Friday, October 21, 2011
Pros: F’ing awesome slices & killer crust Cons: They don’t auto-magically transport slices to SF Crust! It’s not a dirty word anymore. Crust is king. Yeah I know I’ve said toppings are king. I say lotsa things. Ask my friends & clients. But anyone can go get some San Marzanos, a little dried oregano, some [...]
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Nearby East Bay | PIZZA! | |
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. [...]
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Capri, Italy | Hittin the Road | |
PRO: Good wine list, outdoor seating, excellent pies! CON: It’s in Naples?! OK, here we go again, Capricians. Lather, rinse, repeat. Soo, again for you slow-skis: What do we do after landing in Napoli on our way to Capri? That’s right, you in the front row! We stop by a Molto Bene Pizzeria to keep [...]
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 [...]
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Capri, Italy | Hittin the Road | PIZZA |
PRO: Excellent Bufala Margarita pie! CON: Nothing…well, maybe offer a white wine? It gets hot here! First stop after landing at the Napoli airport on our way to Capri? Pizza pie, kittens! From the source, to boot – Napoli, the birthplace of the Margy Pizza. We always have gone straight from the Napoli airport to [...]
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Paris | ITALIAN |
PRO: Great thin crust pizza CON: Service can be a little brusque at times (doi, we’re in Paris!) Yes, VdV is different. Vive la Difference! We zig when others may zag. Case in point? While in NYC, we dined at Cercle Rouge for great French food. Yes, the day before leaving for France. And now in [...]
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Lower East Side | ITALIAN |
PRO: Cute neighborhood spot, decent food CON: Definitely not an authentic ‘Apizz’ OK sucka, if you call it ‘Apizz’ make it ‘Apizz’. Hear me?! Straight outta New Haven, Connecticut, bitch! Somma the best thin crust outside of Capri, Napoli or certain areas of NYC or SF. That’s Amoré. Oops. I mean, that’s Apizz. And gimme [...]
Monday, March 22, 2010
SoHo | PIZZA |
PRO: Great pies, cool space, very good menu, solid service CON: If ya still hate Nate, you SF-ers! So, I like Pizza. Pretty much if you torture tabby kittens (F those Siamese) and still toss a great pie, I’m your friend. Hey has anyone tried that Tabby Kitten Pie at Little Star? Ooops. Just kidding, [...]
Monday, September 21, 2009
Chelsea | PIZZA | CASUAL
PRO: Good pies, fresh sauce, good service, good beer selection CON: Weird location, not as thin crust as we like our Neapolitan-style pies Hmmm. I am uncharacteristically speechless. Company Pizza is…’good’. That’s it. Like I said up there in the PROs section. ‘Good’. Well dammit I want my pizza experiences to be f’ing awesome do [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Monday, August 17, 2009
NoPa | |
PRO: Cute little place CON: Food, sp the Pies are way overrrated! Hey kittens it’s your pizza whores here at VdV. Thought we’d let you know we just had a frozen DiGiorno Pizza. Too bad we had it at Little Star Pizza! Yes, Little Star, where we’d heard nothing but “dude, if ya want the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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! [...]
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Richmond | PIZZA | CASUAL
PRO: good pizza, fresh ingredients and a weekly rotating menu CON: very small, so expect to wait I warned you, didn’t I, that we are on a pizza crusade? Yes. So not to let you down, I gassed up the hoopty (yes, this is the correct spelling, though you can also spell it ‘hooptie’ but [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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! [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Russian Hill | PIZZA | CASUAL
PRO: Great ‘hood spot, solid slices and good beers CON: Not much In my NY not-so-humble opinion there ain’t THAT many good pizza joints in SF. Bagels suck too for that matter. Get H&H overnighted from NYC. I think it’s the water in the dough but that’s another conversation. Za Pizza is a great place [...]
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 [...]