Anyone who’s tried nailing an oven-fresh pizza pie to a wall knows that pizza looks better briefly propped on a five-finger pedestal. Today’s Groupon puts pizza back where it performs best: for $7, you get $15 worth of pizza, subs, and more at Ecco’s Pizza. This Groupon is good at both the Bellflower Boulevard and Wardlow Road locations.

Ecco’s Pizza provides hordes of beach-roaming mozzarella apostles with a menu full of fresh ingredients, inventive recipes, and wedge-shaped slices of edible Italia. Pies come in four sizes and brave Ionian Sea currents with choices such as Ecco’s greek pizza ($10.25 for 10”/ $18.89 for 16”) with sun-dried tomatoes, imported olives, and feta cheese. Populate your mouth’s hull with The Ark, a pizza weighed down by sausage, ground beef, pepperoni, canadian bacon, bell pepper, onion, mushrooms, black olives, and every other animal Noah trapped on his seaplane. Dinners include spaghetti marinara ($7.95) and the herbivore-friendly eggplant parmigiana ($9.50), as well as deli sandwiches and fresh salads.

Ecco’s is family-owned and operated by a friendly, committed staff, unlike many chain-restaurant pizza delivery crews who simply launch random orders at customers from the trunks of their cars. This Groupon is good for dine-in, take-out, and delivery, which is free for pepperoni pulverizers who live within six miles of the store. Prices vary by location.

Reviews

Almost 60 Yelpers and InsiderPagers give Ecco's Pizza Bellflower location a three-star average, and eight Yelpers give the location on Wardlow Road a four-star average:

• Service was good, food was great. – Brett C., 9/30/08, Bellflower location
• Eccos has very tasty pizza that is not the generic mass produced stuff you get at the average chain. – Teresa K., 11/2/09, Wardlow location