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Calabria Restaurant Bar

Calabria Restaurant Bar

588 S Livingston Ave, 07039, United States

Pizza • Italian • Pizzeria • Delivery Services


"Ultra thin pizzas are always such a crapshoot. Either they 'll be so thin that slices flop hopelessly under its own weight, or the crust will taste more like tomato sauce and cheese on a cracker. But YouTube 's famous pizza reviewer, Dave Portnoy, gaveCalabria 's thin pizza such an uncharacteristically high 8.9 that we had to find out for ourselves. (Note: the restaurant hassince updated the menu and renamed it the 'Dave Portnoy Thin Pie ' . In short, it 's as good as advertised. I 'm not sure whatkind of wizardry goes into creating a crust that 's thin, tasty, AND structurally stable enough to maintain its rigidity under agood layer of cheese, but that 's precisely what we had here. I especially appreciated the shorn fresh basil on top of the pie.Our family also managed to polish off two other thin pies in record time a Margherita and a white pie with so much garlicflavor that no amount of mints could disguise our postprandial breath (not that any of us were complaining . I wish I 'd thoughtto capture a shot of the fried calamari, which are such an unsung hero on Calabria 's menu. Here, they 're meaty and lightlybattered, with a surprising number of the leg pieces (not my usual preference, but they 're done so well that I didn 'tmind . The restaurant is on the larger side, with two generously sized dining spaces. Service was prompt, efficient, andcourteous and our food came to the tables piping hot in under ten minutes. A stellar place for standup pizza!"