🇬🇷GREEK PIZZA ALERT🇬🇷 Established in 1987, this joint is owned & operated by brothers Louie & George Stefanatos. They actually claim to be the first restaurant to deliver pizza in Norwalk, CT, which is fairly shocking no one offered that service before 1987. It might be hard to tell by looking at the picture, but this is Greek style pizza, surprisingly cut into normal triangular slices instead of typical squares like just about every other Greek pie I’ve seen. Greasy & buttery with the usual spongy undercarriage, this is signature Greek style dough. Rather light & airy, weighed down mostly by the thick sheet of cheese, the dough has an oily consistency, similar to Pizza Hut, with the grease infiltrating the crunchy, yet stale-textured crust. Substantially heavy & significantly thick, harboring a fair amount of grease, the cheese blankets the entire surface of the pie, maintaining that standard Greek pizza cheese taste. Near the center of the pie is a rather odd cheese crater; bright white & sauceless, it’s like a reverse cheese bubble, which I have never seen before. Using what they call an “Old World recipe,” the sauce is zesty & zingy, not particularly sweet, very typical of signature Greek pizza sauce. Various spices provide pizzazz; however, there is a slightly acidic aspect to the sauce. Outweighed by the ample amount of cheese, the sauce could use a bit more volume to balance the pie. Overall, this is not my favorite style of pizza; but it’s definitely more tolerable than terrible, actually very solid if you’re a fan of Greek pies. Maybe not cutting the circular pizza into squares psychologically boosted the rating in my head, as this is the highest score I’ve ever given a Greek pie. Connecticut seems to have more Greek pizzerias than NY & NJ combined. I wish they’d hang a Greek flag outside or in the window to indicate their type of pizza; then maybe I’d order a lamb gyro or chicken souvlaki instead of a pie. All in all, this is one of the better Greek pizzas I’ve ever had but not even close to as good as a regular New York style, traditional Italian pie.
