The Facts:
Pizza: Tommy K’s Pizza and Pub
Business Category: Locally-owned
Location: 2323 Brown Ave.
in Manchester , NH
Date of Review Visit: August
8, 2015
What I Ordered: Small (10”) pizza with sausage and pepperoni
Price: $9.21 (includes tax but not drink)
The Micro:
Crust: Tommy K’s makes pizza with the typical northern-style
pan crust. The crust has a good texture,
which is crunchy on the outside but chewy on the inside. The crust’s strong salty taste brings the score
down somewhat, but this is still an above average crust. Score: 7/10.
Sauce: The sauce is applied with good quantity, and it has
nice tomato-ey taste. On my taste
palette, this sauce is very good. Score:
10/10.
Cheese: The cheese tastes and looks like 100% mozzarella,
but it produces too much grease for good quality cheese. On the bright side, the cheese appears in
good quantity. Score: 7/10.
Toppings: The sausage is down right terrible: it is charred
and tastes like biting into a salt keg. The
pepperoni is a little better: it has some spiciness and good thickness. The quantity of both toppings is slightly
better than average. Score: 5/10.
The Macro:
Appearance/Atmosphere/Service: The pizza’s appearance is OK
except for the charred sausage. The
dining room has a bar-like atmosphere, which may appeal to some people but is
not to my liking. As you might expect
for a bar, the service was somewhat informal and disorganized. Score: 5/10.
Value: The price is low, but the quality is not great. Thus, the value metric only grades out
slightly better than average. Score: 6/10.
Taste: The salty taste of the crust, cheese, and sausage
really dominates this pizza. I tasted too
much salt for this pizza to earn a high score on the taste metric. Score: 14/20.
The Final Judgment:
Tommy K’s makes a passable pizza, but the taste is as salty
at Pizza Hut, which is a difficult feat to accomplish. This pizza has too much salt for me to
recommend it. Score: 54/80.
