Sometimes a place with wood-fired pizza gets good reviews. But, sometimes they don't.
A site called Pegasus News, News and Entertainment for DFW (probably meaning Dallas/Fort Worth), had a review that pretty much panned PaneVino Wood Fired Pizzeria, Allen, Texas.
The review says in part, "Fancy domed oven does not guarantee good pizza." (The domed oven comes from Renato, which is in Garland, Texas.)
If you visit this place yourself, let me know if you agree with the reviewer.
I'm an amateur chef, and I've baked my own pizza for the past fifteen years. Some of the best pizza I've had the pleasure of eating was at Chris Bianco's place in Phoenix. Of all the pizza places I've eaten at in the Dallas area, Pane Vino comes closer to Bianco's than any other place I've tried. There's a lot of snobbery when it comes to food, and there’s certainly no shortage of snobbery by food writers in the city of Dallas. It seems to me that if a pizza joint isn't a member of the Associazione Vera Pizza Napoletana, they've already got two strikes against them. To me, the VPN is just a marketing gimmick and a lot of BS. Seriously, if you want to be told exactly how you must make your pizza, maybe you should get rid of your wood-burning oven and apply for a Domino’s franchise. It's important to note that Bianco's place isn't a member of the VPN, and he unquestionably makes superb pizza. I feel that Pegasus News needs to get off their VPN "high horse" and revisit PaneVino again. Maybe this time they'll pay more attention to the pizza, and less attention as to whether or not a VPN certificate is hanging on the wall.
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