I'm a big fan of Anthony's Eggplant Marino pizza for lunch so we took the whole crew for dinner last night.
The staff was very friendly. We ordered a traditional pie and a broccoli rabe and sausage. I was thrilled that the broccoli rabe and sausage showed up not as blackened as I've had before but it ended up being really soggy with watery liquid dripping off the pan onto the table.
In the past I've enjoyed the coal fired crispy thin style without excessive cheese but in this case, there was an over abundance of tasteless cheese. It wasn't fresh mozzarella and it lacked saltiness for being something else. The crushed tomatoes were almost non existent so it lacked acidity and still managed to be floppy and soggy.
The most disappointing part was that the 6.00 difference in price between the traditional and the broccoli/sausage pie yielded about 10 tiny dots of sausage on the whole pie. One piece had no sausage at all and most of the others had only one or two small pieces.
It's really ridiculous considering that adding two toppings (say broccoli rabe and sausage?) to a traditional pie should cost 4.98 but since broccoli rabe and sausage is considered specialty, they raise the price by 6.00.
The staff and management should make a traditional and a specialty and look at them side by side then ask themselves if they'd pay another 6.00 for what they're getting on the specialty. If not, they shouldn't ask their customers to.
We love a good coal fired pizza so I hope this place isn't taking a nose dive after initial success.