src l.
Yelp
Makes me sad to write this, but TJ's has gone from a consistent 5 star to a 3 star over the last year.
The food has notably changed. It used to have what I considered the best Neapolitan pizza around - way better than Fuoco, better than Angelina's, just a smidge better than Pietrini. But now? It's bottom of the list.
The Neapolitan pizza dough doesn't have the complex tang it once had (do they no longer put sourdough in it?), the sauce is now more like standard NY-style marinara and extra herb-y instead of their authentic simple sauce style, and the crust is definitely no longer Neapolitan.
Neapolitan pizza should have a puffy edge that when you press down, it easily decreases a half inch and quickly bounces back up. There should be a spring to the dough. The pizza crust now is just flat, hard and crunchy. We have also been served some pretty burned pizzas - I expect char, but not when it's on 80% of the bottom of the pizza in way that makes it taste super bitter and burned. To add to that, they also no longer allow you to split the pizza to two flavors - my go-to was half margherita, half fig and leaf - and they charged me for the fig and leaf price and I had no qualms with that. But suddenly they can't do a split pizza.
Something has gone amiss at TJ's. I told my husband as we were walking out that it felt like watching your elderly parents decline. The food has gotten so subpar we no longer seek it out. Unless TJ's can go back to way they used to make pizzas, we won't be returning.