Last week, James decided we needed a date night. So we decided to try a pizza place we had heard (or read) a lot about. Being that I lived in Italy for nine months and I am pretty sure pizza was a big contributor to my 20 pound weight gain (gelato and pasta probably helped a bit, too), I am pretty particular about pizza, especially when they claim its "Italian". We went to Antico Pizza. It's located downtown just west of Georgia Tech. I had very high expectations. Heck, even the website ends in dot IT, not dot COM.....Also, they only make so many dough balls a day and the closing time is whenever they run out....We went on a Wednesday and it wasn't that busy.
It's a very low key place. You order at the counter and grab a drink (not a ton of option, which makes ordering easy) and then take your place in the kitchen. That's right, they have 4 long butcher type tables in the kitchen area. About 5 minutes after we sat down, our pizza was ready. We got a margherita pizza with sausage. It was pretty good. The ingredients were authentic (we even noticed they import their mozzarella cheese - we saw them opening a package that had been shipped) and the taste was pretty good. Good authentic taste from the ovens (which I believe were imported too). The only complaint I had was the crust around the edges was pretty thick and I don't remember that. I think that "americanized" it a bit.
Our authentic pizza experience was over in less time than it took to drive there, about 20 minutes. Overall, the pizza was good and I would go back. But I wasn't as impressed as I thought I would be. Maybe I had too high expectations???
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