After a wild night of Halloween festivities (Critical Masquerade & Necto Pride via Chris Green's crazy ass bus party), Eric and I were tired and lazy almost to the point of bumming all day. Fortunately, hunger won - as it often happenswith him :D - and we ended up heading to Eastern Market, sights (and appetites) set on Supino Pizza.
I'd heard of this adorable little place from my cousin. As a hard-core (self proclaimed hard-core, let's be real) pizza enthusiast, I was dying for a slice. The restaurant is cozy with its purple walls, and pretty small with just a few smaller high round tables in the front windows and a couple of longer rectangular ones, almost cafeteria style. The menu offered red (sauce) and white (no sauce) pizzas with the option of purchase by the slice. I love sauce, so we went with The Supino (roasted garlic, olives, ricotta, mozzarella, and red sauce)....a large one between the two of us,naturally. During the 25 minute wait, we checked out the Rocky Peanut store a couple doors down. They sold an amazing selection of gourmet groceries, including every spice, bean, candy, or dried fruit that you could possibly imagine in bulk. We picked out some dried kiwi and turkish apricots to munch on.
When we walked back into Supino about twenty minutes later, the workers yelled, "Eric is here!," and promptly served us our ginormous pizza.
The crust was just the perfect texture, weight, crisp. Truly delicious. I loved the roasted garlic and ricotta cheese! Not the hugest fan of the olives, but you know, it could be because I have unsophisticated taste in olives and love the dumb sliced canned ones too much. Oh well, take notes for next time. Another thing we wished we'd done - and will definitely do next visit - was order the pizza with different toppings on each half. Definitely would recommend a visit...honestly, any topping would be just fine on this amazing crust.
That is all. Happy Octubre. :)