Sunday, August 15, 2010

YES!!!

Got word last night Brick Oven will be reopening on Lakeland Drive.

YESSS!!!!! Finally some good pizza. No more of that crap from the Pizza Shack (it's gone down), and Basil's discontinued their pizzas a couple of years ago. Go Grant Go.

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

what part of lakeland?

Noodlehead said...

AWESOME! I LOVED their pastas!

Anonymous said...

still put my home made up against any--

Anonymous said...

Had a pizza at Basil's last week. What are you talking about?

Kingfish said...

Since when?

Anonymous said...

Last one I got at PS was, imho, better than anything else we have around here.

chris myers said...

finally! but don't they know that all the cool kids live in jackson now? i guess lakeland is a good start.

...and in reference to basil's pizza. they have it again. i think they serve it everyday at the fondren location.

Anonymous said...

Sal & Mookies pizza is really good too.

Kingfish said...

I usually go to the one in Belhaven.

Anonymous said...

Sal & Mookies is gross, and it makes you feel terrible afterward. It is soggy and too laden with cheese and grease.

But, you can get a pretty good stromboli there, which for some reason isn't quite as greasy.

Pizza Shack is the best pizza in town hands down. Sometimes they can be soggy when they load it down with toppings, but it holds up best after a few days.

PS is the only food I miss from Jacktown, beside the chicken pesto salad sammy from Bravo and, of course, Cock of the Walk catfish.

Kingfish said...

Last few times I've been to Pizza Shack I was disappointed. Crust was gooey and not even a golden color on the bottom. Last straw was when they cooked a pizza so greasy the grease soaked through the cardboard and completely drenched my leather seat. Only had to drive two blocks and it didn't tilt or turn over, it was just that greasy. At the time it seemed like they had new faces every time I went into the place.

Anonymous said...

It's not actually going to be the "Brick Oven", it's some of it though with also Fresh Market mixed in. Sounds to me like delicious and healthy food, a great substitute for fast food.

Anonymous said...

PieWorks in Madison has great pizza. The wheat crust is sooo good!

Anonymous said...

I went to Basil's for lunch today and they do not serve pizza !!! That is why I quit going there last year !!! I loved their pizza and don't understand why it was discontinued....

Anonymous said...

Is it in the old Pizza Hut location across from Prep? Saw a sign for "Grant's Kitchen" when passing it today...

Kingfish said...

Yup. You are correct. 2:31 and 8:50

Anonymous said...

Pizza Shack is disgusting. The pizzas are dripping with grease and the pizza is almost always undercooked.

Soulshine is still the best.

Anonymous said...

Madison sucks.

Anonymous said...

Maybe they can share a building with the new Mickey D's.

Jeff Good said...

Hey, Jeff Good here with Sal & Mookie's. I wish to try to share some insight about the grease comments above for oru pizza and, if appropriate, for the benefit of the great guys at Pizza Shak too.

We serve "New York style" pizza... and, by definition, it is supposed to be greasy. But greasy is a real negative term... it is fat.

Our pizza may seem greasy, but this is a by-product of the fact we use very high end, high butter fat cheeses. WHOLE MILK mozzarella... WHOLE MILK fontina... ricotta... high fat parmesan... and more.
So, while our melted cheese may often yield a “greasy” appearance, its taste and resistance to burning makes it far superior to the “low moisture, part skim” cheeses often used by more institutional operations.

I hope that helps explain... it is a matter of taste... as for us... we love butter fat... thus the ice cream as well.

I welcome your comments here, or to my personal e-mail jeffg@bravobuzz.com. Also, we have a write up on this on our website... www.salandmookies.com.

Thank you, and thank all of you for your interest in eating at, and supporting, local independent businesses. The participants on kingfish's blog are great folks!

Anonymous said...

I've heard Sal and Mookies is just too expensive, especially when you have your kids in tow.

stilettoGOP said...

You have got to love Jeff Good! I'm not a big pizza connoisseur, but his grease confession and tutorial makes sense to me. Personally, I go to Sal and Moo for the Hebrew National (-best panini period.)

(Btw Jeff, you don't know who I am but I sold and unsold you a boat once, ha ;-))

Anonymous said...

Sal & Mookie's slice of pizza & soup or salad lunch combo is one of the best values around.

Anonymous said...

The S&M gyro sub is quite good. It is a different take on the gyro and a nice change of pace.

As for the participants here being great folks ... Damn right Jeff.



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