Finding good pizza in Querétaro is like finding a good movie on Netflix, you go through a lot of…read morecrap you don't really want even though you know there has to be something good out there, and once you find it you feel that your destiny in life has been completed.
There are many varieties of pizza, many of which we can assume has started a couple of wars; people are serious over tradition, as I would be if someone presented me a Taco Al Pastor with no pineapple, cilantro, or onion, and if the meat didn't have a hint of red hue. In many places it is considered sacrilegious if a certain type of pizza does not have a certain type of cheese, and some people would rather die than accept that a certain type of pizza can be a pizza if it's served with a certain depth. Then there are these guys. They don't care about the pizza wars going on all over the world, they're just doing their own thing here: bunch of crap on the walls, Telehit on the TV, and for some odd reason unbeknownst to me Maggi, Worcestershire sauce, and ketchup on the table, cause people around here like that stuff on their pizza; and the pizza is delicious.
We ordered a Vegetarian pizza, and the combination of flavors resulted in something truly fascinating, something sort of Mexican but also sort of foreign, but also really good. The cheese was spectacular. It either was a fantastic fake mozzarella or fake shredded cheese, or some genius combination that included Manchego cheese, with the result feeling as if I was eating a Vegetarian Alambre on doughy toast.
One of my biggest qualms with pizzas in Mexico is that they don't get the dough and, ergo, the crust right. Pizzerias use basic Pan Blanco dough, also known as the dough they use for bolillo, for the base of their pizza; the result, simple, bread-like dough that lacks in flavor. At La Tómbola, the dough is crispy, doughy, maybe not to flavorful, but it is an excellent vessel for all that melted gooey cheese.
I'm glad to have found a great new pizza place, which actually has been present in Querétaro for a long time, but will now be the standard for all future degustation of pizzas in Mexico. Cheers!