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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 1084351, member: 181"] After Thursday night's City Wide Open Studios pre-opening at Artspace, we swung by Sally's to see if there was a weeknight crowd. Our plan B would have been Bar, both of which we've been to but before meeting each other. Walked in & got immediately placed at a booth next to the low-grinding ventilation shaft near the rear. We moved one booth away as the next couple was being seated:good call. We ordered 2 small pies, plain tomato & bacon w/cheese, and set about reviewing the CWOS schedule. For this, we sat side-by-side and I noticed whenever I looked up that everything looked pretty much like it did when I lived in New Haven 35 years ago (including things even older). I imagined that any possible subsequent remodeling wouldn't be in any better taste and went back to the schedule, thereafter completely uncaring how long it took for the pizza to arrive. It was long enough for me to go to the bathroom - still yellow tiles, still double doors, still grateful that I and not she had to use the facilities. The pizza? Excellent flaivor that elicited involuntary yum grunts w/each bite. 3 leftover slices were delicious out of the toaster oven for breakfast the next day. Next time I can leave off the light girl c added to the tomato pie. It was the waiter's suggestion and unnecessarily coveted w/the sweet sauce. Total winner, as has often been the case. The experience: fully workable, especially with a friendly waiter, a distracting joint project, and the right company. Perhaps still too iffy for showing up with more than a single trusted other, but no matter that night. Modern therefore remains our 'reliable' choice, but we will definitely return to Sally's. I wanted to go back the next day but was fasting. We'll next go to Bar, and then explore the various shoreline recommendations in this thread, having already made a pretty good arc from Fairfield, Derby, Cheshire, Branford so far. As for Pepe's it really is true that the original exceeds Ffld, Mohegan Sun & The Spot, and that's without my yet having a crunchy, jaw-workout-chewy pie that matches up with the best of my across-the-decades memory since returning to the Elm City, which by the way, is (especially when drawing & including successive rings from its center...and why not?) much superior to Lexington, KY, an otherwise lovely & liveable Mountain South city that, yes, does have quite more to offer than Storrs/Mansfield. [/QUOTE]

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