Noto Pizza - St. Peters- 2-7-2020

Noto Pizza is a fairly new restaurant.  I think it has been open only a little over a month.  I didn't know this, but some of the women with me did...it used to be a bakery with awesome cinnamon rolls.  They discontinued all their baked goods and invested in a huge wood burning pizza oven.  Our waitress told me that tons of people still ask if they can get some of their specialty baked goods, but alas, no, they don't have the ovens any longer. This space is still the same building as the bakery.  They had started making pizzas in a food truck and decided to make the bakery into a pizza place.  It is not very big and they don't do take out.  The tables are tight and you need a reservation.

There were 4 of us.  So, we decided to get a bunch of different things and try them all.  We started with the meatball appetizer (4 meatballs in sauce) that comes with focaccia bread.  The meatballs were good.  They weren't heavy.  I'd say maybe they were made out of beef and veal with just enough bread crumbs to make them tender.  The sauce was good.  One meatball was a nice start.  A couple people got the simple Noto salad.  It is only $5, if you are ordering it with a pizza.  It has nice greens, peppers, artichokes, and kalamata olives and cheese in an Italian dressing.  It looked good and was a nice size.  I got the  Pomodoro soup.  The waitress said something about it having ricotta dumplings in it.  I didn't find any dumplings in mine.  It was a nice tomato soup with a little dolop of pesto in the middle.  There were a couple of pieces of what tasted like Parmesan cheese in it...but no dumplings.  It was good, but nothing great.  Not worth the $9 price. 


I had looked up the wine list off of people's photos on Yelp, as they don't give their full menu or wine menu on their website.  They just have a list of their pizzas.  I ended up getting a glass of Tenuta Santa Maria Rosso Pragal from Veneto, Italy.  It was very good...but when I asked for a 2nd glass...I think I accidentally was  given a different wine.  It wasn't as good.  Oh, well, I drank it anyway.  They were busy and it wasn't worth complaining. 

The pizzas...first let me say that the dough/crust was good.  Some people think they have this wonderful crust and it is just OK.  I'd say this crust was good.  Neapolitan pizza is all about the char and I'm not a big char fan.  Americans typically don't like that burnt taste.  They do a good job of only getting that char on some of the crust bubbles on the top of the pizza.  The bottom is done but not charred.  I appreciate that.

The 4 of us tried: 


The Palla (typical meatball pizza),









The Patata (prosciutto and salted potatoes),












The Sophia (figs, onion jam, Gorgonzola, prosciutto with arrugula with a balsamic glaze),










The Italiana (calebrese sausage, basil, and Parmesan cheese with fresh mozzarella). 







They were all good in their own way.  The potato one had the least flavor. 

They also have pastas on the menu, but based on the reviews I read, they aren't as good as the pizza. 

We liked our pizzas, but we said we aren't dying to come back.  It is a  fun place to try.  The pizza is good and different, but a little expensive.