Pizza Review
-Delivery Review: Small, four slice, well done pie. Thin, charred but with chewy crust. Barely a crunch. Balance between layered mounds of gooey Mozzarella cheese and sauce was strong and bold flavored. Loaded. Salty. The overloaded cacio di Roma and Parmesan cheeses give it a savory difference to a lot of other “cheese” pies. Recommended.
Pizza Review
Any Penn student who takes pizza seriously agrees that Pitruco makes the best pie on campus. You can imagine my surprise, then, when I found that Dave excluded Pitruco from his West Philly excursion three years ago. Frankly, the entire trip was a disaster, beginning with Frankie’s nomination of Axis Pizza as “the Penn spot”. It goes without saying that Axis is most certainly not our spot. Dave quickly deduced this, but the damage was done — the vile slice, along with an awkward interaction with Mike the Bike, had rattled Dave’s famed pizza instinct. In an effort to salvage the trip, Dave visited Allegro Pizza and gave them an extremely generous 6.6 despite pointedly referring to the slice as “Drunk Party USA” (I would go even further and say that Allegro ought to be stripped and sold for spare parts — I think Dave thought along the same lines after trying their pizza, but was more preoccupied with containing fallout from the Axis disaster than with voicing his warranted concern). He even gave Smokey Joe’s a 6.8. And then he left. Ok, so how can Dave make this right? First, he should let Frankie go. Second, he should come back to Penn and visit the one pizza spot worth his time — Pitruco at Franklin’s Table. I visit Pitruco several times and week and still can’t believe how good they are. Despite working out of ultra-crammed quarters with a new, electric oven, Pitruco makes an 8.3 Napoletana small pie. How? The team takes pizza extremely seriously, sources ingredients in exacting detail, and is not scared to take risks via their weekly specials. They do not mess around. Dave — I expect a reply in the next two weeks.
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