Elwood's Pizza

These chicks can flip pie...
Saturday evening I met some folks for some pizza at Elwood's, around the corner from the Brookhaven MARTA station.

This place is good, nothing special. We ordered two pies...One a spinach, mushroom, garlic. One chicken, feta, black olive. I dunno, I didn't order that one. The dough was standard, I like more salty sweet. The sauce was good. The pies were cheesed up nice. The spinach pie could have used more garlic. A slice of the same spinach, mushroom, garlic combination at Fellini's kills Elwood's attempt at the classic pie combo.

One thing I noticed when I first walked in was that it was all chicks working at this pizza spot. I mean tossin' dough and all. I don't see this much and it was super cool. These girls are good too, all the pizza was cooked perfect and tossed just right.

Larry - Sugar Hill, GA

Homemade Pizza Oven
Here are some pics I found of a dude in the burbs who made his own wood burning pizza oven. Looks f'in badass, he could use some practice tossin' dough though.
Dad, can I build one at your house?

R. Thomas Delux Grill

Uber Heady
R. Thomas is on Peachtree between Buckhead and Midtown. Big neon sign, you can't miss it. Kinda a quirky place...from the parrots and cockatoos chillin' in cages outside to the hippie/bohemian vibe going on inside.

Open round the clock and I don't think I've ever been so confused by a menu. Not the food on the menu, but the actual menu. Check it out at rthomasdeluxgrill.net, it's in some funky kinda order that threw me for a loop.

The menu kinda reflects the hippie vibe of the restaurant. Lots of organic this and that, solid veggie menu, etc. My wings were from free range chickens. That's cool and all, but I need some meat on my bones! These wings are tiny matched up against other wings around town. Check these out...the drum and the flat combined are the size of the wings at Fox Bros.

I must say though, the wings are pretty tasty. They are slow-roasted, char-grilled and tossed in some sweet kinda hot sauce. Not that hot at all but very good. That's homemade blue cheese you see there too. Put the wing in the blue cheese and eat em' both up.

Char-grilled wings are good, and I really don't see them much. Try it out.

With all this said...I officially give the title of headiest wings to R. Thomas.

Antico

Antico Pizza was crazy good.

This place is right over the connector, on the west-side, over by Georgia Tech. Totally worth the short drunken cab drive it took to get us there.

I checked out the Antico website after hearing some chatter around town and a write up in Creative Loafing. I really didn't know what to think...Was the pizza thin, crispy, thick or soft? Do they have LOTS of cheese? What's the dining room like?

When we got to Antico we quickly learned they don't serve alcohol, its BYOB :)! Although we came empty handed we were quickly directed to a gas station down the street. A short walk and we were all set.

When you walk in Antico something seems very familiar and comfortable. It is super laid back, community seating. This means you are sitting or standing wherever with whoever. I love it. People sparking conversation and poppin' bottles all around you.

Okay, on to the pizza. We ordered the Capricciosa. Bufula motz, artichoke, mushrooms and prosciutto. This thing was so good Mal, Bridget and me killed it in no time, then ordered another. The second pie was the San Gennaro. Sweet red pepper, bufula motz and some spicy sausage. Both pies were cooked perfect, good ingredients and pizza sauce that I think I could drink it was so good. The crust was soft and crispy, what? It was sweet and salty. I know I was a little tipsy, but I think I really like this place a lot!

Here is a pic of the ovens and these super long peels they use to throw the pies in them. This was the first time I have seen peels this big. They're like 15ft long!