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| - Dear Papa Da Vinci,
I love your pizza. I love your dippy sauce. I love your staff, even when they sometimes forget to check their fax machine for paper and don't realize that we have sent in an online order (and I love them even more for the extra-cheesey pizza we got after they apologized for the mistake!). I love your bartender, who takes care of us while we wait for our pizza on our way home from the karaoke bar. Your pizza makes my tummy happy.
love,
Fox.
Seriously, I think the way we found this place was by searching on CampusFood for pizza places that serve dippy sauce, and then just fell lin love. (I'm not even making that up.) It was Papa Da Vinci or Papa John's. I think you know which Papa we prefer.
Solid amount of cheese, not too much sauce, very generous on the toppings, and oh, the garlicky ranchy dippy sauce! I think what makes Papa Da Vinci's near the top of my delivery list is that blend of thin pizza 'body' (the part where the topppings are), and thick, juicy, puffy crust (all the better for dipping!).
They're fast, even though we're in Squirrel Hill and they're in Oakland, and (sorry, Larry & Carol's) open super late. You can close the bar and STILL get pizza before bed! (Which, since St. James' kitchen is on the fritz, we do a lot these days.)
Other highlights: Italian hoagies are meaty and delicious (they come with Italian dippy sauce on the side), and the cheese sticks are perfectly breaded. The buffalo fries are amazing, and a single order never seems to be enough.
For some odd reason, their pizza isn't very good cold the next day (come on now, I know I'm not the only girl out there eating cold lunch pizza!), but it heats up almost as good as new. I try to keep this in mind when ordering, but most of the time, we end up eating the whole order in one sitting anyway. For us, Papa Da Vinci is our favorite 'everyone's coming over to play video games' pizza, our favorite 'it's the middle of the night and we're starving' pizza, and our favorite 'good lord this hangover just won't go away' pizza.
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