Dan P.
Yelp
I first visited this place way back in 2005. I wasn't impressed. I know it's a porteño icon of the pizza world. I honestly couldn't understand why, I found the quality of the pizza to be lacking. I wasn't horrible, it just wasn't "all that", and the one true flaw was the quality of the mozzarella used atop the pies. Over time, I've come to appreciate the Argentine style of pizza far more than I did then, when I had a more fixed view based on pizza in Italy and New York, for the most part, with some influence from the styles of pizzas of the midwest, like Detroit and Chicago style, still among my favorites in many ways, though much of that is simple childhood nostalgia. Kind of the way locals feel about places like El Cuartito, no?
I even went back a couple of times, and there's a followup review in the comment section of the same post from a year later, where, to be honest, I found it to actually be borderline inedible. I mentioned in that second review that even some of my local friends had begun to admit that the place had gone downhill.
So there I was, a week or so ago (and a decade later), out with a new friend who wanted to try a local, really classic style pizza. The biggest change, the cheese is actually rather good quality now, there were no oil slicks, there was no dripping grease, and the flavor was decent. Likewise, the crust had some flavor, and the faina was served piping hot and while not the best I've had of this staple, it was good. So, over time, for me, this place went from an "okay" to a "not recommended". At the very least I think it deserves being returned to "okay", and maybe even edging into "good". At least, I'm not going to avoid it like the plague anymore or tell people they shouldn't bother. Sometimes when people tell me I'm wrong, they're right, at least in the long run.
