Cappy’s Pizzeria Of Tampa Palms New Tampa’s Place For NY & Chicago-Style Pizza & More! By Gary Nager
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f you’re looking for truly authentic thin-crust New York or deep-dish Chicago-style pizza, Cappy’s Pizzeria, located in the City Plaza at Tampa Palms shopping center, may not necessarily be the best place for you. But, that doesn’t mean owner Harold Hasselback’s Cappy’s Pizzeria location (there are five total, including in Seminole Heights, Riverview, St. Petersburg and the original Cappy’s in South Tampa, which moved once; but this is the only location Hasselback owns) doesn’t have delicious pizza and awesome “big salads” (see below), it just means you have to have an open mind about crispy crusts (in both Cappy’s NY and Chicago-style ‘za), delicious red sauce, quality cheese and fresh, delicious meat and veggie toppings that can’t be pigeon-holed into being “just like anything other than Cappy’s style,” Hasselback told me on our office’s recent visit. “Some say our New York style is more Jersey style, but our customers really seem to love it.” But first, let’s start with the place itself. The Tampa Palms location is a somewhat more upscale-looking, but
Looking for delicious, but not too-thick Chicago deep-dish pizza (above and below)? Try Cappy’s Pizzeria in the City Plaza at Tampa Palms shopping center. Other favorite dishes shown on this page include (top to bottom) the large Greek & small tossed salads, the calzones and the delicious cheesebread.
still funky replica of the Seminole Heights location, where I first sampled Cappy’s Pizza myself about three years ago. Hasselback, who also worked at the original Cappy’s in Iowa more than 20 years ago, told me he was opening in Tampa Palms during one of those visits. The City Plaza location will be open two years next month, in the small (about 2,000 square feet) space which was, at one time, occupied by the original Tampa Palms Ciccio & Tony’s location.
‘The BIG Salads’
Let’s start with starters, shall we? If you’re like Elaine on the classic “Seinfeld” NBC-TV series, you’ll definitely want to try Managing partner Harold Hasselback gets “hands on” Cappy’s truly oversized salads. with a NY-style pizza at Cappy’s in Tampa Palms. Whether you choose the
Caesar, tossed or Greek salad at Cappy’s, I assure you that the “small” could feed two people for dinner if they ate nothing else, or at least four people as a normal side dish. The large salads are really family-sized, feeding at least 4-6 (or even 8) people each, depending upon how much other “stuff” each person also plans to eat. Our office favorite is definitely the Greek salad shown at the top of this
page. It’s got the usual iceberg lettuce, pepperoncinis, onions and black olives, all topped with a zesty, authentictasting Greek dressing, feta cheese and enough potato salad for two or more people to enjoy as its own side dish, in addition to your salad course. I did say they were big, right? I also really love the “small” tossed salad (also shown above), which is served with a mild Italian (not balsam-
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