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| - I don't know why I waited until this week to sample some of the best pizza in the Cleveland area. Between Crostada's and Sweet Basil, I'm set!
The ambiance of this randomly-located restaurant is a comfortable, familiar one. Everything is nice, but not too fancy. The smells were incredible. Well, duh.
The specials, such as ravioli, looked amazing, but I couldn't not order pizza at Crostadas! Are you kidding me? Anyway. I started with the Wedding Soup. A nice-sized portion with a delicious breadstick -- a little tease of the wonderful dough to come.
My husband, friend, and I ordered two pizzas to share, which was just enough (any more and I would have been stuffing myself, because Lord knows that, with the delectable wood-oven pizzas, there ARE no leftovers). We got the Margherita D.O.C. and the one just below it -- don't remember the name, but it had smoked garlic (huge cloves) and roasted red peppers. I was definitely more of a Margherita fan, as the smoked nature of the garlic was a little intense for me. In fact, I pretty much know that whenever I go to a place like this, the Margherita is the way to go.
Now, it was delicious. It deserves five stars. Have I had better? Yes. However, it was great, and pizza here is really special, and that's what I'm rating it on.
Service was friendly, but took a really long time. They were sort of busy, but not overly so, and I know the pizzas only take like a minute and a half to cook, so I'm not sure what caused the delay.
Um, and I can just say that I am writing this review in a dark room nibbling on some of our NUTELLA CALZONE that we took to go. Genius!
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