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| - Today, Sunday, March 22nd, in the year of our Lord 2015, we visited what too much time on Yelp has led us to believe is the last pizza place anyone in Pittsburgh need ever visit. We visited SLICE on Broadway.
We were immediately faced with a choice here, and I hoped that we would not falter.
'Should we get one of their specialty pizzas everyone raves about or go the route of a standard pizza with some Italian meat on it?'
Entire seconds passed as we agonized over this most important decision of the day. We chose the latter. Specifically, we ordered a small hot soppressata pizza to split, as well as a pepperoni roll and a steak and onion roll.
We appeared to be the only people dining in at the moment but we headed upstairs to check it out anyway. What can I say other than that it's really obvious how that location used to be a house and how oddly endearing that is.
Our rolls were brought to us very quickly. They were better than expected. They set expectations for the pizza crust very high. Most pepperoni rolls I've had have had too much dough and not enough payoff. These were essentially perfectly balanced to the point where the sauce and ranch we got for dipping were nearly redundant. I will say that the steak and onion roll was amazing and noticeably better than the pepperoni. I would absolutely order a few of those again.
Our pizza was not far behind it, coming up the stairs for us probably only 10 minutes after we sat down. It looked beautiful, the meat atop it most of all. And who can say no to the little pockets that sometimes rise from a pizza, announcing their home slices as prime eating. My first impression of the pizza was that I was impressed by the sturdiness of it. They make them pretty thin here, but the slices hold up very well en route to face. The next thing I noticed was that each element of the pizza worked together so well that it was a full unit. It became difficult, in a good way, to differentiate between sauce, cheese, and toppings. It was like eating a Professionally Manufactured Pizza Product - this too is a compliment. The crust tasted to me like it was very light on flour and perhaps heavy on cornmeal. Is that a thing? I don't know, I'm not a Professional Pizza Manufacturer. Either way, my mouth was telling me that it was tasting corn and my mouth has no reason to lie to me. PAULA did not agree with this analysis, so your results may vary. It was only a couple of hours ago that I ate this pizza, but I am struggling to tell you anything about the sauce or the cheese. They were both perfectly adequate but did not excite me. The soppressata was the only non-crust highlight. And honestly, while the crust was remarkable, it wasn't my favorite either.
Bottom Line: I enjoyed the pizza at SLICE. It did not change my perception of pizza as a whole or convince me that I need to return for more. I am willing to accept that ordering a specialty like the Fancy Pants may have been a wiser move, but I like to order pretty similarly across each pizza place for the purpose of comparison unless there is a specific style or topping that a shop is known for. Like 'you may as well not even go to X place if you don't get their sicilian'. From reading reviews, I did not get the impression that I needed to go that route at SLICE, but my lack of enthusiasm for their soppressata pizza may prove that their specialties are the way to go, at least for me.
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