@MCLegoboy said:
"Hey, this one looks familiar!
https://brickset.com/article/53935"

I don’t have the original, which came out during my dark ages, but I did get that 2002 Legends reissue, so… all good! I just wish I’d gotten multiples.

Such a sweet looking set. I wouldn’t think 1994 though. Looks more like a 1980 set.

Oh man I was in a negotiation to buy this set from someone and have since forgot about it! I’m gonna go see if it’s still there.

I regret not getting the 1994 version right after my 1st Dark Age ended. The re-release was during my second Dark Age. Timing really did not work out for me on this one. It's still on my wanted list...but I may just buy the pieces from BnP (or whatever it's called now) to re-create it with modern pieces. I don't think much would need to change.

Such a simple model but I always wanted to get my hands on it. Was this the same pizzeria they used in LEGO Island?

@Reventon:
Set design kinda stagnated a few years after minifigs came on the scene (basically as long as it took to change from designing models to set beside minifigs to ones that minifigs could actually interact with) and didn’t really change until after Star Wars came onto the scene. At that point, they started making much larger sets as the SW UCS subtheme got off the ground, while Town got downgraded into Jack Stone and helped push them to the brink of failure. It was World City that really marked the first new growth in Town design, which only came after management of the company transferred outside of the family.

@Gyra:
Um…what? It’s a building with a road delivery vehicle, and a walk-up window. What’s to convert to trains?

One of the first sets, as a Legends set, that I got when coming out of my dark ages.... Nice little set, and did not have to have someone trying to rob it either.

No dine in available.

One of my most favorite town sets. I had the rerelease version

Easily one of the classic town sets. Probably should hunt it down…

I so wanted it as a kid. Often had been recreating it with the pieces I had.

in the 90's I was too old for Legoland (I thought that), but I liked it. And I missed the Legend reissue, in the early 00's. Recently I gathered all the parts to build it. I love the simple design of it. And 3 minifigs for 152 parts is cool !

good set, beautiful in its simplicity (today it would have x4 pieces almost!), but I don't know why it is so celebrated ... the real masterpiece was 6376 , still in the Legoland era

@PDelahanty: You'd need to find something else to use for the van's rear doors, as Lego doesn't make that window frame or those shutters anymore, and I think the slope used for the roof is out of production, but other than that, you should be good. (And none of the printed minifig pieces are still around, but those aren't integral to the model and can be easily replaced.)

@Be_hapi : I guess you're not counting the little table with the umbrella, then.

My first, non-car-related town building! Meedless to say, the STAMPs from the van are gone =(

@ambr 15 Pizza gabbiano con aglio is the hot seller of the house!

I was gonna say the pizzeria was being robbed while they were out, since none of these minifigures work there in the Lego Island games; but I suppose the chef could actually be a younger Papa Brickolini? Before his moustache turned grey, before he grew his eyebrows, and before he settled on the waiter tuxedo torso as his signature outfit...

On a side note, I got one of those pizza pieces from a Bricklink order a few months back. They're a very nostalgic piece for me due to the Lego Island game, but I've never owned any; so my Pepper minifigure was never able to do his job as a pizza delivery boy when I was a kid, because the Island Extreme Stunts sets I had didn't include any of them. So now he can finally do his job!

@TheOtherMike Roof is stil in production https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=4515&in=S
Only red isn't made in the last 10 years but is cheap 2nd hand,.
The windows and shutters should be easier to find only watch out for broken of clips

My brother owns this, but I'm sure my 6644 Road Rebel and 6534 Beach Bandit were frequent customers.

If there's a LEGO hall of fame, this one's in.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Gyra:
Um…what? It’s a building with a road delivery vehicle, and a walk-up window. What’s to convert to trains?"

It's referring to the discussion at https://brickset.com/article/53935:

'And another poster replied, "It's Lego. You could convert Pizza-To-Go into 12 volt, if you wanted to."'

... Now I'm wondering if anyone's done it, too.

@Binnekamp:
I was referring more to minifig themes in general, and Town in specific. New faces came from Pirates, but faces alone don’t represent any changes in set construction. Other non-Town themes also don’t bear any relation to Town development. The mere existence of Aquazone doesn’t change the fact that this set looks like it could have been designed in 1980. World City introduced 6-wide vehicles, and SW UCS broke open the $100 ceiling most themes experienced, leading to Town/City-adjacent lines like Modulars and Winter Village, as well as sets like 60125, 60266, and 4207.

What’s ironic is that things have kinda reverted in terms of set design, even when set size has remained larger than during the 80’s and 90’s. 60271 is just a large, expensive collection of tiny sets, and runty little 4-wide vehicles are firmly entrenched again. City has become Town-for-tots, while Creator and other Town-adjacent themes (DC, Marvel, Ninjago, etc.) is where most of the more substantial Town-like sets seem to end up.

But for a little while, it did seem like they were really trying to move beyond house-of-cards construction, as other minifig themes have done in the past two decades. For some reason, where long-time AFOLs have been brought into the company and kicked set design up a few notches, they’ve all ended up in themes other than City. It’s like they give new hires a design aptitude test, and if you demonstrate any sort of complex techniques, you get assigned elsewhere.

@SDlgo9:
Totally forgot about that, but apparently great minds really do think alike. Past-me and present-me both made a joke about lemon-crusted pizza!

@L_go: Very cool. I love the pic of them fighting over the pizza.

Lego peaked with this set. Could have stopped right there.

@saltytbone said:
"I remember thinking how awesome the pizza tile was, and this set came with 5 of them! That's stayed with me to this day, and I love every new food piece even if they are not nearly as rare. "

Its funny the first Xtra food pack description called them Grapefruit Slices : 40309: Food Accessories

I missed out on this back in 1994. Lucky me there was a n exact re-release (unlike many others that had modified parts in the Legends series) in 2002^^

I really like all those printed parts (and the tap element!).

Lovely little Town set, that perfectly fits the style of the era. It probably was the inspiration for both the cancelled 6500 Holiday Village as well as the Brickolini's Pizzeria in Lego Island 1. With that many Pizzas it also goes well with TMNT...

This set was briefly mentioned in the Time Cruisers audio dramas, it is mentioned by it's German catalogue name 'Paules Pizzeria' which implies that the Chef's name is Paule. He is also a playable character in Lego Legacy, where his background story says he moved to Lego Town from his former Cafe in Paradisa.

@surfersofthemind said:
"Super Supreme on a classic crust.

Lucky to have this set. Great little build, just a classic brick build with no oversized specialized parts. Classic LEGO. Only negative is the stickers over multiple bricks. I remember cutting the stickers carefully so the bricks would break apart.

This set needs a redo with all the other cool 90 year celebration sets popping up now. "

Same, i LOVE this set, but it is probably the worst set EVER for stickers across multiple pieces. The sign up top is across two 1x8 bricks and the entire back construction of the delivery van is about 20 pieces held together by stickers on either side. https://i.imgur.com/ofYTU0D.jpg

@TeriXeri:
It’s worth noting that, while the set inventories claim the same print, the set images show a significant difference. This has 18 green dots, eight red semicircles, and orange sauce with lots of yellow bits. The food pack has the same 18 dots, but they look more brown. The sauce is red, so the semicircles aren’t evident. The red is over saturated, so the yellow bits appear smaller. It really doesn’t look like the pizza print in the set image. I can kinda see how someone who doesn’t actually eat grapefruit regularly (seeds are whitish with a bit of brown) might mistake them for citrus slices.