Two weeks ago, I promised a review of Ferragamo's, the new pizza place in Solano Mall. We have been there twice now and have tried four different pizza's. All were great. The oven is wood fired.The crust is a good combo of crunchy and chewy. If you like it more on the crunchy side, be sure to tell them so (ask for cooked longer). The sauce is the best I've had outside of Italy (read "not over- salted or heavily herbed). They make pizzas without as well as with cheese. So far we have tried a four cheese pizza which actually had five, a pizza carcereta, (tomato sauce, basil and fresh mozzarella with one side of the crust folded over a respectable pile of ricotta, a pizza putanesca with tomato sauce, capers, anchovies, garlic and calamata olives -- no cheese, and a pizza luna rossa with smoked salmon, chopped tomatoes, mascarpone cheese, and arugula. Even the luna rossa, which was a risk, was good. Pizzas look to be about 12" and run $10 to $14. We have only tried the pizzas not the pastas or desserts, although the coffee was fine. The sangiovese is good and they have beer on tap. The only problem we've had was that we ordered a pizza siciliana which has eggplant on it and they were out of eggplant. Guess somebody messed up the grocery list. The guy who runs the place is the sort of combination of friendly, casual, and slightly over -the-top you'd expect in a New Jersey (and often in an Italian) pizzeria. However, the place is too empty. Please. Go there. Even if you only get take out. I would like to keep them around. See you Friday. I'll bring the menu.
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