We headed to Banker’s Hill for our second stop off 5th Avenue, not too far from Balboa Park. The overall flavor was good – pepperoni is not my personal favorite but I didn’t mind it with this slice. The middle of the pizza didn’t suffer the fate of being too thin in the middle – it fact you could pick it up and it wouldn’t sag one bit. The crust had a nice crispy, evenly brown look to it. Jake didn’t think this slice had nearly enough pizza sauce on it – there was a little bit hidden under the layer of cheese. This is the second half of the restaurant which had a big map of the Long Island Sound.Īfter surveying the available pizza slices, Jake picked the pepperoni ricotta. I noticed they had NY style and on the second shelf, there is a Silican style (thicker crust) pizza. This is just half of their slices that day. This is located in a little strip mall right near the I-15, off Clairemont Mesa Blvd. Our first stop was at Long Island Mike’s Pizza in Kearny Mesa. It helped that we had time to digest in between slices and got to walk a bit for the later spots. I picked five places total and we shared one slice at each stop. Mostly my goal was to try different pizza spots all over town. He laughed when he read my booklet and saw what the last stop was going to be. Gabbiano Pizza is his favorite pizza spot in town because he grew up eating that pizza.
The funny part is that I had told him we’d end up in the beach area and as we were getting into the car he asked me, “Since we’ll be down by the beach, do you think we can stop by and get Gabbiano Pizza?” I said, with the straightest face I could manage, “We’ll see.” Here he is in the car before he knew what we were doing. I gave him a card with this little booklet that I made: I didn’t tell him what we were doing until we were parked at the first spot. I wanted to do something special just for him and I figured a new surprise would be to take him on a pizza crawl to a few different locations, ending at his personal favorite/nostalgic pizza spot down in Mission Beach. Just like I say I have a “dessert” stomach, Jake says he has a “pizza” stomach. He once gave up pizza for lent as a personal challenge and it was a really, really tough time for him (it didn’t help that we went to a pizza restaurant to meet up with a friend and he was good and had a sandwich instead). Jake’s #1 hands down favorite food is pizza.
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