La Gelateria in Cleveland Heights recently started serving traditional Italian pizza from a brick oven. Sarah and I have been patronizing La Gelateria for years and decided to try some of the pizza. We ordered one margherita pizza:
and one pizza with mushrooms and proscuitto:
They were both excellent. The crust is extremely thin but chewy and flavorful. They seem to use whole milk mozarella (which is always good) but in small enough quantities so that the pizza isn’t too rich. The tomato sauce is pretty basic–a strong, sharp tomato flavor–but simplicity isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The basil on the margherita was a nice touch, and the proscuitto was tasty but a bit more like regular ham than some I’ve had recently (e.g. at Bar Cento or Whole Foods Osteria).
The pizzas are $8-$10, and each 12″ pizza will feed about 1 1/2 hungry adults. Our family (two adults and a kid) polished off the two we ordered at lunch, and we felt very satisfied. But we somehow still had room for a large gelato (with pistachio, chocolate, and mango sorbet).
We’d definitely recommend trying the pizza sometime. Having Valerio himself make the pizzas and enthusiastically hand them to me out of the brick oven was a nice way to end the visit.
Nice blog — glad I found you!
Thanks, Nancy. I’m glad you enjoy it!
–Ben