Pizza

This week's theme was Pizza. I went to Piola, Brick Oven, and Giorgios.
















Piola (4): Located at 12th and Broadway, at 4:00, the place was not crowded at all. The atmosphere was very cool. There were lots of colorful and intresting looking lamps and huge abstract art paintings on the walls. There was a big screen tv that played the travel channel and the music was very subtle, not too loud. There was about 20 different types of pizza to choose from. You could choose pizzas with various combinations ofvegetables and cheeses, not just standard mozzerella but cheeses like brie and gouda. The pizza came in a decent sized persnol pie size with four slices. The peices were huge and I was full after eating two. The pizza was amazing. It had a different kind of flavor than most NY pizza places. It was thin crust that was slightly crispy with the perfect amount of sauce and alot of cheese. Even with all the cheese it wasnt greasy. (I hate when pizza is greasy). I orded a mushroom pie and the mushrooms were delicious as well. I tried a peice of a friend's pie that had four different cheeses: brie, mozzerella, gorgonzolla and parmesian. It was very good, I recomend getting that one. I also tried a peice of a friend's pie that had black olives. The olives were not cut up, they were the size of grapes which was a little over powering. I prefer olives on pizza to be chopped. I ordered a lemonade which tasted sour, I do not recomend it. The service was pretty bad. The waiter confused the order and gave us the wrong pizzas at first and tried to argue with us when we explained that we did not order what he gave us. We did recieve a 20 percent discount in the end, so overall I give the place a 4 for amazing food, great atmosphere but bad lemonade.

Giorgios (3): Located on 70th and 2nd, it was conviently close to school. The place was small, but not very crowded. The atmosphere was decent for a small pizza place. The service was a little slow. I ordered a pepperoni slice that came out so greasy that I had to dab it off with a napkin. The pizza was thin crust which was good, but there was nothing really special about it. The sauce was a little too sweet. There was oddly no parmesian cheese out, so I had to ask for it which was a little strange. I give it a 3 becasue the pizza was too greasy and flavor was okay, not great.

Brick Oven (2): Located on 68th and 3rd, this place is always crowded. The service was pretty quick for how crowded it was. I orded a vegetable slice. The flavor was dull, it tasted like the pie was sitting out for a while and even though it was re-heated, it didnt taste right. It was very bland, and the sauce had little flavor. I recomend this place if you want a quick slice of pizza, but dont expect it to be very satisfying. I give the place a 2 for lack of flavor, but decent service.

This week I went to 3 different ice cream places. I wanted places that were considerably different from each other so I chose Coldstone, Tasty D.Lite and Pink Berry.


Coldstone (5)
Being located at 42nd street in Times Square, this place was pretty crowded even at 12:30 at night. The great thing about this place is that it stays open untill 1am. The place had a lot of people in it but the service was surprizingly quick. I had the Peanutbutter Cup Pefection which is chocolate ice cream with peanutbutter, fudge and peices of peanutbutter cups. It was, I would say, the best thing I have had at coldstone. This place was great, open late, quick service, and the ice cream was amazing. I give this place a 5.

Tasty D.Lite (3)
This one was located at 36th and 3rd and a few people were there. The service was slow, and considering the amount of people that were there, I thought it would have been quicker. It took about 20 minutes to get a frozen yogurt when there were only 3 people ahead of me in line. I ordered a chocolate frozen yogurt with sprinkles. The yogurt was good but the sprinkles tasted a little weird, like they disintegrated the moment you ate them, almost grainy and sort of stale. The frozen yogurt was really good though. Their frozen yogurt is better than most places I think. So I give this place a 3 for poor service and stale sprinkles.

Pink Berry(1)
This was a bad experience from the moment I walked in the door. Located on 86 and 2nd, at 5:00 the place was understandably crowded. The place was small so the line was out the door, and the door was real narrow which made it difficult for people to walk in and out of the place. Everytime someone exited, the people in the doorway had to move, distrupting the line. It was hot inside and uncomfortable becasue it was so small. The menu was confusing, I had never been there before so I just chose the "Original". I expected it to be expensive and hoped it would be worth the 6 dollars I paid, but it wasn't. The toppings were cool, you could chose fruits like bannanas and berries and mangos and cereals like captian crunch and coco puffs. But the frozen yogurt didn't tatse good to me. It was a mix between frozen yogurt and sorbet, and the flavour was almost too sweet. They were stingy with the toppings, and without them, the frozen yogurt was not eatable. I threw half of it away and ended up dissappointed. The toppings were the only good thing about it, I give it a 1.