Food Find: Sicilian Slices at Delaurenti
At $2.47 a slice, it might be downtown’s most delicious lunch deal.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Mar 24, 2010 at 01:04PM
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Most weekdays between noon and about 1:15pm, there is a line stretching to the entrance and a dearth of available barstools inside the cafe at Delaurenti Specialty Food and Wine. I blame the pizza.
The pizza is so good: a focaccia crust that’s spongy and springy but crisp at the edges, a sweet surface wall of mellow mozzarella. The pizza is so good it takes my “I’m just going to have a salad for lunch” intentions and it laughs a deep, dark, delicious pizza laugh, and before I know it I’m squished up against the door at Delaurenti, trying to let impatient exiters pass while maintaining my position in the pizza queue.
I’d heard about how the Delaurenti dudes make their own mozzarella, and I assumed that they used it on the pizza. And I thought wow, that’s really something—a piece of pizza for $2.47 that comes covered in housemade mozz. Turns out they just use Precious mozzarella, the kind in that white packaging that’s sold at every grocery store. What are they doing to that Precious mozz to get it to taste so sweet and fresh?
Delaurenti doesn’t call its pizza “Sicilian,” but I would call it that because it is rectangular and it has that thick focaccia crust. I’ve always called such pizza Sicilian, although I’ve eaten it many times in Rome and Philadelphia and even once in New Zealand.
A cheese slice is $2.47, pepperoni is $3, and the special pie with all the toppings is $3.28. Get in line.[ Photo Source]
Tags: Pizza, Pike Place Market, Food Finds, Deals
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