Wooster Street Pizza (B)

The Place
Wooster Street Pizza is a Connecticut based chain of pizza places.  They have some decent food (good wings) and a gigantic pizza that was featured on Man vs. Food a couple years ago.  The Storrs branch of Wooster Street is located across from the UConn campus and is conveniently located between my office and the community pool where I swim laps.  After a particularly intense swim, last week, I stopped by for a small Barbie's-Cue chicken pizza.

The Pizza
I think that, like the Willi-Brew before it, what really held this pizza back was the Wooster Street pizza itself.  They make Connecticut style pizza which is floury, thin and crunchy.  Moreover, the toppings don't go out to the edge of the pizza.  Around the circumference of every slice, there is about a 2" ring of dry, gum-stabbing crust.  Every time I pick up a slice, I have to resist the urge to rake the toppings from the center out to the edge. 

The Chicken
The chicken itself was chunks of white and dark meat.  It seemed fresh.  No problems here.

The Taste
This is what saved the Barbie's-Cue chicken.  Their sauce was sweet and sticky, but not too sweet or too sticky.  They included onions and tomatoes, which gave the pizza a freshness and heartiness.  There was a saltiness to the toppings which counteracted the sweet BBQ sauce.  The part of the pizza with the toppings was delicious and I couldn't stop eating it.  Unfortunately, not enough of it was covered in toppings!  I bought a 12" pie and only got about 10" of real pizza.

Overall
This pizza was delicious, even though it was placed on top of an inferior, crunchy base.  I give this one a B.