For three years I regularly organized farewell parties for my exchange students at the original joint near Beida. Kro was the heart and soul of the place. Kro's Nest was THE place with the best "American style" pizza in town and the best pizza in Haidian. The Wudaokou competition couldn't touch them in terms of food quality/quantity, service and general "feel good" atmosphere.The Gongti and Beitaiping locations could not completely recreate the Beida feeling. The enlargement of the Beida place already was a setback.

In 2009 the deliveries were still fast and the Kro-type slices well worth the money and time waiting. But my last order a few weeks ago was a huge disappointment. If I wanted a mediocre tasting, half cold and hardly topped pizza I could have chosen "P****a H*t" (they are not affiliated with the US chain).

The ousting of Kro is an awful thing. He is a great guy and did a lot for Beijing. It leaves a bad feeling when the Chinese side think they can dump the laowai once they outlived their usefulness. But this attitude easily translates into a certain attitude towards foreign customers in general. Eat, shup up, and pay!

Actually, some Chinese folks out there do know how to prepare a decent pizza, how to deliver good service and how to create a great place. Sadly to say, but the "owners" that run the Kro's now, clearly don't!

So to me Kro's Nest is dead. Rest in Peace!
Good luck to Kro (the real one) for whatever new endeavor he is up to.

Kro's used to be the place to go to whenever I wanted pizza but no longer. There has been a consistent but evident slide in quality and service. The pizza's started getting saltier and more expensive and the dough/crust is pathetic. No dipping sauces! Hot wings taste like rubber. Last few times I have ordered delivery, after a convoluted process where I had to call the main delivery number and then they relayed my order to the Gongti branch (i was scolded for directly calling the Gongti branch) it still took over 2 hours for the pizza to arrive (i live less than 300 meters away) and it arrived a cold greasy mess in the box. Hearing about the owners forcing out the foreign partner is the final straw. There are other places in Sanlitun to get pizza, I won't be supporting Kro's any more.

I wanted to like Kro's nest, I really did. It is close to my home (Gongti), has an authentic North American pizza joint feel, and had a friendly owner. The pizzas are HUGE and that was one of the drawing cards. But after a couple visits, you start to feel like a glutton once you are finished. The pizzas are quite good, but they just have too much dough, which ends up sitting in your stomach after a couple slices. I am a big fan of thin crust pizzas, which Kro's Nest certainly is not. If that is your thing, give it a try. If not, there are better options nearby, such as The Tree or Buona Pizza (mostly just delivery).

After all the bad PR following Kro getting pushed out bad his business partner, I don't think I will ever go back. But that is just as well since with pizzas that size, it definitely takes a toll on your waistline.

I'm from NJ and my move to Beijing was the first time in my life I've lived more than 30 miles from New York City, so I take my pizza pretty seriously. When I first moved to Beijing I asked around as to who had the best pizza in the city, and several people told me it was Kro's Nest. I tried it my first week in town and thought it was pretty mediocre. It was like eating a loaf of bread smothered in really runny, salty sweet tomato sauce. No thanks.

Friends kept wanting to come back and they eventually added the White broccoli pizza which I enjoyed, despite feeling like I ate a small child after having a few slices. Everything else I tried there was pretty unimpressive and after the whole debacle between the owners and several reports of a slide in service and quality, I really have no interest in coming back.

I'm not going to blow too much smoke up Kro's ass like some people, I never thought Kro's Nest was the BEST pizza in Beijing (I always preferred the Tree or Hutong Pizza) but this WAS clearly a lively place with good things going on, both atmosphere and food-wise.

Checked it out out of curiosity the other week following the Kro debacle we all know about. I won't be going back. Service with a snarl. Smaller portions with next to no toppings. General lack of atmosphere. Just does nothing to warrant the cost of the bill you will get at the end of the night.

No longer the place it once was. Now its localized, pizza sauce is disgusting, toppings are few now. Service blows.

Whats next? Substituting cat and dog for the meat in the pizza? How about sichuan pepper sauce on your pizza?

This is how the Chinese say FU, Welcome.

How they say you just got F***ed - Xie Xie.

Kro's used to be a great place to go with a few people for some pizza and some drinks. Unfortunately the place has lost all that I used to love. The quality of the pizza has been going down hill, and the tuesday free beer deal (free beer for the first keg of tsingtao) is becoming a joke. Last time my boyfriend and I went there the place had 6 other tables, no one else drinking beer but after one free round the waitress said there was no more. When my boyfriend went down to the bar he found out that they still did have the free beer going on. This place has lost all integrity that it once had and has become a sad stereotype of the ruthlessness and uncaring on chinese business towards its customers.

Ever since Kro left this place the food quality has been gone very bad. Should not go there..

An hour and 40 minutes and 3 calls to the restaurant later and we finally got our cold ass pizza. No apologies, no discount. My house is a max 7 minute drive/30 minute walk/15 minute bike ride from Gongti and its a large foreign complex, not some secret hard to understand address down a hutong.

I will stick with Annie's next time, their pizzas aren't as big and exciting but they get from the phone to my door in 20 minutes with piping hot food every time. And THAT'S why they win at the restaurant awards every year.

I don't like having to microwave my delivered pizza.

When our group goes here the large sized guys are the ones who love this place more.
Though my personal liking is thin crust pizzas .
Here at kros nest the dough`s too thick for me and the cheese and the toppings praportions go haywire.
But still good for a change with our group as there are some who are have a great appetitie.
Yes the cheese drops out and the ingredients are just okay ,but kros nest still works for once in a while outing with our group.