World's largest slice

For dinner yesterday, we wanted pizza. Filippo's On First was closed, so we decided that we would finally try Benny Tudino's on Washington avenue in Hoboken. Benny Tudino's is known for their huge slices of pizza and has been around since 1969, they even have their name imbedded on the sidewalk in front of their store.
Walking into the place, I immediately looked over the counter where the pizzas were because I wanted to see how big their slices were and they are gigantic! Probably double the size of any pizza I have tried. He ordered 2 plain cheese slices from 1 of the 3 guys behind the counter. Looking around the place was pretty busy, they had all their seats in the elevated back seating area full, so we sat in one of the booths by the counter.
The guy gave us our slices and I was ready to dig in. I like my pizzas with oregano and crushed red peppers, but wanted to try their pizza without it first. After a few bites, I added the oregano and the red peppers, tried it again and I was disappointed. It reminded me of pizzas I have had along the Jersey shore.. not that they were all bad but most were. The cheese was hard, the sauce was tasteless, and the crust was just bad. The top layer started separating from the crust as the pizza got cold, it took a while for me to eat mine and I didn't finish the slice. On the wall where our booth was, there were several years of Zagat's best awards (I think one of them was '1 of the 5 best pizzerias'), from what I saw they ran from 2001 till 2005. I couldn't believe one of the awards actually mentioned 'soft, chewy'. Being born in NYC and raised in the lower east side with pizzerias on every corner and living right next to little Italy, hanging out in Brooklyn since I was 14, I know pizzas shouldn't be soft or chewy, unless you're having a L&B square, which is soft but definitely not chewy. This is why we came up with this idea of blogging our food experiences. Maybe what we tried was a bad batch, but it was just not my type of slice and it’ll be a while before I give them a second try. It’s definitely a good place to go if you’re strapped for cash and hungry, they really have huge slices and SK paid about 5 bucks for 2 slices.

My score for Benny's is 2 cereal boxes.

Enjoy! AG