I had high hopes for this neighborhood cole fired pizza as we were regulars at Anthonys Coal Fired Pizza on the East Coast. They were written up last year in USA Today as possibly the best pizza in America. So the bar was high here. My job tonight was to do a preliminary dinner as my wife was with the girls this evening. Grimaldis has been good since leaving Florida. Great salad and good coal fired pizza but no one can beat the management at Anthonys in Brandon, FL. Marcus and his team are incredible. He remembers his customers and you always feel welcomed. He trains his employees to be as good as well. The pizza is a 10 and the baked wings a 12! . Well, enough said about Anthonys!
The salad with the garbanzo beans was OK. Nothing special. I ordered the margarita pizza with ricotta and onion. I am use to the "pizza done well" tag line of Anthonys meaning the crust is dark and crispy. You have to like pizza that way. The crust here was thin but not as crispy but not bad. The sauce---blah! Now granted, my wife is Italian and makes great sauce/gravy, but this was bland! Looks like ketchup! I was going to take any leftover pie home so that my wife could taste a coal fired pie only 2 miles from home. I left it! We'll stick with Grimaldis until we get back East!