Pizza Files 2010 Summer Binge, Stop Fifteen.

I had planned to eat at Pi during last years Binge, but it just never happened.  So I was determined it would happen this year.  I called some fellow pizza eaters that are fans of Chicago Style deep dish pizza and told them when I would be there.  That's how Pi became stop fifteen on the 2010 Binge.

We started with a BLT salad.  One pizza eater started dinner with a Purple Cow, not sure how he was able to eat any pizza.  For pizza we had a thin crust Margarita, thin crust with half pepperoni half pepperoni & sausage and a deep dish with half Berkeley half Kirkwood.  We had intended for the pepperoni & pepperoni, sausage to be a deep dish also, but I must have been talking funny when ordering.  We were offered   a new pizza but, we were all pretty hungry and didn't really want to wait the extended time for a deep dish to bake.  It was probably a wise decision.  One of the things about their pizza that makes them stand out from the crowd is their cornmeal crust, and I have to say I just wasn't feeling the love for it.  That includes the thin crust also.  I liked the thin crust pizza somewhat better than the deep dish, but I probably won't be returning any time soon unless somebody else is paying.  I guess the press coverage and general hype about PI had me going in with high expectations, your pizza may vary.


The Chief Pizza Eater.
8/8/10

Dewey's Pizza Part 2

It all started something like this:

The "Man" calls the "Dude" and asks the Dude if he wants to get some pizza? The Dude is all like "yeah man, cool". The next thing you know the Man and the Dude are at Dewey's.

I Reviewed Dewey's back in November 2008 so I will only talk about what the man and the dude had to eat. The Man went Greek and ordered a Greek salad and the Socrates' Revenge pizza (Olive oil, minced garlic, mozzarella-fontina blend, spinach, black olives, green olives, feta cheese, red onions and tomatoes). The Dude ordered a Peppercorn Ranch salad and the Southwest BBQ Chicken pizza (olive oil, smoked cheddar, mozzarella, black bean corn salsa, Amish chicken, roasted red peppers and BBQ sauce). I shall refrain fro the Dude and The Man for now. I had been eating a lot of pizza around the time of this review and I've eaten at Dewey's a number of times, so when I ordered I went out of my box some. The Socrates' Revenge was very good, I especially liked the olive oil instead of regular sauce. As much as I liked it I would probably max out with one or two slices. A small dose of olives go a l0ng way for me and the Socrates' Revenge is all about the olives. The Southwest BBQ Chicken pizza was also very good, not something I would routinely order, but very good for a change.

As with my previous visit to Dewey's the food was excellent. The pizza's both out side my norm were great and I would even order them again under similar circumstances. There are a couple of things about Dewey's though; 1. You will probably have to wait for a table when you go (20 minutes this visit for a table for 2 & 30+ on a previous visit with more people), guess if the pizza wasn't very good you wouldn't have to wait. Time, It's the price you pay for good pizza. 2. We had about 4 or 5 different people ask if we were ready to order. They do "Group Serve", were anybody can take your order and all tips are shared. I think we were taking a long time to decide and that's why we saw so many faces asking for our order. They were all quite friendly and attentive to our needs.

Dewey's Pizza is located at 124 N. Kirkwood Rd. Kirkwood, MO. You can reach them at (314) 821-7474, for more information check out their web-site(click on the title link).

Highly Recommended.

GAW

The Binge Part 6, unplanned Bonus.

I get a call Wednesday afternoon from a friend asking if I want to go out for dinner today. He wanted to go to Dewey's Pizza. I Couldn't say no... That's how Part 6 of the Binge came about.

On the menu was a Greek salad, Peppercorn Ranch salad and a large pizza with half Socrates' Revenge (keeping with the Greek theme) and half Southwest BBQ Chicken.

I have reviewed Dewey's Pizza last fall so I won't give this visit a full review, but will go into more detail about the pizza in the near future, when I get caught up...

GAW

Dewey's Pizza

Dewey's Pizza has been in St Louis for a few years and more specifically in Kirkwood since 2005. Dewey's Pizza is a small chain (16 locations) that was started in Cincinnati in the spring of 1998. My first taste of Dewey's Pizza was a year or two ago in Kirkwood, since that time I have made a few visits. Today was a Family gathering of 9 people, so I did the half & half routine. We went to the Ellisville location, arriving around 5:30 and had to wait 30-40 minutes. It was a packed house.

I started off the meal with a Peppercorn Ranch salad, it and the Caesar salad are the only 2 salads that don't start with the words "field greens". All of the salads come dressed and mine was no exception, the romaine lettuce had a light coating of peppercorn ranch dressing, just enough shaved Parmesan, and plenty of fresh tomatoes and red onions, not to mention the bacon.

We ordered 5 types of pizza, but I was only able to try 3 of them. Starting with mine and Akiko's, we ordered Half "Socrates Revenge" which included olive oil, minced garlic, mozzarella-fontina blend, spinach, black olives, green olives, feta cheese, red onions, and tomatoes. I had one piece and it wasn't bad, due to all of the olives it was a bit salty, but hay I've had worse. It falls under the if somebody else is paying I'd eat it. My half was... you guessed it, pepperoni, Canadian bacon, red onions and meat balls. As with the meat ball pizza I have had else where they are cooked and sliced prior to hitting the pizza. Starting at the bottom, the hand tossed crust is probably the best I've ever had, it's a bit on the soft side so you have to use 2 hands for that first bite or two, after that it holds up well. the edged of the crust looks like it has had a stick of butter rubbed across it once the pizza came out of the oven, and it tastes even better than it looks. Moving up one level, the sauce has a spicy bite to it and the very young may not like it. I could do with just a tad less sauce myself, not because of the spiciness, I just like my pie a bit dry. The toppings are all excellent, especially the meatballs. The flavors just melt in your mouth. A most excellent Pizza.

We all so had a Cheese pizza for the younger members of the group, and yes it had the same spicy red sauce as mentioned above, and yes the youngest member complained. There was a "Edgar Allan Poe" on the table as well it includes olive oil, mozzarella-fontina blend, mushrooms, roasted garlic (large whole cloves), kalamata olives and goat cheese, with fresh tomatoes and parsley after the bake. I was unable to sample the Edgar, but Akiko said it was a bit on the garlicky side.

Lastly we had a sausage, meatball and mushroom pizza. I did get a chance to sample it and it was very good. The sausage was very good, it was of the link variety and had been sliced prior to going on the pizza. The mushrooms were fresh, not a topping I would order my self as I'm a canned mushroom kind of person.

Dewey's Pizza leans towards the High Class sort of pizza joint that I'm not really into, but as I said in the beginning they have some of the BEST pizza around. I personal prefer to get it to go so that I don't have the long wait on a table and it lets the pizza attain the ideal eating temperature on the ride home. In the end you really can't go wrong with a Dewey's Pizza. Check out their web site for a location near you (click on the title above).

Highly Recommended.

GAW