Monthly Archives: November 2020

New York Pizza & Grill—Pizza in PCB

Desperately needing another pandemic break, Mrs. Pie and I took the chance on a November trip to the beach. Again, visiting our beloved 30A on the Florida Gulf Coast, we were truly blessed with a beautiful week with the weather forecasters being about as wrong as they possibly could be. This time though we stayed […]

Sauce It Pizza—At The Hub in Florida’s 30-A

Holidaying at the beach during COVID was a great getaway for me and Mrs. Pie. Trying to squeeze in one more pizza joint before we went back home, I took a chance on a place that I didn’t think would be too great. Leaving the sand for a quick afternoon snack, my intuition about Sauce […]

UPDATE: Matteo’s Pizza Space in Franklin/Brentwood Becomes Basil Garden

Original Review: 02/09/13 PIZZA SNOB RATING **1/2 Not a Total Waste       Matteo’s Pizza, who has been in Franklin for around 20 years has left he business. Starting out in The Factory in Franklin, they later moved to a location on Carothers that they pinned as Brentwood. Their space is now occupied by Basil Garden […]

Lola Coastal Italian–A Delicious Pizza Comes to Florida’s 30-A

With COVID isolation driving us both nuts, Mrs. Pie and the Pizza Snob decided that a safe escape from the confines of our Tennessee home was in order. Where safer than then fresh salt air and sunshine of our favorite place on the Florida Gulf Coast. Of course, once we got there, it wasn’t long […]

Florida Panhandle’s 30-A Update 2020

UPDATE: Florida Panhandle’s 30-A—Acme Ice House is No More Original Review: 08/07/14 Previous Rating: ***1/2 Working on a Good Thing Acme was a fun place with a varied menu and a decent pizza, but it’s gone. I’m probably a year or two late on this, but this season their ginormous space has been split into […]

Wood Stack Pizza Kitchen—Great New Jersey Pizza Surprise

My most recent trip back to the Pizza State was in February which makes for the longest I’ve ever been away from home. On the Sunday before I flew back to Music City, I met my brother and his wife for lunch at a new pizza place near Edison where they lived. Little did we […]

Ribalta—A Neapolitan Pizza in NYC

It’s now been nine months since I’ve been to New York City. That’s the longest separation I have ever had from my favorite city in the world and I miss it dearly. COVID has not been too nice to the City and to quote a former Manhattanite friend who has since left for Texas: “Everything […]

Paulie Gee’s Slice Shop–Brooklyn’s Best NY Slice

Having done this blog for over eight years, I am truly blessed to say that by now the Pizza Snob has gotten to visit most of New York’s legendary pizza joints. But, earlier this year before COVID hit, I visited one that had long lingered on my pizza bucket list, Brooklyn’s Paulie Gee’s. Intrigued but […]

Basil Garden Pizza—A (Somewhat) New Pizza Spot in Brentwood, TN

Brentwood is a somewhat wealthier than average American city located in between Nashville proper and the Snob’s home of Franklin. It’s a town that came to be from a lot of Country Music money, most notably from the late singer Eddie Arnold who once practically owned the whole town. The one thing about Brentwood though […]