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The fresh or variety of toppings? The type of cheese? The sauce?
Oh no my dear friends, I beg to differ. It's the dough, it's the crust.
I look for the irresistible chew, crunch, blistered air pockets in the crust with each bite of my pizza. Oh boy, that's what you get here.
Libretto is great! They do pizza right. So good, that I crave it until my next visit.
Authentic or not (I wouldn't know) it tastes real good.
In addition to the delicious crust, the toppings are fresh, the sauce and cheese round off every bite, and the combinations are perfect.
Going at lunch time has it's big perks. For $20 you can partake in their prix fixe menu: Basic pizza, salad, gelato. For $5 extra, you can choose any pizza you wish off the menu, even the most expensive Berkshire Ham pizza ($19). All of the pizzas are sized like a regular pizza pan, bigger than a frisbee... if that helps.
I sat at the bar, really clean and nice to see the workers hustle and bustle prepping numerous things, cleaning and serving. My server was awesome. He gave us detailed descriptions for each pizza, listed the toppings and why it would satisfy certain moods or cravings we had that afternoon. That was a great waiter, personable, knowledgeable and willing to help.
I started with the Arugula Salad, a serious mound of arugula, pear and walnuts. Slightly bitter but with the cheese and pear, it's a great combination.
My friend had the Beet Caprese Salad, multi-colored beets, shoots "seedlings", and fresh cheese. I preferred this salad.
For the Berkshire Ham Pizza, there are slices of ham on top of cheese and truffle paste. In the middle, a cracked slightly cooked egg. Stab the yolk, spread it out like a natural rich sauce, and enjoy with each bite. It was good but I'm not too big of a ham person so I preferred the Duck Confit ($17) that my friend chose.
In all honesty, the toppings didn't make matter a great deal to me. It was the crust that made me go from full after eating half to "must eat the rest, it's so gooood".
The Gelato was the icing on the cake. It was the perfect end to a great, filling lunch.
Smooth consistency, creamy and sweet.
I admit, a whole pizza with salad is a heavy lunch. You finish it off, walk out of Libretto and THEN realize that you messed with equilibrium. Oh man, is it worth it though!
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