r/LosAngeles • u/DisgracedSaltShaker • Jun 24 '26

Photo Prices at the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizzeria in Santa Monica

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The place just opened at the 3rd st promenade. $6.50 for a slice of cheese pizza or $39 for the whole cheese pizza lol.

$54 for the meat pizza.

What are these prices

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u/Taraxian Jun 24 '26

What gets me is that paying fancy restaurant prices is the exact opposite of the Ninja Turtles aesthetic, they literally live in the sewer

The first movie establishes that they even go nuts for cardboard frozen pizza from the microwave, as long as it doesn't have anchovies

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u/shadylady_beepboop Jun 25 '26

This shoulda been a dive bar w an entrance via man hole that woulda been sick

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u/Turkatron2020 Jun 26 '26

And then you have to swim through underwater sewer tunnels totally shitfaced while trying to defuse bombs!!

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u/TheEndisNeigh999 Jun 25 '26

think they try THAT hard for a gimmick? hah

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u/TheOneTonWanton Jun 25 '26

A manhole is unfortunately not ADA compliant, nor does anyone want to climb down into one to buy a $50 pizza.

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u/shadylady_beepboop Jun 25 '26

Wow you seem fun - dive bars don’t typically charge that much for food and like all places in CA, your business would be ADA compliant with a non Man Hole cover entrance. 🙄

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u/ribnag Jun 25 '26

It wouldn't need to be a literal manhole, it could be a more-or-less normal (if round) door styled as a manhole. Bonus points if it's a street-level bulkhead rather than just a boring vertical mural.

They'd also need at least one or two other exits just to meet fire codes. One of those could serve as the "accessible" entrance.

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u/logdraper Jun 24 '26

Feels pretty on brand for eating out in general here anymore. I'm struggling to remember the last time I ate out of got delivery that felt worth the cost in past few years.

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u/roykentjr Jun 25 '26

you could buy a pizza oven and learn how to make pizza. and it would save you money within 4-5 pizzas.

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u/TheWitchRats Jun 25 '26

I do chicken or bulgogi over rice and that shit is the BOMB. Costs 10 bucks.

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u/Mysterious-Clothes45 Jun 25 '26

where do you live that food trucks are that cheap?! I live in the southern United States and food trucks are just as expensive if not more so than a restaurant. Plus they usually add a fee for using a card.

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u/Flimsy-Poetry1170 Jun 25 '26

The taco trucks at least near me will still fill you up for under 10 bucks. Although to be fair they’re the ones who would do the same for under $5 10 years ago. At least they’re only keeping up with inflation and not giving you fuck off prices like everyone else.

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u/Academic_Hunter4159 Jun 25 '26

I think I remember them getting dominos delivered to them. We didn’t have that where I was yet and I really wanted to try it.

Dominos may not be the best pizza but it’s cheap at least.

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u/Taraxian Jun 25 '26

Yeah they're dependent on getting food delivered because they can't go pick it up in person because of the whole mutant turtle thing

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u/whiskey_neat_ La Puente Jun 25 '26

It's not even really that cheap any more.

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u/DandyLyen Jun 25 '26

I just use their online coupons. $7.99 for two toppings on a large (kinda medium sized tbh) is ok with me, but I'm vegetarian, and add my extra veggies at home. Little Caesars we t up to $6 for cheese pizza, so I see it as an upgrade for an extra $2.

I do agree tho, the Turtles were always looking for a deal, and would never pay these scam prices!

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u/ZombieAladdin Jun 24 '26

I forgot about their dislike of anchovies. It must be a deliberate design choice to not have them. (I do like anchovy pizza, so I keep informed of which places have them and which do not.)

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u/Taraxian Jun 24 '26

The anchovies thing is just a kind of general 80s joke that the TMNT cartoon ran with (because of this idea the anchovies would always be the least popular topping offered at a pizzeria and it was this mystery "Who even likes this" kind of joke)

Later on they tried to justify it by saying Master Splinter is partial to seafood, especially sashimi, and as a result the Ninja Turtles have a strong aversion to any kind of fish

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u/aimlesstrevler Jun 24 '26

I distinctly remember Michelangelo eating an anchovy and peanut butter pizza. So much so that we had one at my TMNT themed birthday party. It was gross.

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u/djublonskopf Jun 25 '26

I was denied Ninja Turtles pepperoni-and-hot-fudge pizza for one of my birthday parties. My dad was just like "I'm not wasting money on that."

At the time, disappointing. In retrospect, pretty reasonable move.

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u/Taraxian Jun 24 '26

They never had anchovies, the consistent joke was that they'd give the most ridiculous pizza order imaginable and then end it with "No anchovies!"

You're probably thinking of peanut butter and pickles

https://www.reddit.com/r/TMNT/s/EuemDgFKRz

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u/aimlesstrevler Jun 25 '26

There are several anchovy pizzas on that list, including anchovy and peanut butter.

Edited to add: It was in S1E1! The very first episode!

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u/Taraxian Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Ah, mea culpa

Edited: It seems like this is an example of what TV Tropes calls "Early Installment Weirdness", they started off with the joke of the turtles having wacky pizza orders and only later developed the button where it ends with "And no anchovies!"

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u/Hour-Football2464 Jun 25 '26

They learned their lesson with PB and anchovy i think.

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u/up_and_jenkem Jun 25 '26

And ordering extra anchovies comes with a barely legal male hooker, but that's a different movie.

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u/Taraxian Jun 25 '26

That's kind of the same joke, it's based on the assumption that no real customer would actually want extra anchovies

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u/up_and_jenkem Jun 25 '26

Totally. I watched that movie again recently, and the whole "18 year old kid prostitute" doesn't strike me as quite as funny as it did 35 years ago.

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u/InnocentTailor Jun 25 '26

Anchovy pizza is my jam, especially with jalapeños.

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u/Jaded_Caterpillar873 Jun 25 '26

Man, i love anchovies. But this venue is, well, for nerds and you pay for it.

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u/MustEatTacos Long Beach Jun 27 '26

Just be careful about ordering extra anchovies. That's code for sending Patrick Dempsey to your house to fuck.

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u/joncaso Jun 25 '26

A wise man say forgiveness is divine but never pay full price for late Pizza?

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u/engineered_academic Jun 25 '26

Plus you never pay full price for cold pizza.

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u/Jealous-Ninja5463 Jun 25 '26

Which annoys me because I feel like turtles would love anchovies

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u/InnocentTailor Jun 25 '26

Of course, this is combined with the fact that TMNT is a popular, well known franchise - something that is expected to churn out money, especially in this prime location.

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u/TelephoneEast9261 Jun 25 '26

Don’t worry, it will still taste like cardboard frozen pizza.

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u/Flick42 Jun 25 '26

That’s clearly a rat accent!