Charlie's New York Style Pizza — Restaurant in Adamsville

I'm from the NYC tri-state area. I've had my share of pizza good and bad. I stopped by Charlie's New York Pizza in Adamsville because I know what real New York pizza tastes like. We ordered a meat lovers pizza. The crust was thin and the toppings generous. A real New York pizza it was not! First, the bottom of the crust was coated with semolina flour which makes it easier to launch the pizza into the oven. A real New York pizza would never have semolina flour on the bottom and a coal or wood fired oven would have black char on the bottom which gets on your fingers and tastes sooooh good! Also, NY style white pizza would never have Alfredo sauce on it. A true white pizza would have only olive oil, garlic, mozzarella cheese and parmesan. For a "clams casino" add clams and bacon. I rate this pizza as average, atmosphere as so-so and service as average. At least the bathrooms were clean. Here's where you want to go for "real" New York and New Haven style pizza:

1. Lombardi's, 23 Spring St., Little Italy, Manhattan (est. 1905)
2. John's of Bleeker St., 278 Bleeker St, Greenwich Village, Manhattan (est. 1929)
3. Zuppardi's Apizza, 179 Union Ave., West Haven, CT (est. 1934) Note: the hand shucked white clam pizza is OUT OF THIS WORLD!
4. Sally's Apizza, Wooster St., New Haven, CT (est. 1938)
5. Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napolitano, Wooster St., New Haven, CT (est. 1925)
6. Modern Apizza, 874 State St., New Haven, CT (est. 1944) All the above restaurants are "apizza" (pronounced "abeetts"). Ovens are coal, wood or oil fired, never electric and cook pizzas at over 700 degrees F. which gives that tasty black char to the back of the crust. If you are ever in the NYC tri-state area I encourage you to try these authentic "abeets" pizza restaurants. I miss them but love other things about my new southern home like hush puppies, grits and fried...

We called at 5:10p to order our 3 pizzas, was told we would get a call when they are ready, which was at 6:14. We liveabout 15m away so we were hoping our pizza was under warming lights or something. Nope so the pizza was cold by the time they got home, which is never the case when we order from pats or hometown, and when my husband called to let them know that we had to put our pizza in the oven or something at home he was told it took us an hour to pick it up. I ordered a margarita pizza because it sounded really good on the menu, I didn't expect it to be mostly naked. My MIL pizza was the best tasting but again, it was cold and had to be reheated, Super disappointed. We were told they would "take care of us next time" and I'm not even sure what that means, we aren't sure...

Ordered pizza 45 minutes ahead of pickup time. Took my name and number. Drove 25 minutes to pick up pizza at the time given. My pizza wasn't there. Incompetent staff gave my pizza to another person. One hour of my life I'll never get back. Google won't let me give zero stars or that's what they'd receive. The pizza may actually be good, but you'll never get yours because they gave it to someone else. It'll be quicker to fly to New York and get your pizza than to buy from this place. At least you'll know you get your pizza if you do that. You have a better chance of capturing Bigfoot than getting a pizza ordered from this place....