Sam and Louie’s New York Pizza

Q:  Can a town have too many pizza places?

A:  NEV-er

I have to admit, I was asking myself this very question as my son and I braved the elements to try Billings’ newest pizza place.  In the name of full disclosure, I’m going to come right out and also admit I may not have tried this place for months (big mistake) were it not for its enticing offer of “pizza by the slice.”  As a gal who’s fending off Old Man Winter and his unwelcome 10 pounds of fat cells, pizza is the last thing I should be eating.  BUT, if I can eat it by the slice, instead of stuffing my face with a slice and 8 of his closest friends, I’m in.

We saddled right up to the counter, perused the mouth-watering menu and ordered up.  I settled on A SLICE of Chicken Thai Pie (love me some peanut sauce) and a salad.  My son, a simple man of 20, went straight for THREE slices of pepperoni.

Pizza is pizza, right? It’s kind of hard to screw up.  What’s not to like about a big slab of dough smothered in cheese and several of your favorite salted meats?  So why did Sam and Louie’s pizza taste so damn good?  Was it the almost soft-pretzel like crust?  Or the ingredients that were plentiful and bite-size (unlike those big honkin’ ingredients you get sometimes that slide off the pizza and burn your chin because they are too big for your mouth)? My slice o pie had broccoli, red pepper and chicken on it.  Die-hard pizza eaters may cringe at the very notion of putting such things on a pizza, but I’m here to tell you- it was not a slice of pizza.  It was a slice of heaven.  In fact, I can’t guarantee that I’ll stick to one slice of it next time.

The slices, I should mention, are HUGE.  My son never met a Digiorno pizza he didn’t like, and he thinks it’s perfectly acceptable to eat an entire pizza by himself.  His pizza slices were so big, he needed my help!  Okay, “need” is stretching it a bit. But when I asked for a half of one of his slices and made a pouty face when he scowled at me, he relented. 

On one final impressive note, www.SamAndLouiesNYP.com has nutritional information for its Italian fare.  Have you ever heard of such a thing?  Most pizzerias would openly scoff at you if you asked for a pizza’s fat and calorie count, as if to say, “Are you kidding me, what do you want?  It’s pizza.”  Sam and Louie’s takes it a step further and offers a selection of LOW FAT choices and GLUTEN FREE options.

The next time you get a hankering for a piece of pizza (and we all know that happens about 3 times a week and twice on Sunday), get your pizza lovin’ self on over to Sam and Louie’s.  I’ll be the gal in the corner making her way through the specialty pizzas, one slice at a time, of course.

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