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UPDATE: Florida Panhandle’s 30-A—Pizza by the Sea Expands to Three Locations
Original Review: 10/07/12 Previous Rating: *** Better than Dominos The new king of pizza on the Florida Panhandle is Pizza by the Sea. After starting out in central 30-A in Watercolor, the family-friendly place went west in 2015 to Santa Rosa Beach (taking over the former Amore Pizzeria space) and then east this season to […]
UPDATE: Florida Panhandle’s 30-A—Amore Pizzeria Space is Now a Pizza by the Sea
Original Review: 10/07/12 Previous Rating: ***1/2 Working On A Good Thing Two summers ago, Mrs. Pie and I enjoyed a delightful pizza at a sweet rooftop patio location in Santa Rosa Beach. Had we not skipped it last year, we would have learned that Amore Pizzeria had vacated the space for the then second location […]
UPDATE: Florida Panhandle’s 30-A—Peppinos Pizzeria Lasts Only One Season
Original Review: 05/23/15 Previous Rating: **** 1/2 Nearer Perfection The Pizza Snob’s excitement last year about real New York-style pizza finally coming to the Redneck Riviera was short-lived. Unfortunately, after only a single season, Luigi from Connecticut has shut down Peppinos Pizzeria & Ice Cream Shop. In the dark until my recent annual beach vacation […]
UPDATE: Bayonne’s Tony’s Pizza Closed Once Again—Is This the End?
Original Review: 09/22/12 PIZZA SNOB RATING ****1/2 Nearer Perfection Last Update: 09/21/14 PIZZA SNOB RATING ****1/2 Nearer Perfection In September 2014, one of Bayonne’s best and most-loved pizza joints gave us all a scare when it shut down suddenly without any warning or notice. Eventually, its owner (Tony’s son) told us it was just for […]
Tommy’s Pizza—An Ugly-Looking Slice in Columbus, Ohio
Music City Mike was in Columbus to see his fave live musical act, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, at the Schottenstein Center on the Ohio State campus. Pre-show I camped out at a nearby Starbucks on Lane Avenue to clear out my e-mail box and write about pizza. Lo and behold across the […]
Columbus, Ohio’s Rubino’s Pizzeria—Charming and Better Chicago-Thin than Donato’s
On an early spring work-related trip to Columbus, I landed in town just in time for a late lunch. It would be pizza of course, and I tracked down a new joint not too far from the airport. Heading southeast into the Columbus suburb of Bexley, I made my way towards Rubino’s Pizzeria. Not that […]
Sharkey’s Square Pizza– Good Squares and Rounds on Staten Island
The Sunday afternoon matinee show at Hamilton Park House Concerts was over, and it was time for another new Staten Island pizza adventure. For the uninformed, the Island is a big place evidenced by its 14 zip codes—so there’s a lot there to seek out. My web wandering found a worthy-sounding place called Sharkey’s Square […]
Val’s Pizzeria – Staten Island Joint Gets It Right
Readers of this space know that I originally hail from the fine city of Bayonne, NJ. What some may not know is that my home town is just a short hop away from New York City’s oft-forgotten borough of Staten Island. It’s a costly place to visit with the only current way of getting there […]
New York City’s Champion Pizza on Essex Street–The Best Slice in Town….not!
I’m confused. There are three pizza joints with the name “Champion” that are in close proximity to one another in Lower Manhattan. The Snob previously scored a decent slice at Champion Pizza Soho over on Cleveland Street. While the one on Ludlow Street remains unexamined, I was recently lured into the Champion Pizza on Essex […]
Nonna’s L.E.S. Pizzeria—Manhattan Home of the “Magic Squares”
As I watched the singer-songwriter at the Mercury Lounge wind down his show-ending encore, I realized that I lacked a new pizza destination for an after-show slice experience. Bad planning aside, I was also thinking that by now I may have also exhausted all of my pizza possibilities on the Lower East Side. So, at […]
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