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| - I don't know what the other reviewer is talking about- I'm wondering if that review wasn't written under a bogus ID that is a front for a competitor of Argentos. The fact that he reviewed three pizza places in one day, and then reviewed two others on the same day 34 days later seems fishy to me- who orders pizza from two or three places in the same day or even the same week? Anyway, Believe me, if you've read my review of Landini's Pizza in San Diego, then you understand that "I know from pizza" as the saying goes in NY.
Pizza is one of the trinity foods of the greater NYC area, the other two being bagels and authentic deli. All three are frequently imitated but seldom duplicated accurately outside of a 50 mile radius of Manhattan.
I moved to AZ for a variety of reasons, and specifically to Buckeye in order to be in proximity to family plus for a great deal on a house. Why else would I subject myself to the hinterlands of Maricopa County, the epicenter of AZ? Never in my wildest dreams would I imagine that in a sleepy town best known for farms and rodeo (as well as the only way to LA prior to the completion of I-10) a pizza man from NYC would decide to relocate his family and business. The owner, who is ethnically half Italian and half Albanian (a country across the narrow Adriatic from Italy) cut his dough tossing chops in NY for over twenty years and it shows as soon as you walk in the door- the old school style menu over the counter using plastic letters to detail the numerous subs, dinners, and even Sicilian style pies are a throwback to every neighborhood pizza joint I've ever patronized in my fifty plus years. There are no conveyor belt ovens, no round pizza grates or pans, just pumice lined pizza ovens fired up over five hundred degrees.
Relatives from NJ just departed after a family wedding; last Thursday one of them had a yen for pizza, a food I normally would not recommend they order away from home because the quality would be dicey at best. Not only could I recommend Argentos, but I encouraged them to order. The Jerseyites were not disappointed, and in fact they proclaimed the pizza to be excellent and delicious.
What better validation could a pizza shop get?
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