Normally after a decent sized breakfast, I will not eat lunch on Saturdays, but today feeling especially hungry, I abandoned that usual behavior and decided on my way out of the Philadelphia area to stop at one of our old favorite places-- Alex’s Pizzeria located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia at 400 Leverington Ave.
Alex’s has been around for over 50 years and is a place I remember my parents taking us to numerous times growing up when pizza was not as popular as it is today. Alex’s is the first place I remember having pizza as a kid!
I think sometimes we remember things as a kid being better and those memories should be left and not challenged!
I ordered a small plain pizza and paid about $8.50 for it—pizza was probably medium sized by most shops’ standards because it was either 12 or 14 inch.
So I was excited to try a slice as soon as I got into the car with it (there is no place to dine in at Alex’s)—what a disappointment!! Alex’s is one of the innovators in the pizza game of putting the sauce on the top of the pie rather than under the cheese and quite frankly if I would have closed my eyes to taste the pizza, I would have questioned whether there was any cheese on it. The sauce was overly tangy and lacked any true characteristic that would make it memorable. The crust was extremely hard and paled in comparison to other good Italian pizzas!
This Foodie only ate two and a half small slices out of 8 and actually committed a Foodie cardinal sin of stopping to throw the rest of the pizza away!
Alex’s will go down in the memory bank along with many other places from my youth, but it will be hard to hold them with the same reverence that I once did in my formative years of becoming a Foodie!!
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