The Slice House — Restaurant in Leonardtown

My first (last) pizza from The Slice House had great potential but fell short. As a native New Yorker with over 1000 NY pizzas under my belt I know what I’m talking about. It’s possible my pie was a fluke, it happens sometimes, but other reviews have mentioned similar issues. TSH nailed the flavors (cheese, sauce, crust) but missed big with the construction of the pizza. NY crust is supposed to be thin, but this was by far the thinnest crust I've ever had, too thin, it wasn't even as thick as a tortilla. We couldn't hold our slices horizontally with 2 hands because the crust didn't have enough body - it was like trying to hold up a wet napkin. We had to hold the slices vertically and eat from underneath. How do they serve this as slices at the other location? Just weird! The skimpy amount of cheese resulted in a very thin cheese layer with multiple bare areas where no respectable NY pizza would ever be so cheeseless. It literally seemed like they used half a dough ball and half the amount of cheese to make my pizza. So TSH, in order to truly represent NY style pizza you must make the crust slightly thicker and use the correct amount of cheese for uniform coverage without bare spots - then you will deserve two thumbs up for taste and execution. However, your $20 price for a cheese pie and $3.25 for slice (1/8 of pie) is shockingly high and impossible to justify for this quality. “Covid” price is $12.95 for whole pie and $2.31 for slice (1/6 of the pie) at the expensive pizzeria in my NY hometown, less at other joints, but for far better quality pizzas. IMO SOMD folks don't know what a NY pizza should be, but those of us in the know would rate this pizza as half of what it should be but at twice the price.

TSH - I accept. Let me know how to...

This review is solely on a single plain cheese slice of pizza on a recent 2023 day. I have had pizza all around the world, including several cities in Italy.

The single plain cheese slice from the slice house reminds me of of the old 99 cent slice places that litter New York City. That's not a bad thing! The crust is thin and yeasty, the sauce savory and not too sweet, and the cheese a mostly-mozzarella blend with a little semolina on the bottom. It maybe could've used a tad more sauce but over all this is the best cheese slice in the county - yes better then Ledos and Nicolettis. With that said, the Suprema uses the same cast of characters and falls flat - literally - because the thin crust simply can't hold up the three veggies and three meats that get loaded onto each slice.

With a full bar, it feels like this place should be packed and popular, especially in a pizza desert like St Mary's County. Inside reminds me of the pizza joints I grew up with in New Jersey - nothing fancy but very homey. Outside though is terrible - eating on a gravel pit flanked by fence and tarp is NOT fun. This place could be...

Originally I was expecting the true second class backwater treatment based on the external look. Good parking, odd hard limitation on 8 slice maximum per order. Price seemed high to me for a single slice of pizza. Heres what you get for it though -- The owner appreciated the fact I found the 8 slice maximum comical and insane. Sociable, joked about it, brought out my slice himself, kept going back and forth with me about it. The pizza quality for the slice I ordered was very good -- fresh dough with standard as expected ingriedients. Due to the volume of customers pizza does not sit. Seating was standard booths, however they are comfortable up to 4 people. There is external and internal seating, and take out if you prefer. Perhaps most importantly there are 6 different craft beers on tap, served in nice artsy pint glasses. 5.50 per beer is on the low end for restaurants, comes with recommendations and tasters if you prefer. All in all it's a friendly quality pizza and craft beer location in an area normally...