ABOVE: Alfonso Carozza from Amore explains what makes his pizza special in this short video.
7/23/2009
As the cornmeal dust settled, a victor emerged from the brick oven; the Stamford Pizza Tour announced their #1 pick in their pizza “tournament,” Amore Restaurant on Hope St.
“We at the Stamford Pizza Tour can confidently say that the very best pizza in town comes from Amore Restaurant, and while we’re torn between the Bruschetta and the Margherita pies, it seems they can do no wrong because both were extraordinary.”
In case you haven’t been following, the SPT blog run by three guys from Stamford, set out to find the best pie in the city and sampled about 50 restaurants in the process.
Stamfordites – and even transplants like myself – are passionate about their pizza. Over the past week I’ve been taking an informal poll and I haven’t encountered a single tepid response.
After the SPT tourney champion was announced today, I headed up the street to Amore with photographer Bob Luckey to see what all the fuss was about. I picked up a few tips on dough making and sauce production.
A NOTE ON THE SAUCE: Amore’s sauce is very simple but very good. They use whole, canned San Marzano tomatoes [the same kind you can get at the grocery store, but in much bigger cans] and add olive oil, salt, basil, and possibly a couple of other things and leave this simmering on the stove. Simple as that.
READ THE STORY: HERE
–CP
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