Pizza makes me thing that anything is possible. ~ Henry Rollins

A Lovely Day in San Francisco

As I mentioned in my last post, last week was a rough week and anticipating it I took a few days off. So today was the last day of my vacation and I decided to take a walk around the city and use a gift certificate I had for pizza.

First the pizza!

On the Pizza Page, I only review pizza places that serve slices. As such I did a review of Tony’s Slice House and wasn’t very impressed. I did mention in that review that I thought doing a sit down at Tony’s Pizza Napoletana would likely be a better experience. Well, at the Pizza and Bagel festival this summer the VIP gift bag included a $25 gift certificate to Tony’s so today I decided to check it out. The service was a bit slow but once they got to me the server was very pleasant and attentive. As I always do when I’m reviewing a pizza place I go pretty basic, so I got a classic American thin crust pepperoni pizza.

The pizza was solid, personally a bit too much pepperoni for me but the pepperoni itself was beyond good, super tasty, nice and oily and great cupping. The crust was perfect, light and crunchy and the cheese on point. The sauce was a bit sweet for my taste but this was a really good pie. Tony Gemignani is one of the most well-known and respected pizza makers in America and he’s won a whole lot of awards for his work, so Tony’s is kind of gotta do in terms of San Francisco pizza and I’m glad I finally got here and I highly recommend it.

It was a lovely sunny fall day in San Francisco, absolutely perfect weather. So I took BART into the city, jumped off at Civic Center and donated a couple of books to the San Francisco Public Library. I then walked up Stockton past Union Square and all the Christmas decorations then strolled through a very busy Chinatown. From there I walked into Little Italy and over to Tony’s.

The area around Tony’s has a lot of quintessential San Francisco landmarks. Besides Chinatown, Union Square and Little Italy there is the Transamerica Tower, the old clubs around Little Italy and of course City Lights Bookstore. It’s been awhile since I wandered in City Lights, so I popped in and found a book that I wanted to buy. Honestly as a pizza lover and book nerd, hitting Tony’s and City Lights in the same day makes for an amazing afternoon. Finally I headed back to BART down Columbus and over Sansome, a nice little walk that allowed me to finally get a nice shot of the Transamerica Tower. So here are a few photos of the day. I hope your day was equally as pleasant my friends. ~ Rev Kane