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 Wedge, Deep Deuce

This week we had some guests in town, and decided to show off some of the best of what Oklahoma City can offer, so we took them to The Wedge's Deep Deuce location. If you want a short review, here it is: Go there. Now.

A longer review follows.

Cafe 7

This week we had made plans to hit up Othello's, but there was a problem. Tonight, as if you didn't already know, is the Lost finale. And as nerds, we are honor bound to watch (even if 50% of New World Pizza hasn't seen a single episode). So we called an audible and swung by Café 7, on N. May and WEST Memorial. Café 7's shtick is that the sandwiches, the salads, the pastas, and pizzas are all $7 (actually, $6.46, plus tax). Oh, and everything comes out within seven minutes. And if you're the seventh son of a seventh son you get your seventh meal free (we think, you should probably check with them before you try this one).

How'd it hold up?

Quickie: Tuscany Pizzaria

So far we’ve been spending most of our time at restaurants on the northwest side of the city, and we know that we’re missing out on a lot of good pizza as a result that fact. Partly this has to do with where we are based out of (New World Comics, located between 50th and 63rd on N. Meridian), and partly it has to do with our busy schedules and not having the time to make it down to the south side. But rest assured we are trying to fix that.

So, tonight we found ourselves down south, visiting our brothers from another mother, we suggested we grab some of the local pizza for dinner. Our good friend/brother Adam suggested we try Tuscany Pizzaria, located on SW 104th and S. Penn.

Should he have been trusted?

Zorba's

We here at New World Pizza have been visiting a lot of standard pizza places, and so this week we decided to have some fun. When you visit Zorba's, located at 6014 N. May, it's usually for their hummus, gyros, and chicken bandari. But, because we like to mix things up every so often, we went for their pizzas.

We promise you this review will be entirely free of "all Greek to me" jokes.

Top Ten

Hooray! We cracked the Top Ten Oklahoma City food blogs at Urban Spoon. Once we beat Eat Around OKC we're taking on Zagat!

We'd like to say thanks to all the people who have sent us their lists of places to try. We know we haven't gotten to as many of them as we'd like, but, please, keep sending us more suggestions. Also, thank you for reading our silly little pizza blog.

Ford Center Pizza

Well, we made a mistake. Generally, we here at New World Pizza eat our mistakes. But in this case, we couldn't. I'll let Sharon and Kelsey explain.

Saturn Grill

So we’ve been doing this for a while now. Every Sunday night it’s the same routine. We go out, order some pizza, and get down to business. It’s nice. Nice and routine. We’ve read in several places that to keep a relationship like this working, there needs to be some variety, some spontaneity. In an effort to break the routine and spice things up, we decided what we need to start having quickies.

What? Get your mind out of the gutter! We’re talking about reviewing pizzas! This is a family-friendly blog! Wow, you think you know your readers. Anyway, we figure that there are so many places that serve pizza in Okc that if we do a place a week, we’ll be at this forever. So to cover more ground and keep you informed we’ll be breaking with routine every so often and writing up places that mainly do things besides pizzas. Expect the reviews to be fast and dirty (instead of usual, methodical, scientific approach), and maybe even a bit weird (curry pizza, anyone?).

So without further ado, our first quickie.

Pizza Milano

This week, instead of going to our Rolodex of known pizza places, we tried a new place that had left a flyer at Brian's apartment (such is the folly of youth). Pizza Milano, located at 16th and Meridian, is one of the few places that will deliver to our home base. And as far as delivery services go, they were ahead of schedule and their driver was more than pleasant (and not at all creepy).

But the real question is, how were the pizzas?

Pizza House

First, we'd like to say thanks to Colin at 365 Things to Do in OKC for the bump. 365 Things to Do in OKC is a daily list of odd and fun things that are going on in and around the metro area. If you're on facebook, you should check it out. And as a small token of thanks, we're reviewing a place that Colin introduced Ryan to back in the day. Thanks again, Colin.

Let's get down to business. 

After all that tomfoolery on Thursday we decided to get back to our usual business, and so we trekked over to Pizza House on 2520 N. Pennsylvania. We ordered out, since our base of operations exists in a no-man's-land for pizza deliveries, but we could have stayed in and maybe even enjoyed a game of pool.

It's business time!

Joey's Pizzeria

This week we decided to make our way down to Joey's Pizzeria on N Classen and NW 18th Street. One of the first positive things we noticed after walking in was the choice of music - 80s classics such as "Love Is a Battlefield," Prince's "Kiss," and "Living on a Prayer" played as we ate. While that doesn't impact the way we judged the pizza, it made the overall ambiance totally rad.

So, how was the pizza?