Pizza Review
Really good and crispy, no flop with no fold

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Opened in October of 2023, these are the new guys near the beach in the Jersey pizza game. Variety is the spice of life; and this joint offers no shortage of different styles. Classic regular pizza & bar pies come in mini (10”), medium (14”) & large (16”) sizes, along with Sicilian & Detroit styles both 18”, as well as Square pizzas at 22” per pie. Each style is offered in 3 different tiers of varying specialty toppings & prices. I opted for the traditional regular gold medal classic cheese pizza. An aesthetically pleasing football pie, with just a smidge of orange tinge raising a red flag for excess oil, but the grease volume was more than manageable. With a beautifully blackened & firm undercarriage, the dough has quality crisp & crunch, particularly in the wonderfully charred crust to go along with a heavily smokey coal-fired flavor bordering on burnt taste despite no coal used in the making of this pizza. The texture of the dough has a nice balance between crispy & crunchy and soft & airy. More rigid & cratered than oozy & gooey, the shredded mozzarella blend is melty but only mildly creamy. With better than average flavor, the slightly above standard cheese doesn’t make or break the pie. Moderately savory & not particularly sweet, the sauce is rather simple with a subdued & understated flavor. There’s definitely some kick & bite with the seasoning providing a touch of spice & pizzazz, suppressing the sweetness for a more savory taste. Perhaps the Gemini Pie with the Dolce sauce is the way to go if you like a sweeter pizza. Overall, the composition of this pie is very solid, with all of the ingredients & attributes working really well together. Far better than average football pizza, this pie just misses the travel-worthy cut. The other styles are likely bigger attention-grabbers; so it’s probably worth making a trip here to try a style you prefer. For a place called “The Sauce,” that component really needs to dazzle; and while all of the ingredients are very good, each of them fall short of exceptional. But make no mistake about it, this is very solid, quality pizza.
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