On saturday, January 30th, 2010 from 11am – 10pm, Casa L’Italien in Boca Raton will be holding a fundraiser to help the Children’s Wish Foundation International. Casa L’Italien will donate 20% of their sales from 1/30/10 in memory of a friend named Christina Marciano to the wonderful foundation.
Another place I have never recognized on Middle Country Road is La Grova Ristorante, and with good cause. Their shopping center backs to the road, which means the storefronts are in the back? Wonder what Einstein thought this layout up. Top tier city planners and architects I am sure.
Don’t judge this place by its backdoor from the road or from their website which was probably put up the day the internet became popular, and never updated since. The pizza is pretty good here.
The crust was awesomely crisp but lacked some of that tasty flavoring I look for. My advice would be to add a bit more sugar to your mix. That combined with a nice smooth sweet tasting sauce, made for a great lunch. The management could probably improve the overall quality of the cheese they are buying, since it kind of tasted bland. After a coating of Parmesan cheese, it tasted much better.
La Grova has been in the same location for 31 years, and after having a conversation with the nice owner, I could see why their customers keep coming back
La Grova Pizza in Lake Grove gets 5 out of 8 slices. It is a place I will continue to visit on my travels there.
I have been wanting to try one of these, to see how good crispy DiGirono’s “Crispy Flatbread” gets. I am skeptical about the results from the get-go, because at the store I purchased this product from, the entire selection of the product had obviously been subjected to freezing problems (like thawed and refrozen – indicated by warped boxes, ice crystals on the interior packaging.) I am trying the Italian Sausage and Onion variety, which claims both slices of sausage as well as crumbles, and sliced white onion.
Anytime you go to a pizza place and wait in line behind a nice old lady, only to watch her ask the owner for change of a dollar, and witness him rudely say NO, we ain’t got none, while he clearly has it, you know you are in for a bad experience.
Well sadly the day arrived where I must bid farewell to two of the things I love most in my life in new York. My family who would rather freeze then move to florida and New York Pizza! Since my family reads my reviews I am kind of obligated to say that I of course love my family more than the pizza.
What a way to end the day! With bad pizza. We passed by Little Nicky’s Pizza in Centereach, Long Island during my trip, and I asked if we could stop there since I never noticed it before. What a mistake this was!
In my opinion the sauce was terrible, with an overbearing amount of spice, and was plenty acidic! The crust was doughy and undercooked. Crust wasn’t even crisp. The staff came off as outright rude as far as I am concerned. Since we are going to try and not discuss the places that fail to get under 4 slices during this new year, I will stop there.
Go there and try it for yourself and leave me a comment if you had a different experience. I am not going back here again.
Little Nicky’s Pizza gets 1 out of 8 slices.
Today I tried out the Culinary Circle Ultra Thin Crust Spicy Italian Sausage pizza. Culinary Circle is a house brand of Albertson’s (SuperValu), whose mission is to create “hef inspired cuisine that mirrors today’s most popular restaurants, Culinary Circle is transforming creative casual dining at home.”
As SuperValu is a grocery mega-holding company, I would assume these products are available in their other stores, like Jewel, Cub, Shop N Save, and others.
Even though Sag Harbor is not that big of a town, the walk seemed to take forever. When did Long Island become as hot as Florida during the summer? I guess Al Gore was right about that global warming thingamajig. Anyways, as you can tell, this review is quite a bit delayed, since I ate there a few months ago and forgot to publish this review back then.
There seems to be two pizza places in the quaint town of Sag Harbor. Conca D’ Oro was the first one we passed, so I walked right in to grab a slice. Conca D’ Oro is nothing fancy inside, which I was a little surprised with, since Sag Harbor is known to have celebrities flock to the town during the season. Usually places would try to impress them with fine decor and clean tables.
My slice at Conca D’ Oro was pretty decent. I found the crust to be excessively bland, and the chunky tomatoes by the edge of the crust didn’t help my experience either. Thankfully, they seemed to only apply the chunks to the edges, and not throughout the entire slice. They are definitely using some nice tasting cheese on the pie here though. When it comes to a place that really only has business for 3 months a year, and has managed to remain open for several years, it is hard to knock them.
If you want a slice while you are visiting there, you might want to stop in and have one here. Not like you have too many other choices though. My advice to Conca D’ Oro would be to smooth out their sauce and apply it evenly when making the pizza. You will have plenty of time dring the winter to practice this.
Cona D’ Oro gets 4 out of 8 slices.
Upon landing at JFK airport last month, I was picked up by a friend of a friend. I asked this friend of a friend named Joe if he wouldn’t mind stopping to get some pizza with me, since I was starving. Joe had no problem with it and asked me which place I wanted to eat. Since I am not too familiar with the JFK surroundings I asked him for a choice. He told me there was some phenomenal pizza at a place by their office in Plainview, Long Island that I should try called La Piazza.