Best Pizza News EVA!!

[edithspage.livejournal.com]

New pizza joint opening in Davis Sq. on Elm St. seeking Verace Pizza Nepoletana approval (VPN). It'll be the first in all of MA! Wood fired oven, buffalo mozzerella, San Marzano tomatoes, starter imported from Naples...

And it'll be a wine bar?

OMG, OMG, OMG!!!

http://www.pizzeriaposto.com/

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[arialas.livejournal.com]

Sweet! Keep me posted on when it opens -- we can have a double date & finally introduce husbands :)

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

Does "the first in all of MA" mean it's a chain?

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

No, I think they mean the first that would have "real Neapolitan-style pizza" certification, if they get it.

Perhaps I'll give it a try...

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Better be good, given the competition.

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[thespian.livejournal.com]

better be good, given the location...

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[mrcairo.livejournal.com]

what's the competition? Most of the pizza around the square is pretty mediocre.

[edithspage.livejournal.com]

No. It means it'll be the first with that special Napoletana (VPN) certification. There are only a few pizza joints in the country recognized by Naples as authentic Neapolitan styple pizza. http://anticapizzeria.net/vpn/

[edithspage.livejournal.com]

haha, I meant style pizza. Got excited with the "p's" there.

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[ursamajor]

And the history of said location. >_>

Haven't been since the week it opened; I wonder how the new veggie restaurant in the same block is doing.

[ron_newman]

Is this place open now? If not, when is the opening day?

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[ron_newman]

One of the competitors will be Flatbread Company, once they finish moving into Sacco's Bowl-Haven.

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[thespian.livejournal.com]

Pulse was packed on a thursday when I was there with a vegetarian friend from Toronto. The one thing I really wanted to try had been removed from the menu a day or two earlier, not because people didn't like it, but the chef was 'dissatisfied' with it (it was very popular and the waitress had been fielding inquiries about it all night).

The service was terrible; waitress took an order for an appetizer that they didn't actually have, and then there was no message back from the kitchen on that until we'd been waiting 20 minutes (ie, no one in the kitchen is reading the slips until they come up to be prepared, so we waited until then for them to realize this).

I had ordered a lemonade with the appetizers, when she came back to the table to tell us the appetizer wasn't available I had to remind her (20 minutes, remember; she had not once looked at us for me to catch her attention). There was no apology, just an 'oh, that's right!' and she got it.

We ordered the nachos, because we were starving, and we were told it was fast. They were surprisingly bland; the salsa had no heat, and I don't think that anything had been done to the guacamole other than mashing it; I found no acid citrus notes, garlic, or, well, anything. Decent but salsas and guac are things where it's *easy* to shine while being vegan. The only heat was in canned jalapenos.

My friend ordered the vegan reuben; it was tasty if you ignored that it was supposed to be a reuben. The sauerkraut seemed to also be canned. The sweet potato fries were good.

I ordered a dish of mashed yucca with lime-cilantro marinated grilled tofu. NOTHING had been done to the yucca except mashing it; no seasonings, it was just mashed. Bland bland bland. The tofu was flavour free. It was apparently marinated in lime juice over night, but it was left in big blocks, and nothing penetrated it (when I've done flavoured tofus in the past, I've made them myself and put the ingredients into the tofu before pressing, because tofu can be pretty impenetrable). I got my friend's opinion on it, and when he agreed there was a hint of lime that was more scent than taste, and no cilantro at all, I gave up and sent it back.

We'd been there over an hour at that point and I was just not into waiting any more when the chef came out to see what my problem was, and yes, his attitude was that of barely restrained anger at *me* for not liking his food. He started to tell me all the things he'd done to the tofu, like he just didn't believe I didn't appreciate it, until my friend felt he had to pipe up that he'd tasted it as well, and I was correct, there was no flavour to it, it was a big block of grilled tofu.

I like subtle flavours; two nights earlier at restaurant week at Gargoyles, I had wound up swooning over a 2-hour egg (that the chef sent out with his compliments when he heard we were fascinated by the cooking process). But subtle and bland are really different things; I was really unhappy with the flavours of what were supposed to be *bold* dishes, the service was atrocious, and the chef couldn't seem to handle criticism (and it was mild; I just told the server that it was too bland *for me*, and no, I'm not really interested in anything else, as my dinner companion is finished already).

That was enough for me.

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[ron_newman]

This is very disappointing to read. I haven't been there yet and this makes me less inclined to try it.

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[thespian.livejournal.com]

I think it was packed (and it's small; what, 18 tables? which helps) because you don't need to grill (so to speak) the waiter about everything there if you're vegan or vegetarian. My friend's food was good, if nothing to write home about (on sunday night he took me out to 5 Guys Burgers, and had a grilled cheese since they only do meat burgers, and referred to it as 'stupidly good. how does a grilled cheese taste this good??').

If it had just been the food (since the reuben wasn't bad), I would likely try them again, but the service and attitude of the chef, along with the prices (the reuben costs about twice what a reuben should cost with meat, which *is* more expensive) have made my decision for me.

[edithspage.livejournal.com]

Not open yet. Supposed to open in the next day or so I think.

[ron_newman]

They invited me to a private opening last Monday, but I had to say no since that was the night of the First Seder of Passover.

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[thespian.livejournal.com]

also where I am, Zing's, Beauty's and Pinky's, which are all excellent pizzas, will deliver to me. So you need to make me want to go out for pizza, somewhere a little upscale *cough*winebar*cough* and then you need to provide me with pizza comparable to what I can have brought to me at home.

You need to be able to draw people down from the square, which means they have to be *heading* there, because if you want something upscale, you will pass Diva, Namaste, Gargoyles, Martsa and Rosebud (which some people like,DSLJ opinions aside) before you get to 'the pizza place'.

They're a pizza restaurant, but their competition is *not* the pizza in the square, it's the other spots with a bit of pretention, and while they'll certainly get some people down to try it once, they need to get them to come repeatedly.

[wallacestreet.livejournal.com]

We talked to them yesterday while they were "testing out pizzas" and cleaning the place. They said they would be opening (presumably a soft opening) "this week", but wouldn't be pinned down to anything more precise than that. I can't wait and I think it's just the kind of semi-destination restaurant that location needs.

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[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Interesting, I wonder if it was an off night. I haven't tried the nachos yet, but several friends of mine (including one non-veg) have been going on to me about them at length (absurdly so, even). I have had Bob's Reuben (back at VN) and I thought it was amazing. He's also usually (in my experience, anyway) quite friendly. I do think they're getting way more business than they could have imagined and may still be figuring out how to deal with that. You're also not the first from whom I've heard that some dishes were bland, but it seems inconsistent.

But I don't think their prices are out of line given the quality of their ingredients. While a sub shop might have cheaper sandwiches, the ingredients are also that much cheaper.

That said, while I happen to like Pulse, I generally lament the state of the veg restaurant scene in the Boston area. It baffles and saddens me.

Now I'm hungry.

[etana.livejournal.com]

I would squee with joy - the pizza options in this area are dismal. Blah Blah Mike's....the place is overly crowded with frat boys and drunken idiots most of the time and they're damn over priced.

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[etana.livejournal.com]

good point. I forget that the competition in Davis is centralized to that tiny bit of the street *and* palate. I haven't ever even traveled far enough down the road to hit the failed Tomato/II or the long-since closed Bolocco.
Rough to be a business in this area. We're all lazy and poor!

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[trtls.livejournal.com]

The have a SALAD (called the Incan) that I crave! How many other restaurants can you say that about?! I've been twice, and both times were with my daughter at lunchtime, but have no complaints about the service. They specially made me coffee and kept it refilled (largely because they didn't think anyone else would drink it) and let me order sides of rice and beans for my daughter and were super nice about everything. I imagine they are a little less-than-awesome at busier meal times.

[trtls.livejournal.com]

Mike's is the worst pizza on the planet. If you want a slice, you can order whatever you want to go on it. They open a jar of said ingredient and plop it in the middle of slice. Greasy and piled high with mushrooms, for example, is not my fave.

not in Davis, but Pescatore in Ball Square does pizza....and....

[btm02144.livejournal.com]

it's delicious. Thin crust, great sauce, perfect mix of cheese and toppings. I live around the corner, so can pick it up and be into my first slice within 5 minutes of it coming out of the oven, and that helps.

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[etana.livejournal.com]

so when you're headed to my house, bring it! :)

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[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

It also depends on prices... How much are people rally willing to pay for pizza, even an "upscale" pizza?

[thebostonreader.livejournal.com]

I think the best pizza in the area is Pini's in Magouin. It's a slog to get there, but they deliver.

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

totally agree...although zing is a close second, imho

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[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Wow. Sounds like the owner needs to hear this.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

the atmosphere certainly does suck. But I'm strangely in love with their sicilian pies/slices - fabulous thick bready crusts. (Not that it's the last day of Passover and I'm drooling or anything...) Just don't order something you didn't want canned/jarred on top. Sicilian with ricotta and artichokes or something, though... and you can always pick it up so you don't have to encounter the cheap booze and sports on TVs scene.

[ron_newman]

It's opening this evening.

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[edithspage.livejournal.com]

Oh geez, you were right. We went last night & the food was tasteless. :(

[apricot3.livejournal.com]

how long has Pescatore had pizza?? i lived on rogers ave and had no idea... i'm not a big fish fan so i only stopped by once. i had a slice from zing's and wasn't impressed enough to get a whole pie. i haven't been to jumbo's yet, opened after i moved :P

also, i am in Looove with pini's cheesebread. but have yet to have dumplings from wang's.
and when is the new chinese place going to open in the closed jade garden?

[apricot3.livejournal.com]

sorry, it was pointed out to me that i didn't meant Zing's, but whatever used to be part of the Soundbites grille (across the st from the real thing) and i think is now called On Broadway pizza or something... but didn't it used to be called something similar to Zing?
i just tried to yelp the correct name of the damn place and it's not listed :P

so to backtrack, i've had pizza from the place on mass ave in porter which is Actually called Zing's and it's good, but kinda pricey (yay groupons for allowing me to try it)!
and yes, i know nobody cares but i thought i'd clarify anyway ;)