Funny how you pass by a place for years and years. You know it's there but it doesn't look especially exciting or anything. You look away without a second thought, never even considering eating there. In all fairness, part of the lack of interest was in part, due to the lack of parking back in the good old days before the plague when ELAC had actual classes on campus. Traffic in that area was insane, students always parked in the lot reserved for Pizza Time and the other businesses around there so there was never any parking near there anyway. Plus, their sign bugged me. It's "PIZZA TIME" , of course, but the "A" is a slice of Pizza. Cute except it's pointing the wrong way. If you want it to resemble an "A", the crust end of the Pizza should be on the bottom resembling the bottom of an "A", no? With the pointy end at the top. For some unknown reason the Pizza slice representing the "A" is actually in a "V" position, making the sign look like "PIZZV TIME". (See picture). I just want to climb up there and spin the Pizza slice to the right position. I guess subconsciously i might have thought, in years past, that they can't be that great seeing as that Pizza slice mishap was allowed to happen on their sign, but I digress...
If one good thing has come out of this covid nightmare, it's our discovery of Pizza Time last week. They make Italian food that rivals, if not surpasses, even the finest Italian restaurants and no... I'm not exaggerating.
We stopped in just to see what it had because, guess what? Empty parking lot so why not?The place was kind of blah simple /no decor or even anything to be honest, other than the menus on the walls. Kind of like if Mike Pence was a fast food Pizza joint. It was shiny, spotless clean with an "A" grade on the door.
My hubs ordered for us while I ran around the corner to get something from Daiso. We waited outside and were the only customers for the 15-20 minutes we waited for our order. (Hint: Call your order in and no waiting)
My other half surprised me by ordering 2 calzones and a side of hot wings. I'm usually not a big fan of calzones because it's just too much bread, but I was hungry and kept it to myself. We drove home in all of three minutes because that's how close we live to Pizza Time!
After comfortably parking our butts in front of the tv, I took a bite of that humongous calzone and O H. M Y. G O D !
People! Listen to me! That was simply the best damn calzone I've ever had in my entire life and no...I'm not exaggerating! I look at that gorgeous man beside me and I could see he was having "a special moment" with his bite as well. I can't explain why they're so good other than they must use the best quality ingredients which they are very generous with and the dough is light, yeasty, and toasted just right. The wings were good as well, but I was so busy falling in love with a friggen calzone, that I barely noticed them. The Mister felt the same way and in fact he is the one who said I should write a review.
One calzone fed me three times over the next 2 days and my husband , twice. A few days later, we called in our order, 2 more calzones, repeat performance = another mouthgasm!
Today we wondered if some of their other items were as yummy. He ordered a large grinder sandwich and a large turkey one for me even though I wanted small. (No wonder I never lose these pesky 10 lbs.) "They'll be good," I said, "but nothing like those damn calzones" . I was wrong. Those were the best damn Italian sandwiches we've ever had and repeat performance= mouthgasm AGAIN!
I've gone on far too long but suffice it to say, that little boring shop usually hidden by 50 million cars and hundreds of ELAC students will kick that thing you sit on. The prices are more than reasonable especially when you consider the exceptional quality of the food.
I'm sorry I was a stuck up bitch for years, Pizza Time. Now, I intend to stalk you forever! You rock! read more