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| - One of the few restaurants I rarely tire of. The only pizza place where the dough and cheese that constitutes one of their delicious pizzas never leaves me feeling tired, groggy, and gross afterward. How do they do that? I love pizza, but most of the time, eating it (eating too much of it...) is physically taxing and leaves me wanting to nap and flog myself for getting into a situation where i'm going to feel full and uncomfortable for hours on end after the meal. But this pizza, though more than satiating, is cloudlike, easier to digest, and airly floats rather than settles rock-like in the stomach. How often is pizza compared to a satiating cloud? Not often!!
I love the atmosphere of this restaurant too, though if the food were mediocre or bad, the stars above would reflect that. The atmosphere only adds a sixth star if that was an option. The Parlor used to be a beauty parlor, which everyone knows by now, but no one knows that my grandma used to get her hair done there.
I love their appetizers. The bay shrimp in the frito misto melt in the mouth, and even the calamari is not rubbery. The salads are not just afterthoughts here. The parlor insalata is almost as good as the pizza, which crispy chickpeas, fresh greens, kalamata olives, flavorful tomatoes (not bland red chunks of what looks like tomato), feta, lovely vinaigrette dressing, and probably a few other ingredients i am forgetting.
I could go on and on. But I won't....Just wanted to add to the other compliments toward this locally owned restaurant.
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