Pizza Spinello — Local services in Wellfleet

Seriously, Google Reviews steered us so wrong here. Wish I had read the last review, spot on. The pizza variety photos (from 1 year ago) are no longer the reality. The good photos where the pizza top isn't burned and there is plenty of cheese are all from 1 year ago. Standards have plummeted.

This review should be called "The Oddest Pizza I Ever Ate". We ordered the basic Margarita Pizza. The pizza is kind of ok, 4 out of 10, while the photos are 10 out of 10, too bad you can't order what is in the photos. The sauce is bland, the dough is crispy but sweet and unflavorful, thin, spotty application of cheese, no basil on top. That's right NO basil on top, and we ordered a Margarita!. 3-4 small leaves under the cheese so you can't know how little they use? See that sneaky single piece of basil under the cheese in the 2 $9 slices?

The service was pleasant but why not with the prices they charge for so little effort. The business is open 15 hours PER WEEK! Not per day, per week! Here begins the oddities: 1) there is no space inside to eat, there is one 2 person table outside, with 2 bigger tables much further away. In between the 2 person table and the 4 person tables, long term tenants walk past you in kaftans, filling up a hot tub?, steam room?, sauna?, with loud plumbing hisses and clangs; 2) despite the fact that we were sitting at a table and said we were eating there, the pizza was given to us in a cardboard box without plates or a knife to cut slices. Were we to use the box bottom as our plates? Were we to get lost? We stayed, yet no plates were forthcoming. We had to go back in and ask for plates and a knife...paper and plastic of course. No grated cheese, red pepper flakes, salt, pepper or herbs out or offered. Completely bereft of usual amenities.

But you say, the savings are in the prices? Nein, nyet, negativo, no! One half sheet or 6 slices of pizza cost $26, we were told that was "more economical" than ordering 4 individual slices?!? And better for the proprietors since they had no variety of slices as online photos lead one to believe. By the slice prices are not listed. We wanted to try 4 different, ecclectic kinds, that is the unique thing about Roman pizza, but only margarita and pepperoni were available. So the photos that show such a variety of pizza (as you experience in Rome) is no longer the reality, in fact far less variety than regular pizzerias. Not only is there little variation of pizzas available, some are advertised that are unavailable even as sheets, like the thin potato slice pizza. We were told "we're not making that pizza now." What?

We ordered a salad from the cold case. The dressing was in a little tub in the salad, so cold it was solid. Not a soul was eating there when we arrived or did so while we were there. One person came in asked some questions and...

Terrific Roman-Style Pizza in Wellfleet (Year-Round!)

Tiny Pizza Spinello, a family-run business in downtown Wellfleet, produces terrific Roman-style pizza. Pizza Spinello is admirably run: the owners are focused on making a great product and delivering first-class service. You see it the moment you encounter their well-designed online ordering system, which works well on a laptop and a phone — and experience it when you pick up your pizza.

We loved all the pizzas we tried including the Amatriciana (it's vegan, though you can top it with anchovies or tuna if you want) and the Sebastiana, which has soppressata and cheese. Our favorite was the Salsicce e Friarielli -- sausage and broccoli rabe, with the great addition of a touch of provola.

Pizzas are sold in half sheets and whole sheets — a half sheet can easily feed two people but consider ordering a second half-sheet. Roman pizza, if you've never had it, is made to be reheated, so you can warm leftovers, drizzle them with some olive oil, and have an awesome breakfast or lunch.

Note: Pizza Spinello doesn't have a phone but you can email them or message them through the website and they respond quickly. They also sell nicely designed merch and various well-chosen...

Best Pizza on the Cape, with real Roman-style dough, and top quality ingredients and toppings. For example: the tomato sauce tastes like slow vine ripened tomatoes. The toppings are not ‘overloaded’ or spare, but rather ‘just right’ so you taste each in both isolation, and as a compliment, and in concert with other ingredients. Chef John knows his dough and his compositions, these are true, classic, Roman style pizzas with ingredients like you would enjoy at the best pizza specialists in Rome. True authentic excellence. Another telling mark: USA-style cheap ‘pepperoni’ is horrible. You won’t see that here. Chef John uses the finest, best tasting, authentic Italian slices that taste of meaty excellence, cup appropriately, but render no excess fat. The true mark of true quality of true top ingredients. The story is the same with the quality of any ingredient topping. These are proud folks making an excellent product with no compromise on quality. On the Cape, there is no better...