Voice-Tribune review by Robin Garr
Has Louisville reached the saturation point for pizza? Some of my foodie friends are aghast at the seemingly endless march of pizzerias that keep arriving in town. The Baxter Avenue/Bardstown Road and St. Matthews strips are particularly pizza-rich environments, but they're everywhere - even, in today's excursion, the far East End.
Yet the pizza keeps on coming, and consumers, it seems, keep on eating. I think I can explain this: Particularly in the city's thriving nightlife zones, there'll be an appetite for pizza as long as there's an appetite for adult beverages. What better way to lay down a base for an evening on the town than a sizzling slice loaded with cheese and greasy toppings?
I say there's plenty of room in Louisville for more pizza. If they build it, we will come. Red-checked tablecloths are a definite comfort-Italian-food bonus, even if this pizzeria tradition - like pizza itself - has become as much an American thing as an Italian thing.
Red-checked tablecloths, by the way, were all the rage for fancy American restaurants in our grandparents' time. New York's pricey 21 Club had 'em. So did Louisville's storied Casa Grisanti, back when it started as a simple Italian-American joint that sold pizza through a to-go window. They went white-tablecloth back in the '70s when fine dining became a thing, but the iconic image seems to have stuck in the pizzeria scene.
The subject of today's exploration, Old School NY Pizza, brings red-check tablecloths and decent New York-style pizza, too, to the outer suburbs, tucked into a small strip center on Factory Lane just off LaGrange Road at the Snyder Freeway between Anchorage and Pewee Valley.
This may seem like an odd place for a a friendly crew of wisecracking ex-pat Brooklynites to set up shop, but they've settled right in and are drawing crowds to their brightly painted storefront with pizza that's every bit as good as your standard NYC street-corner pie.
Read my full review on LouisvilleHotBytes.com:
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/red-c ... l-ny-pizza
and in the Voice-Tribune:
http://www.voice-tribune.com/life-style ... -ny-pizza/
Old School NY Pizza
12907 Factory Lane
502.882.1776
http://oldschoolnypizza.com
https://facebook.com/pages/Old-School-N ... 2066275268
Robin Garr's rating: 85 points