Yes, been to both. The Pepe's was fine. Didn't notice any difference from Chestnut Hill. It's in a little outdoor lifestyle shopping center.
Spot on. A few weeks ago I called ahead and ordered both Pepes and Modern to bring to a friend's house for football. Everyone chose Modern as the better pie.
Yeah we live up in Cambridge right now but went down to the Chase bank nearby to open a new account, traffic was bad going back to Cambridge, stuck around and loved that little area. Like a mini Assembly Row. The bar next door was solid. I would never expect this Pepe to be anything close to New Haven, but even a 5/10 Pepe is probably better than most pizza (forget Apizza) here.
We are thinking of moving up north to that general area, and I was curious if it’s at least serviceable, as with Pepe, I figure a 5/10 Sally’s is better than most here. But I appreciate that. Probably won’t be pushing to try them for now. But will definitely be trying Pepe
I had never heard of Bobby’s Apizza until a friend recommended it to me recently when I visited Caius Farm Brewery, a couple of miles away. Very solid pie. Good char. I wouldn’t drive out of the way for it, but quality was good.
The Spot is the annex right next door. Could be they pump a lot of to-go orders out of those ovens.
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Try this place if you're up on 495. Really good. Only issue is that you can't eat it there (the place is very small with no seating) and it doesn't taste as good bringing it home since we're 35 minutes away. So eating in the car was the best we could do.
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Interesting. It's pretty flat with really no trouble anywhere. Not long. No woods or OB. You can run most approach shots up onto a green with nothing protecting it. You must tear it up there.
Ummm. It doesn’t look or sound better than Pepe’s.
This looks fantastic but c'mon man, it's not better than Pepe's.
A lot of people talk about Caius, but I've been there 3 times and each time, I was one of 4 or 5 people. Great beer, I wonder why it's not packed.
It has zero hype in the craft beer world. His beers keep improving, literally every style. But craft beer is driven these days by hype and location. With all due respect to North Branford… people aren’t going to drive there. He also has paid for promoted Instagram posts. I think that makes craft beer nerds question Caius.
How would you know? You didn’t taste it. Pepe’s I had 2 pieces of pepperoni per slice, they are stingy. Ernie’s was good but not much better.
I'd have done the same.
Because you aren't cooking it in a 100 year old coal oven and you're using Mama Cozzi's ingredients.
LOL. My pizza paddle is coming today. They cook at 800 degrees so I don’t have that but I will preheat my stone to 500. That is 90% of it to get the crunch.
I didn’t say I tasted it.
Dough is flour, water, salt and yeast. That’s it. It’s not culinary institute. Yeah like you could tell from a pic. Funny. I just had Ernie’s in New Haven and this was as good. My dough was NYT recipe pizza dough.
Ernie's just isn't all that good despite the cult like following. I went there twice and left very underwhelmed both times. I have several friends who make far better pizza at home. Yours looks very good from the photo.