Banana M.
Yelp
I decided to try the Brigade Pizzeria Napolitaine last night. It's by the same owner as Yeh! and I thought the idea of "make your own pizza" was really cool.
When I got there, the first thing that I saw was the 2 pretty awesome ovens, but the problem was that it was really hot in there and I can see that being a huge problem in the Summer. The menu was short but also a bit confusing, I thought the point of the place was to create your own pizza, yet most of the menu had pizzas with toppings preset.
I got the margherita pizza base because I wanted to add toppings to it but when they made the pizza (flatten the dough, add olive oil, sauce, cheese, basil) they immediately gave me the order ticket without giving me the time or choice to add extra topping. I had to ask them to go back and add toppings and reprint my ticket. The other problem I found was that the pizza was only so big, after 2-3 toppings the entire surface gets filled and there is no point is adding more. My husband got the sausage and pepper pizza. He he wanted more toppings but gave up since anything else they added they would place only a tiny amount on.
When the pizzas were finally made, it sat on the table for about 5mins before one of the staff (the chef?) came around and put it into the oven.
While we were waiting for the pizzas to go into the oven, the staff didn't have anymore customers so they were walking around and one of them made a really loud comment to the other along the lines of "There are so many fruit flies here. They are always clustered on the salad toppings... I wish they would settle somewhere other than the salads (laugh)" While the stafff said this, he was swatting his hand over the salad bar area and an army of fruit flies rose up. This is definitely something that I don't want at any restaurant.
When the pizza made it out of the oven, one of the staff that made the pizza became the waiter and served us the pizza with cutlery. The guy was very nice, but I was confused, is this a sit down restaurant? I thought it was a fast food style place.
In terms of the taste, the crust tasted like naan bread (which was pretty good) but the pizza had way too much tomato sauce and not enough cheese. The pizza was also wait too thin, I usually like thin pizzas, but I can't even pick up a slice by the crust without it flop over and all the toppings/cheese falling off.
I can't say the pizza tasted bad, but it is definitely not good enough to match restaurant quality pizza and its not worth paying $15 per pizza at this place. I would not return to this place.