I am always excited to discover a good pizza place -- and downright giddy when it is located in the culinary wasteland that I call my neighborhood. Enter Adrienne's Pizza Bar on lovely Stone Street in the Financial District (there are two entrances, one on Pearl and one on Stone). This past Friday, afflicted with laziness, and having exhausted the usual round of I-don't-care-where-do-you-want-to-go, we were drawn to Adrienne's, a place we'd heard about on sliceny.com, because it was within walking distance.
Adrienne's is a sleek restaurant with high tables, low lighting and a tad too much noise. The dinner menu offers a variety of 10" round pizzas, but you can and should request the square pizza (which, to be more mathematically precise, is more of a rectangle) for $15, plus $3 for each topping. Our golden thin crust square pizza came laced with sweet, juicy crumbled sausage, fennel and red onions. Cheese had seeped into the crust during baking, giving it the taste of parmesan crisps. As Rachael Ray would say, yum-o. The square pizza was more than enough to feed the three of us, and still we happily polished off all ten slices.
The desserts at Adrienne's are far superior to any offered at a neighborhood pizza joint. We opted for two Nutella-based desserts: a cannoli fashioned out of a waffle cone, filled with Nutella custard and a Nutella chocolate cake. They filled my every Nutella need.
Adrienne's is the perfect place to go for a meal after a day touring the Financial District or the South Street Seaport, on a date, or with a few friends. Afterward, if you are me, you get to walk home. As they say in the local parlance, I'm bullish on Adrienne's.
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