To successfully make pizza, one must toss the proper ingredients into a concrete mixer, wait for the mixture to harden, and then drop in a few sticks of dynamite to blast slices from the drum walls. Today’s Groupon leaves delicate pie creation to the professionals: for $12, you get $25 worth of pizza and more at Schoolhouse Pizza in Quincy. This Groupon expires June 1, 2011.

Whipping up hand-kneaded dough and an extensive list of toothsome toppings, Schoolhouse Pizza equips omnivorous academics with PhD's in Pizzaology. Peruse the menu while dinner DJs spin up circular comestibles with each personalized neapolitan thin-crust pie (12", $8+). Select from more than three dozen tasty toppings that range from traditional pepperoni and mushrooms to luxurious Italian edibles such as sopressata, pesto, and slivers of Da Vinci's grated-cheese sculptures. Keep stomachs from howling all night long with specialty pizzas such as the headmaster, featuring truffle-infused prosciutto and porcinis ($15+), or the CPA with tasty artichoke and grilled chicken ($11+). Schoolhouse Pizza also offers a bevy of savory paninis that are suitable for lunchtime munching, stoking stomach fires, or luring hungry longtime boyfriends into wedding chapels.

In addition to its professionally prepared dine-in options, Schoolhouse Pizza also offers extra credit in the form of its take-home 12" pizza kits ($7; $1–$1.50 per topping). Dough deputies can bond over an evening of shared topping slinging, or put the finishing touches on their edible scale model of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Reviews

Yelpers give Schoolhouse Pizza an average of four stars:

• The people working here are GREAT. Very helpful. The pizza is delicious, with a variety of toppings to choose from. – Kristin G., 10/22/07
• The pizza was perfect. Big fat doughy crust, the perfect amount of sauce, and the perfect amount of cheese. – Kim K., 9/26/08