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Sorrento Ristorante 6/27/14 (revisit)

Posted by :L W On : June 27, 2014
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Today we revisited the first place we went when we began this pizza journey. Sorrento Ristorante is a family owned and operated located on Broadway in Alamo Heights since 2001. Our server today was Emily, granddaughter of the man who started it all, Gino Ciccone.

3 pizzas were ordered today knowing that the leftovers could be reheated for breakfast tomorrow. The crusts were made with a very tasty dough, but were a little limp at the tips of the slices, requiring support. They were thin and light, just as we like them. Perhaps a hotter oven or a drier sauce would perfect the crust.

The pepperoni pizza was greasy. Yes, greasy just like a pepperoni pizza should be. If it’s not greasy, it’s not a pepperoni pizza.

The second pizza we ordered had prosciutto, bacon, and pineapple. It was a great change from the traditional “hawaiian” pizza (canadian bacon and pineapple). The flavors melded well and made this a very enjoyable pizza. We would have liked have had pancetta on it, but it wasn’t available.

The third pizza was the Neopolitan with Baby Broccolini and Homemade Sausage. The broccolini worked surprisingly well on this pizza. The sausage was very good with none of the flavors overpowering the others as so often happens with italian sausage. There was a hint of garlic on the pizza which tied all the flavors together.

🙂 Friendly server

🙂 Cold Beer

😐 No draft beer

🙂 Chilled mugs

🙂 Friendly server

🙂 Quality ingredients

🙂 Restaurant atmosphere

🙂 Cool looking to-go boxes (Henry’s idea… too much Moretti’s)

3 pizzas and 6 beers set us back $73.66. Not too bad.

No, this is not a gourmet pizza place. This is an italian restaurant that serves excellent pizza. The food was made even better by our wonderful and friendly server Emily. We taught her a new way to pour beer. Ask her to show you.

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Freetail 5/23/14

Posted by :L W On : May 24, 2014
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If you like a good cold lager with a nice malt flavor, this is not the place for you. If you like ales with bitter hop taste, you’ll like this place. If you like great pizza, You’ll love this place.

We won’t comment further on the beer as we were not impressed. We ordered chips and salsa as an appetizer. The salsa was very good, but the chips were not very crisp. They had a stale crunch to them. And, there was no trace of oil. Maybe they were baked. We’ll have to try them again.

The pizza is a different story. We ordered 2 pizzas. As a departure from the norm, we ordered something vegetarian. The Mucho Mushroom pizza had sundried tomato pesto, shitake, white & portabella mushrooms, topped with Italian parsley. The best mushroom pizza we ever ate. Ever. Of course it is the only mushroom pizza we ever ate. Ever. We also ordered the Meathead pizza with tomato sauce, salami, pepperoni, canadian bacon, italian sausage, and bacon. It’s what pizza should be. Thin crisp crust that stands up and doesn’t flop. Just the right amount of sauce. And plenty of tasty meat. We’ll be back to do this one again.

🙁 Poor beer selection

🙂 Excellent crust

🙂 Flavorful toppings

🙂 Good roasted salsa

🙁 Poor beer selection

🙁 Stale chips

🙂 10 minute drive from Larry’s house

🙁 25 minute drive from Henry’s house (move dude)

 

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Grimaldi’s 4/15/14 (revisit)

Posted by :L W On : April 16, 2014
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Today we went to Grimaldi’s at The Quarry. It is a chain restaurant, but they have great pizza. Their brick oven is fired with anthracite coal.

We started with a Peroni and a Shiner Bock. The meatball pizza looked good, so we ordered a personal size. They lie. There are no meatballs on the pizza. There are only slices of meatballs.

Larry suggested grilled chicken and sun dried tomatoes on the next pizza. Henry suggested adding anchovies. So it was a grilled chicken and sun dried pizza with anchovies on Henry’s half. The stray piece of anchovy that crawled over to Larry’s side reminded him of why there were anchovies on Henry’s half only.

🙂 The personal (12″) pizza is only $9.

😐 The small (16″) pizza is $14.

🙂 The fresh mozzarella is produced by free range cows.

🙂 Anchovies and ‘meatball’ toppings are $2.

😐 Sun dried tomatoes topping is $4.

🙁 Grilled chicken topping is $5 (and a little scarce on the pizza).

🙁 Topping on half of the pizza is full price

🙂 Good beer selection.

🙂 Server Luan is great.

They dropped one slice of the small pizza on the floor in the kitchen and brought the pizza to the table missing the slice. They made another small pizza with the same topping to go at no charge ($18 value).

2 pizzas and 6 beers was about $65 including the tip. This is a little high, but the pizza was good.

 

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