Italia Express

With our hectic schedule of late, we decided to make up for not reviewing anything on Sunday by hitting up Italia Express on 122 and MacArthur. A regional chain, Italia Express also has a location in Penn Square Mall and lots of stores in Texas. But we're getting a bit tired of the usual review format, so today we thought we'd spice things up.


The Cheese Pizza:
Crust of sour dough,
the cheese could be flavorful.
Sauce is barely there.

The Pepperoni Pizza:
Not like its brother,
spicy grease melts in cheese.
Tube meat saves the day.

The Chicken Pruscuitto Alfredo Pizza:
Chopped up flesh of fowl.
Creamy sauce rich and tasty.
I think it needs salt.

So, in all seriousness (ha!), hit the jump for a slightly longer review.

The Cheese Pizza
The sourdough crust was a nice change of pace from our standard crust. While not terribly innovative, it did make the pizza better. The sauce on the pizza was a typical, plain Jane, run of the mill sauces, whose biggest problem was the lack of quantity. The cheese was very bland, but not in an entirely off putting kind of way. It was very much the highest quality cheapest cheese scenario, or at least we think so. It's like being the skinniest kid in fat camp.

The Pepperoni Pizza
The least fun part about the weekly (mostly) reviews are the pepperoni reviews. Too often it reads out 'like the cheese, just with pepperoni'. This is no such situation. If the cheese tasted like a has been, this was definitely '68 comeback special Elvis. Somehow the pepperoni transformed the weak, simple cheese pizza and imbued the powers of pizzaz! It seems the grease, which is usually the enemy, seeped through to everywhere else in the pizza and fixed what it was lacking. While we're not saying it's the greatest pepperoni pizza out there, it's still worth a taste.

The Chicken Pruscuitto Alfredo Pizza
This pizza had everything the title promises! The sauce was the big star, but like Johnny Depp, almost too rich. The weirdest part of this pizza was the lack of salt. Not to say that we want a salty pizza, but when your promised pruscuitto, you expect a slight salty taste. Here, the pruscuitto bits barely contributed any flavor, let alone any saltiness to balance out the rich and creamy Alfredo sauce.