YOU love pizza, but you’ve been disappointed by so many pizzas in the past. Either the crust is too thick, the sauce tastes awful, or there’s too little topping for its price. Now you can have the exact crust you want, you can choose the sauce for it, and you can have all the toppings you want to fully enjoy your pizza.
Mad for Pizza, a toppings-all-you-want pizza place located on the second floor of Il Terrazzo Bldg. along Tomas Morato Ave. in Quezon City, makes this possible by offering four types of pizza dough, four kinds of sauces to go on it, and 40 choices of all-natural toppings for your 10-inch pizza at an affordable Php280 per pizza.
Basically, what you, like other diners, do when you enter Mad for Pizza is choose your pizza dough among Classic, Herb, Garlic Parmesan and Spinach. Step 2 is picking the sauce, with House Pizza Sauce, Roasted Garlic Alfredo, Fra Diablo (Spicy Tomato Cream Sauce), and Barbecue Sauce as your selections. Then comes the most exciting part, which is pointing to all the toppings that you want your server to put on your pizza.
The 40 choices for toppings: mozzarella cheese, Parmesan cheese, Romano cheese, Asiago cheese, cream cheese, blue cheese, Feta cheese, Provolone cheese, red bell pepper, green bell pepper, onion, roasted garlic, sliced mushroom, spinach, zucchini, capers, olives, pineapple, artichoke, corn kernels, oven roasted tomato, meatball crumble, Italian sausage, grilled chicken, pepperoni, steak slices, Parma ham, ham, bacon, calamari, shrimps, clams, mussels, fish, anchovy, basil, rosemary, oregano and cilantro.
The next step is to wait for the pizza, steaming hot from the oven, to be served at your table.
For diners who cannot make up their mind as to what toppings they want for their pizza, Mad for Pizza offers four standard pizzas to choose from: Justin’s Favorite (mozzarella, Parmesan, Cheddar, pepperoni, bacon, sausage and meatball crumble); Anya’s Creation (alfredo sauce, mozzarella, Parmesan, Cheddar, shrimps and roasted garlic); and Andross’ Choice (mozzarella, Parmesan, Feta cheese, ham and pineapple); all priced at Php250. Justin’s Favorite is named after Mad for Pizza vice president and executive chef Cyril Reyes’ business partner and Mad for Pizza president Justin Chua, and Anya’s Creation and Andross’ Choice have been named after Reyes’ kids Anya and Andross.
While pizza is Mad for Pizza’s main attraction, the restaurant also serves a number of other dishes that are a combination of other restaurants’ best-selling items, including Buffalo Wings (Php268 for 1/2 kg.), Fried Calamari (Php18, Classic Fish and Chips (Php19, Spaghetti Bolognese (Php18 and Spaghetti Carbonara (Php18. There are also fries, nacho chips, salads and rice meals.
Must-tries at Mad for Pizza include Fried Zucchini (Php15, zucchini sticks wrapped in batter made of seasoned flour, deep-fried and served with homemade marinara and honey mustard dips; Amboy Angus Beef Belly in Adobo Sauce (Php21, beef belly marinated overnight for melt-in-the-mouth tenderness and texture; Tennessee Pork Spareribs (Php26, tender pork spareribs richly smothered with barbecue sauce and smoked; and the new Kielbasa Sausage with Baked Beans and Spicy Fried Spareribs, both served with rice.
When it comes to beverages, the restaurant is mighty proud of its Frozen Iced Tea (Php9, concentrated iced tea and pineapple with a calamansi tang; Salted Caramel Milkshake (Php9, vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce with salt infusion; and cocktail drinks such as Margarita, Sea Breeze and Mojito (Php180 per serving).
(Mad for Pizza is located at 2/L, Il Terrazzo Bldg., 305 Tomas Morato Ave. corner Sct. Madriñan St., Quezon City; with telephone number 351-2621.)
