Little Star Pizza

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It's actually been about a month since we visited Little Star so this review may be a bit imprecise. In brief, we had a Groupon so our goal was to hit a certain dollar amount as closely as possible. We ordered two personal pizzas and garlic bread. Let's talk about the garlic bread first while Lady Steed runs off to see if she remembers where she put the just-recovered receipt.

Garlic bread

Surprisingly boring. The plating was great. Bread sliced through to the bottom crust (maybe a third of a loaf or half of a small loaf) and then near-liquid butter and a head of roasted garlic. So it was fun to take a knife and spread the butter and pop out the garlic cloves and spread them over the toasted bread, but, sadly, the overall taste effect was disappointing. Sounds great though, right? Order it and you'll see it and think delicious (I did; Lady Steed was more appalled by the amount of bread). But we almost didn't finish. If the pizza had come out quicker, we wouldn't have. Lady Steed stopped eating it well before I did.

And we're bigtime garlic aficionados!

$5

Deep-dish personal pizza

Don't quite remember what was on this. Artichoke hearts? Olives? I think it was Greek-themed. Let's see if their website will help out.

Found it!

Mediterranean Chicken – Chicken breast, artichoke hearts, red bells, green olives, onions, feta $18.50 / $23.50

For $18.50? Crazy. A nice pizza. I'm a little mystified at the awards they win. I mean --- it was good but the best of the Bay? And twenty bucks for something so tiny? Were it not for the Groupon, I would feel robbed. Lady Steed feels robbed anyway.

White Pie – Garlic olive oil base, mozzarella, roasted zucchini, fresh tomatoes, feta $17.50 / $22 (actually ten dollars because we went at lunch)

Here's the thing. The ingredients were fresh, the pizzas were good. But we didn't leave feeling like it was money well spent. Unlike, say Chez Panisse, which was much more expensive, but transcendent and worthy of the outlay.

Conclusion

So if you're a pizza snob and need to try them all cost-no-object, then definitely go. It's good. If you hate being bled, perhaps you should stay away.

The space is cool, service was great, pizza was good, garlic bread was weak, all a bit expensive.

I don't think we'll be back.

Too bad.