Pizza Review
Very sturdy and crispy, nice amount of sauce. Crust was a little tougher and blander than I expected considering the rest of the ingredients are terrific.
Pizza Review
Established in 1985, Abatino’s briefly moved to another location in 1998, but returned to the original spot in White Plains just 3 years later. This might look like football pizza but it’s actually rather thin, crispy, firm & tasty; not big, thick & doughy like traditional football pizza. This is more like a larger thin crust pie, but the crust is more substantial. Despite the crisp & firmness, there’s virtually no char on the undercarriage, typical of electric oven cooked pies. The cheese is melty & gooey with great texture and an oozy flow. A decent mozzarella blend but the taste is mostly masked because the cheese is drowning in grease. A true oil gusher, grease is spewing and dripping everywhere. Aside from some saltiness, the flavor of the cheese is difficult to detect as it is soaked in unmanageable oil. The star and savior of the pie is the sauce, punching through the blanket of grease with dazzling flavor. Sensationally sweet, terrifically tasty, both zesty & zippy, the sauce rises above and shines through the excess oil. Deliciously delightful, the sauce literally saves the pie from sinking below a 7 rating. If they could find a way to dial back the grease significantly, this pizza could possibly score in the 8s. The texture and taste are tops; with solid ingredients, this is fantastically flavorful pizza. Unfortunately, the cheese suffers the most by harboring a vat of grease. Luckily, the sauce helps the pie overcome the oil and pushes through to save this pizza. If they can somehow curb the grease, this could become travel-worthy.
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