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Can't imagine a place so heavenly but when one restaurant can satisfy my savory, salty, sweet, carb addicted alcoholic taste buds at one sitting - I'm in!
I've become a regular here teetering between their Big Apple pie (pepperoni, ham, italian sausage, meatball, mozzarella and grana padano cheese which is a semifat hard cheese cooked and ripened slowly for about 9 months) and their infamous Di Fara Special (thick square pie with mozzarella and grana padano cheese) both with fresh basil. This pizza has crisp pepperoni that I suffer through the hand slapping as I try and pick them off the pizza. BEWARE those, who like me - love food, I find myself leaving in a food coma every time.
Side note to all the OTHER pizza places out there - USE FRESH BASIL.
To avoid my freshman 15 flashbacks, I will order the Soho salad (mixed greens, grilled fennel and asparagus in a truffle vinaigrette) it's very light - you can add grilled chicken or shrimp and it's definitely enough to share. My alternative is their Tomato and Burrata appetizer (cherry tomatoes, mozzarella, and basil.) It's drizzled with balsamic and as Rachel Ray would say EVOO. (Ya sorry it's a weeknight and it's getting late.)
As this is one of the few non asian restaurants I'll bring my folks to - I have to tell you about their White Truffle pizza. This sauce less pizza has mushrooms, mozzarella, parmesan, and garlic truffle oil. My mom raved about this pizza for at least a month. It's so good, she makes me order the large pizza so she can take home the leftovers. So Chinese.
Fellow Yelpers will feel my pain as I try to understand why this pizza can be better than the billion other pizzerias around town. It was so obvious - it's the fresh ingredients - but specifically for me it is all about the tomatoes they use. Dom Demarco's uses imported fresh San Marzano tomatoes - think Roma Tomatoes times two - sweeter with less seeds and less acid. And of course - FRESH BASIL.
Now for you fellow alcoholics - the bar has a to die for pineapple drink infused with vodka overnight. Um ya. To boot they have 12 beers on draft and a wine menu that is a necessity for every Italian fare. Need I say more...
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