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winebill: It's his character on the show, like it or not. Check out the BBC's "Kitchen Nightmares" for scenes of him acting like a normal, intelligent person.

Ah, greenwashing... nothing fresh or "sustainable" can ever do wrong. Instead, let's just change the subject to Domino's, which has absolutely nothing to do with the thread.

Looks like more of a mess than a margherita pizza.

The bar is made of that same stone that was used to make old-school lab benches... though if you order a beer, it comes in a regular pint glass.

I could barely watch that one episode of Kitchen Nightmares USA without hurling something at the TV. The UK show is fantastic, but the typical FOX jerkasses at FOX who produce the US version have decided to make it a typical US reality show. There is this literally incessant music in the background, mostly pizzicato string "this is silly" music and sometimes overly dramatic orchestra stuff, along with screeching knife and gong and explosion noises to make things more dramatic. There are some flies at the restaurant in this episode and they keep re-playing the same "fly buzzing" stock sound effect and a video clip of a fly alighting from a napkin, at least 10 times in 5 minutes. Instead of showing Ramsay having honest conversations with people in the restaurant, they cut it up into little clips that make him look like he's lost his temper. They constantly cut away to those "confessional" clips of various people from the restaurant sitting in an empty room talking about how things make them feel. Ramsay tells a man to not talk on his cellphone during service, and we're treated to a faded-out flashback of the last time we saw the man using a cellphone during service, as if we're too dumb to remember things that happened in the last act. They pretty much do everything possible to insult my intelligence and work against the excellent material they've got to work with (a dirty restaurant with bad teamwork).

Appropriately enough, comparing the US version to the UK version is like comparing one of the Kitchen Nightmare restaurants in its "before" state to its "after" state. Just horrid, cluttered, disrespectful to the good product it has available, unpleasant, no focus or pride in itself or its viewers.

Pizza is one of my favorite food and A Pizza Heaven is by far my favorite pizza ever, not only in Sedona, but across the country. Dave's Pizza Rocks!!!

Brown is Beautiful.

I love his "Hustler" oven.

Polly-O is some great great GREAT cheese.

I don't know. I kinda have a soft spot for browned cheese, which is basically how every pizzeria I grew up with did it. I think that, outside NYC and a few select pizza towns, browned cheese = "pizza's done!" I actually miss the taste and texture at times and am pleasantly surprised by it when I do get a pizza like the one pictured above.