Category Tennessee
Gina’s in Franklin, TN – Great New Italian Spot Serves Good Pizza Too!
Sometimes the Pizza Snob falls asleep at the switch. A new pizza place opened in my adopted hometown of Franklin, and if not for my friend Pizza Joe, I might still have not heard about it! In late 2014, Gina’s Stonefired Italian & Pizzeria opened shop in a newer strip in the Target Shopping Center […]
UPDATE: Pizza Changeover in Spring Hill, TN–Samboli’s Space is Now Nelly’s
Original Review: 12/20/12 PIZZA SNOB RATING **** Near Perfection On a recent trip south to Spring Hill, my visit to a new pizza place, Nelly’s Italian Cafe, found that it was a takeover of the former site of Samboli’s Family Restaurant and Pizzeria. Nelly’s has a new ownership with ties to Nashville’s Joey’s House of […]
Nelly’s Italian Cafe—Ownership Change for Spring Hill, TN Pizza Location
The Pizza Snob doesn’t venture much into the Southern Williamson County town of Spring Hill. The last time was to help my son, The Kid, buy a car, and this time it was to help support a friend’s efforts to restore an old fire engine called Fire Belle. It was a mere coincidence that both […]
DaVinci’s Pizza and Calzones in Knoxville—Dishonoring to the State of New Jersey
For the second weekend in a row, the Pizza Snob somehow found himself in Knoxville. Although this trip came with no specific pizza plans, the inevitable was sure to happen. A late Saturday afternoon stroll with Mrs. Pie through a quiet Old Town led me to a sign that stopped me in my tracks: “New […]
Dazzo’s Pizzeria—Good New York Style Pie in Knoxville
The Philosopher and I still had time to kill before our evening’s concert entertainment in Knoxville. So we left our disappointing pizza experience at The Tomato Head to grab a slice at a place my other son, The Kid, recommended. We were clueless about its actual name and location since The Kid’s full intel was […]
The Tomato Head—Knoxville Restaurant’s Pizza Disappoints
Knoxville, about a three-hour drive east from Nashville on Interstate 40, is a city that The Pizza Snob has seldom visited. Recently, my son, The Philosopher, and I made a trip there to see Elvis Costello at the drop-dead gorgeous historic Tennessee Theatre. This gave me to chance to knock another pizza joint off of […]
Joey’s Pizza Truck—Nashville’s Best Pizza Goes Mobile
When local radio station Lightning 100 kicked off the sixth season of its Live on the Green outdoor concert series, there was a new addition to the line-up of food trucks parked along Deaderick Street. Joey’s on Wheels, the pizza truck run by Joey’s House of Pizza, was there doing a brisk business. At usual […]
UPDATE: Sal’s Family Pizza in Franklin, TN—Better By the Slice?
Original Review: 08/12/12 Previous Rating: ***1/2 Working On A Good Thing It had been a long time since I had some hometown pie at Sal’s Family Pizza. Chalk it up to a mediocre experience last time out and an abundance of new places to try. I recently needed a meeting place for a bunch of […]
UPDATE: Nashville’s Pizza Perfect—Bellevue Location
Original Review: 08/22/12 PIZZA SNOB RATING **** Near Perfection Over the years, the Pizza Snob has made many visits to Pizza Perfect on 21st Street in Nashville. I figured it was about time that I visited their Bellevue location. I did so recently when Mrs. Pie and I found ourselves on the west side of […]
Downtown Nashville’s Luigi’s City Pizza—Another New Disappointing Slice
So much has happened here in Music City since January 2013 when the New York Times called us America’s new “it” city. For one, there has been the flurry of new but disappointing pizza joints. Following on the heels of Music City Pizza and Al Taglio is Luigi’s City Pizza which recently opened downtown on […]
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