Italia Pizza (4/03/2011)

 We’ve been trying to find a decent pizza place in our neighborhood to order from for the past 8 months that we’ve lived in this area.  And there are A LOT of pizza places around here (borderline between the Bensonhurst and Gravesend neighborhoods.)  So far, we haven’t found one that we really loved. 

We stopped at Italia Pizza on a whim, get a quick lunch while out running errands.  And it was promising.  Craig had a Hawaiian slice and a mushroom slice and Mari had a chicken roll.  The food was good, the sauce was flavorful, the pizza crust was very thin and the roll crust nice and fluffy, the cheese wasn’t too stringy and didn’t pull off the slice/out of the roll.  This place definitely deserves another try, a whole pizza next time.

Frank’s Pizzeria and Restaurant (04/08/11)

In our previous review of a pizza place we realize we should have mentioned that besides looking for delicious pizza, we are also looking for a reasonable price.  We do know of a great pizza place not far from our house (within delivery distance) but a large plain pizza goes for about $18 there.  We think that’s expensive.  But so far, with the cheaper pizza we’ve tried, we haven’t had much success.  So we are now looking for an affordable and delicious pizza.

We decided to try Frank’s because we got a coupon in the newspaper.  A large, one topping pie was offered for $9.99, which is a much more reasonable price.  We ordered a pepperoni pizza.  Craig reported that the person answering the phone was very polite and courteous and also the delivery was timely, within the half an hour that they promised.

The pizza was very good and really, all the components of the pizza were excellent.  The crust was thin, but not as thin as at Italia Pizza, the crust on the edges was fluffy, the sauce was delicious and the amount of pepperoni was generous.  The only thing that we thought was slightly off on this pizza was the sauce to cheese ratio – there wasn’t a lot of cheese on this pizza, but there was quite a bit of sauce.  It was juicy.  We are both cheese lovers and so we would have liked to see more, but the sauce was very flavorful and we definitely enjoyed it.   We would probably order from there again, but we are not settling just yet.