Campania Pizza
WTF, let's make it pizza week*
VERY HOT PIZZA NEWS: Campania Pizza JUST OPENED (like, hours ago) on the ground floor of Mondrian Cityplace across from the uberbuzzy West Village. Named for the Campania region, it has a guy in from italy doing a temporary consultancy to demo real pizza i.e. not loaded w/ mozzarella or drenched w/ tomato sauce. Everything’s imported from Italy (even the flour!); they’re also selling gourmet foodstuffs. They’ll do salads, specialty pizza rolls, stuffed crust deals, but it’s so new they don’t have all their supplies. The interior's tiled w/ imported stone & mosaic, and there’s a mural of napoli on the wall.
3000 blackburn st. #150. 214-780-0605
*cool neon-esque logo supplied by, yes, marc, the indian scout of NYCE
posted by TG @ 10:43 AM
43 comments
43 Comments:
Look out TG, I'm so there!
be sure to say hello to the manager, daniel
sounds good, but if joe campisi were still around, bet they would get a phone call about the name.
tg: correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe there is a starbucks in the west village, so after your pie, you could go there for a delicious malt treat.
that view of naples you linked to is a killer. why do we live in landlocked dallas?
suppose you know daniel from some other place since you are on a chummy first-name basis. that rips it for being a reviewer who dines anonymously!
am glad/sorry to say that i've never met daniel, but instead managed to extract quite a bit of info from him on the phone, including the fact that he once worked at campisi's! whose pizza is, of course as we ALL know, totally MEDIOCRE
yes, that west village starbucks is the LARGEST IN THE CITY OF DALLAS (if not the world?!), thanks for reminding me, ms.ery!
p.s. i updated some of the links...
tg should be glad joe campisi is not still around to read that putdown of his pizza
Twisted Link, maybe they are offering other kinds of products to appeal to more people. Or maybe their specialty items are not the bad kind that you are autoamically thinking of.
Isn't this their 7th location?
I was kinda wondering, ya know, because this whole week has been about 7s so far.
But if this is only their 1st, that's OK too because you never made it thru the complete week with BAD posts either... ;-)
I, myself, always split 7s...
Twisted Link, no you did not say "specialty" but T.G. did: "They’ll do salads, SPECIALTY pizza rolls, stuffed crust deals ..."
I wold rather hve a place with good pizza and some "mediocre" items than a place with no good pizza at all.
But since nobody seems to have eaten at Campania, we should not jump to concluions - about its pizza or its specialty items.
b.k., how funny you would mention BAD week (which sputtered on its 4th day). i was actually going to make this Pizza Week becuz i have a # of candidates - perhaps enough to fill out the rest of the week. i just need a cool "logo"
i sort of like campisi's pizza with salami and green onion.
I'm with TG on this one, Campisi's sucks. There, I've said it. I don't know what people see in it. (It's not like Amber Campisi is personally serving it topless or anything!)
Who cares if Campania (the restaurant) makes other crap? If they serve a good pizza Margherita, which in my mind is still the best thin-crust pizza, then all the rest of this is just sound and fury signifying nothing.
I'm with d.b. on campisi's salami pizza. the chopped salami crisps nicely in the pizza oven and its much tastier -- and more palatable -- than that rabbit pellet sausage most places use. the green onions are a nice departure from white onion, too. once or twice a year when i need to grocery shop but am starving, i first eat a miniature one from the campisi's counter in the store. think it is something like $3.50 and i can never finish it, plus it probably saves me a bundle on impulse food purchases i would have made if i hadn't eaten. other times i get a chicken wing or leg from the kroger hot food counter.
campisi's reminds me of la madeleine: before empire came along, people raved about la mad cuz they'd never had GOOD bread.
campisi's thin crust is ok but the sauce tastes (to me) like rank tomato paste, meats are disgusting, and vegs are canned. i'll take california pizza kitchen any day (even the thin-crust in the kroger freezer case)
disagree! disagree! campisi's green scallions are NOT canned and the salami is not disgusting. also there is very little sauce on the pizza. better cheese would be nice, but thought i was talking to people who regularly go to jack in the box and sonic! and eat that dreadful dreyer's ice cream! (twisted, you may just have been needing a booster shot when you got ill.)
as for the place on lower greenville, i'm not sure what's good these days. some people like mama taught me pizzza, but i haven't tried it (tho mama and her brood live across the street from me). to be truthful, i'm not a regular pizza eater, but tg's postings about it have made me want to revisit this place on buckner blvd. that use to serve the best garlic pizza. can't remember its name, but i'll try to give it a driveby, and if it's still open i'll give you a report.
I'm sorry ms.ery, but the olives and mushrooms at Campisi's are canned. And the pepperoni is really dog meat; twisted dog meat.
CPK is okay. The BBQ chicken on the honey-wheat dough . . . mmmmmmm.
i think twisted is talking about "cosa nostra", some mob-themed name. not great but certainly decent
those frozen CPK thin-crust pizzas are usually $5 or less at your favorite kroger, ms.ery; not quite the $3.50 you favor but pretty close!
and ANY Reports From The Field are much appreciated here. i'll stop at campania tomorrow and do the same
As you know TG, I've been to Cafe Nostra. It's edible, but barely. It's nothing special. I much prefer a really thin crust ala Louie's. A fine Canadian bacon they serve. That, and their drinks there are really strong, in a Loon-esque way.
Yo, Dean ... Ever hear of the Subject-Verb-Object sentence structure. Or nouns first, then pronouns?
Great idea... great logo!
The lovely Mrs. BK and I really like the pizza from Alfonso's. But we always make sure to ask them to make a thin crust (it's not a menu choice). To our minds, it's about as close to the fine crusts that bad boy Nick throws up at Fireside as you can get.
Their home made (house made? strip mall made?) sausage is our meat of choice, along with 'shrooms and black olives.
Prices can't be beat either.
Keeps us high... and off the needle too...
yes, dean, get the little book!
i misnamed that pizza place on lower greenville: it is mama knows pizza.
tg: if i bought your frozen pizza, i would have to take it home and cook. that would hardlh help ease my hunger pangs BEFORE shopping.
dean: canadian bacon is for people who really don't like bacon, and it sucks on pizza
bk: is your alfonso's my place on buckner blvd.? if you're a garlic lover, then you must try it with just that. several years ago at least, it was always freshly chopped garlic, not that soggy type that comes in jars. just that is topping enough for me and i never asked for a thin-crust -- but then i am one of those people that likes the pizza crust edges.
d.b.:
I think you are referring to "Canadian-style" bacon, which pales by comparison to back bacon and can't even begin to be compared to true, pea-meal bacon from Canada (which makes the most superb BLT on the planet).
Canadian-style bacon serves a useful purpose to anyone with diabetes, since it's protein in a jiffy with very little fat. But good, it ain't.
However, I agree that the idea of putting Canadian-style bacon on pizza is as hideous as the idea of putting PINEAPPLE on pizza. Ptooey, blecch, ughhhhh.
Ms.Ery, have you gotten around to trying Fireside Pies yet? On Henderson. I think that is the best pizza I have ever eaten. I wish it weren't always mobbed. But if you go by early, before 6 p.m., you won't wait. And they'll make it to go. Their Italian sausage is to die for!
I'M HAPPY TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY IN ANY WAY THAT I CAN. JUST DON'T ASK ME TO.
mongrel, i heard a npr report today that said there is urea in cigarettes and that dog urine is rich in it. you could piss on twisted link's cigs, especially when he is smoking them.
no, i haven't been to fireside pies yet, and it's in my neighborhood. it's always too mobbed and parking too awful at night. however, my daughter and i noticed it was a lot better one tuesday, and we're going to try to go early in the week soon.
Dean: you used the term Loon-esque in your Louie's pizza comments, because Louie worked there when it was Joe Miller's, one might guess. Have you eaten at The Loon lately and is Alessio still in the kitchen? He turned out some unusual and tasty pizzas, as well as other excellent food.
kirk, you're so smart that i went to you blog, but you haven't posted as much there as you have on tg's. i did look at the frog site you lauded. it was sweet/sad, and it reminded me of the gerbil animated joke site. does anyone know it? my favorite skit was where this gerbil is in a bar taunting a longshoreman type. does anyone know the site i am talking about; it's been a couple years since i visited and would like to view them again.
If Kirk were so smart, he would know it is peameal, no hyphen, not pea-meal bacon. He needs a dictionary and the little book.
Will Strunk, is that you? I can't believe we are visiting the same blog. I adore your teachings. I quoted you all the time to those lazy journalists I used to tutor. Keep sentences short and to the point. Use the active voice. And so on and so on. Did they listen? Read a newspaper. You'll know the sorry answer.
Strunk:
You are, of course, completely correct. I am not so smart. If I were, I would be spending summers somewhere where the temperature is counted in only two digits (and reported in Centigrade, for that matter.
And, I am proud to say, my Canadian Oxford Dictionary was lost long ago.
Hell, I'm as excited as a hen on a June bug to know that E.B. is still with us.
why, i wonder, do strunk & white torment kirk over a lousy hyphen ... but i suppose i should welcome improved literacy in the comments area
meanwhile, the lovely m.b. voices my feelings exactly on fireside pies (has he/she been eavesdropping on my conversations?); it is the best pizza in town. i too am a fan of the ital sausage pizza w/ its smoky scamorza cheese and soft red onion. and i always try to go when they first open. perhaps we have competed for a table?
someone asked about the gerbil cartoons. go to joecartoons.com; click to gerbil cartoons, and then go to gerbil bar. i agree with the touter; it has all the pathos, reality of a john steinbeck/william saroyan collaboration. some of the other gerbil "cartoons" are ultra sadistic. micro gerbil would be a twisted favorite.
tg: the "lovely M.B." and you pretend not to know whether m.b. is a he or a she?
do you call a male lovely? and why do you ignore my pleas for claity when i have been a loyal blogger for weeks and weeks? In my opinion, you are just catering to the first-time visitors, ignoring all us faithful.
who says males can't be lovely too
Okay, here we go:
1) I don't respond to "yo;"
2) Strunk & White can kiss my pronoun;
3) I like real "back" bacon not this streaky fatty shit that passes for "bacon" over here (and if you don't know what that means, then you're dumb);
4) I've not been to The Loon lately, nor have I ever had a pizza there, so I can't answer Jess's question;
5) Fireside Pies is good, but I've over eaten their pizzas. Having said that, before 7:00 on a Tuesday, or after 10:00 on any day seems to be a good time to visit. When they open the one at Legacy (in the new development across the street from Bob's) next year, TG can go with more regularity.
That about covers it.
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