Pizza Place (B-)

The Lovely Kiley recently moved to an apartment in Stonington, CT.  For those of you who are far away, Stonington is on the coast, right on the Rhode Island border.  Kiley's apartment is within walking distance of Westerly, Rhode Island.  We walked into Westerly and spent an afternoon in their downtown.  It was quintessential New England at its most...well, just at its most, that's what quintessential means.  It could not have been more New England.

The Location
The restaurant is actually called Pizza Place, which is clever and quaint and classy.  The atmosphere inside was big and open and friendly.  Two large groups, a family and some sort of middle school sports team were eating in the main dining room...and I could totally see why.  Pizza Place has a decent selection of beers and several chicken pizzas.

The Pizza
The crust was reasonably good, the cheese was decent.  Overall the pizza was quality.  I ordered the buffalo chicken pizza, this time, which came with bleu cheese and an assortment of bell peppers.

It does kind of look like someone got murdered,
but I assure you all that blood is delicious.

The Chicken
The pieces of chicken were ok.  They seemed to be cubes cut from leftover chicken breasts, which is not my favorite, but not bad either.  They were leftover, it seems, but not too chewy.

The Sauce and the Taste
Here is where the rubber meets the road, as they say.  The buffalo sauce was excellent and the bleu cheese was really salty and sumptuous and enjoyable.  The weakness of this pizza was the choice to add bell peppers to the toppings.  I don't mind pepper on pizzas but it just didn't fit with the buffalo sauce.  You need something that contrasts with the salty heat.  Onions usually do the trick.

Overall
I liked this pizza, I ate way too much of it.  Nothing about it was amazing, but it worked ok.  I think B- is a fair judgment for a decent pizza with ok meat, good sauce and a weak topping.