Ok, I must be very hard to please, a food snob, or have a picky palate, but I'm gonna have to say once again, I'm unimpressed with another local favorite - American Pie Pizzaria.
American Pie is a pizza place in Locust Grove and while I'll give it props for a cool interior, it just didn't deliver on awesome pizza. Now, in all fairness, my two favorite types of pizza are polar opposites - Chicago-style deep dish and New York style (assuming we're not talking gourmet woodfired - that's a whole different class of pizza deliciousness). If Chi-town and NYC got together and had a pizza baby, that would be kinda the type pie American Pie serves up.
That said, I do enjoy a good cross of my fave pies, 15th Street Pizza would be a good example of such locally, but I just can't add this place to our list of our usual local haunts.
So here's the run down...American Pie has decent prices and a HUGE blackboard with daily specials with pretty good amount of food for the moola. You can choose from the traditional pizza toppings and build your own pizza, or choose from their list of specialty pizzas. And by specialty, I mean something with chicken and bbq, chicken and pineapple, chicken and a pile of other meats, or other such non-sense. (Do you get the feeling I don't like chicken on my pizza?) Also, they don't do pizza by the slice, which is OK I guess because they do offer individual sized pizzas, which was more food than I could eat. 
Chris ordered a meat lover's type pizza with pepperoni, bacon, ground beef I think, spinach, yellow peppers and mushrooms. I ordered a veggie pizza with spinach, mushrooms and feta cheese. The ingredients were fresh, but some of them were kinda hard to find - I think Chris had like 3 mushroom slices and a few pieces of spinach. Mine was decently topped, but not very hot. American Pie has on their sign that they use their house-made marinara sauce on their pizzas - that made me think it was going to knock my socks off, lick my fingers good. But it was a bit bland, which was sad. OH, and they serve Pepsi products and a sad selection of beer. I mean really? We're in the South, so uhm, Coke products please, and a few good beers to choose from, that's all I ask in a beverage selection here.
On the positive side ;), their crust was pretty good. I think they brush butter on it and sprinkle it with parmesan cheese. Oh and the atmosphere is inviting with a cool, industrial meets Nascar/Motocross vibe, with long wood tables, stools with advertising on them (that's funny to me), TVs displaying sporting events and a graffiti wall. A pretty good place for large groups as well.
What's your opinion? Where's your favorite pizza joint? What's your fave type of pie? Toppings?
I agree with your assessment of American Pie. Not that great, not that bad. There is one in Griffin we eat at for lunch sometime. They have a buffet for lunch that is only $5.99, good price for their quality of pizza. Mellow Mushroom is our go to spot, although, a good ol' Pizza Hut pan is hard to beat sometime.
ReplyDeleteMmmmm, Mellow Mushroom is pretty good, too. I can't get Chris to go with me though - not his favorite place.
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