Thursday, May 20, 2010

Carbone's Pizza

We never heard of a pizza place called Carbone's despite having a pretty strong knowledge on the pizza places in Buffalo. Not to get confused with the Carbone's in Rochester as this place is run by different owners. It was recommended to us by one of our superiors and we found out it is only four minutes away southeast of downtown as we called up our order for delivery.

Their main website has been and still is down for weeks since we first found out about it. It is always a bad sign when a website has a Gateway Timeout error. I mean, this is 2010. Every place should have a functional website by now. Not being able to find a menu or having a paper one in hand turns off people from ordering. After hard research, we found a menu online. The prices are probably outdated since we got a large pepperoni pizza ($12.85), which is very basic, and that alone came to about $19.80 dollars total, along with a couple bleu (or is it blue?) cheeses. Menu said 8 slices and we got it cut into 12 slices. After all that trouble of finding out about this place, we just got a large pizza... but you can tell a lot just by the most common pizza order. You can't mess up on that order and delivery for just a large. A large pepperoni pizza is what's compared the most between other places.

Apparently, one of us had pizza from Carbone's in Rochester the night before. Is the pizza similar to the one in Buffalo? The answer is yes… but actually very identical. The pizza box was different, but the pizza itself was pretty much the same. That person said, “This pizza is a taste of Rochester.” Just by lifting the top of the box, the look of the pizza was enticing and how it should look for a large. As requested, it was cut into 12 triangle pieces instead of squares. The pizza was not hard or burnt and had enough sauce on it. It wasn’t thick or thin on the dough and the crust wasn’t a problem.

What’s amazing is that another one of us has tried out at least 50 pizza places in Buffalo and this pizza is startling to wonder why aren’t they more popular around the area of Buffalo. Now, you know who they are and just how delicious their pizza is. Based on their pizza alone, it scores a high rating and it is always great news when you hear we'd be going back for some more again.

Final Rating: 4.5 out of 5

Carbone's Pizza & Subs
www.carbonespizza.com
http://www.allmenus.com/ny/buffalo/147370-carbones-pizza/menu/
568 South Park Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14204-2626
(716) 855-1749

4 comments:

smarterthanvinny said...

I did not actually eat this food, but I have a hard time giving anyone a high score for "not" screwing up my order. That is the least I should expect. Admittedly I have not been in every pizza joint in this area, but let them build a track record of consistency. Even a blind squirrel can find a nut !

Anonymous said...

If you don't eat the damn food, why are you commenting?

Downtown Buffalo Lunchtime said...

update: the website at carbonespizza.com does work through firefox and also internet explorer... it actually is entirely loaded through flash but needs the macromedia player which our work computers don't have

Downtown Buffalo Lunchtime said...

update: apparently they are related and the family split ways and opened another location