After hearing all the hoopla about this place I was excited to finally be able to get a table and try the pie! The place is eclectic-pizza kitchen cum hipster basement makeout pad-the staff all 8 of them on a rainy Thursday evening were too cool to really be engaged in our dining experience but did stop by to use really big words like suffice and container when asking us about what to do with our left over pizza. The garlic bread was tasty enough but odd shaped shards of toasted bread served with a green salad and compote of garlic confit was trying way too hard to impress. The pizza (lg) arrived after we debated if it would be enough for four big men and a dissertation from sir waiter about hunger and the size of our appetites and can report it is indeed enough to serve 4! It looked tasty enough, halves of cherry tomatoes, pads of ricotta and pieces of slightly charred pepperoni but upon biting in, the bottom crust was burnt to an almost black crust on about 3/4 of the pie even though the top wasn't browned at all. We forged through a few bites each and wondered if the bearded beau serving us would ever return to the table. When we flagged him away from the obnoxious giggle fest he and a female server were having while rolling silverware on the other side of the seating area we flipped the remaining blackened pieces of pie over and of course were immediately told that's how it's supposed to be! To which I replied "Oh??? burnt? " I've been in the pizza business since I was 15, my grandfather owned a pizza house and I've eaten pizza around the world including outdoor wood fired pies in Naples! This was burnt and the soot and bitter residue on our tongues could attest to that. The waiter made some inaudible comment and took the pie away assuring us that the new one would be pushed ahead of all the rest (there was only one other table) after about 15 minutes a new bubbly one was delivered, the bottom crust a perfect brown and surprisingly the rest of the ingredients flavors were actually present when not masked by the charcoal crust! I'm not sure what the pizza was supposed to have on it since I didn't really pay much attention to the ordering but thought it lacked salt and the tomatoes were tasteless and a bit hard even after roasting- I don't recall a sauce of any kind on the pie and found the smoked Gouda and ricotta a creamy yet bland alternative to mozzarella. I sprinkled the Parmesan on liberally hoping to kick up the melt-fest a bit but overall left with a Menza-menza impression of your pie Salvatore- whoever you may be!