12/16/2023 0 Comments Pizzicato bankers hill![]() We spoke with the owner who was the only one working that evening. It’s a pretty small spot right off Cass Street near Garnet Ave. Our next stop was over in Pacific Beach to a new place called Lu Pizzetta. It tasted overcooked and the ends of the crust were really hard to bite into. It was incredibly dry and the bottom looked a bit burnt. Jake thought the sauce to cheese ratio was much better here and he liked the meatball/sausages. The pepperoni didn’t taste good to either of us – it was quite salty. This was a pretty greasy slice of pizza, but then again, it did have three different kinds of meat on it. Pizza model Jake with the meaty chosen slice. And I just kind of stood there waiting for him and another guy working there stared at me, didn’t say anything, left the counter and did that about 2 more times before asking me if I wanted to order. There was a guy at the counter who had to take a phone call and couldn’t serve me. Jake picked out a slice for us and then went off in search of the bathroom while I ordered. Here’s their wide selection of pizzas available. When I was originally planning this, I thought we’d be able to hit up more spots in Little Italy – but I found out hardly anyone has just slices! It’s mostly whole pies and that just didn’t work for me. I had to parallel park on the LEFT side which totally weirded me out but I ended up doing just fine. Next we headed down to Little Italy! I was a little worried we wouldn’t find parking but the parking gods blessed us with parking just a few blocks away. The crust had a perfect crispy bottom and again, wasn’t soggy in the middle. The crust was my favorite part of this slice – it was thin, light, and almost airy. The only downside we saw was that you could hardly detect the peanut sauce on the slice – it tasted like it was barely there. We picked most of the bell peppers off since neither of us like the flavor of bell peppers but the rest of the slice was quite yummy. The Thai Chicken slice had lots of goodies on it – carrot, green onion, yellow and red bell peppers, cheese, sesame seeds, chili flakes and peanut sauce. Pizza model Jake showing off the next slice. He was reluctant because of the bell peppers but I told him we could just take those suckers off. Jake wanted to get pepperoni but I told him we should try something new and we decided on the Thai Chicken Pizza instead. I kind dug how they were displayed on a plate, like they were prized pizza jewels. Here they have the available slices on display. We headed to Banker’s Hill for our second stop off 5th Avenue, not too far from Balboa Park. The overall flavor was good – pepperoni is not my personal favorite but I didn’t mind it with this slice. The middle of the pizza didn’t suffer the fate of being too thin in the middle – it fact you could pick it up and it wouldn’t sag one bit. The crust had a nice crispy, evenly brown look to it. Jake didn’t think this slice had nearly enough pizza sauce on it – there was a little bit hidden under the layer of cheese. This is the second half of the restaurant which had a big map of the Long Island Sound.Īfter surveying the available pizza slices, Jake picked the pepperoni ricotta. I noticed they had NY style and on the second shelf, there is a Silican style (thicker crust) pizza. This is just half of their slices that day. This is located in a little strip mall right near the I-15, off Clairemont Mesa Blvd. Our first stop was at Long Island Mike’s Pizza in Kearny Mesa. It helped that we had time to digest in between slices and got to walk a bit for the later spots. I picked five places total and we shared one slice at each stop. Mostly my goal was to try different pizza spots all over town. He laughed when he read my booklet and saw what the last stop was going to be. Gabbiano Pizza is his favorite pizza spot in town because he grew up eating that pizza. ![]() The funny part is that I had told him we’d end up in the beach area and as we were getting into the car he asked me, “Since we’ll be down by the beach, do you think we can stop by and get Gabbiano Pizza?” I said, with the straightest face I could manage, “We’ll see.” Here he is in the car before he knew what we were doing. I gave him a card with this little booklet that I made: I didn’t tell him what we were doing until we were parked at the first spot. I wanted to do something special just for him and I figured a new surprise would be to take him on a pizza crawl to a few different locations, ending at his personal favorite/nostalgic pizza spot down in Mission Beach. Just like I say I have a “dessert” stomach, Jake says he has a “pizza” stomach. He once gave up pizza for lent as a personal challenge and it was a really, really tough time for him (it didn’t help that we went to a pizza restaurant to meet up with a friend and he was good and had a sandwich instead). Jake’s #1 hands down favorite food is pizza.
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