Vito's, Grace St.

Vito’s Italian Restaurant tucked away on the VCU campus on Grace St. doesn’t look like much from the outside, but serves some of the best pie for the best

price anywhere in the city.

In the day of a rushed meal, pizza by the slice is often undercooked and mistreated.  Alas, Vito’s has been serving up some great pie for years in the middle of campus but never seems to do much business.  I went in there today, much like the previous times I’ve sat down in their booths, and I may be the only customer in there.  The olive skinned employees sit watching some foreign T.V. channel with little business to bother them, I wonder how they can afford to pay the bills in such a humongous building.  You could probably book a party for 100 in this place yet I never see more than six or seven customers.

But the pizza is the only thing I’m concerned with.  They do a great job with their crust and a more New Yorky, sweeter sauce rather than the savory stuff I frequently get at Piccola’s or Mary Angela’s.  And whats this?  Crust bubbles?!  A seemingly mythic occurence from my childhood, they actually finish cooking their pizza’s to the point where I have little brown spots dotting the cheese and crust bubbles popping up here and there.

Delightfully crispy crust that may have been sitting out for too long and mozarella that has already congealed are two side effects of ordering pizza by the slice.  But at $1.75 for a slice of cheese, you can’t find a better deal in the city.  Lets hope this place stays afloat amidst this congealed economy.