Brick Oven Pizza Gallery

Brick Oven Pizza Gallery
33 Havemeyer St.
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Through the steamed-up window on Havenmeyer St. a medium lady and two big guys in puffy coats squeeze into a table and order 6 pizzas. Two tables over, in a merlot haze, a young Williamsburg couple projects a future for themselves far away where nature is involved. Ham wrapped shrimp induces a pair of skinny guys in the corner to complain about their intern fashion positions. While one of the large cooks takes a huge dump, and the scent of lavendar is sprayed everywhere in the tiny, only bathroom.

Valentine's Eve is when you go out for dinner. You can get a cab, get a table, and you can sit there as long as you want....take time to digest, make friends with the waitress, mentally redesign the interior of the restaurant. This is only if you're sure you're going to enjoy the time spent with your date. If that's unclear, go for Valentine's Day..then you might not even get a table, and may have the opportunity to ditch out early.

On Tuesday, February 13th we were seated next to a wall with a 6x6 inch door that opened to a lonely looking electrical outlet. The waitress came over, still wearing her coat and told us about the "Couple's Special". On the weekdays $40 gets you two personal pizzas, a bottle of cheap red or white wine, and a big salad. I've been to this place before, tried several pizzas, and know that the mushroom truffle oil with goat cheese pizza is the best thing on the menu. My bf, decided he would try the sun dried tomato and sausage pizza.

The pizzas are "personal", you get 4 pieces. The truffle pizza was amazingly consistent with the other times I'd ordered it. My bf's pizza was not so hot. In Milwaukee, (esp. at my favorite pizza place, Pizza Man) sausage comes in 1 inch hamburger bites, with lots of fennel, usually homemade by the pizzeria. In New York, I often run into these small sausage discs. The disc's ends often curl up and burn, and the middle pools up with grease. Also, the cheese was missing on his pizza. We ate all the truffle pizza, and the sausage slices were saved for breakfast. Which I'm eating now as I write this. Bad hot pizza often makes good cold pizza, and vice versa.

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