Consistently good brick oven pizza and more!
Written: Jan 25 '00 (Updated Jan 25 '00)
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Pros: Predicatbly good brick overn pizza, pasta and panini.
Cons: Not sure!
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| vickie's Full Review: Bertucci's Brick Oven Pizzeria |
Bertucci's restaurants deliver predictable, high quality, brick oven pizzas, panini sandwiches and pastas regardless of which location you choose for dining. While it is possible that you will eat better pizza and pasta (at a "neighborhood" style Italian eatery), you will never be seriously disappointed at Bertucci's. I have lived a few miles (max) from both Boston and New York City"s "Little Italys" and happen to think that these restaurants are great: particularly the pizza!
Bertucci restaurants offer appetizers, soups, salads, traditional brick oven pizzas, Neopolitan pizzas, pasta, calzoni and panini sandwiches. They also offer a lunch menu which includes Menucci (individual pizzas) and pasta dishes….all served with unlimited salad.
From the regular menu, I recommend that you start with one of the antipasti or the bruschetta. The "regular" antipasta is a great selection of caponata, marinated chicken, provolone, prosciutto, roasted peppers, etc. Appetizers range in price from $4.29 to $8.49.
I also recommend the traditional brick oven pizzas. These pies are cooked in a brick oven (which sustains temperatures around 850 degrees)! The pizza and bread cook quickly, locking in the flavor while creating a crispy crust. Bertucci pies are served really hot from the oven so they taste really fresh. They even survive a ride home in the car well! My favorite Bertucci "old timer" is the Sporkie: sweet Italian sausage with ricotta, mozzarella and tomato sauce. I also recommend the Capricciosa: rosemary rubbed Italian Prosciutto ham and fire-roasted artichokes with fresh mozzarella and diced plum tomatoes. Pies range from $8.29 - 8.99 for small to $11.79 - 13.99 for large.
Bertucci pasta dishes are made to order with fresh ingredients and are consistently prepared al dente….so you can rest assured that you won't get a plate of pastey pasta! Several of the restaurants I have eaten at go a little heavy on the olive oil…..so if you care about these things, be forewarned! There are at least 16 pasta choices ( including cheese ravioli and eggplant lasagna) on the menu so there is definitely something for everyone. My personal favorite is one of their original offerings, Rigatoni with broccoli & chicken: sauteed chicken, broccoli florets and rigatoni in a cream and chicken stock sauce with lemon and garlic…or you can select a light white wine sauce. Pasta dishes range from$7.20 to $11.99 (for the lobster ravioli).
There are 80 Bertucci's restaurants located in a total of 11 states (Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, (Long Island) New York, Pennsylvania Rhode Island and Virginia. I've you've eaten at one, you have a good idea of what it will be like to eat at the others. The quality of the help varies somewhat from friendly and extremely responsive to competent but "no excessive warmth." The restaurant interiors are clean, upscale and inviting. There are often bar areas with dried peppers, garlic bulbs, etc hanging over them. You can almost always view, directly, the pizza makers putting together those pies and sliding them into the brick oven(s).
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Location: Waltham, MA
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