Yummy
Arcata Pizza and Deli - referred to by locals simply as APD....so yummy. Large portions, especially the sandwiches....oh my I'm hungry just thinking about it. Three people can share an order of fries, service is great. Can be difficult to get a seat, so if with others, have one guard an area while others order.    [03 Dec 2003 01:48:03]

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Recommended Dishes: calzone, arcata club, cheeze fries

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Great for vegetarians (carnivores like it too)
Big portions & decent prices. Great place to run into people. Good beer. Prompt, friendly staff. Clean bathrooms. It can get extremely crowded - it's one of the few places open late at night - but it's usually pretty quiet during the day.    [22 Aug 2004 21:21:00]

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Recommended Dishes: Adams Famous Tofu Sandwich, French Fries, Pizza

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APD
I love APD. They're open late and if you can't finish a meal you can take it home and finish it later.    [23 Aug 2004 23:12:39]

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Quantity or Quality?
Well, APD is one of those Arcata standbys that every poor food deprived sap in the North Coast has frequented at one time or another. Their hours are perhaps the best part of the experience, as the rest of the town closes at 8:00, while APD is open well past midnight on most nights.

But then...oh. Then you have the food. Food is hit or miss at APD, and when you hit, it's really more of a solid tap - nothing spectacular, but it'll fill you up. The misses, on the other hand, are off by a mile. Don't ever order their sausage pizza or you'll be greeted by a large grease laden excuse for a pizza with pounds of sliced Kielbasa dropped on top post-baking. The main thing that APD's food has in its favor is the sheer mass of it. Their calzone, essentially a gigantic cheese pie, is enough to feed, if not an army, a small guerilla force bent on taking over this little hippy town. Their pizza is flat, limp, and soaked in grease; your paper plate will be inevitably stained yellow.

That said, if you've spent the day doing something physically exerting, APD can be just the ticket. A whopping quantity of food can be obtained for a price that, while far from cheap, is palatable under the right circumstances.    [18 Nov 2004 23:56:18]

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The Best Place to Eat.
APD is an amazing place. Basically, no matter what you order there, you're going to get a whole lot of food, and it's going to be very good.

Truly deserving of 5 stars. Indeed, this restaurant is the best of its kind that I have eaten at, and the food is the best of its kind that I have tasted.    [03 Apr 2005 05:27:51]

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Recommended Dishes: Pizza, panzarotti, mozarella sticks

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The main reason APD is popular is that it is open so late. The pizza and food is pretty darn good, but not the best.

I have eaten there four times now, and each time I have called in a takeout order and they tell me when to come in. Well, when I am told to come in ten minutes and I do so, only to wait over a half hour more for my food with no apology, it gets old fast. The food is never ready when they say, so go do your grocery shopping and pick up your food that will be ready in "five minutes" in a half hour.

If you know to do that, then the place is really very good.

The chef salad is excellent, full of meat (I buy a head of extra lettuce to add, you wouldn't believe how much extra lettuce you want to add to this!), and the all meat pizza is way too salty and greasy and I would never order it again despite loving meaty pizzas. There is a good selection of sandwiches, have one on a brio roll.    [23 Aug 2005 21:26:14]

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Recommended Dishes: chef salad

     ­Anonymous, Arcata, CA   

A good, busy restaurant in a small college town
The food at APD is great.T he portions are large, especially the sandwiches. After a good day on your mountain bike, surfing, skating or in the classroom, APD is just the place to meet your friends and fill that empty place in your belly! It can be busy at lunch and when the high school lets out in the afternoon, and Friday night can be as crowded as a house party or a club, but what can you expect, everybody loves APD!

It is true that I have had a few bad experiences waiting on food at times, and I have had several soggy pies-but I know how hard it can be to find good help at a high volume deli. I just figure someone is in training and know that the next time I eat there it will be as good as always!
As for the service, it is a counter service type hot deli/pizzeria- the counter people are always very nice and seem happy to be working there. I always throw a buck or two into the tip jar!    [26 Jan 2007 00:19:49]

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Recommended Dishes: Adams turkey sandwich, The Rachel, Organic turkey rueben, Calzone, Cobb salad

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Good Sandwiches, Bad Pizza.
Lots of variety, maybe too much. Sometimes it's helpful that the wait is long just so you have time to review the two huge menus on the walls. Gotta say that the pizza is as you have already read, greasy and lacking a backbone. That said there sandwiches are very good and hefty. Good beer on tap.    [23 Aug 2007 18:04:00]

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APD is the best, for soup and sandwiches. There's only a couple decent pie tossers and the dough is less than satisfactory. Don't expect the best product late night, don't expect that anywhere you go late night.    [20 Apr 2009 03:38:48]

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Recommended Dishes: # 2 Philly, The Turkey Terrific.Blue Cheese Burger

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