Category Tennessee
Truelove’s Pizza & Grits – A Unique Menu Pairing in Columbia, TN
When I first heard about this place, I just couldn’t wait to check it out. As its name enticingly advertises, this culinary combination of Northern and Southern specialties was worthy of a road trip to a small town some 45 miles and 60 minutes south of Nashville. Columbia, a city of 35,000, is both the […]
UPDATE: Neapolitan-Certified Pizza-Maker Porta Via Shutters Franklin, TN Location
Original Review: 11/28/15 PIZZA SNOB RATING **** 1/2 Nearer Perfection Mrs. Pie and I saw this sad news a few weeks ago when we tried to make a gelato stop at Franklin’s Porta Via Italian Kitchen. Closed! According to the sign, the Nashville location on White Bridge Road will remain, albeit with a “brand redevelopment […]
UPDATE: Nashville’s Music City Pizza Closed But 12th & Porter to Reopen
Original Review: 02/10/14 PIZZA SNOB RATING ***1/2 Working on a Good Thing The recent announcement that legendary Nashville music venue 12th & Porter would reopen under new ownership made the Pizza Snob finally notice that Music City Pizza had closed back in February 2015 at the same time the music stopped. MCP had spent […]
Big Ed’s Pizza—Oak Ridge, TN Pizza-Making Institution
As we exited I-40 for the city of Oak Ridge, it was totally lost on me when my travelling companion said he wondered if everyone would be singing “Elvira.” To me, the city had always been the place with the nuclear power plant you pass on the way to Knoxville from Nashville. I had never […]
Porta Via in Franklin, TN—A Certified Neapolitan Pizza Success!
Sometimes it’s a stretch for me to leave my New York-style pizza comfort zone to try a Neapolitan style pie, even when I know it’s gonna be good. While nothing could take the place of a nice crisp folded NY slice, the Snob has happened upon a few tasty Neapolitan pies. My first experience with […]
Nashville Pizza Company–Not in Nashville and Not Very Classic
Looking for more local pizza places to pick on, I decided to go back to a place I hadn’t visited in several years: Nashville Pizza Company. NPC currently operates two places in Franklin, but does not actually have a spot in the Music City. So let’s face it, why didn’t they call it the Franklin […]
UPDATE: The Market Closes for Franklin TN’s Wall Street Pizza
Original Review: 10/16/13 PIZZA SNOB RATING *** ½ Working on a Good Thing The Pizza Snob isn’t sure exactly when, but the once-promising Wall Street Pizza at the Moores Lane and Franklin Road shopping center has vanished. Their former space has been taken over by the expansion of their former neighbor, the ever-popular Sopapilla’s Mexican […]
Pie Five Pizza Co.–A New Design-Your-Own-Pizza Chain Comes to Nashville
It seemed that there had been a lack of hometown attention from the Nashville-based Pizza Snob. So after “blogging-up” the efforts of my recent pizza travels, it was time once again time to ruffle some local feathers. My first choice for a new victim had been staring me in the face for several months. On […]
UPDATE: Franklin’s (TN) Brothers’ Pizza Changes Hands
Original Review: 09/26/13 PIZZA SNOB RATING *** Better Than Dominos In a February 2nd message on their Facebook page, the God-loving staff of Franklin’s Brothers’ Pizza Company announced that their Board of Directors has approved the sale of their business to “a couple of guys who know how to make a real New York-style pizza.” […]
Brooklyn Brothers’ Pizza—Changeover Brings Fantastic Pizza to Franklin TN
After several tries to “get the band back together,” my old pal Big Frank finally got The Snob Squad back together for another pizza-inspired Tennessee field trip. Big Frank was also the bearer of the exciting news that a drummer friend of his had teamed up with a pizza chef to bring some authentic pie […]
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