Pizza Italia is a survivor.
Owned by the Basore family, the pizzeria has been serving its Northeast Side community off Thousand Oaks since 1987. It has undergone a few location changes, including one that was a result of a devastating fire in 2009, but it never left the neighborhood.
Since moving into its current strip center spot in 2010, located across the street and a few blocks down the road from its old spot, Pizza Italia has thrived, focusing on a large lineup of specialty pies built on soft yet durable crusts and beer.
And let’s talk about the beer, because it’s a collection that might be the largest in the city. There are more than 200 varieties of cans and bottles, and after owner Terry Basore knocked out a wall that adjoined a vacant property in the strip center to make room for a larger bar area, he added another 30 beers on tap.
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Pizza Italia
Rating: Solid neighborhood option
Location: 3023 Thousand Oaks Dr., 210-494-8646
Online:pizzaitaliasa.com
Hours: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays, 11 a.m. to midnight Fridays and Saturdays
Best pizza: Pizza purists probably have as much disdain for swapping tangy barbecue sauce for traditional marinara as they do for putting pineapple on a pie.
But barbecue sauce tastes good and the ultra-cheesy Texas Smokehouse Chicken ($16.25 for a 12-inch pie) dominates the Pizza Italia taste experience with generous amounts of chunked chicken, red onion and just enough jalapeño bite to let you know it’s there.
Other pizzas: Pizza Italia delivers the toppings with a very heavy hand, so every bite has a sample of them all. The Veggie Mia ($15.25 for a 12-inch pie) tastes like a farmers market bounty with layers of sliced black olives, mushrooms, crunchy green peppers, chopped onion and tomato slices.
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But if you want a slice loaded with protein, the Meatie Mia ($15.75 for a 12-inch pie) blends the world of beef and pork with thin pepperoni, beef, ham and spicy Italian sausage that brings it all home — meat sweats guaranteed.
The Margherita Mia ($15.25 for a 12-inch pie) was the only big menu miss, with lifeless tomato slices and such scant amounts of olive oil and garlic, I had to wonder if they were down to the final bulb in the kitchen and had to make it last through dinner service. All of that was magnified by the unspirited use of dried ground basil flakes vs. fresh, aromatic leaves that are a requisite for a true pizza margherita experience.
Chuck Blount is a food writer and columnist covering all things grilled and smoked in the San Antonio area. Find his Chuck's Food Shack columns on our subscriber site, ExpressNews.com, or read his other coverage on our free site, mySA.com. | cblount@express-news.net | Twitter: @chuck_blount | Instagram: @bbqdiver
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