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Daily Slice: Mozzarelli's, Flatiron District
I wouldn't wipe my butt with this pizza. It's terrible! And what's with the way they stack the pies half on top of each other? Looks unsanitary.
Daily Slice: Mineo's, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
I too grew up in the Burgh and for my money Mineo's proves just how accurate the Pizza Cognition Theory is. Way too many people love this horrible horrible pizza. Mineo's serves one of the worst slices I've ever eaten on repeated occasions (mostly because I used to spend a lot of time at then across the street now defunct movie rental shop Heads Together). The cheese is rubbery and tastes fake, the crust is tough, and the sauce is bland and uninspired.
Then again, a lot of people have complaints about *my* favorite Pittsburgh Pizza, Vincent's Pizza Park on Ardmore in Forest Hills, which IIRC you've also featured here, and one of my other Western PA favorites (Gino Gianelli's of Latrobe) would most certainly make pizza snobs (like me) turn up their noses.
Field Report: Hank's Bistro & Royal Palace
seriously? is this april fool's day? that garbage pie? blech.
i may need to go read the thread i missed about whether you can tell a pie is good just by looking at it, but heck, this pizza cannot be great.
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Gruppo's sister restaurant Vezzo is right near my office. we order from there once a month, and frankly I find their pies to be extremely disappointing. They use cheap ingredients that make the pies super greasy, there's not enough sauce, and the crust is too thin by nearly any standard. Also a big pet peeve of mine is that they put chopped tomatoes on their margarita (called the "fresca" there or something). Their super thin crust can't stand up to 1" square cubes of mealy tomato. They should thin slice the tomato, and they should make large meatballs and thin slice those too, rather than lumping small round meatballs on there. It's amazing how just a few small improvements could take their pizza from being kind of bad to pretty great.