I've had almost every slice in Peekskill reviewed now. They changed owners since the last time I was here. But I don't remember enough about how their pizza changed from then.
Anyway, by default I score quintessential New York style pizza at a 7 and I dock or add points from there. This slice is as average as you're gonna get anywhere here.
Crust is not particularly crispy, 1/3 of the slice flops, it's medium cooked, and had no aeration in the crust.
It's a cheesy slice but more in terms of it's ratio of cheese to sauce not that it's loaded with low moisture mozzerella. Light amount of grease.
I would've liked more sauce here. What was there was mildly tangy, I can tell they use either canned tomatoes milled to the smallest size oruncooked before hitting the oven pizza sauce. It's not a pasty sauce or thick sauce, neither is it watery.
I liked that towards the center of the slice I got a huge pop of oregano flavor. That's good on a NY style pizza slice.
Sign said $2.75 a slice. I got charged $2.99. My friend went here *months* ago and it said $2.50 a slice but got charged $3.15. Not sure what that was about.
Annabella's is known in Peekskill for it's specialty slices. But they didn't look like they had many in the display box when I was there. So I'm not sure the new owners continue that aspect.
Antonio's, a couple blocks over, is the downtown Peekskill favorite and had been here as long as I can remember. They changed owners maybe 15+ years. I scored that too low, in retrospect. Partly because it's the nostagic favorite in town when it's just average NY style pizza like almost every pizza around. But Annabella's is interchangeable with it.
