{"id":1551,"date":"2014-05-14T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2023-07-30T10:30:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T14:30:04","slug":"grandmother-pies-pizza-parts-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2014\/05\/14\/grandmother-pies-pizza-parts-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandmother Goes to Washington: DC’s Pizza Parts & Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

The team behind Taylor Gourmet<\/a> recently unveiled their new entry in the Washington, DC, pizza wars, the awkwardly titled Pizza Parts & Service<\/a>, named in honor of the location’s prior use as a garage. Makes you glad they didn’t take over a fishmongers. The location more recently housed the lamented Taylor Steak & Ice<\/a>, purveyors of a most satisfactory rendition of the Philly Cheesesteak. After sampling one of PP&S’s pies, I kind of wish they’s stuck with the steaks.<\/p>\n

\"Grandmother<\/p>\n

I ordered delivery for one of the suggested combinations, the #2—pepperoni, saut\u00e9ed onions and peppers, pepperonici, mozzarella, and pecorino romano—”nonna” style. These grandmother style<\/a> pies are generously topped, and the quality of ingredients, a Taylor hallmark, can’t be beat. As befits a grandmother pie, the cheese browned properly at the edges, making the corner slices the ones to grab. At $24 delivered (before tip), it’s about on par with other high-end pizza joints, but if you try to configure your own pie, you’ll quickly run up a serious bill. Circular pizzas are also available, but the “nonna” is the real gimmick here, a style mostly unavailable locally.<\/p>\n

The pie was good, but it didn’t quite make it to great. Never let it be said that I oppose grease on a pizza, as I still fondly recall the sheening pools that formed on the pies at one of DC’s finest pizza dives, Vesuvio’s in Dupont Circle, but the “nonna” had just a bit too much relative to the crust’s ability to carry it. I realize that this kind of pie uses a fair bit of oil in the dough, but I was hoping for something closer to the tomato pies one finds in Philadelphia<\/a>, which share a similar crumb but don’t have that much grease. Perhaps I’m just not a fan of the grandmother style.<\/p>\n

In any event, the Taylor team has served up a fine addition to the DC pizza landscape in Pizza Parts & Service, but with other mid- to high-end options out there that are less expensive for the build-your-own camp (albeit without quite the quality of toppings), I’ll stick with my usual pizza delivery service while impatiently awaiting the promised arrival of cheesesteaks on the Taylor Gourmet<\/a> menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The team behind Taylor Gourmet recently unveiled their new entry in the Washington, DC, pizza wars, the awkwardly titled Pizza Parts & Service, named in honor of the location’s prior use as a garage. Makes you glad they didn’t take over a fishmongers. The location more recently housed the lamented Taylor Steak & Ice, purveyors … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[95,183],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-dc","tag-pizza"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-p1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5981,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/5981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}