Zoli’s
Sicilian Slice
NY Slice with Pepperoni
Happy with every aspect of my visit to Cane Rosso from food to service to setting and music it was with a spring in my step that I approached Zoli’s, a New York themed pizzeria from the same team, looking for that elusive “slice” to change my mind about the whole genre…a mission that continues still today as inferior ingredients and insipid service paired to provide an experience only memorable in how bad it truly was. Seemingly a great idea, using sourcing and skills honed at the Deep Ellum Neapolitan staple to produce a superior slice or Sicilian square the problems at Zoli’s started the moment I entered as the only clerk available somehow botched a two-item order twice and somehow still managed to overcharge me before getting the manager as “my” FOUR selections visited an oven manned by a condescending middle-aged man who acted as the botched ticket was somehow my fault. At this point unamused but appropriately charged and starring at two hot pieces of pie it was at first taste that I knew my preconception of quality was misplaced, the crust nicely charred and well constructed but the sauce overly sweet and the cheese questionably Kraft, though perhaps more greasy – two tastes of each satisfying my curiosity and the rest left to the trash at $2.25 per bite, steep for even New York standards.
