Pizza Review
Always go to Lillos, but finally decided to give this place a try! Lillos hours are a little bit of a challenge for us, so here we ended up! Enough about that joint. This place was very good! Better than the place that we aren't talking about anymore? We'll say you'll probably be happy at either place! The cheese steak here was great. You have the option of seeded or non-seeded roll, and they have like four or five different cheeses. We went with seeded roll, fried onions and Cooper sharp. It was phenomenal. Just as good as some of the big names we've had.... The tomato our was good. Was it or favorite of all time? No. Did it stick and disappoint us, no. It was well above average. Crispy and the ingredients seemed very fresh. For our tastes, maybe get extra cheese next time? The table next to us had a sausage pie and it looked amazing as well. Very good, you won't be disappointed. We ate in, thought it was a little chilly (everyone had their jackets on while eating), but that's a minor complaint.

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Pizza Review
Opened in February of 2022, seemingly as a response to Lillo’s Tomato Pies not too far down the highway in Hainesport, NJ. This has more of a strip mall, commercial, wannabe franchise tomato pie feel. Aesthetically, this is an absolutely gorgeous pizza; a super sharp-looking gussied up tomato pie with rich red & green colors and a beautifully blackened crust, immediately raising my expectations upon first glance. Tremendously thin, the dough is fantastically firm & terrifically tasty with a sensationally smokey charred undercarriage. The pie looks & feels coal-fired, with a remarkably crispy texture & super crunchy heavily charred crust that borders on burnt. Greasier than expected, the cheese is slightly subpar, with excess oil dripping from the butterfat in the significantly salty generic shredded mozzarella blend. Not terrible but a creamier fresh mozz would go a long way on a pizza like this. In typical tomato pie fashion, the sauce is smattered atop the cheese. Zesty, zingy, zippy, tastefully tangy, flavorfully fresh & sensationally sweet, the sauce sings with plenty of personality & pizzazz, despite being a smidge too savory from the substantially salty grease infiltrating the tomato taste. The fresh basil adds color, class & garden flavor, elevating this pie well above average pizza. Overall, the taste & texture are very solid, combining to make a quality pizza pie. This joint can hold its own among the top tomato pies in NJ and ranks as one of the better pizzas in all of South Jersey. They face some stiff competition from Lillo’s Tomato Pies right down the road; but this is also travel-worthy pizza, very good in its own right.
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