2 Amys Pizza

I love pizza!  To me, it is the most perfect food.  When I select the toppings for my pizza, I usually include a healthy dose of vegetables and some style of meat.   One evening after work, MJ was headed home and I knew traffic was causing her voyage home to be much longer.  So I decided to invite her to dinner and cut into her miserable commute by meeting at 2Amys in Cleveland Park.

We arrive around the same time and only had to wait approximately fifteen to twenty minutes.  This is actually a reasonable amount of time to wait on a Friday night during the height of dinner.  As soon as you open the door, the immense aroma of Neopolitan pizza hits your nose.  The restaurant was between small to medium size.  The decor reminded me of a wonderful bistro MJ and I visited while in Florence, Italy with a delightful bar at the back of the restaurant.

We started the meal with two appetizers, first the Suppli a telefono which consists of arborio rice, mozzarella a hint of parmesean cheese coated in bread crumbs and finally deep fried.  The golden brown balls of cheese had a slight crunch to the exterior and warm savory cheese and rice on the inside.  Next, MJ ordered the Beet salad.  I am not a fan of beets, but this salad had white and red beets and a mild flavored vinaigrette which sweetened the flavor of the beets.

For our main entrees I ordered the Calabrese pizza without anchovies and MJ ordered the Santa Brigida Pizza. Many a times the amount of salt flavor overwhelms the other ingredients in the Calabrese pizza, but 2 Amys had it right. There was superb balance of onions, olives, tomato and parsley that was absorbed by the fresh mozzarella. The fluffy brick oven baked crust had a mild crisp to every bite.

Across the table, MJ had a healthy heap of arugula on her pizza. The cherry tomatoes with the peppery arugula worked very well on the melted fresh mozzarella.  They say that you eat with your eyes first.  Well, whomever ‘they’ are were right because the colors in the Santa Brigida prepared me for the exploding flavors led by the cherry tomatoes.  MJ usually reserves most of her appetite for dessert when pizza is on the table for dinner, but by the end of this night the pizza on her side of the table was almost gone.

Nevertheless, dessert is always on our minds and before we bid farewell to 2 Amys, we decided to split a cannoli and a foggy señor.  The flavors of the homemade cannoli was a great finish to wonderful meal.  The dessert really took us back to Italy quickly and quietly then dropped us back into Cleveland Park as we exited.

December 16, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Local