1035 W Patrick St
Frederick, MD 21702
Phone: (301) 846-0422
Website: http://www.ilfornopizzeria.net/
For my
first pizza in my journey of trying all the pizza in Frederick, I visited the
Il Forno Pizzeria, located on Frederick's Golden Mile in the Westridge Shopping
Center under the Clock Tower.
Il forno Pizzeria
is a family owned restaurant, that has been serving Frederick for 25 years. They make pizza in the New York style,
hand-tossed and topped with a made-in-house, chunky tomato sauce, then cooked
in an Italian wood-burning oven. Their
pizzas come in three sizes: 10, 13, and
15-inch; and can be topped with any of their many combinations of
toppings. Their “works” pizzas do not
come in the 10” size. However, you can
get gluten-free or wheat dough on any 10-inch pizza.
For this
visit, I decided to go for the small size of their version of a Margherita
pizza. This consisted of the crust
topped with their tomato sauce and mozzarella, with several fresh basil leaves
scattered across the surface.
My Appraisal
My Appraisal
This was a
really good pizza and I will probably return to try other toppings.
What I liked
1. The outer crust was browned really well. It had a pleasant, crunchy exterior and a
nice, chewy interior. It also had a
great flavor and I enjoyed eating it, even without any sauce.
2. The basil leaves
were on the pizza for the right amount of time.
They were tender and easy to bite through, but not scorched from the
oven. I don’t know, but I suspect they
were put on after leaving the oven, or perhaps only but on for the last few
seconds of heat.
3. The sauce had a nice
tomato flavor and wasn’t too sweet or heavily spiced.
4. I’ve come to really
appreciate simplicity in my food and the simple combination of crust, tomato,
cheese, and basil was really nice.
What I didn’t like
1. The bottom crust was
a bit too thin, sagging under the weight of the cheese and sauce.
2. The cheese had a
tendency to slide off the first slice as I ate it. This lessened as the pizza cooled and the
cheese began to firm up.
3. Some of the chunks
in the sauce were a bit too big and resulted in some bites that were almost
pure tomato.
4. I hate to say this
because I like cheese, but it had a little more cheese than it really needed.
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