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| - I like pizza. I mean I REALLY like pizza. And in all my years of pizza fandom, I have an opinion that pizza falls into two distinct categories;
1. Traditional Italian style with a dry, bready & blistered crust, flavourful yet often sparse tomato sauce, high quality toppings and traditional mozzarella cheese (think Terroni, Libretto, etc.)
2. Fast Food style with a modified, sometimes pre-formed, deep-fried tasting crust, less herby but plentiful tomato sauce, lesser quality toppings and an array of cheeses (think anywhere with chain locations).
Pizzaiolo clearly falls into category two. Yet it's different from its counterparts in the same category, (it's better).
I will often stick to pizza from only those places in category one, but some days, like the day I was having last Sunday, only group 2 za will do.
Perhaps it's because I arrived soon after they opened, but the slice-pies were beautifully displayed under glass and it looked like they were each meticulously crafted. All of the toppings were perfectly and evenly spread across each pizza almost as if they were counted per square inch. See the picture of the pepperoni slice I attached. Although their flyer clearly shows a man tossing dough, I'm under the belief that their crusts, at least the common regular crusts, are pre-formed. They were perfectly round and unblemished by char or bubbles. And I LOVE this style of crust. Like I stated earlier, it almost has a deep-fried taste.
Although they had at least 10 different typed of fresh slice-pies to taunt me, I ordered a classic pepperoni and a Godfather slice which is a deep-dish monstrosity housing about 14 types of meat. Both were very tasty and began working their magic on my hangover almost instantly. I could only manage half of each slice. They were big (a quarter of the pizza if I recall correctly). And here's the kicker. Each and every slice under the glass, no matter the toppings, is $3.99. It's kinda hard to beat that!
I'm glad I finally checked into Pizzaiolo. Sometimes you just gotta have that fast-food style of pizza! I'll be back. 4 stars.
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