Today on Blonde Girl Meets World, I'm going to be talking about one of my favorite southern Connecticut pizza franchises: Colony Grill. If you like thin-crust pizza, then this is your place. Colony has a few locations in southern Connecticut: Stamford, Fairfield, and Milford.
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| Regular, non-gluten-free hot oil pizza from Colony Grill |
I recently have started a gluten free diet after struggling with stomach problems for a little bit over a year. Cutting out gluten has been the only solution to limit my chronic stomach pains, so as difficult as this transition has been, my digestive system has definitely thanked me for less discomfort.
On this gluten free adventure, I have slowly been taste testing my fair share of gluten free pizza. Some are really good... and others are barely edible. It kind of depends. One thing I have also noticed is that it may vary day to day. This has been an observation from my recent excursion to Colony Grill in Milford.
About a month ago my sister and her boyfriend took me there to taste test their gluten free pizza. With killer gluten-filled yumminess, I figured this would be my new favorite pizza joint, especially considering the extra $4.50 per pie. The pizza I was given was flaky and gross. I was highly disappointed, but dutifully ate my leftovers for breakfast and lunch the next day, hoping that overnight it may have improved. It didn't.
I left that experience with my head held pretty low. However, it is a tradition that I get a hot oil Colony pie for lunch on the day of the Oyster Festival in Milford every summer. This past weekend I found myself yearning to try their gluten free pizza again, if not only for the sake of tradition. I told myself I would suffer through too-thin, flaky pizza if it meant having the great flavors of the toppings that Colony always supplies.
After much salivation over the passing pizzas, I was finally given a thick-crusted gluten-free hot oil pizza. Did I actually just write the words thick-crusted in a Colony pizza blog?! Well, thick-crusted for a Colony pizza that is. My stomach thought before my brain did, and I dug into the beautiful pizza before I could photograph my tray. But my taste buds exploded into deep pleasure when I bit into this heavenly creation.
This was nothing like the last pizza I had had at Colony. It was slightly under-cooked, which I personally found to work best for the pie, and it did not flake on the bottom at all. This was like a totally different recipe than I had experienced a mere month ago. The crust was strangely sweet, but they totally pulled it off, and there was just enough hot oil on the pizza to add a phenomenal flavor to it.
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| Leftovers out of the refrigerator |
I took back my leftovers and happily ate a slice for my dinner that night as well. As you can see, this pizza looks very similar to how a normal refrigerated pizza looks. It reheats pretty well for pizza when put in the toaster oven. When reheating pizza I create a make-shift tray from aluminum foil, since I can't put my pizza straight onto the rack like my family does with their evil, gluten-filled food products, (I'm only kidding, gluten, no hard feelings).
The next night I ate the last two slices, pictured above, but had a less than thrilling experience that time around. I am a pizza folder, and as soon as I tried to fold my reheated slices, they completely fell apart. I'm talking down the middle and side to side, it was a mess! Although I may have needed to reheat it a bit longer...
I will have to try Colony's gluten free for a third time to see what the common trend is, but I may ask for the pie to be a bit under-cooked if that is the answer to my Colony woes.
Until next time!
Abby
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