content: If I've learned one thing about Madison pizza, it's that the topic is a polarizing one. There's a lot of reviews here that note the uneven-at-best service. While I've definitely had some sitting and waiting in the dining room experience, their delivery has been uniformly pretty darn good. They're reasonably fast (I usually hear 45 mins to 1 hour on the phone and receive a pizza in about 30 minutes), bring a hot pizza, do cash or charge at the door, and - in the time or two when there have been questions about my order - they've called to ask rather than deliver something I didn't want.\n\nTheir thin-crust pizza is good, and they provide a ton of topping options from the mundane to the bizarre. Glass Nickel has a similar variety of toppings, but I can never get past the fact that their pizza tastes mostly like bread to me. Not so with Roman Candle. The toppings are fresh, their fancy ingredient choices are worth it (my husband adores the three kinds of P-P-Pepperoni), and I appreciate that they don't pulverize their pizza veggies. For instance, the green peppers on the animal lovers' pizza retain a bit of crunch. Love it. \n\nPerhaps expected with a wide variety of fresh local veggie toppings, their salads are top-notch, too. The spinach salad with strawberries, walnuts, and blue cheese is one of my faves in Madison.\n\nA few things that leave me divided about whether this should be a 3-star or 4-star review: (+) They have lots of veggie and vegan options and are quite accommodating about substitutions and diet restrictions. (-) Their pizza is more than a little on the expensive side. Truly. (-) As such, I've been frustrated since they changed their policy on half-and-half pizzas: They used to happily make a half-and-half with two different specialty sets of toppings (my husband's an omnivore; I'm mostly-veggie), but no longer. But (+), I love that they stuck by their politics and supported the protestors by withdrawing from the Walker-supported restaurant board.