Check out Buttermilk Falls just north of town before stopping for a slice here!įor a pizza to be above average, we start to look at the increase in quality of the pizza as well as more than just a few key things that make it stand out. If you order this one to go, Beaver Brewing Company next door offers a perfect compliment in the form of delicious beer that would allow this one to rank just a wee bit higher if we considered outside factors beyond the pizza shop's control.ĭ&G Pizza is located at 1818 7th Avenue in Beaver Falls, PA. They're still cold, but you get a better balance of the warm crust due to the proportions which we can certainly appreciate. That being said the crust on this one is crisp, but not too crisp, and the toppings are not mounded up so high that you can't taste anything else. The flavors are good, the style is better than neighborhood joints by far, but beyond that they don't stand out that much. Much like others of this style, we call this one decent simply because we have not found one that has overwhelmingly impressed us one way or another. La Tavola is located at 1 Boggs Avenue on Mount Washington.ĭ&G Pizza in Beaver Falls serves up the local favorite Ohio Valley style pizza- namely square cuts with cold toppings (albeit with a small amount of cheese baked on-top).
#LOVE AT FIRST BITE DOWNTOWN NY PIZZA FULL#
We opted for the Nona Pina's Sicilian, their grandmother's specialty, which was only an onion based tomato sauce topped with basil, Romano cheese, and other spices- full of flavor and definitely worth adding on to any order!
The square cut Sicilians are a marked improvement with a thicker crust that has a nice solid bite to it (and is crisp to the point of being crumbly, even), which is why we're giving this one a boost into the decent category. We found the rounds to be somewhat disappointing as while the toppings were delicious there was a lack of focus on making a good crust and sauce altogether. The pizza at La Tavola comes in traditional rounds as well as square cut Sicilians. La Tavola is one of our favorite Italian restaurants in the city, but did you know that this Mount Washington staple has a pizza shop tucked away in the back corner? These pizza places do enough to distinguish themselves from the neighborhood joints, but may only have one or two hooks that get you to warrant a visit over a neighborhood shop unless you are truly in the mood for something specific. Restaurants with one or two pizzas on the menu are not included unless they are absolutely spectacular.įor a pizza to be called decent, it has to be just a cut above the rest. We are also not accounting for sides or other menu items in our rankings here- only the pizzas themselves.įinally, many restaurants in Pittsburgh serve pizza however, we are keeping this post to be either traditional pizza shops or restaurants with a disproportionately high number of pizzas on the menu (Italian restaurants with pizza menus would qualify). If you would like to make a recommendation, please comment below or contact us! Our global criteria is to answer the eternal question: “what makes this pizza stand out from a neighborhood pizza joint?” We'd like to think you know the type when we say “neighborhood pizza joint”- they're the corner shops that all seem to use the same low-quality ingredients, are dripping with grease, and have relatively bland flavor.Īs pizza lovers we can eat this all day without thinking twice, but it isn't to say we enjoy it much beyond the convenience aspect of it being literally just across the street.įor our reviews, we wanted to find the shops that stand out as being better- be it for their crust, toppings, sauce, sides, or any number of combinations. These are the kind of things we want to find on our quest for the best pizza in Pittsburgh.Ī Few Notes: This guide is only to be taken as a list of places we've been to and reviewed on our site so far. So when it comes to us reviewing pizza, we wanted to set out a fairly straight forward set of criteria that we look for in a good pizza- one that can be applied to all of our reviews. But if you don't know what the person looks for in a pizza, you may not understand what the big deal is about when you try it for yourself.
This makes taking in recommendations somewhat tricky as even the worst neighborhood pizza joint could have a decent following and give it glowing reviews. To some it is the sauce, to others it is how hot it is when it arrives, the quality of ingredients, the type of crust and how it is cooked, and on and on and on. Pizza is one of those food items you could ask any person on the street and they would have a different opinion on what “good” means. What We Look For as the Best Pizza in Pittsburgh
0 kommentar(er)
