happy 2010 everyone!
in order to ring in the new year, i give you my first meal out: tacconelli's pizza.
its in philadelphia, my home town. its not in what we might refer to as the best suburb of the city, but this hole in the wall restaurant can't be moved, due to the brick oven built into the place. you can read all about it here (click to get to their website).
its also possibly the best pizza i've ever had - at the very least, its definitely in the top three. let's put it this way: when going to tacconelli's, one must call the restaurant starting ten am in the morning, and reserve the amount of pizza's you want for later in the evening. if you call as late as eleven, they may be out for the day. they only have the one fabulous oven, you see, and they can only do so much.
one of the plaques on their wall is from zagat - its one of the best restaurants in the country and is rated 'extraordinary' - pretty cool for a hole in the wall with horrid decor and practically no menu.
"what's this about the lack of menu? surely you jest," you ask. well, i'm not. here's a picture of their menu from the restaurant, which we did not need, as we knew exactly what we wanted:
see, i wasn't kidding. four items - although you can certainly vary the toppings. and, if you look closely, you'll notice that the only side available is hot peppers. no salad, no breadsticks, nothing. although it is byob. and, what did we order? four people and two pies - and we brought both beer and wine, which i did not partake in due to fear of migraines. but that is another story.
we stuck to the basics. first up was the awesome white pie, which we ordered with the classic combination of spinach and tomato:
its hard to overestimate this crust and the power of garlic. amazing. my dad's favorite.
in the other corner, we have the regular pie - lots of sauce and little cheese:
this one is my stepmom's favorite. mine too...
we all agree that two pies isn't enough. we're debating on what goes on top of the third.
tricky. tricky.
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