One small cheese and one small pepperoni, $8.56
Crust: This was really thick, tough and chewy, even springy; you could squish it and it’d bounce back to its original thickness. It was also overdone and burnt in spots underneath, and the handle was much too hard.
Sauce: Not bad but not all that great either; average.
Cheese: This was a little light on quantity as well as a little undercooked.
Pepperoni: Very, very spicy.
There are several locations for Cocco’s, but their website didn’t have a menu for the location nearest to our place, so I looked at the next closest one instead. That online menu is a little hard to read but they do have a “personal” pizza which is the smallest they offer; the smallest “regular” pizza is 12”. We’ve never had Cocco’s before, so I was unwilling to try a larger pizza from an unknown entity (what if it was horrible and we had extra pizza leftover we didn’t want to eat?), so I ordered the two personal pies instead. However, the personal pizzas are actually a *pan* pizza instead of hand-tossed, which isn’t what we were looking for, and affected the entire experience. We did try to be objective, however. I do like pan crust pizza, but these weren't very good.
First, they were very small pies (roughly 8”), and Kevin’s first impression was that they looked just like frozen pizza. It was hard to disagree with that assessment because the dough was perfectly proportioned in every way. It had a uniform thickness throughout, the shape of each slice was spot-on evenly accurate and even the bottom of the crust had perfectly-spaced indentations. That could be from the pan it was cooked in, but the taste of the crust was also devoid of any real flavor. Worse, to bite a piece off you literally had to bite down really hard on it, and then tear it to get it separated, which caused all the toppings to slide off. Eating a pizza shouldn’t be this hard.
The rest of the pie was extremely average, but if their other pies are made the same way (using a possibly-frozen crust), that may very well have ruined our outlook of Cocco’s. Since this pizza joint was *by request*, we’ll give them another shot on a different day (using a different location), and next time we’ll get the regular pie. In the meantime, this personal pan pizza leaves a lot to be desired.
2.6 out of 5