Last week my sister and I took my mom out for her birthday. I let my sister pick the restaurant, so, of course, we ended up at a place utterly outside my comfort zone lol. We went to Mimo in Houston's East End, which is an authentic Italian restaurant. This ain't no Olive Garden! It's true Italian-style..... the menu is mostly in all Italian (the wait staff spends quite a bit of time explaining it and translating it for you, which was kinda fun) and you get the appetizer, then first course of pasta, then second course of meat, then dessert. (It's also expensive as heck....which is something I wish I knew before we went.)
I don't dislike Italian food, but I've never been really big on pasta, so I elected to get a pizza instead of the two courses. I got the Finocchiona (which I pronounced correctly, to my utter shock), which is topped with fennel salumi, ricotta, mozzarella, zucchini, and rosemary. I was in the mood for something other than American Industrial Delivery Pizza so this seemed like a good choice.
And it was.
I really liked the crust. It's not a cracker crust, but it is thin and utterly crispy on the outside with just a little bit of pillowy dough on the inside, but just a little bit. It was perfect as I wasn't in the mood for something very bready.
The fennel salami was amazing. It was slightly thicker cut than what you'd get at the grocery store....more rustic/granular in texture, and drier. Good stuff. Only downside is that the salami had a hard time staying on the pizza; it wanted to slide off.
The ricotta/mozzarella mixture was good. It was very tangy, perhaps just a hair too tangy for my tastes, but a nice break from the typical tomato-based sauce. The thinly-sliced zucchini didn't add really any flavor that I could detect, but the color and texture contrasted well with the salami. The rosemary just rounded everything out and as I associate rosemary with steak dishes, gave the pizza a very savory vibe.
I don't know if it was worth $23, but it was a good pizza and I want to try to recreate it at home, especially that crust.
I don't dislike Italian food, but I've never been really big on pasta, so I elected to get a pizza instead of the two courses. I got the Finocchiona (which I pronounced correctly, to my utter shock), which is topped with fennel salumi, ricotta, mozzarella, zucchini, and rosemary. I was in the mood for something other than American Industrial Delivery Pizza so this seemed like a good choice.
And it was.
I really liked the crust. It's not a cracker crust, but it is thin and utterly crispy on the outside with just a little bit of pillowy dough on the inside, but just a little bit. It was perfect as I wasn't in the mood for something very bready.
The fennel salami was amazing. It was slightly thicker cut than what you'd get at the grocery store....more rustic/granular in texture, and drier. Good stuff. Only downside is that the salami had a hard time staying on the pizza; it wanted to slide off.
The ricotta/mozzarella mixture was good. It was very tangy, perhaps just a hair too tangy for my tastes, but a nice break from the typical tomato-based sauce. The thinly-sliced zucchini didn't add really any flavor that I could detect, but the color and texture contrasted well with the salami. The rosemary just rounded everything out and as I associate rosemary with steak dishes, gave the pizza a very savory vibe.
I don't know if it was worth $23, but it was a good pizza and I want to try to recreate it at home, especially that crust.
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