Monday, December 2, 2024

Vinnie's Brick Oven Pan Pizza

 


Located at 61 Main Street in Millburn, Vinnie’s Brick Oven Pan Pizza offers pizza and Italian dishes. It is open from 11-8 Sunday and Tuesday-Thursday, 11-9 Saturday and Sunday, and closed on Monday. Online ordering is available.

 

I promised my wife that we would find good pizza during a trip to New Jersey, and after a bit of searching, Vinnie’s seemed like it would be able to deliver. It’s a small spot – two tables inside, two tables outside – but the stacks of empty pizza boxes mark it as a popular one. They do sixteen-inch pies here (sorry, no slices) as well as sandwiches, pastas, and wings. After describing what we were looking for in a pizza, the young man at the counter suggested the Gramps (sweet Italian sausage, hot cherry pepper, and onions) with olives added, and we were sold.

 


Fifteen minutes later, we were digging into a glorious pie. The crust was thin without being floppy or greasy. The sauce and cheese were both high quality. The peppers added a nice burst of heat. Cheap it was not (upper $20s after the additional topping), but there are some things you can’t put a price on, and a sublimely delicious pizza is one of them.

 

Truthfully, I’m not back up North often enough to say how well Vinnie’s stacks up against other Union County pizza options (I grew up on Cioffi’s), but compared to much of what I’m used to in the Tarheel State (where good pizza is good often by virtue of innovative toppings), it more than holds its own.


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