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Green Lantern in Madison Heights is a two star Italian restaurant. This very affordable restaurant has been around for the last 50 years, and is one of the popular eateries in the area. It's known for its pizza. Upon entering the restaurant, you'll find a family atmosphere. This restaurant is good for groups.
3.0 of 5 stars.
As I have mentioned, I am a girl of simplicity for the most part. Give me good dough, sauce and cheese and I am happy. I don't believe that the cheese Green Lantern uses is all mozzarella (maybe a...
yelp.com - user review - 10/16/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Yummy, yummy, frigging fabulous!!Someone described this place as a smoky hole in the wall. So I was surprised when I walked in and found it to be a small sports bar. I expected it to be dirty, but...
yelp.com - user review - 09/16/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I'm one of those annoying people who take their pizza apart as they eat it. Some would call it a pizza OCD. I now think that it's a reaction to crust thickness. I also feel that after eating a...
yelp.com - user review - 09/07/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Trying to come up with an accurate rating for this place, for me, is difficult. On the one hand, there are the negative attributes that are mostly due to the limitations of its small size and being...
yelp.com - user review - 08/28/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I like this place even more now. They have new specials for drinks and pizza and my buddy rachael is behind the bar...I believe they have medium pizzas for 7 bucks on Mondays...Yahoo! Time for a...
yelp.com - user review - 08/03/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I had heard good things about this place, and it's not too far, so when debating where to go for dinner we decided to finally check it out. It was about 7pm on a Tuesday night and the place was...
yelp.com - user review - 05/14/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
If I want hot, delicious pizza, this is where I go. I've come to accept nothing less from my pizza joints. This is better than any of the local chains (Jet's, Shield's, Paesano). It's a nice place to...
yelp.com - user review - 05/11/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
If I am not going into the hood for Buddy's Rendezvous, this is my choice for yummy pizza. I have been in love with this pizza since '91 when I first discovered it. I always get mine with a side of...
yelp.com - user review - 04/19/2009
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This is definatly the #1 rated best pizza in town, BUT the subs are the best subs in town also!! So good covered in yummy coleslaw and ohhhhhhhhhhh so good!!
citysearch.com - user review - 02/17/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Best subs around, and among the best pizza around.
yelp.com - user review - 02/02/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
One of the best places to get pizza in the area.. Small smokey, hole in the wall, but great food and excellent service.
yelp.com - user review - 10/24/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
The Green Lantern has a nice atmosphere and a pretty good selection of food, just expect the pizza to be a bit on the greasy side, but it's still pretty good. The service is also good with the wait...
yelp.com - user review - 07/28/2008
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Their Italian subs are out of this world. I have never found one that comes close. They're pizza is excellant also. Great atmosphere - just a friendly neighborhood bar with great food.
citysearch.com - user review - 06/24/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Dea, I love you, but who cares about smoking in restaurants? I certainly don't. Apparently this was a hang out of my Dad's back in the day, and coincidentally enough, it was he who first brought me...
yelp.com - user review - 06/21/2008
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Yes people this is a BAR. There may be smoke. If you don't like bars don't go or get the pizza to carry out. Bottom line if you like Pizza this is where you want it from. I love pizza and I've had every pizza...
citysearch.com - user review - 06/19/2008
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Absolutley the best pizza in Metro Detroit. I live in northwest Troy and have for 22 years. We routinely drive down to Mad Heights for the pizza. Forget about the Alibi ( which I pass to get here). Once you...
citysearch.com - user review - 03/25/2008
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2.0 of 5 stars.
I'm surprised this hasn't been reviewed yet considering just how packed it was on a Friday night. The pizza is just OK. The sauce was off and the mushrooms were canned (eeeeew). It has a loyal...
yelp.com - user review - 03/22/2008
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BEST pizza around. I LOVE pizza and traveled around this great state and country (not to try pizza I might add) but I will try some pie where ever I go. I would have to say this is one of the best I had. It is...
citysearch.com - user review - 10/13/2007
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Ok, I have really had it with the $5 pizza . I am so sick of getting the same BLAH taste from all the fast pizza chains. I decided to try Green Lantern and I am HOOKED! I have never eaten in the restaurant,...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/24/2007
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Green Lantern Lounge 28960 John R Road Madison Heights, MI (Corner of John R and 12 Mile Rd, I-75 Exit #62) Hours: Thu-Sat 9am-2am Sun-Wed 9am-12am Green Lantern offers old fashioned pizza at its best along...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/21/2007
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Green Lantern in Madison Heights has excellent pizza... but their second location in Royal Oak is terrible. The pizza quality is not the same at Royal Oak. This has to do with the oven temperature... Madison...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/30/2007
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excellent pizza excellent service. still old school just the way i remember it. talk to some of the 30 yr plus waitresses they have alot ...
gusto.com - user review - 12/06/2006
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I live about 45 mins from Green Lantern and try to make a trip out there at least once per month just to indulge myself with the AWESOME pizza and cheese bread. The building may be small but I would sit on top...
citysearch.com - user review - 11/27/2006
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I'm new to the area and had heard great things about the pizza. The pizza probably was the best that I've had in over 3 years up here. That being said, I've yet to have pizza anywhere in the Detroit area that...
citysearch.com - user review - 10/09/2006
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After reading all of the great reviews, I had to drive a block from my newly purchased home to try this place out. First off, it is small. I actually think we cut in front of people waiting for seating. We...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/22/2006
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The individuals complaining about The Green Lantern being "too smoky" or "not kid-friendly" are running low on common sense. If you've ever seen the place from the outside, you can tell it's a bar. If it looks...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/03/2006
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In my opinion they have the best round pizza in town (I like deeper, square pizza though). The "Lantern Bread" is very good and very cheesy.
judysbook.com - user review - 07/25/2006
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Green Latern has the BEST pizza around! Wish the place was bigger, but we still go a couple times a month!
citysearch.com - user review - 07/22/2006
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Yeah the place is small and smokey, but the pizza is excellent. If you dont like smoke than get take out. The pizza is worth every cent. This place is a bar and really not kid friendly. Every Time I go there,...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/12/2006
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great price and best pizza in town, this puts louis to shame in quality and price. Pepperoni pizza is the best here, many sizes to choose from.
citysearch.com - user review - 06/22/2006
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I like the traditional old school pizza. I am sick and tired of the mainstream hungry howies and little cesars. This is a very greasy pizza but thats because they hand cut there pepperoni and shred there own...
citysearch.com - user review - 06/11/2006
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I have seen this restaurant and I really wondered about the pizza because it says the best pizza around and im a pizza-holic lol anyway, a friend from work and i went there one evening. there was no waiting...
citysearch.com - user review - 05/20/2006
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This is in Madison Heights and its the best pizza! Someone I work with brought me back a pizza from there after I asked them how it was. It was soooo good, they use several different kinds of cheese...
judysbook.com - user review - 04/22/2006
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Green Lantern has the best pizza around. The local newspaper as having the best pizza has voted them. There only down fall is the size of the place. It is usually full and you sometimes have to wait a long...
citysearch.com - user review - 04/08/2006
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judysbook.com - user review - 04/02/2006
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The Latern definitely makes one of the best pizzas in town. If you are going for a family meal and you have young kids, go early before the smokers get there. It is a bar. It definitely gets packed after 6p...
citysearch.com - user review - 03/05/2006
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I live nearby and have heard how great the Green Lantern pizza is. When we checked it out, the atmosphere was: smoke, smoke, smoke. You have to love eating smoke to eat here because there is no no-smoking...
citysearch.com - user review - 01/12/2006
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We went there because of these recommendations here but what a mistake! Smoky place (no non-smoking), service was terrible, our waitress seemed to be in a hurry, although they weren't busy. And I don't know...
citysearch.com - user review - 12/27/2005
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I really, really like Green Lantern's pizza. It's crispy. It's chewy. It's the real deal!!
judysbook.com - user review - 10/08/2005
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Having grown up in MH, I have been brought up on Green Latern pie. You can search high and low and not find better pizza anywhere. A Friday night "must" for my sons and I, after an LHS football game, as well...
citysearch.com - user review - 09/20/2005
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If you love pizza, then you need to try Green Lantern's award winning combinations. They are the best in town as far as I am concerned. The atmosphere is very adult and they have a great selection of ...
judysbook.com - user review - 08/09/2005
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Don't go if you're on a diet. The pizza is to die for! I love my greasy pepperoni pizza. The subs are great, too. order pizza and a sub.
citysearch.com - user review - 06/22/2005
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I was so looking forward to this pizza based on all the reviews. then I walk into the place and get hit by a wall of smoke that took my appetite away. No "no smoking" section either. The pizza was pretty good...
citysearch.com - user review - 03/04/2005
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I went to Green Lantern to see what all the hype was all about! I must say... their not kidding when they say it's good pizza. I ran into people I knew there that lived by me and I drove all the way from Romeo...
citysearch.com - user review - 06/13/2004
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Don't go into the Green Lantern thinking it's a normal restaurant. It's definitly a bar, and there is no "No Smoking" section.
citysearch.com - user review - 03/02/2004
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My mom ordered there when I was A kid. Now I am fourty-five and I drive 750 miles from Virginia Beach. To eat there I do not leave Detroit without eating at Green Lantern. The BEST place in the country. If you...
citysearch.com - user review - 12/12/2003
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This place by far has the best pizza. There are so many toppings piled on it's hard to keep them all in place!!
citysearch.com - user review - 08/01/2003
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This place has the best tasting pizza and actually the salads are huge too! If you are into good pizza with lots of toppings this would be the place for you!
citysearch.com - user review - 06/19/2003
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I grew up in Chicago, a town that takes it's pizza seriously. Until I found the Green Lantern after moving here I thought I was in a pizza wasteland. Green Lantern makes an awesome pizza. No place else comes...
citysearch.com - user review - 03/18/2003
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Honestly, I don't think I've ever had a better pizza. It's so full of flavor its ridiculous. Oh, and the Lantern Bread is to die for. With a combination of excellent bread and pizza and ice cold beer, the...
citysearch.com - user review - 11/01/2002
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This place, has to have, without a doubt, the BEST pizza in the area. The food, along with the atmosphere makes this place just awesome!!
citysearch.com - user review - 09/23/2002
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I've tried pizza everywhere, but no place compares to Green Lantern Lounge. It is the best! And the prices are very reasonable. It is my favorite by a longshot.
citysearch.com - user review - 07/20/2002
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This place was great! The pizza had so many toppings... we couldn't even eat it all. It was our breakfast for the next 2 days. The place is a little small inside, but the sevice was good and the beer was SO...
citysearch.com - user review - 05/29/2002
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whoa! look at the crowds! look at all the people in this friendly, neighborhood lounge in madison heights for nearly 50 years...
detnews.com - user review
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an extremely popular "pub & resteraunt", usually filled with...
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