Lots of pizza places will let you ‘double up’ on toppings, for a price. You’ll see places that offer “double cheese”, or “double meat.” At the other end of the spectrum, you’ll see places that limit the number of toppings, saying their pies aren’t meant for more than that.
So where can you go if you want quadruple toppings? Other than a four cheese, which isn’t really four times as much, just quarter portions of each topping.
Kroger “Welcome @ Home” Fresh Pizza
Fresh off the most disappointing pizza crust I ever encountered in the art of making a home styled thin crust pizza (see: Mama Mary’s Hail Mary Bomb of all Bombs), I decided to take two weeks off to clear my head and try a few local establishments in the Greater West Palm Beach area. After a few uneventful slices, I decided it was time to get back to basics.
So I picked up a few important ingredients at Publix and shot back home with a plan. The amazing thing that I have found is that most people who want to make a nice thin crust bar pie at home are looking in the wrong place to start in their quest for a crust.
One of our neighborhood grocery stores, Barbur World Foods, features a wide variety of imported groceries, and an over-the-top deli counter where you can buy the requisite sliced meat, cheese, as well as a number of freshly made hot and cold dishes lately.
They also have made-to-order brick oven pizzas, including some specialty Lebanese style ones.
Mrs. BurgerDogBoy and I were out for an early evening stroll last nite, and decided to have a ‘romantic’ parking lot dinner at Barbur. She picked out a number of exotic dishes like beef stuffed zucchini, and I went with one of the Lebanese pizzas, Zahm B’Ajeen, a pie covered with a tomato and onion ground beef mixture.
The pie maker quickly created and ovened the pie, and it was ready in less than ten minutes. At $3.95, this has got to be one of the best pizza bargains in Portland.
Waiting at the local mall the other day, actually waiting to have lunch with a client nearby, was feeling a might peckish and decided to have a pre-lunch slice. The food court option was Villa Pizza, an outlet of the nationwide brand chain, Villa Enterprises.
The origin of the pizza stems from a single outlet in NYC’s Times Square, and now they have over 200 locations in malls and airports across the country.
Mama Mary’s needs Holy Mary. This supermarket pizza crust couldn’t help itself if it had the finest stone round wheat found in the universe.
In my opinion, these 3/16″ alleged ultra thin crusty crusts taste more like docked matzoh shells than pizza dough.
Try as you may to make a good pizza from this sham, but once again, in MY opinion you’ll do nothing of the sort.
The 3 slice picture is merely a gesture of good will to give this a 3 of 8 slices for campfire settings and drunken orgy party hors d’oeuvres. (more…)
I was wandering around the San Fernando Valley the other day, looking for sustenance, when I spotted Jerry’s Pizzeria on Sherman Way. I found a parking place in the pack, and noted it was right next to a deli proclaiming they had “L.A.’s #1 sandwich.” Hmm, dilemma.
As I had a scheduled lunch date at a place the next day who also purported to have L.A.’s favorite sandwich, Jerry’s Pizzeria won out.
I used to live fairly close to this neighborhood, but had never been in Jerry’s before, even though they have apparently been around since the dawning of time.
When D’Angelo Pizza first opened up, my friend Willie suggested we go and try it and see what it was about. We had heard it was the same owner as the renowned Casa D’Angelo which had won plenty of awards and accolades from local reviewers. Guess the owner thought he should jump on the Wood Fired Pizza wagon, and opened up this incredibly chic place on Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale.
Upon walking into D’Angelo Pizza you cannot help but feel comfortable, but in a trendy kind of way. No expense was spared while decorating the place, and build out. Most of the delicious looking food is out on display as you walk towards your table. You are also able to smell the food you are about to eat, as you walk past their oversized outdoor patio section. Perfect for the two months a year we have pleasant enough weather to eat outdoors.
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One of the benefits of growing up in Staten Island, NY was there is good pizza everywhere. Brother’s Pizzeria was something of a legend. It was known to have the best Sicilian slice of any pizza place around. And because it was always crowded, it was always fresh hot and delicious.
Everyone I went with had a favorite section. The corner gave you a lot of crust. The middle was a little softer, full of saucy goodness and cheese. I always preferred a side slice.
It has a nice crust to hold while enjoying the yummy cheesey slice. People have been know to wait for the next pie to get the slice they wanted.
I have in the past enjoyed Angelo’s Pizza on 57th Street near Carnegie Hall as you can read here, but I had never been to the Theater District location. This one is next to the Ed Sullivan Theater home of Late Night with David Letterman on Broadway.
My friend works across the street and eats there so often, that for some absurd reason he is tired of the pizza at Angelo’s, but that’s like David Arquette being tired of Courtney Cox, it doesn’t make sense. How could you be tired of something like her, but I guess that is a topic of discussion for another site.
After another long day on my trip to New York City, we found ourselves on the Upper West Side of Manhattan again. Since I previously tried New City Pizza the other day, I thought it would be time to try another pizza place I have never been to. We walked past City Pie and it smelled pretty awesome, so my family and I decided to go in for a slice.
If you have never been to City Pie Pizza City Pie on the upper west side of Manhattan, you are missing a gem of a place. It is an immaculately clean and amazingly bright space, so I do not think we could classify it as a “joint” or a “hole in the wall”, even though it is laid out like a typical New York counter slice place.
