Pizza Party and Pepicellis

The pizza blogosphere is apparently a small, small world. Introducing Pizzalicious Blog. Another local bunch of pizza fans.  They gave us a nod over their way so we figured to do the same.  More importantly they posted some killer live footage of Turbonegro playing Age of Pamparius.

Now what the fuck is this? Pepicellis.  Are you kidding me?  This place is getting a Mulligan but it really doesn’t deserve it.  Ashland, VA has this block party a few times every summer and my good man Joel peaked my interest when he heard me rattling about pizza.  He informed me that there would be a few food vendors at the block party and Pepicellis would probably be selling slices.  Well, they had a food table set up, but I paid for a load of trash.  The pizza was hotboxed and obviously I didn’t expect them to have an oven hooked up in the middle of the street, but they were serving up $2 slices that were pretty similar in style to a Papa John’s thin crust, only not good.

I was pretty let down off the bat, but my buddy was even more disappointed.  He couldn’t even believe that’s what they were serving.  He said it was nothing like their normal pizza.  I did some looking on their website, and the few pictures I can find featuring their pie, looked night and day different from what I ate.  For a local place, they were definitely serving up a product that screamed chain pizzeria.  I wouldn’t be surprised if they ordered 150 thincrust pies from Dominoes to save themselves the trouble of cooking for the entire population of Ashland, which probably around 6000.

Not a great first impression.  Will I make the trip back and dine in?  There is a microbrew store up the street so chances are, if the pizza sucks on round 2, I can at least score some sweet booze.

2/10.