Great pizza at fair prices
Super-fresh ingredients and done to perfection make for an excellent pizza pie. I especially enjoyed a fresh veggie pizza, with wonderful sauce. And I think their prices are reasonable for what you get.
The owner, Luigi, is from Naples (Italy), my wife's hometown, so he knows how to cook proper Italian. The food is incredible, the portions huge, and the prices extremely fair. We found Luigi's after a short visit to Eastern State Penitentiary, just down the street a few blocks (they are also just a few blocks east of the Philadelphia Museum of Art). A simple place, it looks like a takeout pizza joint where you can get a slice and a soda and sit if you want, but the menu is much more extensive than you might think. Beside pizza, sandwiches, pasta, and salads, they offer chicken parmigiana, veal parmigiana, eggplant parmigiana, and chicken cacciatore, all $10.95, including a large side of pasta ($2.50 more for gnocchi, tortellini, or ravioli).
Luigi's has some of my favorite local slices. The store is a humble walk-up on Fairmount Ave with friendly staff and a casual atmosphere.
Here, the pizzas fall on the part of the pizza-spectrum that I love: big, flat slices that are slightly floppy and has lots of toppings but not so many that they're falling all over you. These are walk and eat off a plate slices. I won't call them NY-slices cause those are in NY. The dough is chewy and has that bready, yeasty flavor when you eat the crust.
2401 Fairmount Ave - Philadelphia
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