Sammie’s Pizza & Restaurant

Sammie’s opened where Mama Teoni’s and Del Corso used to be (they still have the Del Corso storefront as I write this). I was excited to try out the new place, and I did so hoping to find the same quality of pizza. I was sorely disappointed.
To begin with, the front area is supposed to be a little alcove with stools and a waiting area for the cash register. There’s barely room to stand in front of the register though, because they have boxes of menus and stuff piled up everywhere. I can understand this if they’re still doing an advertising flood, but honestly it’s a little off-​putting. The pies in the front glass case don’t look too appetizing, either. It’s not reminiscent of the kind of pride a neighborhood pizzeria should have in presenting its food. But I tried to look past that.
Their pizza itself is… off, to put it nicely. The regular slice is far too salty, to the point of being gross. The cheese slides off the slice onto your plate like it just really doesn’t want to be there. A good slice should cling to its cheese, because pizza is all about the ingredients creating a new and awesome whole. Slapping pizza ingredients on top of another and not caring how they interact is just sad. For good measure I tried their mozz tomato basil slice as well, and that one had no taste whatsoever. Not only couldn’t I taste the mozzarella, but I couldn’t even taste any seasoning OR the tomato. How can someone manage to bake all the taste out of a tomato? I wasn’t even aware that was possible.
My biggest mistake in coming here again was ordering take out. Whoever put my order together decided it was a good idea to stack paper plates on top of a slice with still melty cheese. Yes, stacking slices on plates is a normal thing for take out, but anyone who’s used a microwave knows not to put paper on cheese when it’s still so hot that it’s bubbling. What happens? The cheese sticks to the paper. And only the paper. So when I got home, I had to peel off the plate from the bottom pizza slice. And off came ALL the cheese, stuck to the bottom of the damn plate. I had to use a knife to try and scrape it off. It was a disaster, and a total waste of my money. I’m sure I ended up eating a shred of paper plate in there somewhere. I don’t know for certain though, because after 3 bites I couldn’t even finish it due to the taste.
Sammie’s, I’ll try and give you another shot in a month or three to see if anything’s improved, but right now you’re on the very bottom of my list of pizza venues.