Yet Another Pizza Variation - Uncle Oogies (Phila)

Re:Yet Another Pizza Variation - Uncle Oogies (Phila) (BeaconCove)

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:01:08 GMT

Changing in anything gives a new look or make a new thing. So if you take changes then it gives you a proper result.

Re:Yet Another Pizza Variation - Uncle Oogies (Phila) (ken8038)

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:37:53 GMT

<<Sounds interesting. Any photos?
No, but there's a picture of the Old Italian Pie when the website opens (you may have to wait until it scrolls thru a couple of other pictures).

PS: Unlike some website pix I've seen, thier shot of the pizza is not a fluff piece, the Old Italian Pie looks EXACTLY like the picture.

Re:Yet Another Pizza Variation - Uncle Oogies (Phila) (joerogo)

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:26:56 GMT

Hey Ken, Nice find!

I am a big fan of that style of pizza. The rest of the menu looks really good, and very reasonable.

Re:Yet Another Pizza Variation - Uncle Oogies (Phila) (MetroplexJim)

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:17:21 GMT

Square pizza RULES!

Re:Yet Another Pizza Variation - Uncle Oogies (Phila) (leethebard)

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:57:28 GMT

Sounds interesting. Any photos?

Yet Another Pizza Variation - Uncle Oogies (Phila) (ken8038)

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 21:55:09 GMT

Yesterday my wife and I took a day trip to John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, near the Philadelphia Airport. Perfect weather.. we did the 3.5 mile loop and we saw a Bald Eagle!

Anyway, I had read some good things on a couple of blogs about Uncle Oogies Pizza, only about 10 minutes away, so that was our dinner stop. Located in a small strip mall in not the best neighborhood (of the 10 cars in the parking lot, 2 of them appeared to be abandoned), inside Oogies it was clean, busy, and just fine.

Thier specialty is a style called an Old Italian Pizza. "Possibly the best pizza on the planet" says the menu. I don't know about that, but it was dam good. Reminded me a little of Long Island's Grandma style of pizza. Square, thin crust. But this was made with plum tomatoes and no sauce. A large pie (about 16 inches square, 12 slices) and 2 sodas came to about $20, so that was fine. We had enough left over for another meal.

This place flies totally under the radar of the Pizza "experts", other than a couple of food blogs I've never seen a word about it, but The Old Italian Pizza style should be better known. It was that good.

http://www.uncleoogies.com/

After that, my GPS told me we were only 3 minutes from our backup dinner stop, the South Philly Tap Room. Since we were so close, it was time for a craft beer before heading home:

http://www.southphiladelphiataproom.com/

Excellent taps, but I'm glad we ate at Uncle Oogies.