posted by Mike Madison at 5:05 PM /
Added to the list 'o Lebo Links: Bado's. Il Pizzaiolo is in a different category, with its brick oven. Otherwise, and with all due respect to fans of Caruso's, Mineo's, and other Mt. Lebanon pizza sources, my family sez: Bado's serves the best pie in town. And it delivers.
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I humbly submit that if you have not yet had a slice of Mm Mm Pizza from Castle Shannon Blvd, then you have not experienced pizza at all. :)
The Taco and Texas Steak pies are out of this world.
Caruso's still makes my favorite italian hoagie. And their crust is the right level of bready-ness.
Bados' is good too. Esp when you have whole basil leaves as a topping.
I've eaten Mm Mm to go and wasn't impressed. Maybe they had a bad day.
Taco pizza?
i personally like Locante's the best. Their pies are a little more expensive than the others, but well worth it.
A Mineo's loyalist to the end ... their pizza was like a 6th food group in our house growing up.
Bado's never did much for me. Overall, I'd have to go with Caruso's.
Mineo's has the best sauce, but the cheese is too oily. If only one pizza place could have migrated here from Squirrel Hill, I would have preferred Napoli's.
I refuse to patronize Mm Mm because I feel sorry for the people who work there and have to answer the phone "Mm Mm Pizza" 20 times a day.
Locante's put some sort of white creamy sauce on a sandwich I ordered there (completely unbidden) and so has been on my enemies list for several years. I may return someday, but it's not too hopeful.
white creamy sauce? unbidden?
what's going on here? what sandwich did you order? :O
I've blocked a lot of the incident out of my mind, but it was shortly after they opened, and we decided to try them out for lunch. We go pick up the order, get back to the office and there it is, the white creamy sauce (WCS).
So I go all the way back to the place, point out the WCS, expect maybe an on-the-house replacement or at the very least an apology, and the guy just blandly said "yeah, we decided to try this out."
Oh my god, it's all coming back to me now. The horror!
My husband and daughter prefer Bados so we tend to go there.
I, actually, prefer Rotelli's. I prefer really thin crust pizza to the thick.
bados, bados, bados. they dont try gimmicks, just good food. an 8 cut with muchsrooms and a dozen hotwings..forget it, nothing tops it.
plus they have their own celebrity with matt gould!
Bado's won me over because they offer eggplant as a topping, which is common in the NYC/Boston corridor where I grew up. (Unfortunately nobody in Pgh does white clam like Wooster St. in New Haven).
Mt. Lebanon is somewhat fortunate for the selections available. And depending what you want, some are better than others, but all have a specialty. Caruso's makes an awesome white feta pie and you can ask Frank for a cheeseless pie loaded with hot peppers - sort of like eating chipotles on flatbread. Mineo's is good too, closer to a Manhattan NY Ray's style (not quite as thin). Certainly much better than any of the chains.
As noted in the original article, Il Pizzaiolo is in a different class, but give me Ron's prosciutto & argula pie anytime - fantastic.
As for Tex/Mex toppings... we're talking pizzas not tacos.
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