The great Honolulu pizza challenge

12 a.m.: J.J. Dolan’s

By midnight, we had finally made it back to J.J. Dolan’s in Chinatown. The place was still packed, but we had no choice but to wedge ourselves through the door and order our final pizza of the night. The group was tired and beyond full. But we persisted, and it’s a good thing we did.

The pizza: We got the “Classic Cheese Pie” ($15).

The verdict: Despite having reached our pizza thresholds much earlier in the evening, this pizza was the group’s second-favorite, and only by a hair.

Likes: The group’s opinion is that when it comes to cheese, J.J.’s is tops. Not to mention the buttery crust and the sauce that Wright-Van Alst said was “perfectly flavored so as not to overwhelm the toppings.”

Dislikes: The group loved the sauce so much, they wanted more of it.

Bonus pie: We couldn’t have handled eating another pizza if our lives had depended on it.