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| - Man it's been a while since I posted Yelp reviews! I missed it, sniff. I have so many reviews backed up and I promise to get to it within a week or 2. For now I could not delay posting a review of Novecento in S. Rainbow, and experiencing it at a Yelp event. It was soooo much fun!
I have tried Novecento in their north Vegas branch, and I have to say that this particular branch in my Southwest area, as well as the particular event I had experienced it in made it much sweeter the second time around. Chef Marc is one of the most passionate human beings I have come across in my lifetime and it is such a joy to be eating his food and learning so much about it.
First let me throw a preamble on the Italian pizza being served in Novecento and how it departs from the familiar American pizza. It is a smaller, more refined version of their NY style cousin. The pizza is thrown into a wood-fire 900 degree oven and swirled around a few times and it is DONE in 90 seconds. Sometimes I fantasize on doing an experiment of how soon things will cook in this oven. Bacteria I heard won't even last coz they die at 160 degrees.
I was lucky that in this particular UYE slash birthday party, there was a raffle for 8 folks to get drawn and have their hand at making pizza. I didn't get drawn, but a friend of mine was called twice (her and her husband) so she offered me and my son her spot. (Thank you Jessica!) I was soo giddy! I don't even make pizza at home, so this was a real treat. We get to the counter, spread the sauce... sprinkled tons of cheese which had to be spread evenly on the pizza dough, put our toppings - pepperoni, mushrooms, anchovies (I love anchovies!) and bring our pizza to Chef Marc. He moved the ingredients around to make empty space at the center of the pizza. He says this is to ensure that the pizza cooks evenly and the ingredients gradually move towards the center anyway. He sprinkles a little salt and pepper at the crust, parmesan and fresh basil everywhere, and he fires up the pizza.
This pizza really has to have your undivided attention because man do they cook quickly! Bam! It's out of the oven. I think I almost had a tear fall... it was so pretty... at least to me. :) The pizza is fantastic, as well as the other times we had prior to the pizza. I especially loved the chopped salad (lettuce, cabbage, peppers, salami, bleu cheese and red wine vinaigrette) and the eggplant parmigiana, they were DIVINE. Thank again to the Qs for such a fun and yummy event, and to Chef Marc for your unwavering zeal towards food. It is extremely contagious... and delicious :)
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