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| - I went to Mineo's yesterday in Squirrel Hill. I was on Murray Avenue to get my computer repaired (I'll review that later), and I figured it would be a good chance to try "the best pizza in Pittsburgh". I wasn't terribly impressed. I don't really understand the hype.
The crust is just too thin. Its literally about 1/3cm thick. Like the thickness of stacking two CDs on each other. There's way too much sauce and way too much cheese for the wafer thin crust. Plus its pretty expensive for pizza in Pittsburgh plus they're skimpy on the toppings. I like thin crust. But the crust was so thin the pizza was uneatable without silverware. And since they don't have any silverware, you're forced to eat it with a plastic fork. And since you have to eat it on a paper plate, you end up cutting through the paper and/or eating some of it....the sauce and grease from the pizza seep through the plate. After we realized that you can't eat the pizza like a normal human, it wasn't that bad. Everything tasted good. The cheese was delicious. I just don't understand the hype.
A medium cheese pizza is like $12.70. We got it half sausage, half mushroom. There was hardly any toppings on the pizza and for some reason, they were all around the outter edge of the pie. We also got a garden salad. The salad's six bucks and its pretty big. There was plenty for myself, my daughter and my friend. I was hoping for some homemade Italian dressing or something special but you just get a packet of Ken's.
Speaking of my daughter...she loved the pizza. 2 year olds don't mind turning into the sloppy, saucy messes that grownups don't usually enjoy. After the pizza cooled off enough for her to eat it...she dived head first into sauce and cheese and paper-thin crust and emerged a sloppy red mess. She told us several times that "This is good pizza". So hey, Mineo's...you had at least one fan at our table.
The service was excellent. Everyone was nice and courteous. My only complaint is they're stingy with the plates and the plasticware. Considering the fact that its impossible to eat this pizza without a fork and knife, I find this very odd. And considering the fact that your paper plate will get sippy soppy with grease and sauce and shred itself....I don't know why they don't just hand you a stack of plates an inch high. Or at least get better paper plates.
Final verdict? This is NOT the best pizza in Pittsburgh. Not even close. I really hope the Yinz don't take their out of town friends to this place to show them what "Pittsburgh pizza is like", its just going to scare them. In a town with at least a half dozen pizza places within delivery range of every residence...there's at least a hundred pizza shops that serve better pies. The pizza tasted great....but it was structurally unsound. If they put less cheese or made a thicker crust, it might work.
After we ate pizza, we went next door to their little ice cream/beer shop. We ordered a sundae and it was $3.65 and huge! The guy who made it asked me how I wanted it made and I just told him to make a good sundae and the guy did indeed make a good sundae. My daughter loved it, that's for sure. And it was huge....we all got our fill and I took half it home for the next time she's in an ice cream mood.
While I wasn't drinking....the beer shop was well stocked with 6-packs of all sorts of tasty look beverages. I didn't check the prices but I'm sure they're in line with the rest of the city's monopolistic price-schemes.
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