15606 Se Mill Plain Blvd
Vancouver, WA
(360) 254-1286
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August 3, 2009
Juliano’s Pizza has a lot going for it – good location, clean restaurant, helpful waitstaff, and reasonable prices. They have a very reasonably priced and varied selection of beer and wine. That being said, the pizza has too much going for it and I’m talking about the toppings.
A lot of people care about the crust and the sauce (I’m one of them) as they are the basic building blocks to a good pizza. I had to deconstruct their pizza to even find the crust or sauce so thick were the toppings.
I got my pizza to go and when they handed the box to me I almost dropped it. It was easily three times heavier than I expected.
After getting the pizza home (it smelled great in the car) I opened the lid to find a veritable mountain of toppings. I could have comfortably populated another three pizzas with the extra toppings and they would have been decent pizzas.
I have a love/hate relationship with Juliano’s. I had a “build your own pizza” with pepperoni, Italian sausage, and black olives. Their ingredients are fresh and the meats are outstanding. I hate pepperoni sliced so thin you can read through the slice about as much as I dislike what passes for Italian sausage at a lot of pizza places. Juliano’s meats were top notch.
Balance is what is missing. With everything else in place the crust and sauce don’t just play second fiddle – their sole function seems to be to give the toppings something to sit on and cling to. As I get older I find myself leaning heavily toward quality over quantity but Juliano’s apparently tries to cover both and ends up making a great pizza merely a caricature. Did my pizza get eaten? You bet. And so did the Italian chef salad, the Italian omelet, and the Italian sandwich that I made from the leftover toppings.
If you’re a fan of the toppings, or don’t care about the underpinnings, or just want to marvel at the mountain of toppings I’m sure you will rate Juliano’s five stars.
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