Glenn E.
Yelp
New location with great tasting food but occasionally chars the pizza and food in a very hot, wood fired oven (down rated by one star)
3/5 Chicken Cacciatore (corrected spelling)
- standard chicken thigh reheated in the wood pizza oven was moist and the accompanied broccolini would have been good if it was not slightly burnt. Baby potatoes were reheated had a thoroughly cooked texture. Chicken topped with a "Sunday" tomato sauce had a flavorful spiced accent.
3.5/5 Cannoli desert- slightly granular ricotta filling in a crunchy brown, rolled-up crust and pistachio crumbles (not as flavorful) on the top. It definitely needed to be slathered in the chocolate-like icing under the cannoli to improve the taste experience.
3/5 the "Steve" Pizza. Loved the ingredients. Great sauce, cheese and house mozzarella topped with an average pulled beef short rib with a stewed beef taste that blends in with the other good topping ingredients. Probably a one- off, the black burnt leopard spotting on the back side of the crust was too much of a percentage of the area and crumbled off like black scraped toast powder...Not tasty. If you are not used to the leopard spot experience, it is more for aesthetics than taste. Ask for no or very little burnt spots on the crust and you will love the topping flavors.
3.2/5 3-large Meatball/red red sauce/basil pesto/ricotta on the "small bite" appetizer menu. A glaze hardened meatball bottom in a tasty tomato sauce.
Overall- A really great taste experience if you ask for no char. The inadvertent leopard spots on broccoli, meat ball bottoms and powdered black ash, burnt pizza crust comes from a sometimes crowded oven, perhaps not allowing rotation and concentrating hot spots. Let the cook know you do not want "powdery" burnt spots on your pizza to get a truly uplifting gourmet experience.