Thanks to the small business financing power of Keler and Mountain West Small Business Finance, we have a great new pizza shop here in Salt Lake. Word is starting to spread, and word on the street is that it is the best pizza in the city. Better than The Pie, better than Pizza Factory, better than Little Caesars. I had to try it out myself, and, as Katie is a pizza lover as well, we decided to go there for our anneversary. Its called Settebello, and it specializes in authentic Italian pizza. This review by the Salt Lake Tribune's food critic probably says it best. This is real Italian pizza. They cook the pizzas in a wood fire pizza oven that was made in Naples and cooks the pizzas in a minute or two because temperatures hover around 900 degrees. The flour used to make the pizza dough is imported from a famous Italian mill, and many of the ingredients are also imported from Italy and Europe. The dough is covered in crushed tomatoes and olive oil (not tomato sauce) and large chunks of motzarella. Don't come expecting lots of sauce and processed cheese covering every inch of the crust. If you're importing special pizza flour to make the dough, you want people to be able to taste it. I loved my Settebello pizza. It was full of flavor and quality ingredients. Katie doesn't like this kind of pizza as much and would stick with Pizza Factory. My biggest qualm with the restaurant: there's no desert menu.
So, is this the best pizza in Salt Lake? I would say that it is. But I will have to qualify that and say that if you don't like a more authentic Italian style of pizza, then you won't think this is the best. Juddy and I (and whoever else wants to come) are going to try it again on Saturday before the Jazz game, and then he will be able to lend his discerning palatte to the question of whether this is the best pizza Salt Lake has to offer. Stay tuned.
