Spizza (Jalan Kayu)

The USP philosophy of Spizza is that it serves gourmet wood fired thin crust pizza in a society that has pretty much only seen thick crusted pizzas. This was quite a number of years ago before gourmet thin crusted pizzas started sprouting all over the country. Is the restaurant still relevant in this day and age or has the concept fallen on deaf ears? Do we actually like thin crusted pizzas in the first place? I'll find out the hard way.

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The restaurant is hidden in an obscure corner of Jalan Kayu with a very small signboard signaling its presence. The interior and exterior is rather small with simple tables and a pizza wood fired counter taking up most of the space. The good part is that you get to see the pizza's being made and the dough knead after you order. The bad part is it usually takes some time before you are served due to that.

Commodo ($11) - Essentially, its salad with grilled portobello mushrooms, cut cherry tomatoes and feta cheese interspersed in between. This was rather well received by my family and the mushroom was juicy and exuded a smokey fragrance. Portion size was rather small for the price and pretty much serves one or two at most.

Suberbo ($11) - This is seafood salad with calamari, prawns, some mussells and topped with lemon dressing. Lemon dressing here is literally unsweetened lemon dressing with seafood. This was less well received and my sisters got sick of the greens in the salad stating that it was too raw for their liking. The seafood was acceptable but once again, portion size was rather pathetic.

Spagghetti in mixed seafood ($16) - Ordered this for my parents as their more traditional chinese and don't really like pizza. I found this rather good with the spaggheti al dente and the seafood the usual freshness. The tomato dressing was balanced but skewed towards the sourish corner.

Sofia ($17) - On towards the pizzas themselves. Sofia is a tomato based seafood pizza with mozerella cheese, shrimps, mussells, basil and scallops. Notice the description stated scallops with an "s". This was the main reason for ordering pizza, in reality, it came with 1 medium sized scallop and about 3 shrimps. That was a real disappointment for me, given its price, i'd expected alot more then the amount of ingredients used. As it was, it felt like i paid $17 for a biscuit with some seafood bits. To be fair, it tasted pretty good if not for the overly charred edges and the minimal ingredients. The cheese used was also of a higher grade then usual.

Helena ($17) - The star of the day was Helena, despite its charred edges as well. The pizza had grilled pesto chicken, bell peppers and tomato. The pesto chicken was well done and evenly distributed amount the pizza with the bell peppers providing a slight bite to it. With that said, it still felt too expensive for its price though.

Bill: The bill came up $79.20 for 6 people but it was my treat so it was actually just one person.

To be fair, the pizza's were really quite good. I like thin crusted pizzas and the wood firing gives it a crispy and earthly charm. However, giving the choice and budget, i would actually choose Il Piccolo instead of Spizza if the chance presents itself again. At the same price, i could have gotten much much more from Il Piccolo. As it is, the meal was satisfactory but i wont return due to the price quality ratio.