Driving an hour just to lock up a building and head home doesn’t
make much sense so we thought we would try to catch some dinner in
the Falls. We have passed a little pizzeria a few times running up
Bailey road and thought we would give it a try. The building seems
like a converted Lawson’s from the old days. It shows evidence of
years of use. It seems pretty clean where it counts (including the
open kitchen) but you can tell years have passed since any major
renovation. |
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We were served by a small crew of wonderfully disorganized ladies. There is no system but it (I know this is going to sound goofy) feels like they are taking care of us out of the simple goodness of their hearts. Yep, goofy…but it’s true…and it works really well. Mark was running the deck ovens, it seemed every customer coming in to pick stuff up knew him, the woman who took point in serving us (maybe Philly?) and the rest of the staff. It just reeks of plain down home goodness here.
We ordered wings (famous), a two piece chicken and jojos dinner and
a small specialty pie. The wings come in BBQ or Hot BBQ, we went
with hot. The sauce is not a traditional Buffalo but a dark sweet Q
with a splash of some pepper. It doesn’t get near hot and remains
mostly sweet with a little tang of spice. Odd but doable. The
problem I had with the wings was the absence of a trip in some oil
leaving them really flabby…no sauce would have saved those. |
![]() The Wings Came With Bleu Cheese & Unique Sauce Mix... |
![]() But Really Needed The Fat Rendered Out Of The Skin |
The chicken dinner certainly appeared fried and came with two
sides…we ordered double starch…the jojos and potatoes au gratin. The
breast was sauntering towards dry and had a crisp but unremarkable
crust while the wing held a bit more moisture. The jojos were cut
differently than I’m used to, thick half circles rather than long
triangular planks. It works, the greater surface area means a
greater breading to tater ratio and the crust seemed to lend more
taste to the spuds than the chicken. The cheese taters closely
resemble the au gratin scalloped potatoes I remember from family and
Easter dinners from years ago. Almost exactly like that.
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![]() The Two Piece Chicken Dinner Is Stacked |
![]() The Chicken Needed A Seasoning Boost & Just A Bit More Moisture |
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![]() Seriously Old School Au Gratin |
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The specialty pie is Sicilian style, the very nice lady actually
referred to it as “their baby” when she dropped it off. I have had
pizzas labels Sicilian before and theirs was not what I was
expecting. Other versions I have had are more like a regular pizza
built atop a crust as thick, heavy and filling as a sewer cover.
M&P’s is a stuffed crust with two thin layers of bread packed with
toppings and a light smear of sauce. The top crust is then topped
with cheese which is baked to a beautiful brown goodness. This thing
is every bit as filling as the super doughy versions except here it
is the toppings doing the stuffing instead of the bread. It’s
literally like a pizza topping piñata, but it won’t be one of my
favs. For me everything was perfect but it needed more sauce to tie
it all together and add that acidic and round flavor I was
missing. Good but not my thing. |
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![]() The Sicilian Pie Looked Incredible |
![]() From All Angles |
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![]() Serious Cheese But I Really Wanted More Sauce To Tie Things Together |
![]() But Every Bite Explodes With Pizza Topping Stuffing |
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![]() And We Each Got A Little Treat For The Road |
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We were given little boxes of Junior Mints while they boxed up our
hefty leftovers and I left glad we had given them a try. In the
future I will try one of their medium crust versions to see if it
gets a different dose of sauce. To this point it remains good pizza
from great people. |
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B- | A- | C | B+ | D | B- | ||
JoJo's & Toppings | Flabby Wings |