Waterfront Pizza Port Townsend
This post comes from one of our newest experts Sam!
Waterfront Pizza is a must-stop pizza joint for my family when we go through Port Townsend, WA. The restaurant is located in the downtown section of the city, right near the ferry, on 951 Water St Port Townsend, WA 98368 (360) 385-6629, so while waiting for a ferry you can always run over and have a slice, or sit down for a whole pie.
The pizza is built on top of a sourdough crust that they’ve been making based on a “secret formula” and then piled with the ingredients of your choice.
Our family favorite is just a pepperoni pizza and they deliver on flavor to the extent that one of our family members who dislikes pepperoni actually recommends the Waterfront Pepperoni to others.
Thin sourdough crust, even spread of sauce, 2 kinds of cheese, and a liberal dose of pepperoni makes this a real pleasure to eat.
I suppose it’s worth noting that I’ve had a slice of “Joe’s Pizza” at 7 Carmine St in New York and I think Waterfront Pizza is a competitor! Also, many people rate their pizza based on how good it is the next day, or re-heated. This pizza EASILY takes the cake *or pie* in this department.
Waterfront Pizza gets 7 out of 8 slices.
Four Seasons Hotel Austin Pizza – Worst Pizza
The Four Seasons has one more award they can add to their trophy rack. One of the most expensive crappy pizzas I have tasted. At a price of only $16 for this individual pie, should I expect it to taste good? The Four Seasons Hotel in Austin is located on 98 San Jacinto Boulevard Austin, TX 78701-4039
(512) 478-4500
Let’s start off with the cheese. As you can see by the photo, the cheese wasn’t even cooked! Any chef of quality, especially at such a fine hotel chain like The Four Seasons, should have never sent this pizza out in this condition.
The dough, seemed like it was premade and just waiting for the sauce and cheese to go on. It was undercooked as well and lacked any type of taste.
The sauce offered little much in relief to the other crappy ingredients used. Half of the sauce was removed by me and left in a crumpled up napkin. And to think, after the $4.00 mini soda bottle I had with this pizza, I was $20.00 poorer, and with a terrible taste in my mouth, from the food, and that such an upscale establishment would serve me this sh*t!
Do yourselves a favor, and if you are at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas, make sure to avoid this pizza. In my opinion it is not worth $5.00, let alone $20.00. Such a rip off!
The Four Season in Austn gets 1 out of 8 slices for their ridiculously expensive, sh*t pizza!
When in Austin try to stick with Death Metal Pizza: http://www.worstpizza.com/tag/hoeks-death-metal/
Jack’s Pizza Delray Beach
Stu told me he knows of the best pizza place around, in Delray Beach. It is called Jack’s NY Pizza. Jack’s Pizzeria is located on 14856 S. Military Trail
Delray Beach, Fl 33484 561-638-5552. Although I had passed it numerous times, I never thought to stop in and try it, cause something about the shopping center gives me the creeps. Since they recently (year or so ago) updated the shopping center, I thought it would be ok to try it. Besides, in my opinion, you can always tell a lot about a persons taste buds, based upon where they recommend the pizza expert to try.
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Rotelli’s Pizza Boca Raton – Not Even Close To Being World Famous
Went to Rotelli’s in Boca Raton, over by the tri-rail station the other day with Big G for some lunch. I never realized this, but their menu claims that they have world famous pizza! Yup this little chain of pizza places has some of the WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS PIZZA! HA HA HA HA
NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING FAMOUS IN MY OPINION!
Here is a photo to prove they make this claim.
I do not think that some of the best places I have tried in the world make a claim like this. Places like Spumoni Gardens and the like could make claims like this all day. But how could they, when Rotelli’s is in fact making some of the Worlds Famous Pizza. This brings us to a good point. If a pizza place has to advertise and write down on their menu that they are the best, or world famous, or anything similar, it is usually because they are not and need a way to make you try their mediocre pizza anyways.
Today’s pizza did not taste so great in my opinion. This is a major problem with Rotelli’s…..consistency. You can go to the same place twice in a day and taste two very dissimilar pizza slices. You can go to two different Rotelli’s locations back to back and taste pizza that has nothing in common. If you watch them make the pie while you are sitting down waiting for the waitress to bring you the slices, (since the walk to the counter 2 feet I think) since it could be dangerous to get them yourself and sit down, you will notice they don’t even look at how they are making the pizza. Just rush rush rush, get it in the oven and move on. A place like Rotelli’s, at least in this location by the tri-rail station only has a lunch crowd. This means if you deliver quality pizza to your lunch goers, you will have them ordering at night. Obviously this is not the case in this location. The place is pretty much dead during the dinner hours.
Rotelli’s gets 3 out of 8 slices for today’s visit and I think I will have to just stop going to this location since sometimes it is good and sometimes it is so so. Cannot take the chance that it will be so so anymore. One good point to Rotelli, is that they happen to at least have a decent website!
Rosa’s Pizza Maspeth Queens Best Pizza
..Let’s just start off this review by saying Phenomenal! I have always wanted to try the original Rosa’s Pizza in Maspeth Queens, since I really enjoyed their pizza in Penn Station after a hard day of work. So when I arrived in New York this time and Sam asked where I wanted to go, I instantly demanded that we try out the original Rosa’s in Queens, unaware if the Maspeth or Middle Village location was the original.
Rosa’s Pizza has locations popping up all over the city and Long Island now, and I can understand why. They serve this delicious (my mouth is watering as I type) upside down Sicilian, which you might also know is my favorite pizza by now.
When we pulled up to Rosa’s, it was nothing I thought it would be. I pictured it to look more like a restaurant, but it was instead just an average building, with a pizza parlor there. I walked up to the counter and immediately made eye contact with the Upside Down (or red Sicilian, as they like to call it). I ordered up a slice and tried to start a conversation with the “too cool to talk to you guy” behind the counter. This guy had no idea about anything relating to Rosa’s Pizza. A simple question if this was the original was even too hard for this pizza thug to comprehend. But all this didn’t matter, cause once that slice came out, and I bit into it, and the crust and cheese melted in my mouth, I was in hea
ven.
I actually even closed my eyes as I chewed on what was left after the melt, picturing myself eating dozens of these slices everyday (for free). To anyone who is looking for a good upside down Sicilian slice, Rosa’s gets how to make it, at this location. The sauce is so nice and sweet, and thin, and the cheese is freshly baked into the dough, which is let to rise in my opinion about 2-3 times. This is a must try, and worth going out of your way to check out.
Rosa’s Gets what very few other pizza places have gotten previously….a PERFECT SCORE 8 out of 8 slices!
Pizzeria Uno Pizza Palm Beach Airport
On my way to Austin, I made the mistake of grabbing a mini pizza pie at the Pizzeria Uno kiosk in Palm Beach Airport. Since my options were donuts, gross looking burgers, or gross Pizza, I chose the pizza. I am sure the others would have been equally as gross.
Maybe I am mistaken Pizzeria Uno as being a place that serves deep dish pizza, but this pungent pie was nothing like deepdish. The dough was rubbery, and the cheese tasted totally processed. There wasn’t much I liked about this pizza, including the absurdly high price. If you are heading to the Palm Beach airport, do yourself a favor and try to eat before you get there, so you do not have to encounter this crap.
I mean at least put a little effort into the below par pizza you are serving, for the $8 + price you charge.
Pizzeria Uno in Palm Beach Airport gets 1 out of 8 slices.
La Bella Vita Pizza Delray Beach
I have found Tony, from Tony’s Authentic Brooklyn Pizza. And man am I happy I did.
The other night I was heading to poker night and decided to meet Jim for a fast bite to eat, in case Big G was making something exotic again that I don’t eat. During the week, I was out to lunch at Jack’s NY Pizza in Delray Beach, when someone there mentioned I should also try the place directly across the street. So I suggested to Jim that we go and try this new place, which happened to be called La Bella Vita.
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Hoeks Death Metal Pizza Austin
Death Metal Pizza! That is exactly what this place was named. For a kid who grew up on thrash metal, this place was almost too good to be true! It was dark, dreary, and playing ridiculously loud death metal. So loud it almost made it impossible to stay and eat. You wanted to just take your food and leave….That is if you didn’t love death metal, like me.
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Forno Italia Brick Oven Pizza Astoria Queens
Drove all the way into Astoria, Queens to try out one of the Best Pizza spots in Astoria. Named Forno Italia, they serve Brick Oven Pizza, this place has been around forever. Forno Italia is located on 4319 Ditmars Blvd Astoria, NY 11105 (718) 267-1068. In order to judge this place fairly I must let it be known that Astoria was NO WHERE even close to where I was staying. After traffic etc, I was pretty out of it, and in order for this place to be nearly as tasty as everyone tells me it is, it would have to be without any flaws.
We had a small wait, even though it was pretty late at night, and eventually we were seated with some waitress who was well past her prime, even according to Queens standards, but still wore leather stretch pants and a high hairdo. We orderd our pie and then walked over to the oven to see what it looked like, and observe the busy pizza makers system for getting pies in an out quickly.
By the time we sat back down our pie was ready. I couldn’t wait to bite into my slice, and then I remembered I had to wait in order to take a photo. The presentation of this pie was great, but it just wasn’t a perfect taste. The sauce didn’t have much of a taste and the cheese cooled down too quickly to enjoy a hot slice. The crust was very good, that much I could say. On any ordinary day, this place could have easily been a 7 out of 8, but I had high hopes for this establishment and on this specific night, after driving over an hour to find it, just wasn’t as amazing as the hype.
Forno Italia Pizza in Astoria Queens still gets a 6 out of 8 slices. I think after I return, I will give it a 7, since as I said before, when people claim a place is the BEST, it makes an expert biased before they taste it.
Spris Pizzeria South Beach Miami Best Pizza
After spending a weekend at a tech conference, it was a nice surprise to find Spris Pizzeria on Lincoln Road. 731 Lincoln Rd Miami Beach (305) 673-2020. Spris is owned by the same group that seems to own half of Lincoln Road. They also have another location in Coral Gables I have eaten at and enjoyed.
Upon entering this chic looking establishment, your eyes are immediately drawn to this beautifully tiled pizza oven (if you make it past the beautiful Venezuelan waitress). Big G and I were seated and our gorgeous waitress asked for our orders. I didn’t even look at the menu, and proceeded to order my usual plain pie not realizing they didn’t have slices. Big G ordered some type of Hawaiian concoction (not sure when he will realize plain is better).
When the pizza was served, I was in heaven. The way it looked and sat on the plate reminded me of the time I spent living in Scandinavia and traveling throughout Europe. I used to sit down and get these individual thin pies served to me, and absolutely loved it. For a moment, when my eyes laid upon this pizza, I was brought back to one of the best moments in my life. Not a bad way to start off, considering I hadn’t even tried the pizza yet.
Although I had asked for the pizza without basil, they obviously put it on as you can see by the photo. So after spending about 4 minutes picking each one of pieces off, I took my first bite. I thought this pizza was amazing, and tasted just like those European places I loved so much. Initially I feared that Spris would just be some type of tourist trap, that would serve a bunch of crap, with cheap ingredients, and try to pass it off as pizza. Spris Pizza is nothing like this. You can taste the fresh ingredients they put into their pie. You can see the pride the pizza maker puts into each pie he serves. Spris, you have won me over and I will certainly return next time I am in town. I am kind of surprised you haven’t won more local awards.
Spris Pizza gets 6 out of 8 slices.
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