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| - OK, I have been here 3 times since I've moved to the Valley and I feel as though I am finally ready to review it. I've been once on a date, once with a friend who was visiting, and most recently with two friends who were born and raised here but never had the opportunity to go. Oh, and they brought their little baby girl. The third time, the charm as I will begin to refer to it, we waited about an hour and thirty minutes.
The place is a gem. There atmosphere inside the restaurant is intimate and homey. You can see Chris Bianco making the pizzas himself behind the counter and can smell the fire from the wood burning oven. We were greeted by the one and only waiter who is originally from Chicago. He's worked with Bianco for like 13 years, he said.
We ordered a bottle of wine and three pizzas for us to share. My two fav pizzas from Biancos are the Rosa and the Margharita. The Marg only has sauce and garlic so I added mushrooms. The Rosa has no sauce, cheese, pistachios, and crack. Seriously, the Rosa...I could eat it everyday. The crust is very thin and not heavy. If you're crazy about crust, you won't think this pizza is as amazing as I do. The sauce, I think, is what makes the pizzas so great. Not only that, but the fresh ingredients that are used make the pizza taste just that much better.
Yes, there is a long wait but it's an experience. After 3 bottles of wine shared between three of us (my Mommy friend was being good), we had such a great time chatting it up with our server and enjoying each others company. Why not wait an hour or so for good pizza when it's not anymore expensive that a fully loaded, greasy large pizza from Dominos?
The wine selection is good. The pizza is great. The service is stellar. If you don't want to wait in the wine bar for drinks, they'll call you over from the Rose and Crown bar across the way. It'll save you a couple bucks, too.
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