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| - I'm not a New Yorker, i have never had NYC style pizza. I have a Brooklyn born Doctor friend who tells me that there isn't such a thing as New York style Pizza, it's just the ONLY Pizza....so New Yorkers don't hate because i'm ignorant on true NY pizza. Started the night with Antipasto...waitress reminded me that it doesn't come with lettuce....funniest thing ever heard, but then again not many people grow up in an area with such a large italian population like Chicago. Alright the pizza was good, the dough was tastey (would order a little extra done to get it like some of the Naples pizza i've had) perfect salt and consistancy. Sauce...what sauce, it was lost in the bake, so i would order x-tra sauce. We ordered a 16" Roasted Red Pepper and Onion...again sauce was absent, peppers were really good quality and onions were nice a carmelized from the heat, mozzarella was perfect amount and quality....HOWEVER, it missed something, asked for a 50 cent cup of chopped basil and added it on with some olive oil and parmigiano and voila! it took an okay pizza and made it FANTASTIC. I grew up on pizza from Chicago, i'm talking thin crust party pizza not deep dish (since most people assume Chicago = DD, and i'm not a huge fan of DD) and had pizza from Ragusa to Milano in italy and I make my own pizzas form scratch. This pizza was good, worth going and will do it again....am i blown away? Not terribly...did like that the ingredients were as fresh as possible...Basil i ordered tasted like i picked it from my garden.
So i give it a 3.5 because it won't ever leave me with ever having a craving for it....just if i'm in the neighborhood and feel like pizza i'll stop in, but i won't jump in my car during a monsoon to go get some.
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