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by Todd SouTh
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Manager Shawn Roe, sous chef Mickey Woomer and Angelo Lugo present Bru-Go’s Braveheart pizza and chicken gorgonzola salad. PHOTO/ALLISON YOUNG
Thirty minutes post-wings it was pizza time. The Big Combo was a classic mix of pepperoni, Chicago-style Italian sausage, red onion, bell pepper, mushroom, black In the last three years, I’ve written a lot olive, mozzarella and roasted red sauce. I’m of words about pizza—pizzas from diners, not sure what was roasted, but the sauce pizzas at coffee shops, pizzas in bars, pizza was every bit as tasty as the wing sauce. from food trucks, and pies from traditional The crust was thick but not too bready, with pizzerias. The best always start with a chera nicely crisped foundation—perfect for ished family recipe or two, and Bru-Go’s holding up all of those ingredients. Pizza Co. is just such a place. Joe’s Sicilian Meatball Pizza featured The shop is cozy, with indoor seating the same nice crust, with that great red for perhaps 30 and more seating on the sauce, mozzarella, red onion, bell pepper patio. The decor is fairly modern, with and mushroom. The meatballs are a recipe rough-hewn rock textures and a series of of Joe’s Sicilian grandmother. Grandma paintings color-coordinated with the light apparently knew her way around a fixtures. Classic rock house music was meatball. They had nice flavor and texture, competing with hip-hop jams coming from neither tough nor too squishy. the kitchen, a distraction from the otherwise The name alone drew me into ordering pleasant atmosphere. Halfway through our the Finding Nemo Scampi Pizza, with visit someone realized this was a mashup sundried tomato, artichoke heart, roasted made in hell and sacrificed the sounds of garlic, asiago and mozzarella cheeses, the ’70s for the chef’s favorite jams. creamy garlic white sauce, and itty-bitty Notified that chicken wings ($11.95 garlic butter sauteed for 12) take a while, shrimp, all atop a my wife put in an order crispy thin crust. right after being seated. 3228 N. Carson St., Carson City, 430-4605 The tomato was I arrived about 20 Bru-Go’s Pizza is open Monday and Tuesday 4 to candy sweet, but the minutes later—perused 9 p.m. and Wednesday through Saturday 11 a.m. combination with the menu for another to 9 p.m. the savory flavors 10—and put in an order worked surprisingly for a set of six-inch well. Shrimpy goodness. personal pizzas ($11.95 each) so we could The Cefalu pizza—named for a coastal sample a few of the house specialties. town in Sicily—is from yet another family The wings showed up 10 minutes later. recipe. Olive oil and Parmesan cheese are The wings were definitely baked, which worked into dough that is then rolled quite at least partly explains the 40-minute wait. thin. It’s with a sparse amount of onion, Deep-fried wings require a third of the time tomato, garlic, pesto and sauteed bits of and—I believe—are superior in texture and mushroom. Despite the lack of much on flavor, but I will say these were about as top, it’s definitely worth repeating. good as baked wings are ever going to be. There are salads and sandwiches and They were cooked through and not overly other stuff on the menu, too, and I’m mushy or rubbery. Definitely not a standard definitely planning a return visit to try their “Buffalo” sauce, this ample bath of spicirotolo baked sandwiches. I’ll just know to ness had hints of garlic and oregano mixed bring a book next time—and perhaps some in with a nice amount of salt and was headphones. Ω finished with the perfect amount of kick.
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