McDonough: Crust & Craft
WINTER 2025
By: Toye Wheeler
The bustling McDonough Square has a nice variety of restaurants to enjoy, and if you are in the mood for tasty, unique, thin-crust pizza and other Italian-American cuisine, Crust & Craft is a delicious option! I visit Crust & Craft often. I’m drawn to their creative pizza flavors and consistently high-quality food.
Here, they pride themselves on “redefining how Georgians enjoy pizza, beer, and cocktails,” and they do just that by offering unique and fun ways to dine for lunch, dinner, or late at night. With over 1,000 reviews and a 4.5-star rating on Google, it is easy to see why this pizzeria has its local customers returning for more.
Patrons of all ages can dine at Crust & Craft indoors or outside, with additional bar seating in both spaces. Inside, you will find a modern yet rustic atmosphere with pop music humming in the background and several televisions for all of the sports enthusiasts. This is a lively place to enjoy drinks and pizza with friends, or a family-friendly outing to enjoy a variety of tasty dishes. Their menu offers starters, such as golden fried calamari and deep-fried jalapeno poppers, and their lemon pepper wings are some of the best I’ve had in Henry County!
However, the pizza is the star of the show at Crust & Craft! Their innovative brick-oven flavors make their pies unique, including traditional favorites like the Margherita and the Pepperoni Purist, along with artistic flavors like the Philly Fry Pie, Korean BBQ, Charcut-A-Pie, and the Dynamite Shrimp combine for a scrumptious, memorable, fun and unique pizzeria experience.
Their Philly Fry Pie is the most delicious way to eat a Philly cheese-steak and fries!. The pizza is adorned with shaved steak, American and Swiss cheese, bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, shoestring fries, and ranch dressing. Another favorite specialty pizza of mine is the Buffalo Chicken pizza; it’s topped with breaded chicken tossed in buffalo sauce, mozzarella, green onions, and ranch dressing.
When I’m here, I always order a salad and the Power Blend is my go-to as it is full of almonds, cranberries, and feta cheese tossed in Vidalia onion dressing. For a fun family dessert, the funnel cake fries topped with powdered sugar and chocolate sauce for dipping is a must try too.
