Brooklyn Pizza

Location: Tomas Morato, Quezon City

To me, pizza is food for a celebratory occasion. If you can't have it with a lot of people, better eat something else instead. That's why B and I seldom eat pizza, whether when eating out or ordering in.

There is a dangerous place a block from our office named Amici. It's where we always get out fill of pasta and pizza, until we discovered Brooklyn Pizza downstairs right next to our building.

At much much less cost, Brooklyn offers giant servings of pizza and pasta. One pasta dish is good for two people, and costs Php150-270. The pizzas come in regular or junior size. Look at the size of that regular pizza, for only Php600! It's enough for 4 people (or 6 ladies) to share!

The best thing about Brooklyn Pizza is you can customize your pizza. You can have it by slice (Php70), a quarter of a whole, half of a whole and of course one whole. You can also customize it by toppings like what we did: one whole divided into two different toppings. Further, they ask you how you want the pizza sliced (extra small or extra large or standard).

Now, to me, big serving does not always mean I got my money's worth. But I was surprised with the quality of ingredients that Brooklyn uses.

Look at the huge tomato on that Vegetarian Pizza! The green peppers are also crunchy, and so is the white onion. It wasn't very greasy, and the cheese had a mild creamy taste, not too salty like the commercial pizzas of Yellow Cab and Pizza Hut. I didn't try the Pepperoni, as I'm trying to avoid meat on account of Lent. Although I like my crust cardboard thin, I don't think a wispier crust will be able to hold all the ingredients which are hanging on to dear life already.

I was very happy with this place. Never mind that it's owned by Marvin Agustin. It's definitely a place to be with friends, especially if you're treating on your birthday because Php600 can already feed 4-5 people! I was lugi with this pizza though, because I shared with two boys but only ate 2 slices. :p

Another awesome thing is the good service. Our waiter never missed filling our glasses with water. Considering they take orders from the table and the service is good, the fact that there wasn't servie charge was a very pleasant surprise. We left a tip, of course, because we want to return and we wouldn't want spit in our cheese pizza next time!