Sunday, October 12, 2014

"Punch" for World Champions! - Tuesday, 7 October


My 'za
It’s popular. It’s comfortable & pleasant. It has a nice layout of multiple rooms, accommodating the lunchtime crowd (which they do get) without too much chaos. It offers 100+ combinations of pizza toppings plus pastas and salads. It has its own school. It’s open noon-midnight daily. It’s in my favorite 2nd arrondissement ‘hood.

But it won 4th place in a World Pizza Championship in Parma this year? (And apparently 2nd place in some previous year.) Hmmm. Must have been rigged. Calling itself “champion of champions” (Il Campionissimo) and a “temple” of Italian cuisine seems a bit … well … pretentious.   http://ilcampionissimo.fr/index.php 

My pizza was perfectly fine: a nice crushed tomato sauce, mushrooms, Paris ham, artichokes, mozzarella, tasty crust.  And they do have cute custom frosted water bottles. But although our local Punch Neopolitan Pizza offers way fewer toppings to pick from, their ‘zas are much better! 

The view from my table

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