Monthly Archives: February 2017

Jonesing for Pie in All the Wrong Places – Part Two: Famous Famiglia

A few years ago when I was just a young pizza snob, I wrote the first half of a theme piece picking on two seemingly ubiquitous pizza chains: Sbarro and Famous Famiglia. After giving my thoughts on Sbarro in the previous blog post, it’s now time to go after Famous Famiglia. What both have in […]

Nicky’s Coal Fired – Tasty Coal-Cooked Pizza Comes to the Nations in Nashville

When the Pizza Snob moved to Nashville back in 1998, the launch of a new restaurant was a big deal. If something new and interesting got added to what otherwise might have back then been considered slim pickings, Mrs. Pie and I usually planned a visit right away. Today, in booming Nashville, eating places pop […]

Rocco’s Wood Fired Pizza—Tasty Takeaway Spot in Fort Worth

It was the usual Christmas week in Texas, and our house full of family and critters kept us home inside most of the time. For the day we did plan to visit Forth Worth, I did my best to work in at least one pizza stop. Having attacked this town pretty hard over the years, […]