venice kitchen

i like old venice. sometimes i love old venice the sunday buffet style brunch is pretty consistent. good bang for your buck and the staff is always fun to me and my mama. i also like the create your own pasta for lunch. that's actually how i first started eating there and for the dinner i've had the chicken parma and that mac ncheesehad me speechless!!! overall big fan of old venice!

one of the best!. memphis pizza cafe use to be my favorite place for pizza until i tried old venice. i have eaten several different kinds of their pizzas and all were surprisingly good. however, the best is the fourcheesepizza. sounds plain, but it is super rich. with creamcheesebeing the base for this pizza, there is no room for calorie counting. i have yet to try a pasta dish, as i can't get past the pizza. the caesar salad is great too. i never drove out of midtown for take out until now.
also, the atmosphere at the bar is nice. great place to eat and watch a tiger's game. the martini's aren't too shabby either.

pizza for philistines. i love pizza. in fact, i would consider myself a connoisseur. i have lived in new york and new haven, ct (http://thepauperedchef.com/2007/09/new-haven-pizza.html), and i have made a point to eat slices at most of the best pizza restaurants in the country --- multiple times. i also like a lot of frozen pizza. and sometimes delivery pizza. i like bosco's pizza. i like schlotzky's pizza. i like memphis pizza cafe.

i do not like oid venice pizza. in fact, i loathe it.

old venice pizza has no style, no soul, and no, well, taste. even a chuckycheesepizza i can appreciate for its cheap simplicity, but that is not what is going on here. quite frankly, old venice pizza tastes like some over-confident bachelor went to the store, bought a chef boyardee pizza kit, threw some expensive mushrooms on it, and decided to sell it at fine-dining prices.

for my love of pizza, i have tried old venice several times over the years. each time i go, i honestly hope i am going to enjoy it. i mean, the atmosphere is nice, it's in a good location, and the drinks are good... it's just... bad. really, really, bad.

i feel sorry for the people who think this pizza is good. or, better yet, i am envious of their ability to find satisfaction from ragu on a twelve-dollar biscuit.

holy crab!. it not just an expression it is a soup on the menu. i had one of many great lunches there today and the lunch special price make it affordable. i had the grilled chicken rustica panini and the soup. have i mentioned the soup? i normally get the mad italian panini because that's my favorite but i broke out and tried the chicken it was good but i still prefer the mad italian. ok one more time for the holy crab and crawfish chowder. crab and crawfish tails simmered with sweet corn onion red bell pepper and a little spice. man o man... if you or into salads you need to try the walnut grove anything with roasted red pepper and walnuts, red onion, bluecheesecrumbles and a wine vinaigrette on it has to be good right,.. even lettuce. there are just so many things on the full menu you can't get board and i am not going to mention the soup again.. ok.