Pizza Style: NY Neapolitan/wood fired oven
Venue Style: Sit Down
Food Orders: Cheese & The Lightning Rod
Beverage Orders: Organic Beers (is Coors Light really organic?)
Lg Cheese Pizza: $14.90 (16″)
Attendees: Boboli, Tombstone & Celeste (oh where art thou Ellios? Twas your date suggestion!)
Guests: None 😦

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  All work and no play make the Slice Guys dull boys
  All work and no play make the Slice Guys dull boys
v All work and no play make the Slice Guys dull boys
  All work and no play make the Slice Guys dull boys

It had been too long since the last Slice Guys meeting and we were all going a little “Jack Torrance” thanks to the 5 feet of snow pretty much making us shut ins since the end of January. We found our own little Overlook Hotel in the Spruce Pond Creamery; a bed and breakfast looking establishment with a typical summertime New England ice cream joint feel.

Upon entering we were happy to see a wood fired oven prominently displayed behind and counter and beer on the menu. We were a little puzzled a with the three different dough options. At the Spruce Pond Creamery you can get your pies, thin, thick or fat. This does not mean a Neapolitan vs. a Sicilian style pie, it purely means the amount of dough they use in their pie. Thin = 1 dough, Thick = 1.5, Fat = 2 doughs. Were ordered a Thin cheese.  Spruce Pone utilizes stool as the pizza stands, nice touch. The crust was very thin, like a flat bread, and was too uniform, communion wafer like and had no love. The cheese was decent but the sauce was a little too doctored. Our second pizza was the Lightning Rod which features sausage, mushroom and balsamic onions. The lighting rod was ordered thick which came out appearing like a normal pizza crust. The sausage, onions and mushrooms were tasty. Green peppers weren’t sautéed enough to kill the over bearing raw green pepper taste. Same issues with this crust, too uniform with no love. These doughs had to be either rolled or pressed, no hand tossing here.

Despite the pizza shortfalls, Spruce Pond seems like a fun place for families to frequent during the nicer months because it does have charm, friendly wait-staff, okay decor, comfortable seating and a good beer selection. The Guys agreed that the pizza wasn’t bad if you needed a quick pie and homemade ice cream to appease a carload of hyped up children but it fell short on our Slice-O-Meter scale.

One last thought. Spruce Pond really pushed the organic aspect and referenced it 96 times on their menu as if it were supposed to convince patrons that organic meant better (control F “organic” on their menu’s web page if you don’t believe me.). But to us, organic simply meant forced and flavorless.
The final analysis of Spruce Pond is that we thought it tried too hard to be organic and not hard enough to be great. This, in our humble opinion, isn’t a terrible pizza if your main objective is to eat organic in all walks of life; however, if you are looking for a great pizza with texture and complexity you will not find it at Spruce Pond.

Slice-o-meter = 3 out of 8 slices.