Oct 2023 - Another great Monday with two five dollar Margherita pizzas each with an extra ingredient: Prosciutto and sausage.
May 2023 - We've tried to get to their $5. Margherita pizza Mondays for a long time and finally did. We did an add-on to both. One sausage. One pancetta. Both sublime. If our arms were twisted, we'd pick the sausage
April 2023 - Regrettable we have not been here in this much time. We were craving a fine pizza returning to CT and had to try the proscuitto and clam again along with the Italian wings. Perfection. As I wrote in earlier reviews, the end product of the dough baked at high temps in their custom oven is divine.
Happy to return Friday with temperatures warm for mid-March in New England. Customers were already choosing to sit outside and the place was packed. Because it was after 4:00, we had to try the Grandma Pie. We chose three toppings: sweet Italian sausage, clams and porcini mushrooms. Sicilian style in terms of thickness, it's surprisingly light and airy for its appearance and depth but still has a nice texture with crunch. It's an amazing pizza to behold and savor. A second order of their Italian wings was everything we remembered. I noticed many people ordered salads that came with crusty bread so they must be good, too.
Pizza is consistently featured in my reviews and I have to agree with Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, when he declared on his "One Bite Pizza Reviews" YouTube channel, Connecticut has the best pizza. His only inaccuracy in this statement was confining the best pizza to New Haven. Outstanding pizza can be found throughout the state, from small towns to large cities, North, South, East and West. My top ten list doesn't even include New Haven, but food preferences are always personal.
Which brings me to Pizzeria Marzano. Incredible. Unlike Portnoy, I hesitate to try new pizza places, because I have enough favorites already that deliver every time. But my partner and I were out and needed to eat. Not in the mood for other cuisine, I mentioned this restaurant. He said, "let's go."
There is just no way I can't give Pizzeria Marzano five stars, though I wrestled with this rating having only eaten here once, no table service, no full bar or pasta dinners. You order at the counter and they bring your food after you've chosen where to sit (large dining space/high ceilings industrial style), they have a decent wine list, a few on tap, and excellent local beer menu all on tap, and are basically a pizza only restaurant. Who cares? Their food is exceptional.
The Italian wings (garlic, herbs, parmesan) are to die for, and our Clam & Prosciutto pizza was amazing. The brick wood-fired oven they had built in Southern Italy, (check out their website 'about' page) fires up to 800 degrees. Tiling was done by local Torrington craftsmen. This creation made both the wings and the pizza masterful.
The wings have intense flavor, the crisp on the lightly charred skin is sheer perfection and the traditional blue cheese or ranch dressing with carrot sticks is not needed here. I passed on both. The pizza actually has baby clams in the shell, not the usual minced canned clams. A fresh ball of mozzarella centered in the pizza with a leaf of basil is a fine garnish. These guys are serious.
They do offer seven salads, nine starters, and six or seven paninis or wraps. After 4 PM they offer a Roman style pizza "Grandma Pie" that the Chef actually went to Rome to learn how to make traditionally and perfectly. We can't wait to try it among many other things.
There is a large outdoor seating area in seasonal months, a tented-in outdoor room also throughout most of the year, multiple reserved parking spaces for curbside pickup, and when purchasing a glass of wine, you have the option of buying a poker chip that will give you a second glass for five cents! They also carry a variety of non and low alcohol beverage labels such as Boylan Bottling Co. and Truly. Tuesday's offer 20% off on take-out orders. Mondays have $5. Margherita pizzas...
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