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| - Slice On Broadway is a relatively new pizza joint but they have already carved a pretty solid reputation. I have eaten their pizza a bunch of times now and I can attest to the fact that the pizza is very consistent and you can expect that it will be made the same every time (probably because they have the same pizzaman working there every single time I have been in, he must pull 60 hours a week at least). They have a little dining room on the main floor and I think there may be a dining room upstairs too but I can't imagine it gets much use. I ordered a large cheese, which is 16 inches and less than $12 which is a solid price for the quality of ingredient, but truthfully I would have rather paid an extra dollar to not have gotten such a skimpy pie.
The pizzas are made the traditional way of sliding the pies straight onto a brick oven, the pizzaman is very good at keeping the pies nice a round too. They do use a bit too much corn meal on the dough and it ends up a bit on the sandy side, also you get some charred black dust remains on the bottom of your pie because they don't clean the oven enough as they go. The pie was well done and crispy with a nice dark brown color. This pizza is close to being really good but unfortunately they are a little too skimpy on the everything and what you end up with is a really really dry pizza. I'm talking Jesus' bones dry. If you are one of those fat assholes who dips everything in ranch dressing than this pizza very well may be perfect for you but I am having a bit of trouble raw dogging it.
The dough is pretty plain but it tastes fine. It doesn't have too much of a distinguishing taste aside from a slight salty breadyness. They are stretching it pretty thin so it is hard to gauge it but it seems like a medium density, slight airiness, a few healthy bubbles in the dough and no doughiness. The salt in the dough combined with the saltiness of the cheese and the general lack of other flavors ends up making the whole pie a bit too salty. The dough is a bit on the dry side, which may not have been a bad thing if the rest of the pie didn't follow suit. Despite being really thin it actually help up very well, you could hold the slices straight without them drooping. I feel like it would not have help up as well if the rest of the pizza hadn't been so lite in the pants.
The sauce is actually really delicious but they are so brutally skimpy with it that you don't get to taste it at all. I tried to order it with extra sauce once and instead of putting extra sauce on the pie they just made it as normal and then pooped 2 or 3 odd dollops of sauce oddly in the middle on the top of everything else. The sauce has a really nice garlic sweetness with nice pieces of high quality tomato. Unfortunately they do the bullseye sauce distribution pattern like most shops around here. I guess since we are in western PA their thought is that God will distribute the sauce while the pie is cooking. Keep praying fellas!
They are using high quality mozzarella with some provolone in the mix too, its a nice blend. The cheese coverage is pretty much perfect too. They use the most appropriate amount of cheese of any pizza shop in Pittsburgh and it would be awesome if they weren't so stingy about the sauce.
All in all this place is still better than most of the shops in Pittsburgh just based on how consistent they are. I wish they would just put enough of their delicious sauce on the pizza. I hope the 10 cents per pie they are saving on the sauce is worth having such dry pizza, I really do. I hope that there is a guy in the Bahamas right now just swimming Scrooge McDuck style in all of the tomatoes that didn't end up on my pizza.
6/10
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