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| - After hearing wonderful words about Naked Pizza, I finally had the opportunity to see why hours before attending the Yelp 2018 Elite Badge Day at the Hofbrauhaus on January, 18. It was their Sicilian pizza that led me to write additional wonderful words about Naked Pizza.
Born and raised in New York, I recognize exceptional pizza. In New York, Sicilian pizza is popular. However, in Las Vegas Sicilian pizza is limited to a few establishments. "What is Sicilian pizza?" You may be asking. According to Wikipedia:
"Sicilian pizza is used to describe a typically square variety of cheese pizza with dough over an inch thick, a crunchy base, and an airy interior."
According to this review, Naked City saved considerable money and time to savor two slices of Sicilian pizza. In lieu of an $800* round trip flight to New York City, it costed me $9.54 plus a $1 tip to savor the two slices of Sicilian pizza with mushrooms. It was $2.75 per slice plus 50 cents for the toppings. The glass of Coke was $2.50. And after chowing down the Sicilian pizza, I have something to shout out about. "This hole in the wall pizza restaurant at the resort/ UNLV dividing line practically across from the Hard Rock Hotel gives the typical New York pizzeria Sicilian pizza, a run for their money. The one difference was that this cheese overflowing from the thick square corner slices onto the square white plate was whiter than the Sicilian pizzas that I know of in New York."
At the 3 o' clock hour on a Thursday afternoon, business was slow. Upon walking in from the one entrance that faces Paradise Road at the northeast corner with Naples Street**, the man at the counter greeted me. He told me to sit anywhere in the dining room. He brought me the one page menu (shown below). From reading this review, I assume that You would think that Sicilian pizza was my first choice. This isn't the case. If their sandwich menu included the eggplant parmesan sub (in New York called hero), I would have ordered it. After a few minutes, the man returned from the register to take my order. He would make a few additional trips from the register to my table to bring me my glass of Coke, my food, and my check. I rate the service as solid.
The restaurant could be described as a hole in the wall. In my opinion it reminds me more of a College town restaurant at the periphery of a university. A couple of these College town restaurants that come to mind are the former Park Bench outside The State University of New York at Stony Brook and the Bally Hoo by Indiana State University. The reality is that Naked City Pizza is both a College and resort town restaurant. It sits off the Paradise Road corridor which separates the UNLV and Las Vegas Strip Resort District. At any rate, the gray walls are adorned with a flat screen TV, a Buffalo Bills pennant, interesting framed pictures that include family portraits, historic Las Vegas, football, and hockey. Hanging on the window facing Paradise Road is the 2017/18 Golden Knights schedule. Instead of sitting at a bar stool, I sat at one of the wooden tables overlooking the gray walls of pictures.
It is encouraging to see that there are restaurants in Las Vegas that serve the same delectable New York foods that I grew up with. The two slices of Sicilian pizza that I savored in Naked City Pizza live up to those that the typical New York pizzeria had served me.
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