Comments on: Mama Niki’s Pizza

By: katie

katie — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:54:09 +0000

I loved the pizza series — glad you’re doing it again! Although I, like Nick, have become more of a pizza snob after reading your pizza posts.

As for Mama Niki’s, if this is the one on Howell Mill I think it used to be a Mellow Mushroom. I haven’t been since college, but I remember shortly after the name-change that everything still tasted like MM and I suspect they were still sourcing their ingredients through them. That may have changed by now though.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:43:20 +0000

If you are willing to go very OTP, come to Savannah to try Bella’s. It’s a small Italian resturant that we have been going to for as long as I can remember, but just recently (as in a couple years ago) found out they do large pizza’s for take out. Since your pizza series, Garet and I have become some-what of pizza snobs and this is one of the only places we will call to get pizza from now.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:10:35 +0000

FnS – I am definitely willing to get OTP if there is promise of good pizza.

And I’m not sure that the old pizza series is any sort of definition of how to review pizza. I started with the rating/blind tasting idea and quickly realized it wasn’t that useful. I wasn’t trying to find the “best” slice in ATL either, as that depends on my personal taste, and wanted to provide more of a “Here is X restaurant and this is the style of their pizza, and I think they do this style fantastically/OK/poorly”. Along the way I found a few places I didn’t know about (Baby Tommy’s, Shorty’s) that I loved, and once again I hope to find a few great places that are new to me.

By: Chloe

Chloe — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:34:42 +0000

Let me know when you’ll be at Verra Zanno — I’ll tag along! And let me take you to Alpine Bakery while we’re in the area. Their pizzas and calzones are tdf!

By: foodnearsnellville

foodnearsnellville — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:57:19 +0000

And sorry for the double post, but I read your entire 17 part series on pizza to get a feel for how to do pizza reviews. I especially like the “Madden diagrams” of how to dissect a crust ;).

FnS.

By: foodnearsnellville

foodnearsnellville — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:54:23 +0000

What is your scope going to be? ITP? Some of the suburbs? As far out as people will suggest?

If Gwinnett County is in your range, I’d be curious your experiences in Fini’s Pizzeria. It’s ranked in the top 10 in Gwinnett by the ‘spoon, and I found the Sicilian to be pretty good and the thin crust to be ‘meh’.

Maybe I’m just living on memories, but my opinion is that no one in the metro area has beaten Craig Priebe and the old C.K.’s to date.

FnS.