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cjaquilino
If you have Portnoy's exact taste—crackery thin crust, crunchy, chewy, dry pizza, no grease/no flop pizza—you're gonna think this is phenomenal.
It's essentially that, plus it's New Haven influenced but fancy on top. I thought I'd like it, that sounds up my alley, but I didn't this. And I do like apizza.
My main thing is I *really* didn't like the dryness of the crust and pizza overall. The crust is closest though not quite Sally's crust out of the big 3 in New Haven, it's closer to a crackery pan pizza crust than a traditional hand tossed crust.
There's not much air the crust and it's dense. That's not something I like. Not to be insulting, but think about Elio's crust. It's like that but thinner.
That's not helped by the fact that contrary to it *visually* looking like it has lots of sauce, it's actually lacking sauce and the cheese is also lightly applied. And that's even with this being closer to a margherita than a plain, but it also lacks any creaminess from the cheese *or* fattiness from olive oil.
Shards of parmigiana are there but I could barely taste them. Basil was too fresh, almost tart tasting. Though I do appreciate both are there as finishing topings and that the pie is well done pie, to note two good things.
Hard to rate something I know other folks are really gonna like and I don't think is "objectively" bad. I actually give them props for bringing this style to Hoboken.
But I barely liked it more than typical slice joint stuff. Then again, I'd rather have a pizza place like this near me than those. The square is probably great.
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