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| - Note #1: Cappy's is take-out and delivery only.
Note #2: They deliver to the following areas: Mt. Lebanon, Castle Shannon, Dormont, BaldwinTownship, North Bethel Park, and parts of Whitehall.
I recalled riding past Cappy's last week when traveling through the South Hills and thought to myself "Nice, more BBQ options." Well, last night, we finally had a chance to try some since Kay astonishingly was craving both BBQ and pizza.
When I went to pick up my order, I was greeted by a group of people mixed in terms of age and led by a man with long, wizardly white hair and a bandana. If Santa Claus was a biker and cooked BBQ, he'd look like the man I assume was the owner. I'll call him the Pit King.
"Have you been here before?"
"No, I have not."
"Young man, you are in for a treat. I've been down South and have learned from the masters. We'll be competing at cook-offs soon." Self-assured he was.
In one flat box was a medium pizza with pineapple and bacon. In the other was a full rack of ribs flanked by small containers of potato salad and cole slaw.
Lordy, lordy, that sauce, that bloody, intoxicatingly tart sauce, one that attract hungry bears from miles around with its honey, its booze, its vinegar, its...sticky, sticky, consistency possessing those PHAT and PHATTY St. Louis Ribs that Nature had already blessed with meat aplenty. Lips were smacked, fingers were licked; Kay and I had become libidinous teens in a steamy car feasting instead of heavy petting.
The potato salad and cole slaw were both exceptionally creamy and flavorsome. 'Tis a shame Cappy's doesn't give more than a 1/4 a pound to an order.
The pizza came next, winning shiningly with cheese that tasted dairy-fresh, a wonderfully seasoned crust that was as crisp as it was chewy, and a rich-as-a-millionaire sauce that I reckon is prepared carefully, clandestinely, lovingly in large basement pots.
Yes, Cappy's is yet another pizza place and BBQ joint. Welcome them, embrace them. May they up the ante all the more for both pies and pork make the game a little more interesting.
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