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| - DeSano Pizzeria is tucked behind a Walgreens in midtown Charlotte. The first thing you notice upon walking into the place is the massive amount of wood stacked in every window. I'm not sure if that is just for show and the wood they use for the ovens is stored elsewhere, but I thought it gave the place a neat rustic vibe, especially with all the dark wood in the interior and long, wide picnic-style tables.
I was in the mood for pizza now and pizza later, so I went with the San Gennaro pizza in the larger size of two options. It has a San Marzano tomato sauce base, sausage, peppadews, garlic, caramelized onions, scamorza, buffalo mozzarella, and pecorino romano.
First, a minor gripe: when we got there, no one was in line. We decided what we wanted and then proceeded to stand in front of the register area while employees casually walked right by us, making eye contact and paying no heed. I'm not asking for immediate service or anyone to drop what they're doing to help us, but we stood there for several minutes before someone finally came over to take our order. I know they're busy, but they weren't THAT busy where we should have been ignored for as long as we were.
Anyway, onto the pizza. It came out in a reasonable amount of time, which allowed me to drain a Hop, Drop & Roll which is one of my favorite local brews that is available in a lot of area restaurants. The fact they have a full (albeit somewhat spartan) bar surprised and impressed me. I stuck with beer this time, but I could definitely see myself going there for a cocktail and some pizza some time.
The pizzas are cooked in a wood-burning oven and it shows. There was some decent leopard spotting on the underside of the pizza, and there were a couple peppadews that had begun to char a little bit. The menu warns people not familiar with this style of pizza that charring is normal and inevitable, but to be honest, I would have been okay with my pizza being even a little more charred as I love the toasty note it brings to the table.
As a whole, the pizza is an absolute winner. The combination of the fatty sausage with the sweet/spicy peppadews and the rich, fatty cheese was the perfect combination. I didn't really pick up any of the garlic that was supposedly on the pizza, but it wasn't really missed. The only faults I could find with the pizza were that I think the dough could use just a touch more salt, and the sausage could use more (or...any? I couldn't detect it at all) fennel seed, though that's just a personal preference of sausage of mine. I ate half my pizza in the restaurant and the other half a couple hours later, so in any case it didn't last long.
Service at this fast-casual style restaurant was fine, the bartender was pleasant and efficient, I liked the decor, and the product they serve is delicious. I'd come back in a heartbeat.
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