Brixx Wood Fired Pizza – Staying Simple Can Be Appetizing
You would think that I’d pick pizza every time it was my turn to choose the restaurant for our family’s Sunday lunches, but I seldom do. Joints within reasonable striking distance are not up to The...
View ArticleA Snowy Saturday at Salvo’s Pizza in Smyrna (TN)
On a lazy March Saturday at my local Starbucks blogging table, I read a comment from one of my readers recommending Salvo’s Pizza in nearby Smyrna, a bustling little town southeast of Nashville. It...
View ArticleCaesar’s Italian Restaurant – Late Night Disappointment in Downtown Nashville
When searching for something to eat late at night in any major city, you can almost always find a pizza joint still open somewhere downtown. One recent Saturday night feeling a bit hungry after a Nick...
View ArticleCool Springs Brewery—A Reinvented Pizzeria in Franklin (TN)
It was a lazy Saturday night, and no one in the house felt like cooking. Ah! The perfect opportunity for the Pizza Snob to have a local pizza adventure. So, The Philosopher and I hopped in the car and...
View ArticleGreat Pizza and Fun at Millbrook, AL’s Capone’s Pizza & Subs
Looking for a place not too far off the interstate on our way to the Florida Panhandle (30-A) for Mrs. Pie’s and my annual beach vacation, the Snob selected a relatively new joint on the outskirts of...
View ArticleFlorida’s 30-A – Pizza on the Panhandle Update
Last summer on his annual vacation to the Florida Panhandle, the Snob set out to visit all the pizza joints on or around County Highway 30-A, the two-lane beach road stretching 10 miles from Santa Rosa...
View ArticleJohnny Brusco’s in Birmingham, AL—Is This Really a Chain?
The annual Florida Panhandle vacation was over, and the drive back to Nashville again offered the opportunity for a lunchtime pizza stop in Alabama. This stop, however, would be in Birmingham rather...
View ArticleCrust Pizza–Sewanee, TN’s Place for Cracker-Thin Crust
The Snob recently helped arrange an adventure bringing together the worlds of hiking and pizza. When Bassman Steve suggested we get a group together for a hike in the Tennessee hills, I thought we...
View ArticleManhattan’s Bleecker Street Pizza – Another Page from the Classic Slice Textbook
The time for another trip back to New York City had come upon me. While my pizza planning for the week was still underdeveloped, I had long decided that Bleecker Street Pizza in Greenwich Village...
View ArticleGreenwich Village’s Percy Pizza – Pretty Good for Only a Buck!
Last year, I was fairly certain that my one and only experience with New York City dollar pizza at St. Mark’s 2 Bros. Pizza would be my last. However, I was intrigued enough by a recent Village Voice...
View ArticlePatsy’s Pizzeria – Legendary Pizza Perfection in East Harlem
After finishing our business meeting midday in Manhattan, it was easy to entice my business associate from Tennessee into a New York City pizza experience for dinner. Since we would be attending the...
View ArticleJohn’s of Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village–Coal-Fired Pizza Delight
Knowing that John’s of Bleecker Street would be closing at 11:30 p.m., Music City Mike kept an eye on his watch during the final moments of the Dave Alvin show at the City Winery. Unable to find a...
View ArticleGreetings from Asbury Park NJ’s Porta Pizzeria
My brother and I spent a nice spring day down the Jersey Shore. I steered us first to Asbury Park, a place where I enjoyed the beach and boardwalk as a child then later followed its music scene. My...
View ArticleFreehold NJ’s Federici’s—Springsteen’s Favorite Pizza Still One of Jersey’s Best
My brother, Dodger Fan, is now used to the fact that spending a day with me often requires more than one pizza experience. True to form, I ended our recent day trip to the Jersey Shore with a visit to...
View ArticlePizza Land—Soprano’s Joint in North Arlington, NJ Delivers
My friend, Doug the IT Guy, asked me if I had ever been to the pizza place that shows up in the opening credits to The Sopranos (watch here at 1:16). Pizza Land located on the Belleville Turnpike in...
View ArticleBroadway Pizza Walk (Bayonne, NJ) Part Four: Late Night at Joe’s Pizzeria
Continuing to explore pizza in the city of my birth, my challenge this time was to see where I could get a slice on Broadway after 11 p.m. on a Friday night. Coming off the New Jersey Turnpike, I...
View ArticleNo Lie–Great Pie at Northern NJ’s Geppetto’s Pizza
Music City Mike, the other side of my blogging brain, was back in the Garden State again where he was lucky enough to catch another great house concert at Live @ Drew’s in Ringwood, NJ. Bringing food...
View ArticleFort Worth’s Campisi’s Pizza—Just a “Cut” Below the Best
One of the benefits of being the Pizza Snob is that everyone wants to take you to a pizza place that they have discovered. My latest such encounter was courtesy of my in-laws (Bud and Ally) in Texas....
View ArticleFort Worth, TX – Another Pizza Place Named Joe’s
Having free time in a different town sends a consistent message to the Pizza Snob’s brain: “Find pizza!” It was a stinkin’ hot Texas afternoon, and with some time to kill I searched for a fast slice....
View ArticleMama’s Pizza—The Best in Fort Worth? No Way!
Mrs. Pie first told me about Fort Worth’s Mama’s Pizza back in the 80’s when we lived in the Lone Star State. She reminisced about loving their Hamburger Pizza in her high school days. That was a time...
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