I’m still on a quest to hit all of the Top 10 Pizzerias
in South Bay. Fortunately, one is near where my cousin Christine and her family
live so we were able to arrange to meet for dinner there. Now, y’all know I’m
not a fan of the thin crust pizza. For me, it’s thick crust all the way with
some chewiness to it because, you know, bread.
But Cicero’s made the Top 10 so I was trying to be
open-minded and everything. It was in a weird-to-me location of being in a
strip mall next to a chain grocery store. Like the typical cookie cutter place
I would likely pass by because you don’t want to take the risk it won’t be good
because it looks so strip-mall conformist. But thank goodness for the internet
and social media whose recommendations I can cautiously and optimistically
take. Because if I hadn’t, I would’ve missed out on really good, thin crust
pizza.
Because that’s what Cicero’s was. My prejudice against
thin crust pizzas is they’re either often soggy (because thin crust) or have
the chewy consistency of cardboard. Or what I imagine cardboard would be like
to chew on. Not so with Cicero’s. It was good! Crispy but not hard with just
enough chew that it wasn’t quite a flatbread pizza but an honest-to-goodness
thin crust pizza. We went with the all-meat combo (for my cousin and her son)
and the Canadian bacon and pineapple for me and her husband. Although rest
assured I had both and enjoyed both.
Cicero’s has a casual atmosphere. You go up to the
counter, place your order, they take your name, you seat yourselves at a table
then when your order is ready, they call out your name and you go back to the
counter to pick up your pizza(s). While the inside of Cicero’s is still more
strip mall than upscale or downscale pizzeria, their pizza is anything but
strip mall. It’s really good pizza. I’m already looking forward to going back.
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