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| - Coworker and I were talking about pizza, and he found this place on Yelp. It has great reviews, so we decided to check it out. The flyer says "New York style brick oven pizza." I love brick oven pizza, so off we went.
Our first hint that something was amiss was the nondescript location in a beat up strip mall, with "Pizzeria" on the front of the building, and the name of the restaurant painted on the side wall. Some would say this is charming. I would submit that charm has a minimum standard.
My second clue should have been that the menu was printed on cheap paper. I guess this is OK for a New York style place; that sort of thing wouldn't be too out of place for a by-the-slice place in the big apple. But not for a brick oven pizza joint.
That's OK, though, right? Because brick oven pizza is delicious, no matter how low rent, right?
The next thing that hit me at this brick oven pizza restaurant - get ready for this - THEY DID NOT ACTUALLY HAVE A BRICK OVEN. What a novel idea - a brick oven pizza restaurant without a brick oven! There it was on the menu: "New York style brick oven pizza." Yet the oven they were using had no bricks, no wood... No, sir, it was most definitely not a brick oven.
Maybe you would argue that it is brick oven STYLE pizza. That it is not. It is below-average New York style pizza. The crust tastes good, brushed with butter and garlic and whatnot, but the slices were so incredibly greasy that the whole thing just became limp. I lived in New York for awhile, and never once did I ever have New York style pizza that greasy.
I could almost feel my arteries getting jammed.
The sausage was also all wrong. When you order sausage in NY, you get slices of Italian sausage, and they put more cheese on it before putting it back in the oven. Here? Throw on some round things resembling chunks of sausage, no cheese to hold them down, and they all end up on your plate by the time you're done eating.
I want to like an unassuming hole-in-the-wall run by seemingly nice people, but with the false advertising, buckets of grease, and completely missing the mark on that whole New York style thing, I just can't see myself ever going back.
At least the price was reasonable.
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