I am always looking for a good pizza! While walking around the East Village the other day I passed Otto's Restaurant Enoteca Pizza, what might be a decent Italian restaurant with a decent pizza. Despite the fact that they have the cohones to call themselves an 'Enoteca', mostly to appeal to rather clueless patrons, I decided to give it a shot. I was interested in one and only one dish, Pizza Margherita, which they claimed is D.O.C. (Denominazione di Origine Controllata). Let me cut to the chase. It was *fine*, but very unexceptional. The most positive comment I can make is that "at leats they were trying to make Pizza Margherita", as opposed to 99.99% of the pizzerias around here which don't give a crap about what exactly they're making.
More detailed pizza comments are as follows. The cheese seemed like the real deal, mozzarella di buffala, though it was rather skimpy. The sauce was not bad, in that there was nothing bad about it, for example too much sweetness, but it was also unexceptional. The real problem was the crust, which resembled a dried out pitta bread. Clearly these guys know nothing about what a proper pizza crust is supposed to be like! Thin, yes, but also moist, chewy, glutinous! Come on people, how hard can it be?! I'm not a pizzaiolo but for fuck's sake, at least I know the theory of making a proper pizza dough!
Anyway, given the state of the crust, I am unlikely to visit Otto's again. Oh, I almost forgot - I figured out what 'enoteca' means. It means that they gouge you with 15-20 USD glasses of wine. :-)
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