The Facts:
Pizza: Bertucci’s Brick Oven Pizza and Pasta
Business Category: Regional Chain (locations in 9 states;
based near Boston)
Website: https://www.bertuccis.com/
Location: 280 School Street in Mansfield, MA (near I-495
exit 12)
Date of Review Visit: July 24, 2019
What I Ordered: small (10”) pizza with sausage and
pepperoni; Coke to drink
Price: $18.48 (includes tax and drink but not tip)
The Micro:
Crust: The crust at Bertucci’s is crispy but not as thin as
you would expect for a brick oven pizza.
The crust has a nice texture with some cornmeal baked into the
crust. My pizza was baked the perfect
amount. What’s not to like? Score: 10/10.
Sauce: This pizza features a Pizzeria Uno-style sauce with juicy chunks of tomatoes. The sauce appears in high quantity, and it has
a fantastic tomatoey taste. Score: 10/10.
Cheese: This pizza is slightly undercheesed, and what cheese
does exist is a rather bland mozzarella.
On the bright side, it does not produce much grease. Score: 7/10.
Toppings: Bertucci’s calls their chunky sausage a sweet
Italian sausage, and their characterization is accurate even though it has only
a slight sweet taste. The pepperoni is
slightly spicy, but the spiciness builds on your taste palette as you eat more
of the pizza. Both toppings appear in adequate
but only adequate quantity. Score: 8/10.
The Macro:
Appearance/Atmosphere/Service: The large chunks of sausage
dominate the appearance. Bertucci’s has
a nice casual dining area with comfortable seats. The service was prompt and friendly. Score: 10/10.
Value: Even for a 10” brick oven pizza in New England, this
pizza is very overpriced relative to what you put in your mouth. Score: 1/10.
Taste: The spiciness of the pepperoni clashes a little with
the sweetness of the sausage. The sauce
really saves the day. Score: 16/20.
