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Marisa's Place, Guilderland, NY

At a recent party full of Brooklyn transplants the conversation devolved, as it always does when you put a bunch of Brooklyn transplants in the same room around meal time, to talk of pizza. They huddled like expats and whimsied on about crust and cheese while trading phone numbers of the takeout place they’ve found that really isn’t Brooklyn but will suffice in a pinch.

Well, I’ve been collecting phone numbers and trying various spots, but I haven’t turned up anything I felt was worth mentioning here. Until now.

How I heard about Marisa’s Place is its own story. I was standing in the entrance of a Japanese restaurant waiting for my takeout order and, as is the way of things, fell in to conversation with the woman standing next to me. She had just moved to the Albany area from downstate and was eager to find places to go. Real Chinese food? That wasn’t so hard, I recommended CCK. And so we bantered back and forth until our food came. I handed her the address for Celinabean, and we went our separate ways.

The Florentine pizza from Marisa's Place

And then, several weeks later, a gift. She writes in to Celinabean and says she loved CCK and she wants to recommend a little pizza spot tucked in to a nondescript strip mall in Guilderland. OK, I was game.

I took the family last night. I can’t give a full overview or vouch for everything on the menu, but the visit was a good start. We tried the Florentine pizza with mozzarella, spinach, fresh garlic, artichokes, fresh tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, olive oil and fresh basil. It was billed as a personal specialty pizza for $10.95, but I couldn’t finish half of it. The crust was very thin and toppings were great.

My son gave “two big thumbs up” to the sausage pizza, which had paper thin slices of sausage sprinkled all over it.

We haven’t tried the pizza as takeout, which really is a different experience.

More about Marisa’s Place later, but I wanted to give you a heads up.

Details:
Marisa’s Place
5 Schuyler Plaza
Route 20 and 155
Guilderland, NY

Phone: 464-9900

They don’t deliver

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posted October 2, 2008 | link | comments (4)

filed under: Places, Albany area, Guilderland, Marisa's Place, NY, pizza

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Comments

i made that salad.hahahahaha

- by alfredo on Oct 8, 2008 at 12:09 AM | link

Brooklynite-approved! Probably the best we have tried in the Capital Region, due to the superb crust-consistency. (In our opinion, it could use a tiny bit more tomato sauce, but still the best we have tasted outside of Brooklyn.) Thanks for letting us know about it!

- by The Taste Testers on Oct 10, 2008 at 1:14 PM | link

I agree with The Taste Testers about the need for more tomato sauce. I stopped by and had a slice of the plain cheese pizza last night and while the crust was superbly crisp (not greasy, doughy, or soggy), the lack of tomato flavor does not put this pizza in the "best" category for local 'za.

- by chrisck on Oct 21, 2008 at 12:36 PM | link

We would like to thank Celina for adding our pizzeria to her site. We would also like to thank all of our customers! We appreciate the comments. We try to make our pizza with just the right amount of sauce and toppings to satisfy everyone. Not too much but not too little. Of course we will always strive to make your pizza just how you like so don't hesitate to ask for more or less sauce.
Thanks again from the Musumeci Family ~ Marisa's Place

- by Musumeci Family on Nov 3, 2008 at 2:18 PM | link

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