{"id":13697,"date":"2015-03-10T14:24:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=13697"},"modified":"2015-03-10T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T19:24:51","slug":"pizza-domenica-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=13697","title":{"rendered":"Pizza Domenica Review New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13700\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150228_123341.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13700\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150228_123341-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Pizza Domenica Review\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>The Old Wood Pile<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New Orleans used to be such an awful pizza town when I lived there; now, post Katrina, there are 50% more restaurants than before the storm, despite a smaller population, and there is food of every ilk available and much of it superb. \u00a0Including pizza. \u00a0 My favorite pizza pre the influx of new comers was at the <a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2012\/06\/orleans-la-bucktown-ro-seafood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bucktown seafood restaurant R&amp;O<\/a>, pretty standard pizza.<\/p>\n<p>I had always meant to get to the parent restaurant of this place, Domenica, domiciled in the Roosevelt Hotel (nee Fairmont, nee Roosevelt) a block off Canal. \u00a0They have a spectacular happy hour, so spectacular, there is rarely a seat, so I was delighted they opened this smaller, pizza-centric version in Uptown on Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re visiting, you can easily hit this eatery a few blocks walk off the St. Charles street car.<\/p>\n<p>The short menu includes some appetizer and salad options, specialty pizzas, or create your own. \u00a0 We over ordered, with one pizza, a salad, and garlic knots, chicken liver pate, along with a sampling of dipping sauces (salsa verde, garlic fonduta, and arrabbiata). (arrabbiata is a slightly spicy tomato sauce, and fonduta is cheese based dip).<\/p>\n<p>I had assumed (I follow a &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; policy at pizzerias) that the pizzas would be smaller, but they weren&#8217;t. \u00a0Went with their all carnivore region, and if you&#8217;re even a semi regular reader, you know I&#8217;m damned fussy about pizza, and I have to pronounce this one of the best I have ever had, anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>What I liked about it, was quality ingredients (toppings) and the wonderfully smoky flavor imparted by the wood burning oven. \u00a0The crispy exterior crust leads to a melt in your mouth center. \u00a0My only curiousity was the cubes of Italian sausage, as I&#8217;ve ever seen that. \u00a0I have to imagine they cook sausages in casings and dice it themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Quality ingredients ruled the menu, \u00a0and we enjoyed everything we tried. \u00a0Sat at the bar and service was great. \u00a0The bar fronts the wood pile, and I imagine they go through a lot of it.<\/p>\n<p>If I lived in NOLA again, this would be my &#8220;go to pie,&#8221; bar none, all the time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13701\" style=\"width: 443px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150228_124741.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13701\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150228_124741-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Pizza Domenica Review\" width=\"443\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Caesar Salad<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13702\" style=\"width: 449px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150228_125002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13702\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150228_125002-1024x431.jpg\" alt=\"Pizza Domenica Review\" width=\"449\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Dipping Sauces<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13704\" style=\"width: 443px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Domenica2-2-28-2015-12-48-03-PM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13704\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Domenica2-2-28-2015-12-48-03-PM-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Pizza Domenica Review\" width=\"443\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Delicious Garlic Knots<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13703\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150228_125008.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-13703\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150228_125008-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Pizza Domenica Review\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>All Meat Pie<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pizzadomenica.com\/#our-menu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Menu online<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/57\/1829990\/restaurant\/Uptown\/Pizza-Domenica-New-Orleans\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1829990\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Pizza Domenica on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPizza Domenica Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans used to be such an awful pizza town when I lived there; now, post Katrina, there are 50% more restaurants than before the storm, despite a smaller population, and there is food of every ilk available and much of it superb. \u00a0Including pizza. \u00a0 My favorite pizza pre the influx of new comers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=13697\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pizza Domenica Review New Orleans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22],"tags":[237,2437,2446],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}