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| - Opening caveat, I am just realizing that I need to take the Yelp categories more literally: three stars is A-OK, and that's what I'm giving Little Tony's; my previous reviews of other restaurants suffered from grade inflation....
In terms of Little Tony's, we had a perfectly good meal late last night. Service was attentive, from both the server and the manager. And prices were good: we happened to arrive late enough to benefit from the nightly happy hour from 10 p.m. until closing. In terms of food, the meatballs were FANTASTIC. Tasty and HOT (temperature-wise), with plenty of red sauce. The calamari was edible, but much too large and rubbery for my tastes. The 9" New York-style New Yorker pie was acceptable. Too much crust and not enough gooey, mozzarella-y, tomato-y middle for me. That may be in part because when I lived in New York City, no pizza place served 9" pies; there was always tons of middle relative to crust. Still, Little Tony's 9" New Yorker was dry; it tasted good, but it wasn't an East Coast, tri-state area pie.
I think that's just the problem with having lived in New York City: when you leave, you judge pizzas (and bagels!) by degrees of disappointment. Eating at Little Tony's, you will leave well fed, but you will not leave thinking you've had an out-of-body-experience that landed you in New York.
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