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| - I am not really a pizza fan, or really of Italian food in general. However, my bf is part Italian and from the East Coast, so sometimes his tastes win.
For some reason, tonight I wanted to try Grimaldi's (mostly because I read on here their cheesecake was really good, and I wanted cheesecake!) so we braved the horrible parking lot and went in. It was a Friday night, and for some reason the Hooters next door is always slammed, leaving no parking spots.
I am glad I dragged my bf out of the house, because we were so impressed! The decor was nice, and gave lots of historic NYC pictures to look at while eating, and I loved the wine glass chandeliers. But the food was the star tonight. It could have been a hovel, and I still would have given it 5 stars.
We started with a small ceasar salad to share, and I almost ate the fork trying to eat it as fast as I could. The dressing we was perfect for me.
I wanted a white pizza with artichokes and chicken, but the bf wanted sausage - only sausage. But I added mushrooms and sun-dried tomatoes, just because I could. I am glad I did! The sun-dried tomatoes were sweet, and the sausage a bit salty and spicy and the mushrooms were full of flavor. Each bite was full of different flavors, which I loved and part of why I normally dislike pizza - as it's normally all just one flavor.
As for the crust - I actually ate it! I don't eat crust on bread, pizza, most pies...etc - and I still ate this crust. It was that good!
When it came to dessert, even though they had cannoli's, I knew I was getting cheesecake. I was thinking about Strawberry cheesecake all night, but our waiter said to get the Oreo cheesecake. I took his recommendation, holding him responsible if it sucked. He was right! It was great! My boyfriend got the cannoli, and while it was great - we agreed my cheesecake was better!
I feel stupid I never knew there were two other locations, and I could have discovered this earlier!
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