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Do you ever crave the delicious combination of crust, tasty red sauce, and cheese with enough grease to carry the flavor, but not enough to require a wad of napkins? …That you have to blow on and tentatively bite into, so it doesn’t burn you, transporting you to a simpler time and place? And we don’t mean anything fancy, nor too gourmet… just your average every day slice of wonderful pizza... Ahhhh.


For some though (present company included), the cost of this indulgence might have some painful side effects or may not align with personal ethics. How does one recreate this food miracle and enjoy it while gluten-free and/or vegan?


We’re Kate and Terese, and on our blog we’ll tell you about our pizza discovery adventures. Join us as we try restaurants, holes-in-the-wall, and even some of the more common restaurant chains in the San Diego area to satiate our pizza cravings! Please comment and suggest more places to visit because we have this pie in the sky dream of finding the quintessential pizza made with not so traditional ingredients.


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Saturday, August 3, 2019

Zpizza


8657 Villa La Jolla Drive #127, La Jolla, CA 92037



Overall pizza awesomeness rating: 2 


Price for one small gf, df pizza: $13.85

When it all began, Kate was on this search alone and Zpizza was the first pizza place she noticed on her handy dandy gluten-free app.  Hail the pizza deities!  She made plans to get to Zpizza with excitement.

That excitement fizzled soon after arrival.  Despite a beautiful website, Zpizza in La Jolla is on the edge of a shopping mall down an under used corridor, which is great for noise, but does nothing for its ambience.  Bright ceiling lights, standard laminate table tops with uncomfortable chairs and little decoration, left ample room for a great pizza to swoop in and save the day.

It didn't.

There were lots of choices available from what crust to what sauce, and of course, the vegan cheez.  The crust and cheez were no brainers with Kate's gf df dietary needs.  The sauce that seemed closest to the original pizza sauce was selected and for toppings, mushrooms and onions -her favorite from childhood.

The crust was okay.  The taste was reasonably good, though it was a little tough to chew.  The cheez stuck to the roof of her mouth and frankly, didn't taste like anything at all.  The toppings were similarly just ok.  The mushrooms were trying hard to be artisan with different varieties but so few of them that you couldn't really taste any.

The pizza her partner had (who has no dietary restrictions) was reported as "good."  However, Kate's partner has a mere 3 categories for pronouncing food judgement: Eh, good, and I liked it.  When it comes down to it, we thought the pizza wasn't good enough to justify the price (which for the pizza deemed "good" was still too high), and the gf, vegan pizza just wasn't anything like a classic pizza.

Have you had the gf vegan pizzas at Zpizza?  What did you think?

Pros: Decent crust,;easy parking (mall parking lot); a ton of beer selections if you do beer; very artisan food if you want that kind of thing.

Cons: Not like classic pizza; cheese has no taste and bad mouth feel; overall taste lacking in tastiness.

Ratings on a 1-5 scale 1 being bleh and 5 being great.

Locale Overall score: 2
Atmosphere 1
Parking 4
Location 3
Noise 4 (wasn’t loud -there wasn't anyone in there)
Bathroom cleanliness N/A
Crust Overall Score: 3
Cohesiveness 5
Taste 4
Texture 2
Durability 3
Cheez Overall score: 1
Taste 1
Melt 4
Mouth feel 1
Overall pizza
Taste 3
Visual 3
Value 2
Authenticity 1
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