Kelly C.
Yelp
This pizza place is definitely the most "poppin'" restaurant on the street. We made it just in time before the dinner rush, but even so, the restaurant was packed on the inside--table to table, elbow to elbow--and it is not a small space either.
We were lucky to get a table without waiting, but ten minutes later there were people coming in and out of the doors and a long line outside. It was a cold night, but some people even opted to sit outside because the lines were so long!! They do do take-away so that is an option as well.
My favorite part about this restaurant is the ability to see the pizza cooking in the open flame oven. I was fascinated by seeing the staff making the pizza right in front of our faces.
Because it was such a, as I described it before, "poppin'" night, we waited quite a bit for our pizzas to come (around 30 minutes). To pass the time, we tried their fried squash blossom (comes with only one) and their suppli, which is like a fried rice ball filled with cheese. We didn't order the suppli at first, but after seeing about every table order one, we gave into the bandwagon and were glad we did. The squash blossom and suppli were filled with the perfect amount of cheese--enough for you to have to pull the hot melted cheese to keep it from stretching forever. They were both fried dishes, but I didn't feel the oil on it would make my face break out or anything ;p. I LOVED both of these appetizers and am drooling just thinking about it.
When we finally got our pizza, I was way past starving so I wolfed it down. I ordered the cappricciosa which comes with olives, mushrooms, artichokes, eggs, ham, tomato, and mozzarella. It seemed like there would be a lot of toppings, but it was just a few of each of the vegetables. Either way, the pizza was steaming and definitely enough to fill me up. I however, didn't think the flavors were amazing. First of all, the pizza is incredibly thin so it is more like 2 tortillas stacked up on each other. I personally don't like thin crust so I didn't like how the pizza kept cracking and flaking. The flavors are really light, not overly seasoned, and it definitely wasn't that made my taste buds go on a roller coaster.
Weird not, the pizza does hold up if you take leftovers and I really enjoyed it the second day (hah!).
I didn't have a problem with any of the servers, but it was a wait so fill up on those appetizers! Overall, 3.5: the pizza wasn't amazing but I still enjoyed the meal!