Hey Man, well this is Babylon

My second installment of the Pizza Snob review series covers my trip to Pizza Schmizza for lunch on Tuesday. This chain of locally-started restaurants is contained entirely in the Pacific Northwest of this country, and is apparently something of a local favorite. Then again, just about anything that is “locally-owned” or the like is considered sacred in this town, so calling something a “local favorite” in Portland, Oregon is not necessarily saying it is actually good. Is this Schmizza place all that its raving fans make it out to be, or is it another example of this Portland trend of over-hyping the quality of its local names? Read on to find out. Read more

I’ve decided to start a new series of posts on this blog wherein I review the various bits of pizza I eat. As some of you may know, I’m something of a Pizza Snob. I’ve worked on and off again at pizza places since I was 14, including chains and family-owned establishments, in capacities as both cook and Deliverator. I’ve dined on good and bad pizzas in 24 states, and consider it my second-favorite (but first-most-taste-seducing) food. I’m sitting here at work, munching on some leftovers from last night’s pizza run, and thinking “Man, I sure do have a lot of long-winded, mostly useless stuff to say about pizza. I should blog about it.” Okay, why not?

I’m not a fan of numerical rating systems for anything, so instead I’ll be using a pretty simple descriptive rating system that should be self-explanatory. I’ll be judging the pizzas I eat on Cheese, Crust, Sauce, Toppings, Service, CPQ (Cold Pizza Quality), and RHV (Re-heat Value). The actual ratings are as follows: “OMG!”, “Yum!”, “Pretty Decent”, “Okay”, “Meh”, “Yuk!”, and “Never. Again.”

Thus begins Episode 1: Papa Murphy’s.

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