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Lenny's Pizza and Pasta, Hillsborough, NJ

Date: 09/05/2016
Location: Hillsborough, NJ
Pizza Ordered: Margherita Slice and Grandma Slice
Website: www.lennyspizzaandpasta.com/hillsborough.html
Lenny's Pizza and Pasta is located in a small mall close to the Municipal Building in Hillsborough, NJ. The location seems small from the outside, but has a much more spacious interior. There are a wide variety of slices on display behind the counter, so the options are plentiful. I decided to go with the Grandma and Margherita, two of my favorites. The pizzeria has a fairly nice dining area if you choose to eat in and has different sized tables and booths to accommodate different crowd sizes.

The pizza itself looks very tasty, but wasn't very flavorful. Their margherita slice uses no sauce, only tomatoes, which is one style that I don't mind, but in order for that to work, the tomatoes have to be flavorful. The crust was dry and bland and the cheese left much to be desired. Even the spices added to the margherita slice didn't really provide. The grandma slice too lacked much flavor. Yes, there was adequate sauce and cheese, but no taste that stood out. When I do end up ranking all of the Hillsborough pizzerias, I doubt Lenny's will make it very high (even their plain pie, which I've eaten many times is not even close to Joe's or Victors). I suppose I can blame the lack of flavors on the fact that my slices were re-heated, though I hope that the fresh slices are much better than what I experienced.

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