New Haven pizza, Day 2: Pepe's The Spot.

[randomness]

Very short summary: The Hartford Courant is right, Slice at Serious Eats is wrong. Adding bacon to the white clam pizza is overkill. The bacon's saltiness overwhelms the clams.

Nonetheless I ate nearly the whole pizza. One small slice came home in a box. Also I now have half a bottle of Foxon Park White Birch beer in the fridge.

I arrived at 4:15PM, took one glance at the line in front of Pepe's main location and walked to the back of the parking lot to The Spot and was seated immediately. I had my pizza within 15 minutes.

I am very full of pizza even now, four hours later. Next time, no bacon on the white clam pizza.

Comments

[ladybird97.livejournal.com]

Foxon Park white birch beer! Best stuff ever!

And now that you've had both, I have to ask - which won, Sally's or Pepe's?

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Amen about hte Foxon Park white birch beer. YUM.

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

Heck yeah!

I seem to think that the Trader Joe's brand root beer tastes an awful lot like what I remember birch beer tasting like, but I unfortunately can't make a good comparison out here... :)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I don't think it was a very fair test, given the different pizzas.

Clearly more research is required. :)

[ladybird97.livejournal.com]

Of course! it is FOR SCIENCE! :)

[tyellas.livejournal.com]

Ah, New Haven pizza. In my family, we avoid the lines by going to Modern.

Your posts remind me of the time I went to Naples and ate pizza twice a day for three days!

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

In fact, Modern is my planned third stop.

There's a blogging team out there who went to New Haven and visited Pepe's, Sally's, and Modern all in the same day. I thought that a bit excessive.