Review of a Slice of Pizza at Miseno II Pizzeria & Italian in Carlisle, PA

The Mission

I tried a slice of plain cheese pizza at every traditional pizza shop the Carlisle, Pennsylvania on a mission to find the best slice of pizza in Carlisle. I could eat pizza almost every meal of the day, it’s definitely one of my top favorite foods without question. And when I get pizza, I usually just get a few plain cheese slices from a traditional pizza shop nearby. Nothing fancy. But I am a bit picky about my slices. And since I live in Carlisle now, so I gotta know where the best slice is! Here’s my review of a slice from Miseno II Pizzeria & Italian…

(Image Note: Taken after I added red pepper flakes and black pepper.)

Even Playing Field

I made sure to visit each pizza shop either around 12:00PM noon or around 5:00PM/6:00PM when they should have a good fresh slice pie ready that hasn’t been sitting around for a while. This puts them on even playing fields and gives them the best shot at giving me a good representation of their slices. It also gives me the opportunity to see how the service is when they are a bit more busy. And I do not let them know I am doing a review, so they are not doing anything special or better because of that.

My Bias

Full disclosure, I’m a sauce guy. I need enough sauce and it needs to have some tang and/or sweetness and good flavor, or I won’t like it. And I don’t like a crazy amount of cheese, so places that make slices like that, immediately have a disadvantage in my ratings. If you like tons of cheese and don’t care about the sauce, then you could probably go by the opposite of my ratings.

Notes

Price Per Slice (including tax): $2.12
Day of the Week: Thursday
Time: 5:02PM – Medium Busy – felt like their rush was starting
Order: 2 slices of plain cheese pizza
Wait time after ordering: 4 min 58 sec – Quick. Good system.
Dining room: Good amount of dine-in seating. Clean. Beer/six packs, etc. Self-serve fountain soda. TV’s. No music or tv sound.
Parking: Plenty. Large free parking lot.
One of my slices (the one on the right in the images) had a whole portion of the slice (approximately 1/3) that really didn’t have any crust or very little crust under the cheese and was hard to handle and eat because of it. And since I’m a sauce and crust guy, having cheese only for that portion of that slice was not enjoyable for me.

Rating

on a scale of 1 to 10

Cheese: 7 – average/good – Fine, but too much of it for my taste.
Sauce: 5 – below average – None too taste. Too much cheese and no sauce. The tiny bit I was able to taste wasn’t bad, so if ratio was better, I’d like it more.
Sauce to Cheese Ratio: 5 – below average – Too much cheese and not enough sauce for my taste.
Crust: 6 – slightly below average – A bit flat and not as much puff as others.
Size: 7 – average/good
Service: 9 – above average – Quickly greeted. One person took my order and put slices immediately in the oven, and another rang me up simultaneously. Can tell they have a good system. Also brought my slices over to me at the table I was waiting at instead of just yelling “two slices!”…nice extra touch.
Facility: 8 – slightly above average – Nice stand alone property near Dickinson. Well kept and clean.
Total: 47 (out of a possible 70) = 6.71 stars (out of a possible 10)
Slice Only Total: 30 (out of a possible 50) = 6.0 stars (out of a possible 10)

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(Image Note: Taken after I added red pepper flakes and black pepper.)