LEO's Eats with Louisville HotBytesLike a primordial anchovy creeping out of the sea and beholding bigger and better things on shore, the first Tony Boombozz pizzeria burst into view just a decade ago as a tiny but portentous creature.
Louisville's pizza lovers looked upon it and saw that it was good. So it wasn't long before the small pizzeria moved into larger quarters on Frankfort Avenue, then spawned a second location on Bardstown Road, cannily providing artisan pizzas on both of the city's primary restaurant rows.
Now there are four, with the addition of a fast-casual dining room in Springhurst, and, out past Jeffersontown in the distant 'burbs, the subject of today's sermon: a brand-new upscale casual Boombozz Bistro with an expanded menu and table service. (Coming later this year, an expanded Bardstown Road operation and tap room with 30, count 'em, 30 draught microbrews.)
In short, Boombozz has become perhaps the most respected name in Louisville pizza, earning this place of pride the old-fashioned way. Winner of dozens of awards in pizza competition, owner Tony Palombino represented the United States last year in the World Pizza Cup in Naples, Italy, the birthplace of pizza; the editors of Pizza Marketplace named him Independent Operator of the Year for 2008.
You can call it survival of the fittest, or you could call it intelligent design. I call it excellent food, value and service.
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Boombozz Pizza Bistro12613 Taylorsville Road
261-0222
http://www.TonyBoombozz.comRobin Garr's rating: 86 points
(Other Boombozz locations: 2813 N. Hurstbourne Parkway, just south of Westport Road, 394-0000; 1448 Bardstown Road at Eastern Parkway in the Highlands, 458-8889; and 3334 Frankfort Ave., between Crescent Hill and St. Matthews, 896-9090.)