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@CapeCodCafe

Official Visits June 20, 2017 Leave a comment

Pizza Style: Bar
Venue Style: Sit Down/Family Restaurant
Food Orders: Cheese, Pepperoni with Meat Sauce, Kevin Kiely
Beverage Choice: Domestic Beers
Lg Cheese Pizza: (10″) $8.50
Attendees: Boboli & Celeste
Guests: None

Holy Trinity (Oregano, Parmigiana, and Crushed Red Pepper): Available but not on the table.

It’s been about a year since we visited Town Spa – for the Guy’s first review of “Pub Pies” – so we decided to head into Brockton to the original Cape Cod Cafe.  As with Town Spa, and with Lynnwood Café, Cape Cod Cafe is a legend in the Pub style pizza world of New England.  While all claim to have the best pub pizzas – they can’t all be #1 – so we have taken the challenge to rank them.  Our official Town Spa review was left without a score because we felt it was only fair to judge these particular pizzas against each other and not against other types of pizzas.  Since the Pub style pizza is prepared and cooked a different way we thought it was best to let the style hold up against its competitors on their own.  Cape Cod is in the heart of Brockton, where it’s been for over 60 years, and is a very nice family atmosphere.  Continue reading →

Frank Pepe’s Chestnut Hill

Official Visits May 11, 2017 Leave a comment

Pizza Style: Apizza (OG New Haven)
Venue Style: Midscale dining with only pizza offerings
Food Orders: Classic Cheese, Spinach, Mushroom & Gorgonzola – with Sausage, ½ Original Tomato & ½ Quattro Fromaggi (sans goat) & Classic Pepperoni
Beverage Choice: Pitchers of Moretti Beer
Lg Cheese Pizza: $18.50 (18”)
Attendees: Bobli, Ellios, Celeste & Tombstone
Guests: None

The Holy Trinity of accouterments was present on every table.

We know what you’re all thinking “What can the Guys say about Frank Pepe’s that hasn’t already been regurgitated by pizza enthusiasts a thousand times over?” Wait a sec…we’ve got one for ya, how about not living up to the hype! Now now, before all of you Frank Pepe’s fanatics lose your minds and collectively head out to lynch The Slice Guys, we feel that, given the prestige of Frank Pepes, an explanation is warranted here. Frank Pepe’s Chestnut Hill is the newest location in the Frank Pepe Empire. And of note, a few of the Slice Guys have had pizza from the original New Haven, CT location and the Manchester, CT location. We can attest that pizza from these locations is pure pizza nirvana. And is it the expectation set by these locations that we are basing our review of Frank Pepe’s Chestnut Hill.

Here is what we ordered: Continue reading →

Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza

Official Visits April 7, 2016 Leave a comment

Pizza Style: NY Neapolitan
Venue Style: Midscale dining with mostly pizza offerings
Food Orders: Classic Cheese, Eggplant Marino, Paul & Young Ron
Beverage Orders: Cocktails & Beers
Lg Cheese Pizza: $22.00 (16″)
Attendees: Bobli, Ellios & Celeste
Guests: None

“Pizza well done.” This playful double meaning phrase is prominently displayed on the walls and on the menu.  The reasoning for it has to do with the consistency of cooking the dough throughout in a super-heated oven fired by – you guessed it – coal.  Coal allows an oven to reach temperatures in the 1000 degree range, which means that the pizzas cook more quickly and don’t have a chance to dry out.  This process provides the eater with a chewier crust, but the byproduct is that the pizzas seem to be cooked “well done.”  Many people find that the char on the crust adds to the depth of flavor in the pizza, and when mixed with classic fresh ingredients, the taste is unmistakable.  Anthony’s uses fresh dough, made daily, along with an assortment of other fresh ingredients that certainly come through in the taste.  However, while there are some bright spots to Anthony’s – there appear to be some holes as well. Continue reading →