nmg wrote: > In article , Alan Disler > Someone wrote: > > When I was a Pitt student in the 60's there was a pizza place on > > Ardmore by the name of Vincent's Pizza Park. Anybody know if it > > still exists? > > It is still there....sloppy as ever! They also have a "mini" > Vincent's in Squirrel Hill next to the former Rosen's Drugstore. > Don't know how that one is. The old Vincent's is as GREAT as ever. The one in Sq. Hill stinks. I like the one in Irwin. Haven't tried the one in Holiday Park. Isn't there another one somewhere, like maybe the North Hills? Kate xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Pittsburgh, PA
Vincent's Pizza Park
Excerpts from netnews.pgh.food: 29-May-96 Re: Vincent's Pizza Park by [email removed] > It is still there....sloppy as ever! They also have a "mini" Vincent's in > Squirrel Hill next to the former Rosen's Drugstore. Don't know how that > one is. Despite all the good things I had heard about the original Vincent's, the Squirrel Hill one is quite bad. You can smell burnt pizza as you walk by and so far every pizza that I or anyone I know has had from them has at least been slightly burnt.
Vincent's is still on Ardmore Blvd not far from the Westinghouse bridge and Vince is still in great form. You will find him covered with flour and his place is certainly not Burger Kings (You get it his way or you don't get it at all) For anyone who has never had one of his pizza's, it will feed you for two weeks!.Vince uses more sausage on one Pizza than most Pizza Huts use in a year. If you like a heavy Pizza, this one will definately slow you down, its best to bring a designated driver or order a take out! A mark of a good Pizza is when you can feel all your arteries closing down from the cholesterol after the first few bites! Spike
I have moved away from de'burg' but I grew up on Vince's pizza. Almost every Friday night, through the seventies and early eighties, my family made the pilgrimage for those bubbly pies! My brother and I would sit at the tables infront of the plastic partition window and watch grumpy old Vince at work-throwing all those pizzas around with an unlit cigar stub in his teeth and flour in his hair and moustache. I remember waiting up to an hour for one of those pizzas and when they arrived on the table, it was pure agony: they were so hot and over-stuffed with toppings that you had to let the pizza cool-down and congeal for a few minutes before you could take a sliceotherwise all the toppings would slide off and you'd burn the roof of your mouth on the soggy dough at the tip of the wedge. And I know that Vincent's pizza park smell (a mix of burnt flour and toppings and the horrible bathroom facilities) and those caged dogs in the parking lot. Does anyone know if those dusty old plastic grapes are still hanging from the ceiling in the bar area? Vincent's was (is) great. Jennifer.
To John and others: take Parkway East to Ardmore Blvd/Rt 30 exit. Go through Forest Hills and just after you leave the business district watch for Vincent"s on your right. When you see it pull in for the best pizza in the universe. Do go on in even though from the outside it looks like it is (or should be) closed. Trust me, the inside is even worse but even my wife, a neatness freak, puts up with it for the pizza. I've been going there since 1973 (can I really have been a freshman that long ago?!) and it is still my favorite meal. For those asking, as a self-proclaimed expert, the one further out Rt 30 is very good, the one in Plum is authentic, the one in Squirll Hill never was as good and is now something else, and the one in North Hills closed over a year ago and was never even close to authentic. But you can only get the full experience at the original. Enjoy! Jack
One possible reason for the good taste of their crust is that they do not clean the bottom of their ovens. This means that the crust has a charcoal flavor (IMHO). I do not know their hours over the holidays but in addition to the original Vincents on Ardmore Blvd., there is one on Route 30 in Irwin just before the Turnpike entrance (on the left if you are headed east). The is also another one off 286 in Plum. Turn left at the light by Burger King.