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Pepperonchini’s Buffalo Chicken Pizza

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Well folks… A friday afternoon lunch before the long weekend can only mean one thing.

Food Coma

Now, since nobody will be doing work from 2-5 and you can’t be intoxicated, you basically get so jacked up on greasy food that you go comatose at your desk until 5  (or you crap yourself and go home early- been there, done that, got the t-shirt!)

But I digress, We headed out to Pepperonchini’s in Framingham, MA which is a local bar/food spot. (www.hotpizzacoldbeer.com) They have a good menu of sandwiches, pizza and other assorted pub food.

Pro’s - They posses some pretty dynamite steak tips, 25 cent wings during all Boston sports games, and 5 dollar cheese pizzas on Sunday’s to go along with their NFL Sunday ticket. They are open late and like the site suggests, they have hot pizza and cold beer as well.

Con’s- Late at night its more of a Bar than a food place and get pretty crowded, when the wings aren’t 25 cents.

The specific buffalo based item we will be breaking down today is the buffalo chicken pizza because that’s how we roll.

You gotta dunk that Sh*t

You gotta dunk that Sh*t

First noteworthy remark is that it comes with a pepperonchini in the middle which is a nice trademark. The buffalo chicken chunks are of good size and sauce proportions. They don’t dominate the pizza but you certainly feel that you are getting your money’s worth.

The wrinkle in pep’s pizza is the carrots and celery. Now celery has been done before I am certain but the carrot’s are a novel and new way to do this pizza. They don’t add alot but they are memorable and get people talking.

One way to add fun and calories (calories usually add taste and awesomeness to anything buffalo) is to get a side dipping cup of blue cheese. Now, they may already put a little blue cheese on the pizza but you are gonna wan’t to be able to self medicate and dunk they living crap out of your slice. Its tremendous, don’t feel shy, just ask and thy shall receive.

Now, the “Osiris” of the buffalo za Colin O’neil, would like to point out the proper method of crushing this pizza.

“Rip from the wheel, fold the long way and aggressively dip into the blue cheese bucket, enjoy”

This man is a hungry softball player who has conqured this pizza multiple times, (a week) – he also pointed out that “buffalo chicken pizza is here forever”

He notes that with the floppyness of this slice, he has seen many weaker men pop a wrist tendon circa nomar in 2001.  I have always said you must fold this beast or it will be flopping around worse than … no need to go there)

Overall, peps delivers solid value and an nice change of pace in the buffalo world. We will review their 25 cent wings in the future and always recommend when a game is on heading down to take advantage of their special. The wings are meaty and the sauce while not better than 7/10 is cool and you can devour them.

Good stuff, see you out there (when I get out of this food coma)

Restaurant Review : Antonio’s Pizza

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Location: Amherst, Mass

Antonio’s Pizza may have not only the world’s most beautiful slices, but the most delicious.

When walking into Antonio’s for the first time, one can become pretty intimidated. They have a glass case of pizza’s with various assorted slices.   You simply point out the slice(s) you want and they slide them in the oven. Next, walk up to the register to pay and your slices will meet you there.

They make it look so nice

They make it look so nice

The prices are around $3 dollars for some of the fancier slices. They are pretty large and 2 will fill the average human up VERY nicely. I like that you can get two completly different kinds of pizza and not pay a premium.

My Top Draft Picks

My Top Draft Picks

The pizza comes out with that perfect cripy bottom and isn’t chewy. The toppings are big and filling. You can literally end up with steak, tortilla chips, beans and many other assorted goodies on your pizza.

They are open very late (2 a.m.ish) which means they will be there when the bars get out. The line gets pretty packed but they have an excellent distribution and line system which keeps it moving.

Whenever I am in Amherst, I always make sure to stop in and grab a slice. I had 5 in about 36 hours of being there this weekend and its just delicious pizza. This style of pizzeria with fancy quick slices could realistically thrive anywhere and with the college crowd it is clearly huge!

Hmm, Ill have that one

Hmm, Ill have that one

Overall I would rank the slices in this fashion

1. Chicken Bacon Ranch

2. Buffalo Chicken

3. Steak Burrito

4. Honey Mustard

5. Chicken Fajita (tortilla chips on it)

6. Straight Cheese (PRO TIP: Don’t wait in line just head to register)

7. Anything else, I mean if you see something that looks delicious just point at it. It is very hard to go wrong here!

Enjoy!

Enjoy!

In my mind, Antonio’s is an absolute must if in the area!

Let me know what you think!

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Boloco : Buffalo Chicken Burrito

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

First things first, they refer to this item as a wrap on the menu.  I must classify it as a burrito because it has rice in it. Not to mention every other item they sell is a burrito.

What could be in this beatiful gift from the gods?

Anna’s Tacqueria makes the most outstanding burrito’s in the entire Boston area, however the drive takes about 40 minutes. When Boloco was put in town everyone thought, Sweet! Now I have a place to get my fix without the drive.

Quickly people realized that while Boloco would suffice it was nothing out of this world. We were expecting it to compete with the cities best burrito producer and naturally the expectations were too great. Boloco instead offers delicious wraps if you know what to look for and skip the traditional mexican style burrito.

How does this all relate to buffalo chicken?

The item that wasn’t overhyped turned out to be the best of them all. The buffalo chicken wrap at boloco infuses a very good buffalo flavor with delicious blue cheese, celery, rice and chicken. You can also get this item with steak but this website isn’t called buffalo steak calzone.com now is it? jk, I will often get steak every 3rd burrito.

burritoclose

For a “health hack” I often get the wheat tortilla and brown rice to go along with it. I immediatly cancel it out by asking for extra chicken and having three ladel scoops of buffalo sauce on it. They always look at me like are you sure you really want 3 scoops and I give them the nod and say do it, do it!

Overall, Boloco offers a variety of flavors which can deliver. While the traditional burrito is delicious for people who have never left the town, the world offers more. (Its like me saying anna’s is the best when I haven’t been to texas or LA to SD area in california.)

However, I feel the buffalo chicken burrito when made with love, care and adult supervision truly delivers one of the most unique buffalo chicken experiences out there!

Where ZFarls "Does Work"

Where ZFarls "Does Work"

I used to always order 2 but now I just get one large with extra meat. Paying for your own health insurance will do that to a man.

Boloco is also one of those new and hip companies where you can order online and track calories which is nice. I will pick up these bad boys for the office lunches and the menu is vast enough to please nearly everyone. They have good chips and salsa/guac if your into that as well. They will also do free promotions and I have even adopted aborted burrito orders a few times. They are friendly and do things right and business is like tennis, those who serve well win. I look to keep boloco as part of my diet in the future!

This was a free one and not "on steroids" as I usually order them. Still delicious!

This was a free one and not "on steroids" as I usually order them. Still delicious!


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Restaurant Review: Chicken Bone Saloon

Monday, July 20th, 2009

When looking to see whether or not a place is for real, you must judge them on their go to meal. If I reviewed a sub shop and docked them points for offering a poor slice of pizza that just wouldn’t be right.

The Chicken Bone Saloon in Framingham, Mass is known for its wing flavors and multiple sauces. When you risk your reputation on chicken wings, tenders and beer you better be real careful, but the bone gets the job done.

Pro’s-The “Bone” has an all you can eat chicken wings. (Mon & Wed 8-10, $7) Although the hours have been shuffled to a later start and price has gone up a few bucks, they still do it right. They offer bone-in wings rather than the more typical boneless you often see with all you can eat.

The service can sometimes be a little slow on these nights but the portions are just right. They bring out around 12 wings for the first portion. Once you devour these bad boys and you will, they continually bring out 6-8 wings until you tap out or crap yourself.

One positive of this style is you get to try different flavors. Now, I almost always choose garlic hot for 3 of my 5 selections, but other people may want to switch up more often. They have many great flavors, some of the fan favorites are:

I refuse to rank them because some people don’t like buffalo as much as I do. These are people I refuse to be friends with, but its really a matter of preference.

Garlic Hot may be the most dominant flavor, they are they same as just plain hot but with little garlic specs which give them a delicous twang. Just plain mild is delicious on your 4th batch when your mouth is numb and you just want more meat.

They have solid flavors of BBQ, Honey Mustard and Teryaki but nothing out of this world. Roman always seems to be popular as the wings come tasting like delicous italian dressing. Always a solid 3rd or 5th round order depending on how much you weigh.

Beer- Its cold and bountiful.

Catering- They do a solid job for lunch parties and you can get a few different flavors to please the party. They have a vast menu and while you may want to stick to the safer wing waters, you never know if they have hidden jewels elsewhere on there.

Hours- They are open quite late and do deliver to a limited area.

Fries- They have waffle fries that are amazing. They also come with cheese if your over 200 lbs and gravy if your over 300 lbs.

Cons: Thermonuclear- I’m not scared of hot but when you have to sacrifice the true flavor of buffalo for heat and use a tabasco base then shame on you. If your gonna bring the heat, keep the flavor consistent.

Price- If you miss the all you can eat, then the wings can get a little pricey but overall still worth it for the quality. Beer is a little pricey (no great deals)

Loud- The bands are very good but its a little tight and the music is super loud. Im not gonna pretend about music reverberation or any b.s. but if your there and not drunk or with your grandma and the band is on, your ears will bleed. I just pull the batteries out of grandma’s hearing aids and eat wings until my ears start to ring, plus she always pays. God bless social security.

Overall- The bone offers solid wing sauces and has really grown on me over the past few years of all you can eat. While they have created a small wingopoly over framingham, the new “wings over framingham” should force them to remain on their game. As with all business, competition is a good thing and the more wings I get at a lower price the happier I am, until the next day of course.

Pizza Peddler : Buffalo Chicken Wrap

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Restaurant Review

Buffalo Chicken Wrap
from Pizza Peddler (Natick, MA)


I will add a picture the next time I eat this delicious wrap, this site is turining into a good excuse for me to devour buffalo products!

The Buffalo Chicken Wrap is a fine item and ranks quite highly when done properly. Often times though, places sell wraps that are an absolute abomination to the buffalo chicken market. Girls will order them and say mmm its soo good but really its garbage. Fortunately, Pizza Peddler doesn’t serve one of these.

Pro’s:
Lets start off with the chicken in their wrap. Often I am afraid that ordering a wrap will not fill me up and I will sit and wonder what could have been. Peddler loads up there wrap with 3 full fillets of chicken parm style breast that is fried. Now one thing I like about this is when you order the wrap, you see them grab the pieces of uncooked breast from its holding cell and place it in the frying apperatus. You often burn your mouth from the heat of the food that was cooked live in front of you. There is no bullshit steamed rubber breast from subway with red sauce doused on it. This chicken is the real deal and is ALWAYS consistent.

Yes, I take photos of my victims

Yes, I take photos of my victims

Next strong suit for Peddler is the blue cheese in the wrap. It combines with the buffalo and is just chunky enough for the perfect consistency. Often it makes a sweet pool in the “nub” of the wrap and delivers a creamy explosion on the last bite. Delicious.

The wrap is a pro in the sense that it takes nothing away from this sandwich and is always soft enough to be considered fresh.

*A little user hack I throw in on my wrap is to get the diced pickles added to it. I like the twang and contrast and the diced is better than round pickles on this item.

Con’s-

It may not be your father’s buffalo sauce but once you understand and appreciate it for what it is, this flavor will grow on you. Its more of a sweeter sublte flavor than the all out delicious heat that I am used to.
Pizza Peddler can tend to be on the pricier side of the specturm. I am okay with this however.

Overall- If I have said this once, then I have said it 1,000 times. It is one of my most passionate stances of anything that exists on this earth.
I would rather pay 8.50 for a delicious wrap where I know that quality is going to be consistently delivered than 5 dollars for some bullshit attempt at a sub just because it is only 4-6 dollars. (im not singling out subway.)
When you find an item like this, you save it for special occasions where a normal lunch will just not satisfy you.

8.5/10