When looking at a restaurant it is,
after all, about the food. Which is fortunate for MOD Pizza and
Salad. The pizza is excellent the environment not so much.
The gimmick is the diner gets to pick a
type of pizza and or salad, or choose the ingredients and the pizza
is made from scratch in front of him/her, just like a Subway
sandwich, only much better. The pizza is then shuffled into a high
temp open hearth oven where it goes from raw to fully cooked,
including the telltale scorch marks on the bottom of an incredibly
crisp crust. This technique goes a long way to making the crust
similar to Italian pizza.
I tried the “Mad Dog” pizza, though
quite frankly haven't a clue as to why “Mad Dog” when I had to
substitute spicy sausage for the sweet, and the pepperoni and sauce
had no bite to it. That being said, it was good pizza though MOD may
want to re-brand the pizza as “Wimpy Pussy.” Didn't try any of
the salad, though truth be told I probably should stick to the
greenage, but the types of salads and ingredients listed seemed to be
the usual suspects. In other words, nothing to write home about but
no matter, when I hear pizza, I figure there are already enough
veggies involved, why add more?
The venue is unremarkable save for the
noise and commotion. Uncomfortable furniture and industrial décor
make the place as inviting as an abandoned warehouse. It is clean,
if a tad on the sterile side, and the folks helping construct the
pizza were fairly well groomed, though one server seems to have had
an infected piercing on her arm – a bit off putting. To be fair I
am not a big fan of self mutilation, but anything anywhere near
something I am planning to eat needs to be perfectly clean and
preferably non-puss oozing.
In the end the décor does scream take
the food to go, and so you should. The food is great, the ingredients
fresh and it's tough to beat a custom made pizza. I can recommend
the food if not the place itself,
