In their place there is a moussaka drizzled with truffle oil and a grilled loin of lamb whose sun-dried-tomato crust momentarily evokes veal pomodoro.
Each dish, from the black-pepper-seared sea scallops ($12) to the goat cheese tart with tomato polenta crust ($9) was excellent.
General Mills, maker of the Totino's and Jeno's brands of pizzas, would prefer not to whip up a thousand combinations of mozzarella cheese, tomato paste, crust and chemicals and blast them with microwave radiation.
It had a very thin crisp crust, tomato sauce and cheese.
Pizza Crust (Tomato paste included if possible) if you are willing to experiment with only dollar store ingredients.
The Upperline crew decided the red rem, with its spicier, tomato-based sauce would be the better match for the tomatoes' crisp cornmeal crust and acidic nature.
It all began in 1925 when baker Frank Pepe started making thin-crust "tomato pies" in a coke-fired oven at his eponymous restaurant, Frank Pepe at 157 Wooster Street.
If every country is a pizza, then I went from thick crust, tomatoes and cheese to thin crust and minced meat this past September when I left America to spend the school year as an exchange student in Turkey.
Popular dishes Terrine of confit duck and apricots, watercress and hazelnut salad; roast halibut fillet, crushed new potatoes, tomato compote, soft herb crust, creamed leeks, butter sauce.
Entrees are grilled salmon in lemon butter sauce; roast breast of chicken with herbal crust and tomato compote; and sauteed calf's liver with a balsamic vinaigrette jus.
But Figs, like almost every other concession in the central terminal, closes at 8 p.m., so only those with early flights can sample the lovely pizza bianco — fresh mozzarella, arugula lightly dressed in balsamic vinegar, and sweet tomato slices on a crust rich with olive oil — and the awkward, unconcerned service.
