Critic's Review
I was in the area at 5pm Sunday so I decided to order a pizza from Times Square; before I started this site Times Square was my go-to place for Pizza, but I haven't been back since 2014. I didn't plan on eating it until much later.
I asked them to cook it "light" in anticipation of having to reheat it. This is what it looked like when I got home.
Hours later it was very cold; you know what happens to pizza when it gets cold.
At 11pm I preheated the oven to 250 degrees and dropped a couple of slices on the stone. I checked them 10 minutes later to make sure things were going as expected.
After 15 minutes I had perfected rejuvenated, ready to eat pizza. Soft crust, cheese melted but not so hot it would burn my mouth.
For the next 2 slices I turned up the oven to 275 and cooked them for the same 15 minutes. The result was a slightly crispy crust and cheese too hot to eat straight out of the oven.
As for the taste, there's something incredibly bland about this pizza. The sauce is heavily seasoned with oregano, and even the cheese doesn't taste that great. Totally bland crust; I didn't eat 1 crust. This pizza was far inferior to the one I got from Umberto's last week.
Conclusion
I stopped getting pizza here 7 years ago for a reason; it's just not that good. It LOOKS like a real pizza, but it just doesn't taste right.
Review 4/4/14
I haven't had a slice for a while, so I decided to stop in a Times Square. I remember the first time I got a slice from here; they used to have monster 20" slices with a thck layer of cheese for $1.95. I remember thinking that I'd finally found decent pizza in Fort Lauderdale.
I decided to eat in as there was only 1 other person at the tables. It's a pizzeria; you don't come here for any sort of dining out experience.
The slices now are $2.46 with tax, and they don't give you a 20" slice anymore.
There also isn't any cheese. What a shame; this place used to be so good, now it's just like very other bad pizza place in South Florida.
Review 5/15/2011
In March 2007 I wrote:
"Sometimes its a mistake to not go into a place just because it looks like a dump. I passed this place countless times, and the name screamed out New York, but I'd been fooled before. No reviews on the 'net of this place. One day I decided to go in. A smallish place with dingy booths, with patrons resembling homeless people. I see a sign on the wall: 2 slices and a soda for $4.50. How good could this be? So I order a slice. I could hardly understand the guy behind the counter and vice versa; language unknown. Only $1.95. OK, at least its cheap. I wait. Finally the slice arrives. My eyes widen. It's HUGE. And its oozing with slippery cheese, so real the oil is dripping off. And the taste. Eureka! I've finally found NY quality pizza in South Florida."
After that day I ordered several pizzas, usually 16", and while they were good, they just never reached the level of euphoria I had achieved with that initial slice. I came to the conclusion that 16" pies didn't have the right amount of dough. The crust wasn't quite right. They had cut back on the cheese, exposing the fact that their sauce was bland.
I wasn't blogging back then; I went back about a year ago and got this slice:
Not as big or cheesy as that first slice. Good, but not great.
Another year and I had to go to Target, so it was a good time to give them another try. This time I got the 1/2 sausage, 16" pie.
A bit short of the sausage; they charge $1.05 for a 1/2 topping; so this whole pie was $13.05. Cheaper than most places. It's the good sausage though. It's a solid pie. The crust is still a bit chewy and the sauce kinda bland, but it's pretty good for Fort Lauderdale. Just don't order the thick crust pizza. Its awful.