Dominican Plantain Pizza

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jenmar237

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RDKNIGHT said:
agree 100% better off making your own .... you can get hormel pepperino at supr pola Mutti pizza sauce and some flat breads and your good to go.. try Garlic or onion flat breads adds a little more taste.. with some pollo mozz
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Yeah but it's nice to go out and enjoy fine dining every now and then. Telling ppl they can make everything at home as is common on here to me is pointless. If that were the case restaurants wouldn't exist.
 
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Don PISTOLAS

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jenmar237 said:
I have to chuckle at some of the things I read on here at times and I wonder just how isolated some of you appear to live in DR. You can get delicious, authentic italian pizza in DR at Italian-owned establishments, all or most of these places are easily found on social media or are in easily accessible neighborhoods in SD, Santiago and other major tourist areas like PC.

Quite a few of you need to get out a little more or get with the times and use more social media, at least to follow or learn about the many fine dining options available in DR.
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If you know of any authentic Italian pizza in Santiago , I am all ears. Monchi pizza has seem to fall off. Ny 212 pizza is still pretty good. However, not authentic Italian owned pizza. Only place I have had good auhentic Italian owned pizza was in sosua And Boca chica.

The "foodie" scene is Santiago is Bustling!! I eat out several time a week and have found some real gems bc of Social media. I have also found the success rate is 50/50 at best. Someplaces are very over rated. Especially when making American style food. Wings, pizza, burgers ect. The food truck scene is very cool!!
 
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Don PISTOLAS

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There is even a restaurant in Santiago opened by a Michelin star chef. I believe the only one in the country. Although he is not doing the actual cooking. The decour of the restaurant is beautiful!
 
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Don PISTOLAS

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Ny 212 pizza is actually opening a new location across the street from the monument. I guess business is good!
 
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jeb321

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Sounds horrible, like mostly anything dominicans do concerning food. Pizza is Pizza, good dough, good red sauce, excellent mozzarella. None of which I am yet aware of anywhere here. Dominicans have never heard "less is more". Cmon now.
 
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jeb321

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SKY said:
Anyone looking for real Italian Pizza in Punta Cana, Bavaro area only need to go Punta Italia just past the San Juan Mall on the way towards Barcelo Hotels. Brick oven, Italian owned and ran by two guys from Trieste in Italy.

And you will never beat the price they charge anywhere or any chain.
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It is ok. The cheese on top however not so. But their pasta with white sauce and their linguini vongole good. Red sauce not very good. Lasagna we did not enjoy. Punta Italia is like the only option in punta cana for italian that we have found. Though Venezia pizza better than the other joints. Sorry we find dominicans just do not "do" italian food. There are no quality products to help though. You can say what you will but the food scene here is not happening. Sad! When Hunts tomato sauce with everything in there except just plain tomato sauce is only sauce offered other than the awful dominican products that is what happens. Awful tastes that dominicans are just used to. People with discerning tastes who have had the good fortune of enjoying real italian cooking have much difficulty eating this cheap stuff. Sorry but true. We have noticed Nacional offering less and less overseas oroducts and offering mainly dominican products. We Understand this is DR and managements want to push their own products but those who love to cook, own restaurants and who love to eat suffer from very inferior food products.
 
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jeb321

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No upstanding born and bred Brooklynite would ever abide by this? You've been there? This sounds truly disgusting as only an outsider could describe. A brooklyn italian would need to pay a visit and comment on (hard to even write) dominican pizza.
 
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jeb321

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AlterEgo said:
Haha! No chance. I’m related to the original owner of Patsy’s Pizzeria on First Ave & 117th. Gives me irrevocable status. Also means I know good pizza.

I’m just open minded :)
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Yea for Patsy's,
 
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jeb321

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jenmar237 said:
I have to chuckle at some of the things I read on here at times and I wonder just how isolated some of you appear to live in DR. You can get delicious, authentic italian pizza in DR at Italian-owned establishments, all or most of these places are easily found on social media or are in easily accessible neighborhoods in SD, Santiago and other major tourist areas like PC.

Quite a few of you need to get out a little more or get with the times and use more social media, at least to follow or learn about the many fine dining options available in DR.
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Sorry just not so. The authentic oroducts, i.e cheese, flour not found in this country. So you get the dominican version of authentic italian puzza.
 
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Fulano2

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jeb321 said:
Sorry just not so. The authentic oroducts, i.e cheese, flour not found in this country. So you get the dominican version of authentic italian puzza.
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That 's the point. The right flour to start with. Another problem is the humid climate. That's one of the reasons why you hardly find French style baguettes, crispy and "airy". When very fresh, Jeanette's bread comes close, but at the time you get home it is gone....the plastic bags. I gave the guy in charge some suggestions about paper bags, but nothing happens.
In Rio San Juan Marco has good bread sometimes, from PP he says.
 
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AlterEgo

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Fulano2 said:
That 's the point. The right flour to start with. Another problem is the humid climate. That's one of the reasons why you hardly find French style baguettes, crispy and "airy". When very fresh, Jeanette's bread comes close, but at the time you get home it is gone....the plastic bags. I gave the guy in charge some suggestions about paper bags, but nothing happens.
In Rio San Juan Marco has good bread sometimes, from PP he says.
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The best bread I’ve had in the DR is at Tipico Bonao. Was so good that we bought some to take with us. I didn’t ask, but they must make their own.
 
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RDKNIGHT

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jenmar237 said:
Yeah but it's nice to go out and enjoy fine dining every now and then. Telling ppl they can make everything at home as is common on here to me is pointless. If that were the case restaurants wouldn't exist.
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hmmmmmmmmm ...... pointless ,,
 
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dv8

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jeb321 said:
Dominicans have never heard "less is more". Cmon now.
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sadly, very true when pizza is concerned. little sauce and cheese goes a long way. but the tendency here is to dump as much stuff on the dough as possible, from copious amount of sauce to ingredients overload, all smothered in large amount of cheap oil.
 
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Dr_Taylor

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SKY said:
Anyone looking for real Italian Pizza in Punta Cana, Bavaro area only need to go Punta Italia just past the San Juan Mall on the way towards Barcelo Hotels. Brick oven, Italian owned and ran by two guys from Trieste in Italy.

And you will never beat the price they charge anywhere or any chain.
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Recently, I had lunch there while in the area. Yes, Sky called it. The pizza is great and contains just the right amount of cheese. Now, of course, I avoided the varieties with corn. If I had a black, felt marker, I would have been tempted to line through those. In any event, the pizza was good. The Italian dishes that I saw impressed as well, and the prices were reasonable. I paid less than RD$900 for a pizza (really for two with eight slices), a refresco (thick and NOT watered down), and a good piece of tiramisu. Moreover, the tiramisu was the best that I had in years. Only the old Italian bakery in South Philadelphia tops it. When I say Italian bakery, I mean the one with the band in the front of the store and the old black and white marble floors. Whoops, I am dating myself.
 
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Commander Ooh La La, USN

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Caonabo said:
It seems as it has been the North American crowds who have been requesting more "fast food" alternatives close to tourist locales rather than the RD populace.
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Dont think so.
Simply people looking for an opportunity to do "big business" getting a international franchise here. Dominicans think everything American is better so they would flock to places selling "authentic" American food. I agree with others franchise pizza is garbage. I cant eat it anymore anyway. Have you seen the sodium levels in that stuff? That will kill you literally.
The only Dominicans that would ever badmouth those places is because they cant afford to eat there.

BTW, best pizza in NYC is on 21st St and 35th Ave in Astoria. Little place called Nina's Pizzeria. Next to the chinese food place and a dry cleaner. She, the owner, is a BIG Telly Savalas fan.

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Commander Ooh La La, USN

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Don PISTOLAS said:
Not one American Fast food chain in sosua or cabarette. Santiago is flush with them. Anytime I am dragged to one, by my Dominican family, they are full of Dominicans. So its definitely Dominicans keeping them open.

I am however, looking foward to trying TGIFriday here. Shameful I know. But it is what it is.
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Tgifridays entire menu is imported from Miami in vacuum packed bags. So the quality control is there.
IMO when I went, the food was too salty but it would be the same in the US too.

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