I'm going to date myself here. When I was a young girl growing up in Mt Carmel, east of Cincinnati, pizza joints were rare. We had one pizza place named Papa Gino's. Skyline was a little-known chili joint on the west side. The Hearth was the fancy restaurant in Mt. Carmel, which later became the strip joint, Deja Vu and is now gone altogether. And we jumped for joy when a Frisch's Restaurant was built on St. Rt. 32 complete with a dozen drive-in spots where you ordered and were served in your car.
Now we have pizza everywhere and there are Skylines in Kentucky and Indiana, as well as all over Ohio. Hail to fast food!
From the god-awful, cardboard crust of the Papa John's franchise to our own local
La Rosa's, we have an abundance of choices when it comes to pizza in Cincinnati. On those days when my husband doesn't feel like cooking, we can get delivery from
Snappy Tomato in New Richmond. If we want to step it up a bit, we'll drive the twenty miles to the Mt. Washington
Mio's where they have a low-carb menu as well as great pizza.
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| Festive beer tap handles decorate the half-wall at Adriatico's |
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BUT if we really want to go pizza-palooza we head to Clifton for
Adriatico's New York Style Pizza on McMillan Avenue. I LOVE Adriatico's pizza. I even loved it when it was just a carry-out and delivery restaurant. Now they have a sit-down restaurant/sports bar. The venue is small and parking is iffy. Do not park in Pomadori's lot next door (which was empty last night) or your car will get towed (who needs burnt pizza crust anyway.) Although the inside is tight, it is well laid out with a front dining area that can be turned into an outside patio on a nice day. There are flat screen TVs in every corner and if you are a beer lover this is heaven. They have nearly fifty beers on tap.The patio and dining area are separated by a half wall decorated with a variety of festive beer tap handles. And the pizza? Absolutely the best pizza in Cincinnati.
