Venice Pizza & Trattoria

I’m not sure when the changeover occurred; but the sign out front says “under new management.” So past reviews may be very different from the ratings going forward. Not a bad looking pie, it’s a very traditional, thinner version of football pizza. The texture of the dough is tremendous; fairly firm, nice char on the undercarriage, surprisingly thin with great consistency, decent crisp and a crunchy crust, just boringly bland taste. There is an extremely light smattering of cheese that doesn’t quite cover the entire surface of the pie. The shredded mozzarella blend is disappointingly generic with minimal flavor. Speaking of minimal flavor, the sauce is shockingly tasteless. At first, I thought it was an issue of quantity; but the volume of sauce actually exceeds the amount of cheese. Devoid of any distinguishing flavor, the sauce needs some serious enhancements like garlic powder, crushed red pepper, grated Parmesan, fresh basil…anything to draw some taste out of this lifeless tomato blend. This is about as pedestrian and basic as pizza gets tastewise. The new management appears to be using very different ingredients from the previous regime. The quality texture just isn’t enough to save the overall score from the underwhelming and sadly disappointing lack of flavor.