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| - It's hard to give a 5 star rating to an establishment. Everything has to be inline and perfect. From the food, to the service, to the cleanliness...it all has to work. Settebello definitely falls into this category!
Being a pizza snob from NYC, it would take a lot for me to give a 5 star rating for pizza other then NY style pizza. I do not recognize Chicago sytle pizza as pizza. It's more lasagna than Pizza. I never loved Napoletana pizza either. It's sauce on cracker thin dough, more on the torilla chip side with salsa than anything else. The only pizza for me is NYC style pizza! Thin, greasy, crispy bottom and crust with gooey cheese. Settebello's Napoletana pizza changed all that for me!
First off, the Service and cleanliness was great. Everyone was very helpful and anticipated our needs. They were great! The decor is great and it's a great date place as well as a wonderful family restaurant. Now on to the food review.
My wife ordered the Mahagarita and I ordered it also with prosciutto. The Pizza was PERFECT! The dough was fresh and soft, with a hint of crisp burnt taste from the oven. Each bite transcended the experience. You can almost taste the history and love (that's right, I said love) that was put into the pizza for hundreds of years. From the first person to make a pizza in Italy hundreds of years ago, to that day as it sat on my plate. This morsel of time was a "foodgasim" that lasted from a single bite. This is just from the pizza dough. The sauce was tangy with the a tickle of sweetness. The prosciutto gave it a wonderfuly salty balance. The cheese was cooked perfect with the hint of the fresh basil giving the perfect aromatic kiss at the end. It was like the first drop of morning dew, dripping off the left. Splashing down on the ground, giving life to those around it, unassuming and perfect; as nature intended.
After I wiped away a tear from my eye from this uplifting experience, we ordered the Nutella/Banana Pizza desert. I'm not a big Nutella fan, but once again the dough was spiritual and made me a fan.
Overall, the 2 pizza's, 2 iced teas and Desert Pizza was $37. Not cheap by any means, but well worth the price. I highly recommend Settebello's and will be frequent this pizzeria very often.
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