Stop #6: Artichoke

August 22nd 2009 3:45pm
We trekked on to our 6th stop still going strong, that is until we encountered Artichoke's massive slices. Each monstrous slab is more than enough for two people to share and Artichoke proved to be the slice that broke the pizza tour's stomach.
The group scores were as follows:
Cheese to Sauce Ratio: 3.75 out of 5
Crust: 2.87 out of 5
Taste Per Price: 4.75 out of 5 ($4 slice)
Assorted Comments: "Portion gigantic. unnngh!" -Raymond Kim "Tasty at first bite." -Clay Ewing "I want to smear that sauce on my body and lick it off." -Naomi Huth

Rated #18 by New York Magazine: Artichoke Basille's Pizza, 328 E. 14th St., nr. First Ave.
This is not dainty stuff, or pizza for the faint of tummy. While the too-hard crust of both the Sicilian and the round Margherita pies could use some work, this robust style of pizza-making doesn’t exactly lend itself to delicate dough handling. Nothing else like it in the world, and rare enough these days that, unless you’re a cop or an EMS worker with line-cutting privileges, you should be prepared to wait for it—even, as we discovered recently, in the rain at three o’clock in the morning on a Monday night.