A week of club activities, never ending readings, and consuming labs was almost over. My roommate and I decided that it was time to seek real or at least edible food. After weighing our options we decided that we should go to Everybody’s so that we could each eat something that we both enjoyed. We arrived at 1 p.m. ignorant of the fact that it was the middle of lunch. Because of this, we were met with a crowded eatery. Overcome by hunger, we quickly glanced at the menu and made our choices. The specialized menu suggested that they put care into a few dishes, yet it was varied enough so that both meat eaters and vegetarians alike could find something to their taste. My lack of creativity prevented me from creating a personalized pizza and moved me towards choosing one of the signature pizzas. While waiting for the food to reach our table, which felt like an eternity due to hunger, I looked around the rustic restaurant.
An eclectic mix of artwork, road signs, and alcohol advertisement covered the walls, a mixture as diverse as the clientele. The simple table was set up with the usual processed parmesan and red pepper flakes in small glass shakers; however, Everybody’s had something that many others do not a glass bottle filled with olive oil. The smell of freshly baked crust, roasted chicken, and pesto was the first thing to hit me when my “Paradiso” pizza arrived in front of me. Being from Georgia it has always been difficult to find good pizza. The years of conditioning on the monotonous taste of mass-produced pizza made the pizza at Everybody’s that much better. It had a look about it that was rustic and yet carefully crafted a characteristic that alone set apart from any other pizza I had ever encountered.
My first bite of the delectable concoction was not met with the usual layer of grease that is a part of almost all delivery pizza. Instead I was met by all of the distinct flavors of the delicately constructed pizza that when combined provided a burst of flavor. After weeks of bland unseasoned food, even a simple food like pizza prepared well seemed like the best thing in the world. Since I have been trying new things, I decided to get something other than the usual tomato sauce based pizza and opted for a pesto-based one instead. As I ate my meal I was happily surprised that my decision allowed me to discover a new, and I must say better, flavor combination with the other ingredients in the meal. Though I did not have the traditional tomato sauce my pizza did not go without the tomato component of a traditional pizza. However, on my pizza it was found in a more intact form. The tomatoes were, sadly, my biggest regret when it came to the meal. The general sweetness that I associate with tomatoes was gone and all that was left was an acidity that overpowered all of the other ingredients on the plate. Even the onions on the dish, which were a relatively large amount, were very mild and crisp compared to the tomatoes.
Flavorful roasted chicken that alone was delicious was found all over the pizza like little mounds of flavor. Nothing is perfect and the same goes for the chicken that was at times dry, mainly where it was not coated with some of the four cheeses that covered the pie. The cheese is one of the components that I thought was going to be overpowering when I was deciding what to order. Although there was a lot of cheese they were not strong and worked well together on the pizza. The excessive amount of cheese on the pizza served as edible glue holding the entire pizza together. Despite the amount of large toppings on the pizza it was surprisingly structurally sound. The fact that everything did not fall off the pizza after one bite shows how much thought and care was put into the food. The large portions, welcoming environment, good prices, about 12 dollars with a soft drink, and wonderful flavor will make me come back to this restaurant.
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