hotel. Ordered a "deep dish" pizza for delivery and was told 45 minutes. An hour and a half later had to call to check on status of the order was told 10 minutes... fifteen minutes later called back and asked again was told five minutes Pizza finally arrived... This place has no clue of what deep dish is... First, the pizza was pushed sideways in the box and part of it was folded on top of itself. Outer crust was very thick and i believe may have had some cheese in it... Not certain as to what kind of cheese. Inner part of the crust was very thin and taste was very mediocre compared to other pizza I have tried. My advice is if you are looking for a pizza in San Francisco.. skip this location...

  • Craig Robinette

We were staying at a Hotel and we asked the front desk to recommend a pizza restaurant. They recommend Fresco pizza, so we ordered the pizza and the person who answered the phone was extremely rude and after repeating our order several times and asking for plates and napkins he just hung up the phone. After 1 1/2 hours the pizza finally arrived to our hotel without plates or napkins. The gentleman who delivered the pizza was nice and said we should have asked when we ordered the pizza and we said that we did ask. The pizza was hot, but I really wasn't impressed with the pizza either. Based on our experience I would look for another pizza restaurant instead of choosing this place. Thumbs down!

  • Jake Jolis

I have lived in SF for seven years and have tried lots of pizza places during that time... This one is underrated. We go out of our way to come here for the jalapeño and onion pizza, to-go. I'll never forget when we picked one up on our way to Tahoe and got stuck in the snow storm for 12 hours with only a few slices left. Even hours after we picked it up, the pizza was still incredible, so we turned it into a road trip tradition. The people working there are super friendly, answer the phone quickly, and keep your food hot even when you're running late for pickup.

  • Tee Skywalker

After calling FRESCO PIZZA to place an order for the Fresco All Day Deal; which online states it is a 16” 2-topping pizza, 2- liter soda & onion rings for $16.49, the guy who took my order said my total would be $34.99 and that is for the 2-topping pizza & either 3 CANS of soda OR 3 bottled waters, NO ONION RINGS… after telling him the price for the deal online, he said that they don’t have any pizza for $16.49. How rude and false advertisement. I guess I’ll just stick to the BIG BOX FOOD COMPANIES since they have to stick to advertised prices. Sheeeesh

  • Tristan Little

Ok. So I don't know who the hell thinks it's cool to take an hour hour to deliver some food right, then call saying you're outside when you aren't, then leave me standing at my gate in the rain for 25 minutes waiting for some damn pizza, and then turn off your phone after GrubHub calls me to ask what's going on. F**k you guys for wasting and hour and a half of my time, and forcing me to now wait another hour on someone else to hopefully deliver me something without royally f*c*i*g me over in the middle of this rainy night. Beyond lost a costumer bro

  • Bryn Hauk

I really wanted to like this place, but the food was overpriced for the quality. They also charge a secret "checkout" fee of 4.3% if you pay with a credit card, but they don't have a sign informing you of that. The menu prices are high already, and then getting nickel-and-dimed over credit card fees without even a warning feels so disrespectful to the customer.
Service
Take out
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$20–30
Food: 4
Service: 2
Atmosphere: 2

  • Tiffany Case

Terrible customer service. I ordered a cheese burger and fries. Every other time it was $8.14 including tax but the last time I went they tried to charge me $8.75. I did the math for them with my calculator multiple times and they argued with me. I told them I wouldnt be supporting their buisness and to give me my money back. They refused until my bf called the police. This is not an honest business. I do not suggest going here.

  • Beautiful Brown BayeeBee

This is not the place for vegan vegetarians as far as if you looking for a veggie burger it's a no for me , I ordered a vegan mushroom veggie burger with vegan cheese and vegan mayo thinking I was getting a actual burger, but it was a falafel on bread with no cheese & a lil hummus for mayo I guess . I give it two stars for fast delivery and the amount of fries .

  • Howard Hsu

Walked by and was craving kabobs so it was fortunate to find the place. They were grilled fresh and the manager hooked me up with fries cause I made a joke about wanting some when he was taking a phone order. Great little spot!
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$20–30
Food: 5
Service: 5
Atmosphere: 4

  • Shatakshi Mohan

Absolutely terrible food quality. The worst calamari rings I have ever tasted..it was old, smelly and snapped into 2 which should indicate how bad it was because calamari should never do that. Chicken caesar salad was also inedible - gyro chicken instead of actual chicken. And no caesar dressing to be found.

  • Scott C

Not sure about the food yet but just based on the customer service I'm scoring it high. Door Dash gave us the wrong order, DD would not take responsibility for the error they remade our order which cost them. Thought I'd make sure to at least give them credit for the customer service in this matter.

  • eugene garrett

First things first! The owner is one of the nicest people I've met at these businesses on Polk Street. Honestly I have only had two different dishes on two occasions. I had some of the wings(made fresh). I also had a chicken salad. Everything was fresh and full of flavor. Yes I'll be back.

  • Walid Tali

One of the pizza & Mediterranean food in sf . Good sandwiches and high quality pizza . I have been told that they are experts in Mediterranean food . Ordered mixed grill plate and combo shawarma plates for my roommate and I was totally satisfied. I recommend this place ❤️ …

  • Derek Adams

Good shawarma when you need it in a pinch. Having lived in the Middle East this scratched my itch for sure. Dining in is not a 5 star experience but totally what you’d expect from this type of place in this area. The variety of halal options are awesome too.

  • Terry Hughes

Fast friendly service, pizza by the slice, happy to give us their special hot sauce too. Perfect after a few pints.
Service
Dine in
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$10–20
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes

  • Jason

Restaurant has dozens of online names. I showed up to pick up a paid-for order online before the closing time, the guy saw me, locked the door and turn the lights out. Come on man!
Food: 2
Service: 1
Atmosphere: 1

  • William C

What can I say about Fresco? It's my "go to" pizza place on Polk St. Not only is their pizza great, they have the best cheeseburger, fries and soda combo for lunch. And the late night delivery drivers are the hottest in the city.

  • Rodrigo P. Feliciano

Fresco Pizza is not a typical run-of-the-mill pizza restaurant. It’s pizzas are made of fresh ingredients and they’re always delightfully delicious. The owners know their trade and are friendly. Visit them when in San Francisco.

  • Akbar Adil

When you have halal sign please follow halal procedures. I asked for clean cut the pizza guy used dirty knife to cut Pizza and lied into my eyes and didn't care. I don't recommend this place please Don't come to this place.

  • Venus Torres

I ordered a slice of Hawaiian , and it was FABULOUS !!! I'm always unsure about Pizza shops because they're everywhere . But this PIZZA was so good I went back to tell the cook how good it was . Thanks Fresco . Miss V .

  • Charles wohltmann

Wow...not good at all. I know it’s late night food, but this was just gross. Wings and fries were extra soggy, shawarma was so so and don’t even get me started on the Chicken Parm sandwich. I don’t recommend at all

  • Trish Star

Guy put my order in wrong: burger instead of chicken. And then the chicken wrap is so bland and boring. Won’t order from here again.
Service
Take out
Meal type
Dinner
Price per person
$10–20

  • Daniel Pasco

You have to order their "Deep Dish" pizza which is really stuffed crust nut it is sooooooo good. Their delivery is quick and efficient as well. And the white skinned, rosey cheek, dark haired boy is sooo cute.

  • mfed ismael

I had a crazy diarrhea from their chicken wings, didn't even go to work next day. Stay away from this place if you value your life. Nowadays I go to Piccolo Italian Pizzeria, more professional n quality food.

  • Mikaela Haines

The pizza is good, but what's extremely noteworthy is the dolmas! OH MY GOD THEY ARE THE BEST I'VE HAD IN YEARS. Literally one of my favorite foods on earth. Definitely a new go-to stop in the city for me!

  • Shane Dillon

Not a nice place at all. The Shish Kebab in fairness is quite adequate but choosing to sit in was a mistake. Plastic table, poor light and worse of all toilets that looked like they have not been cleaned.

  • Jonathan Barrales

Worse place to order a pizza, when staff making the pizza they don't use gloves or wash their hands every time they finish touching their hair or other places. The attitude of the cashier is super rude.

  • Sarah Lewis

This place is amazing. I thought it was a little weird all the different items they had on the menu, but I got a cheese pizza and was very impressed. I don't know how they make the pizza taste so good!

  • tyler peterson

I normally give out 5's because everyone has their own qualities. But these guys can be just a little bit sheisty. It's good enough food. Open late late. The spicy lamb shawarma kebab is pretty good.

  • Belinda Dobbs

Just at first glance you wouldn't expect it, but this place has the best burgers and really great customer service. You can order your burger cooked the way you want it, and they get it right …

  • Shakir Niazai

I’m not recommending this location for Veggie pizza eaters. Whenever I order veggie pizza they gave two Hours wait time Means they refuse service. It’s better to stop at a different pizza place.

  • mahmoud khalil

Any time you walked in after your order was replaced they said you have to wait 15 or 20 minutes it’s really the worst customer service ever
Service
Take out
Meal type
Dinner

  • Christopher Herrera

Pizza was really, really good (BBQ Chicken). The fries were soggy and not crispy at all, but I’m sticking with 5 stars because I’ve tried a bunch of SF pizza and this is one of the best.

  • Kyle Hernandez

I was the only person in the place and it took over 30 minutes to make a sandwich, I got a parking ticket out front on top of that, never going back to this place for how long it took

  • Maria Pastor

Our first time here in San Francisco, I was nervous of where to eat found this place on google decided to try it out and Loved the service and the food was sooooo good, thank you!

  • Amaar Zafar

Absolutely amazing service. Owner was the one who helped us and gave us great recommendations on what to order. Food tasted amazing. It’s a quick stop and you should visit!

  • Dmitri Ivanov

Tried lamb shawarma. I think what I got was beef. Didn't care. The hot souce was excellent. Not too hot, but yummy substance of amazing color. It made the whole difference

  • Steph D

We are staying at a Hilton nearby and from the time we ordered we had it in hand in 45 minutes. Hot and delish! Pizza and calzone were so good! Service was very friendly.

  • Dejaun Beverly

Decent combo plate , could’ve been seasoned a bit better but maybe that’s bc I used to work at a halal joint , meat was a bit dry , open late so a solid 3 for me

  • Suffering Alani

Took extremely long to finish a simple cheeseburger They took it to the wrong place out for delivery and never told me The guy cooking doesn't have his mask on

  • Alex Brenner

Best Pizza in town! Best service in town! Fresh food, fresh ingredients, amazing flavor and unbelievable Shawerma! Fresco's is a must in San Francisco

  • Brooke Behrbaum

Frescos is one of my favorite pizza places! They’re open late and have quick delivery. The gluten free pie is amazing!! Definitely would recommend

  • Evan Lucken

Good pizza by the slice. The combination pizza was great, didn't skimp on the toppings. One slice makes for a good lunch, not to thin. Just right

  • Joyti Dutt

Pathetic customer service. Gross food. Takes hours on delivery. They dont even know whats written on their own menu. Bad with GPS and locations.

  • Junior Contreras

Food was way too expensive it was 15$ for 2 slices ridiculous was even anything special
Food: 2
Service: 2
Atmosphere: 2

  • Sima Deeb

The pizza is extra Yammmy, resturant is clean, I got a huge big fat falafel peta sandwich Getting taboleh for dinner The staff are great

  • Joel Pelletier sr.

one guy cooking and serving and he's a very pleasant young man! Fries hot crisp Bacon tasty clean too, will be back. …

  • Leslie Suarez

Good prices good crispy pizza nice place to pick up a fast slice of pizza!! The pizza's $3.95 a slice or $8 for a small pizza.

  • Hector Narvaez

Good pizza.... Good prices... Friendly staff... I've been there a few times and I'm from out of town so it's got to be good..

  • Valley Security Products

Best food place to come eat at in San Fransisco! It’s the number one place and they have amazing food. Strongly recommend it.

  • Jamal Albardwil

Fair, they should work more for better service and food quality
Food: 4
Service: 4
Atmosphere: 4

  • nasir alshaeb

Disgusting restaurant you can see the insect flying above the food and tables beside the mistreatment with customers

  • Suhanah TVD &billie stan

Great service very friendly people same service for every body with out discrimination By the way food is so great .

  • Galen Danziger

They are open very late, which is nice, but their pizza doesn't quite match up to a few other local pizzerias.

  • Kara Martin

I've literally had better 2 day old microwave pizza than this before. Overpriced and slow. Save your cash.

  • syed manan

This is my to go place for late night shawarma and pizza, don’t forget to try their rice pudding as well.

  • Amir Siddiqui

Nice and delicious food recommend for every one but if you want halal food ask them before order thanks

  • Andrew Young

Food was great. Place has a super dive feel that makes you question whether or not to eat the food.

  • Dorothy Corn

Best food I've had in San Fran, amazing quick stop very friendly, fresh amazing swarmas and pizza!

  • Madan Bhandari

Going to pick up my order in this morning very rude behavior thank you for you business …

  • Gabby Schwartz

WE LOVE FRESCO. best dreats ever. Really good pizza and mozz sticks and great staff

  • carlos lopez

The burgers was so good. I asked for well done meat. was happy with my purchase.

  • Elena Meyerson

Pizza was ok, service was fantastic. Atmosphere on a Friday night, 10/10.

  • Hameed Khan

It’s an auto repair shop not a pizza shop.
Service: 2

  • John Mani delma

Very expensive items ,bad quality and services ever

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