Pizza questers, we went to Southie. In the daylight, but still. Southie does not represent the areas of Jersey we grew up in; it represents the parts we tried not to get lost in. So Alfredo's was perhaps the opposite of Ernesto's - terrible atmosphere, functional pizza. We'll do the atmosphere first.
Your heroines are not the most social of creatures. The fact that this is "Pizza Quest" and not "Delivery Pizza Quest" is a tribute to you - and the fact that it is not winter yet. So if we had to pick a word to describe Alfredo's, we would say: cramped. This is clearly not meant to be a sit-down restaurant. Thre was only one table, and some guys behind the counter who ignored us for a while and then looked at us like we were nuts for not having called our order in beforehand.
Despite this setback, we were provided with a hot pizza and individual stacks of plates and napkins. It didn't all fit on the table, but we persevered and dug in (because we were hungry).
Looking not unlike its distant cousin, the Man in the Moon.
The toppings on our pizza were downright TASTY. They were by far the highlight of the pizza. The crust was decent - neither of us had objections, and you know how unusual that is. Ditto the sauce - no real complaints where we know we're picky. Which means the cheese was its downfall. Pockmarked and sour, it took the pizza (and your pizza tasters) from hopeful to disappointed. And that was where we left it: wishing the cheese hadn't ruined everything.
We hightailed it back out (and we do mean hightailed - we didn't want to be there after dark). Suffice it to say that we won't be coming back to Southie for the atmosphere or the cheese any time soon.
STATS:
Pros! :)
- Toppings
- Decent crust
- non-offensive sauce
- Good-sized large
- Tella didn't burn herself
- Weird cheese (v. sour)
- Bad neighborhood
- Other people
- Cramped
