I have been looking for some great pizza in Las Vegas for a long time now. I decided I needed some, so I did a search on Yelp to see where they say the best pizza in Vegas is. Many new restaurants came up in the search. Novecento came up as one of the best pizzas in town. They have an imported Italian oven at 900 degrees. That is very impressive to me. I went to the one in Henderson as it is the closest one to my house. When you first go in and look at the place you notice there is not much ambiance. You stand in line and order your pizza and sit down after ordering and paying. They are more like a fast food restaurant than a nice pizza place.
I ordered a small pepperoni pizza and started off with a small salad. The salad came out right away and it was very good. It is nice and small and was price appropriate. The pizza was not far behind. Coming out of a 900 degree oven you can imagine how hot it was. I like my pizza just short of burning the roof of your mouth, so I picked up the knife and fork and dug right in. I got a piece that had every thing the pizza had to offer. When I put it in my mouth the first and only thing I tasted was the sauce. This was a constant while eating the pizza. I couldn't taste the pepperoni, or the cheese or the pie dough. I could tell that the cheese had a nice texture to it and sat well in my mouth. I couldn't tell anything about the pepperoni, nothing. Hot, mild, salty, sweet, nothing. It might as well have not even been on the pizza. Another thing that bothered me was that I could tell that the dough was undercooked. I knew that from the first bite. When the pizza cooled enough for me to pick up a slice the whole slice sagged. There wasn't even the slightest bit of rigidity to it. The outside of the crust was slightly browned, but not like I would expect it to be.
I don't know what was wrong that day. Maybe the oven wasn't up the temp. Maybe the pizza was pulled from the oven too soon. Maybe the person making the pizza wasn't being attentive. I just don't know. I will give it another try at some point. But for now I don't don't know when because I was not impressed and there are a lot of other pizza restaurants to try in Las Vegas.