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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 →

Luna Pizzeria

Uncategorized November 30, 2014 Leave a comment

http://www.lunapizzeria.com
Pizza Style: NY Neapolitan
Venue Style: Sit down/takeout
Food Orders: 1 LG sausage and mushroom
Lg Cheese Pizza: (15”) $14.00
Beverage Orders: Craft Beer

While on a business trip in the Uptown District of Houston, I had to hunt down a solid pie offering. Turning to Yelp, I filtered it down to Luna Pizzeria. Located in a strip mall, Luna has all the feel of a traditional take out place that you grew up with; order at the counter, beverages from a cooler or a soda fountain and even, and I absolutely love this, a table top arcade machine, (free to boot, bravo.) But where that ends, the high-end begins. This place is clean and sleek, with sharp lines and dark hues decorating the interior. It definitely was not what you would expect from a strip mall pizza shop.

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STELLA’S PIZZA – WATERTOWN, MA

Official Visits December 29, 2013 Leave a comment

StellasWatertown
stellaspizza.com
Pizza Style: NY Neapolitan
Venue Style: Take Out
Food Orders: 1 Large Cheese, 1 Large Meat Lovers
Beverage Orders: 2 Diet Cokes, 1 Sprite Zero
Lg Cheese Pizza: (16”) $9.95
Roll: Boboli, Ellio & Tombstone

It was a dreary day my friends but nothing was going to stop the Slice Guys council members, Boboli, Ellio and Tombstone from getting over to Watertown for their official monthly pizza meeting of the minds, adjourning at Stella’s Pizzeria located at 605 Mount Auburn Street. Tombstone took the lead with this month’s selection and much to the dismay of the others, research was not the first thing on Tombstone’s agenda; he was hungry and extremely anxious for something saucy and cheesy which unfortunately left Ellio twiddling with his piePhone in anticipation for at least an hour since Stella’s doesn’t open until 1pm on Sunday afternoon (a tad inconvenient and strange if you ask these Slice Guys).

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