Home Slice with my Homies

Every new semester brings with it a new dinner club and fall 2007 is no different. This time the members are Maggie, Stephen and meeee. We kicked off our club by going to Home Slice on South Congress last Friday. We got there, and we were all lookin pretty fly, feelin pretty confident, and we told the waitress we wanted a table for three. She said, "the wait will be fifty minutes." And Maggie and I were like, "damn." Really though, we hesitated for half a second before saying okay, but she interpreted our "okay" by saying, "ughgh it is Friday night you know." The wait was fine, we just sat on the street drinking Fireman's Four. But for the record, the wait was not fifty minutes. It ended up being an hour and a half, which is a LONG time to wait for pizza, even on a Friday night.

Also, a funny story from the night: Our hostess complimented Maggie's dress and said she has the same dress in the same color. "American Apparel right?" and Maggie said, "oh no actually, I made this myself." And the hostess bought it.


Home Slice Pizza Pie

Since we had an hour and a half to decide what we wanted, and we already had beer, we were overly anxious to order as soon as our waiter showed up. We had half white pizza, half sausage, ricotta and roasted red pepper. Our waiter said "good job man!" I am pretty sure he was trying to say, "good choice," but he was kind of crazy, and clearly Maggie and I are not men. Stephen is a man. But he didn't do the ordering.


Home Slice- a closer shot

So this is what one piece of pizza looks like in case you didn't know. It really was delicious. I've been deeply disappointed by some of the pizza I've had in the past few months, especially in Austin. I was even starting to accept Austin's Pizza as the standard by which to judge all other pizzas by in Austin. But Home Slice really is where it's at, or at least it's right up there with Salvation Pizza. The ricotta got to be a little much after a while and I scraped it off. But the sausage was really good, and that's something I rarely say. As my mom always says, "there is no good reason for any human to eat pepperoni or sausage." And I have tried to apply that wisdom to my life. But sausage really does taste good. Roasted red peppers are always good but they were sparse.


Home Slice Bathroom Doors

Home Slice is decorated like many other pizza shops, and that is to say ...forgettable? I liked watching them bake the pizzas behind the bar, and there were a few funny quotes on the wall, but the rest of the place was so dark I didn't really know if there was anything going on with the rest of the place or not. The bathroom doors are another story. When I first saw them I thought maybe they were an entrance to a back kitchen and I needed to keep looking for the bathrooms. Upon further inspection I realized what the pizzas symbolized and I am really impressed that someone was able to come up with signs for bathrooms I'd never seen before, and that are actually clever.

Home Slice ***