{"id":24479,"date":"2017-04-18T12:28:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T17:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=16961"},"modified":"2017-04-18T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T17:28:03","slug":"napoli-pizza-review-woodstock-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=24479","title":{"rendered":"Napoli Pizza Review, Woodstock, IL"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Napoli<\/a>I love being surprised (in a good way).<\/p>\n

I also\u00a0love having an experience\u00a0exceed my expectations. Both were the case at Napoli Pizza, in the\u00a0distant Chicago burg of Woodstock.<\/p>\n

You may not recognize the name of the town, but you would if you\u00a0were dropped into the town square – it’s where most of the exteriors\u00a0of the movie “Groundhog Day” were filmed. There’s even a commerative “Ned Ryerson” plague on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

So I saw Napoli by accident some time ago, and it looked old timey.\u00a0Not much about it online, other than their facebook page<\/a>, which\u00a0says they have been family owned for 26 years. Carry out, delivery or\u00a0dine in, pizza, pasta, apps, sandwiches. Open 7 days from 11AM.<\/p>\n

I ordered a thin crust house special (sausage, pepperoni, green and\u00a0black olives, onions, mushrooms, and green pepper).<\/p>\n

I can vouch that the dough is blended in-house, because I spied a\u00a0hunk of it bigger than me, being worked in the kitchen. Their “thin”\u00a0isn’t as thin as some other Chicago area pizzerias, more like the\u00a0thickness of what the chains referred to as “hand-tossed.” Regardless,\u00a0it was very flaky at the exterior and nice and chewy as you worked\u00a0your way in from the win.<\/p>\n

Toppings were plentiful, and I mean PLENTIFUL. I was surprised when\u00a0I was first handed the box, this sucker was HEAVY. Excellent hand\u00a0pulled chunks of flavorful Italian sausage. The sauce is slightly sweet,\u00a0but in the way it’s supposed to be, from tomatoes. Hearty. And\u00a0massive amounts of cheese, I’m sure the quantity would qualify as\u00a0“double cheese” at most places. Really, really nice.<\/p>\n

I wished I lived closer, Napoli would be my go-to place. Luckily,\u00a0every few months I’m up that way. I’ll be back. I so admire mom and pop sized operators. It’s gotta be tough every day to compete against the major chain pricing gimmicks, and of course the breaks chains get on purchasing monster quantities of ingredients.<\/p>\n

Thanks for a great pie! \u00a0Menu below.<\/p>\n

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I love being surprised (in a good way). I also\u00a0love having an experience\u00a0exceed my expectations. Both were the case at Napoli Pizza, in the\u00a0distant Chicago burg of Woodstock. You may not recognize the name of the town, but you would if you\u00a0were dropped into the town square – it’s where most of the exteriors\u00a0of the… Continue reading Napoli Pizza Review, Woodstock, IL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22,26],"tags":[948,2485,3771],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24479"}],"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=24479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}