Delucia's Brick Oven Pizza

CUISINE - PIZZA

3 1st Ave, Raritan, NJ 08869 | WEBSITE | (908) 725-1322

We had been eyeing up DeLucia’s Brick Oven Pizza for a while and then…

In the midst of a Tsunami resulting from Dave Portnoy’s 9.4 rating of DeLucia's Brick Oven Pizza, I was able to secure a coveted order at 11am this morning for pick up this evening at 5:45 pm. Folks that were showing up without an order were being told that they were sold out until Tuesday!…..the good news is that there is never a bad time for pizza, so planning (days) ahead isn’t really a problem now, is it? It isn’t when the pizza is this stellar; this epic.

Their brick oven is over 100 years old and was manufactured by the same company as the more nationally discussed Frank Pepe’s in New Haven, Ct. in fact the serial numbers differ by just a few tics. Pepe’s is number 4 and I don’t remember (and my photo of the number at Delucia’s didn’t come out clearly) if Delucia’s is lower or higher than Pepe’s.

Fresh out of the oven, the undercarriage, as Portnoy pointed out, was stunning and the slice had “zero flop” I always fire up my oven before I leave home to pick up pizza and I ALWAYS ask for my pies to be uncut so that I can toss it in the oven to regain the crisp that inevitably diminishes as it steams in the box on the ride home.

I ordered a large plain, a large Bacon and Onion, and a one size fits all Cauliflower crust with Pepperoni for my gluten sensitive girlfriend. Great sauce with a pleasant tang, high quality Mozzarella and toppings, a hand thrown crust and the oven in which they were cooked in make Delucia’s Pizza worthy of a 9.4 rating.

Drool over these photos, then call ahead for next week. You can thank me later!