WGRZ Channel 2 Unique Eats joins us for Pizza!

A couple weeks back we were joined by WGRZ Channel 2's Heather DuBose for her weekly segment, Unique Eats. She was only going to join us for one stop so we decided to meet her at Trattoria Aroma in Williamsville on Main Street. She had made the reservations and when we arrived they had a nice table setup for us and everything. It seemed they were as excited to have us as we were to be there. Also joining us this week was our friend Adam who has been with us a couple times and Shrew's wife Kim. Heather explained how this was going to work. She fitted us with a microphone and began her interview, in between questions she would film events as they were taking place. It was an interesting experience, but this is about the pizza so let's get to it!

Lights, camera, PIZZA!



Trattoria Aroma has a gas fired hearth oven, the menu is not what we expected at first and Shrew looked a little perplexed upon reading it. There was no choice for pepperoni and cheese. I didn't mind as they had some interesting concoctions to choose from. However we decided early on that we wouldn't be able to compare this place to any other due to their lack of the standard cheese and pepperoni. We ordered the closest thing we could to cheese and pep, cheese and sopressata. Sopressata is an Italian dry-cured salami which closely resembles large flat pepperoni when sliced. Heather ordered a Quattro Formaggio pizza, which is a fancy way of saying four cheese. Every pizza option was of the gourmet variety. Shrew wasn't feeling it from the get go. Shrew asked the waiter if they had bleu cheese and he said "no but we have Gorgonzola". I thought for sure he was gonna choke a bitch! Pizzas arrived and we took a break from the interviews to eat. Heather filmed us digging in and got a few choice words about what we thought. Shrew definitely choked on his first bite and coughed really loud causing the entire dining room to look over. Choking on the parsley really pissed Shrew off, and it was most certainly the parsley's fault! Good thing Heather got this on film HA! Kim used her knowledge of fine wines and paired our pizza with a nice Riesling. Since I can't judge this pizza fairly compared to other places we have gone I will give the general consensus we came up with about our experience at Trattoria Aroma. The pizzas where tasty especially being that they were gourmet. It was different to say the least and not what we expected to be honest. Going into this I expected there to be a vast array of premium toppings. I thought they would have some regular pizza toppings to choose from as well. They did not. The atmosphere and staff were wonderful. The quattro formaggio and cheese and sopressata pizzas were delicious for what they were which was a more traditional old world thin crust pizza which seemed like it should have been purchased from the streets of Tuscany or Naples. Make no mistake though, this was no Buffalo pizza. Tasty it may have been, it could not be judged the same. This was a foul ball, you hit the ball but it went high and out. Way to go. They also had gelato, DOMO ARIGATO, GELATO! This is a great place to take a date for sure as you could sit, talk, eat pizza and drink wine all night long.

Shrew is smiling, Kim's arms are crossed and Adam is covering his face. I smell a sharking comin on!!



After leaving there Shrew and I were still looking for a good piece of BUFFALO pizza. A few emails had suggested Imperial pizza on Abbott Road in South Buffalo. We quickly hit the highway and made our way down to Irish town. Pulling in we noticed it was primarily a take out place. Which was cool because at this point we definitely stuffed ourselves with lots of pizza from the previous joint. We each ordered a slice of pizza and a side of bleu cheese. Slices came out of the oven and we each received a box. Upon opening the box it looked like they sliced us off a quarter of a large pizza. HOLY SHIT! This slice was huge. Imperial is what Buffalo pizza is all about. Thick crust, thick cheese, thick pepperoni, sauce was delicious and plentiful, slices were huge and bleu cheese was great! This pizza was thick in all the right places. The sauce was very flavorful and sweet, a true pizza sauce. Not too much to bitch about it. We feel that this is probably going to be the beacon of hope in the South Buffalo area. As delicious as this pizza was we concluded that we would go back and recommend it if you were in the area but we probably wouldn't go out of our way to get it.

SRS BZNS!



How The Gods Kill!




You can check out the slick editing and well put together WGRZ Channel 2 segment "Unique Eats" by Heather DuBose here at this link. LOOK MA, I'M GONNA BE ON DA TV!!!!

http://www.wgrz.com/video/#/Unique+Eats%3A+Pizza+Club+716/75793242001