Friday, July 29, 2011

Crazy Dough's | Harvard Square

Crazy Dough's | Harvard Square

Crazy Dough's

Website

http://www.crazydoughs.com/

Address

The Garage, Harvard Square

Date Ordered

7/14/2011

Where Consumed

Restaurant

Price

$5.00

Order Method

Counter

Service Method

Table

Delivery Time

17 minutes

Size (Inches)

10

Price Per Sq Inch

$0.064

Miro Score

Elizabeth Score

Average

Look

3.0

2.5

2.8

Miro's Comments: a lot of sauce and not much cheese. I'm digging the grill marks though.

Elizabeth's Comments: Not enough cheese. Thin and wimpy. Reminds me very much of a frozen Elio's, but that's our fault for getting a small.

Smell

5.0

2.5

3.8

Miro's Comments: Smells of the complexity of real parmasean cheese.

Elizabeth's Comments: A little on the stinky feet side.

Temp

N/A

N/A

#DIV/0!

Miro's Comments:

Elizabeth's Comments:

Cheese

4.0

2.0

3.0

Miro's Comments: Good quality cheese, but not enough of it. I'd like more, even if it was less flavorful, to give it more chew.

Elizabeth's Comments: It's way too parm-y

Sauce

4.0

4.5

4.3

Miro's Comments: A little too much sauce, but good flavor on it. The sauce is a bit sweet, but I think it's real and is balanced by the cheese. A shake of parm would help.

Elizabeth's Comments: It's fresh tasting and think and very tomato-ey

Crust

2.5

3.0

2.8

Miro's Comments: I had high hopes for this crust, and I'm really torn on judging it. It's crisp, which is nice, but it's crisp in almost a flaky, oiled way. I think that's a deliberate part of their "signature fire-grilled style" but I might be more of a wood grilled man myself.

Elizabeth's Comments: Crispy on the outside, too wimpy to hold up the insides. No doughiness at all, but it has a nice flavor it.

Overall Taste

3.0

3.0

3.0

Miro's Comments: I think I'm just not into the 'signature fire grilled' crust. It tastes too much of oil. I bet if I came back for the regular wood grilled I would really like it.

Elizabeth's Comments: Sauce and crust are decent, but too little mozzella, too much parm.

Value Score

47.12

47.12

47.12

Overall Comments

Miro's Comments: To the dude behind the counter. If you're going to look like a stoner, try not to reinforce everyone's worst sterotypes about what a 'stoner looking dude' acts like. Forgetting my soda was fine. Forgetting you didn't have any romaine lettuce in the shop was more surprising. Telling me about it 15 minutes after I had a conversation with the chef about getting a different salad and had a fork full of lettuce is a bit too much..

Elizabeth's Comments: I'm pretty sure I came here during my first date in high school. Back then I must have had a much higher tolerance for dirty floors. Has this place ever seen a vacuum. Yuck.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Zing Pizza | Cambridge

Zing Pizza | Cambridge

For this blog we're joined by Tim Finn. Without Tim's verbal intonation, I fear something is lost in his comments, so check out his chronicle of his work on the definitive history of G.I. Joe and his personal blog, inanimate.com.

Pizza Place

Zing

Website

http://www.zingpizza.com/

Address

1923 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA

Date Ordered

7/6/2011

Where Consumed

In Restaurant

Price

$14.50

Order Method

Counter

Service Method

Counter

Delivery Time

18 min

Size (Inches)

16

Price Per Sq Inch

$0.072

Miro Score

Elizabeth Score

Tim's Score

Average

Look

4.5

4.0

5.0

4.5

Miro's Comments: Crispy and enormous. Tim appears to be inspecting the underside of his slice. I will do the same and pretend I know what I'm looking for.

Elizabeth's Comments: Rectangular. Interesting … a burny, but lots of cheese

Tim's Comments: Properly cooked - no burn cheese or crust (excepting ever so slight lower edge char) - to be expected from wood grilled fired. Proper amount of cheese, good visible cheese-to-sauce-to-crust ratio.

Smell

Miro Score

Elizabeth Score

Tim's Score

Average

4.0

3.5

4.0

3.8

Miro's Comments: A distinctly microwave popcorn smell.

Elizabeth's Comments: A little cheese but not smell of anything.

Tim's Comments: Smells like pizza

Temp

Miro Score

Elizabeth Score

Tim's Score

Average

3.0

4.0

4.0

3.7

Miro's Comments:

Elizabeth's Comments: I expected hotter since we got in the restaurant.

Tim's Comments: Properly hot/warm

Cheese

Miro Score

Elizabeth Score

Tim's Score

Average

4.0

3.5

3.0

3.5

Miro's Comments: Salty and well balanced with the sauce

Elizabeth's Comments: Not flavorful, but a nice coating.

Tim's Comments: I'm not good at this - recognizing when non-mozzarella cheese or part skim is mixed with regular (whole milk?). So I'll say my metric is Pinocchio's which has my favorite cheese. This tasted quite good, but not as rich and smooth? mozzerella-ey? as at Pinocchio's ... like there was another cheese mixed in.

Sauce

Miro Score

Elizabeth Score

Tim's Score

Average

4.5

3.0

4.0

3.8

Miro's Comments: Very rich without being too sweet. I'm enjoying more than I usually do.

Elizabeth's Comments: Not much of it. I can't really determine the flavor. That said, it's not noticeably bad either.

Tim's Comments: Tangy, not sweet. Would've liked a little more (ate at Posto in Davis last night and it had more sauce & it was chunkier).

Crust

Miro Score

Elizabeth Score

Tim's Score

Average

5.0

3.0

5.0

4.3

Miro's Comments: Tasty and crisp with a delicate singe for extra flavor.

Elizabeth's Comments: Thin and a little burny

Tim's Comments: Great for flatbread. (Flatbread not my preferred style, but I wouldn't not go to a flatbread place).

Overall Taste

Miro Score

Elizabeth Score

Tim's Score

Average

4.5

4.0

4.0

4.2

Miro's Comments: A good layer of cheese and solid sauce all gently placed upon a delightfully crispy crust.

Elizabeth's Comments: All together is pretty good, but not super memorable. It gets extra points for tasting super fresh.

Tim's Comments: To provide a comparison, I'd call Flatbread in Davis a 5 - slightly tastier cheese, sauce, and crust. A stronger sense of how fresh everything is but that could be me being swayed by Flatbread's menus & wait staff stressing the "Fresh/organic/local" angle.

Value Score

62.40

55.47

55.47

57.78

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