Sunday, September 11, 2011
So our bud Matthew, who runs the show over at Paragon Restaurant (front of the house, don’t get pissed Spencer!), and who is an east bay dweller, and who is acutely aware of our affection of Napoli-style pies, told us about Rotten City Pizza, located somewhere off the grid in a faraway place called Emeryville.....more
Monday, August 23, 2010
East Village | PIZZA! | PIZZA
PRO: Best Margy pizza in the U.S. of F’ing A CON: $10 dixie cup-sized wine So we went on a mini-Pizza crawl today in NYC. Constantly searching for the best pie in the best pie town in the Continental U.S. (‘cuz y’all know Hawai’i and Alaska can rock Pizza, gotta leave them out!) We also....more
Monday, June 28, 2010
Capri, Italy | PIZZA! | PIZZA
OK first, let’s get a few things straight: 1) You’d have to try pretty damn hard to have a pizza here that’s not tasty. Either that, or you’re onna those types who only like Sicilian deep-dish. Or you’re just a Pizza Hater. OK, we did find one place, after 4 visits here over the past....more
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Marina/Cow Hollow | PIZZA! | ITALIAN | FANCY & SCMANCY
PRO: Great wine list, solid menu, nice vibe, excellent service CON: Pizza was a little disappointing this time. WTF?! Yee haw! The pizza bitches ride again! Performing our civic duty to provide you, loyal VdVers, up-to-the-minute (ok, maybe up-to-the-week…sometimes month) pizza reviews. Anyhoo we hit one of our faves yesterday, A16 to take their pie....more
Friday, August 28, 2009
PIZZA! | South Beach/SOMA | ITALIAN | CASUAL
PRO: Great food – Some of the best thin crust in SF, excellent Lasagna CON: Not much, a little light on the ambiance perhaps I never think of strip mall restaurants in SF. I mean, there’s a few but typically ya find ‘em in Phoenix, Jersey, Daly City, Roseburg and numerous un-named suburbs and crappy....more
Monday, August 3, 2009
PIZZA! | Potrero Hill | PIZZA | CASUAL
PRO: One of the best Napoli style pies in SF, excellent Linguine w/ Clams, great staff, reasonable prices CON: None, really. Finally! Another good reason to come to lower Potrero Hill besides an Anchor Steam Brewery tour. And if any of ya are saying “VdV, what do you mean? Are you forgetting about the new....more
PRO: They sell it by the slice, good if you’re in a hurry CON: One slice is about all you’d want, and they don’t serve beer Yeah, you know. We’re always on the hunt for killer thin crust ‘za. VdV is insatiable in our quest to find the best pies and slices out there. And....more
Friday, July 24, 2009
North Beach | PIZZA! | ITALIAN | CASUAL
PRO: Authentic Naples feel, nice space, very nice people. CON: Maybe an ‘off night’, but it took forever to get our order, the pies were way too doughy and the sauce was lacking taste. We hit this place last night, thought we’d give it, oh, 5 nights of being open to work out the kinks!....more
Monday, June 29, 2009
North Beach | PIZZA! | PIZZA | CASUAL
PRO: Tony, Bruno & Noble are awesome, excellent pies of all styles CON: nothing really OK, we’re back, and we’re on a pizza crusade, bitches! Tony Gemignani and Bruno DiFabio opened this awesome pizza place on Friday, and it looks like they have what it takes to make a winner out of a great location....more
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Hittin the Road | Lake Tahoe | PIZZA! | PIZZA | CASUAL
PRO: Awesome thin crust pies in…Tahoe! CON: Sometimes have to pound on the window to wake them up So we’re sitting at our now defunct favorite Mexican restaurant in Tahoe City complaining like whiney little bitches about how bad WC Pizza usually is, as we do, when our Tahoan friend Jason exclaims “Wait a minute,....more
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Greenwich Village | PIZZA! | PIZZA | CASUAL
PRO: Authentic NY Pies, good scrappy vibe CON: Lines can be a little long So ya may have heard – we’ve been on the hunt for the perfect pizza lately. Especially when we visit our home away from home, NYC. You can thank our clogged arteries and sky-high cholesterol for all this work, you VdVers!....more
PRO: Cool little space CON: Way overrated pies Hi. So last Sunday afternoon we got a wild hair and ventured outside of the comfort of our SOMA hood…to..the…MISSION! OMG. “Oh no you didn’t”‘ “Oh yes we did beeyatch”. Anyhoo, we love the Mission, big fans. Just have to get off our good for nothing asses....more
PRO: Great NY-style thin crust pies, other great chow too CON: No resies! So last night, we ventured out of our comfortable South Beach ‘hood, along with our friend Candida to…The Mission! Yipes, on a Saturday night?! To a restaurant that doesn’t even accept resies? To a place about as big as a troll’s first....more
PRO: America’s first pizza! Classic NY spot, great pies CON: Popularity makes for long waits. Waahhhh! So in addition to discovering the best of the best buffalo wings, we’re also on a mission to find the best pizza outside of Capri Italy, which would just so happen to be the pizza at Ristorante Aurora (OMG....more
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Midtown West | PIZZA! | ITALIAN | CASUAL
PRO: Great super-thin crust pizza CON: Not if you’re a crispy crust fan OK first things first. No whining (or unsubscribing;) about this being the first post in a month, and then NOT having it be SF-related. We’re gonna start cranking out local slop real soon! Oh yeah, Happy New Year! So, do ya wanna....more
I don’t know why I’ve waited so long to go to this place. John’s been but alas, I have not. So when our friend Aarti said, hey let’s do Delfina for “D” (she’s wading through restaurants in our great city by the alphabet) I said Heyohhh, I’m in. Secretly I was “dying” to try out....more
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Marina/Cow Hollow | PIZZA! | ITALIAN
This southern Italian restaurant ain't no Hawaiian Pizza' joint…do not ask for Pineapple on top! (as a mother-in-law of one of our friends recently did. Ouch). This place is groovy and serves up some of the only authentic thin-crust pizzas around. Umm mmm. As your source for 'the places to be', we're a bit embarrassed....more