Big City Tavern is located in the Boca Center.  Those of us that have been here long enough remember this location as the Crocker Center.  After winning a $50.00 gift certificate, we decided to embark on a journey to eat there.

While the others in my party were comtemplating on what to eat, I noticed on the bottom of the page that they had a pizza section.  Its choice of placement was almost univiting, but if there is pizza on the menu I have to try it.  Big City Tavern is not known as a “pizza place” so I wasn’t expecting much.  When the pizza arrived I was amazed at its presentation.  It looked beautiful, with the cheese all melty and gooey.

My first bite wasn’t great, but certainly not terrible.  It reminded me of a time in college at a bar when I met what appeared to be this incredible looking chick, based upon the shadow of her body, and ended up getting into her building and seeing what she really looked like.  Didn’t stop me from having fun, but the packaging was a bit off.  Moral of the story… pizza doesn’t always taste as good as it looks.  After seeing this pizza on the table, I thought it would be much better then it was

Big City Tavern had the perfect blend of sauce to cheese for me.  The cheese had a wonderful taste to it.  The crust was the issue.  It did not taste like a good crispy pizza crust.  Holding the pizza to my mouth took two hands to keep it from falling over.  I would suggest baking your pizzas for at least 2 full minutes more, and possibly try using a new dough recipe.  I will give Big City Tavern in Boca Raton 4 out of 8 slices.

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For those of you who enjoy Big City Pizza’s Sicilian as much as I do in Boca Raton, you will have to wait until Wednesday’s do dig in.  Unfortunately, they will only be making their Sicilian Pizza on Wednesday’s – Sunday’s now.  They will still be making their regular pie, but personally, the Sicilian is better.  Thank you for all the emails I received regarding the poor readers who have been going in on Monday’s and Tuesday’s to try this pizza.  After reading dozens of your messages, I went there myself yesterday and got the news first hand.  I hope you will all continue to frequent this pizza establishments.  It is one of the few real style pizza joints down here.  You can walk in and grab a slice, and sit down, without the nuisance of some server having to walk up to the counter and bring you the slice.  The owner here is also very passionate about his pizza, and is happy to answer any of your questions.  As far as yesterdays regular slice, I will give Big City Pizza in Boca Raton 5 out of 8 slices. Will see you guys next Wednesday!

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My son and I were visiting an acquaintance at the Casablanca Isles community off Boynton Beach Blvd this weekend.  After leaving the apartment, my son asked if we could go get some pizza.  Who am I to not abide by his pizza wishes.  Especially since he is quite the young pizza expert in training.  The first place we drove by was Vito’s Gourmet Pizza in Boynton Beach.

Vito’s was pretty empty when we walked in.  When I say empty, I mean not a single other soul was in there, but since we never tried this place before, we gave it a shot.  I was a little taken back at the way Vito’s displays his Sicilian pie in the rack.  Seems like Vito bakes his Sicilian dough, and puts uncooked sauce and uncooked shredded mozzarella cheese on top.  Once you order the slice he then places it in the oven.  Although this is a unique approach, it didn’t make sense to me.  Once the slice came out of the oven, after cooking for a while the cheese wasn’t fully cooked and the slice wasn’t at a peak temperature to enjoy.

The regular slice on the other hand was quite hot.  The pizza tasted fine, and I didn’t have many complaints about the regular slice, but I was still dumbfounded by the Sicilian technique.  Vito, I think it is ok to be different nowadays, but your style of heating the Sicilian did not work for me.  It seemed like the pizza would have been quite tasty if you cooked it the traditional way.  Do you not cook it through so you could refrigerate it to use the next day?  If so that is really “cheesy” for lack of a better word.

I will give Vito’s Pizza in Boynton Beach, 5 out of 8 slices, and I hope they will re-think their Sicilian pie and cook it differently.

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