Choice Cuts Goods + Coffee

Seafood pizza is pretty common, but clams alone on pizza? That’s a little more rare, but @choicecutsgoods does it at $13 a slice. Their Clams Casino has clams sautéed in white wine along with garlic, onions, peperoncino (capsicums) on top of the thin crust pizza and the housemade marinara. I was expecting it to be a Boston white clam pie, but nope, it was clams on a base of marinara instead. It reminds me of seafood marinara, albeit with only clams and with pizza instead of pasta.
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The Clams Casino is definitely a milder flavoured pizza, even occasionally bordering on sweet. Sautéing the clams adds a subtle sweetness to it, and the roasted peppers & onions add even more sweetness to the savoury pizza. There’s a lot of onions on this pizza, so onion haters might wanna give this one a miss.⠀
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Still, I quite enjoyed this sweet & savoury Clams Casino, and you too could get lucky with a slice of this pie.

@choicecutsgoods have been banging out bagels and spinning up vinyls in Joo Chiat for years, but pizzas are a new frontier from them. The bossman, Dre, is besotted with New York, so he decided to create a slice of the Big Apple complete with pizzas right here in Singapore. The pizzeria definitely does channel some NYC vibes, especially with the shallow, standing only counters on the wall.⠀
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All the New York style pizzas here are eighteen inch whoppers divided into six slices, so each slice of pie is pretty hefty. Choice Cuts has six staple pizzas and one special on rotation, and the special that day happened to be the Big Poppa ($14 a slice). Pepperoni, fennel sausage & bacon adorn the tremendously thin crust pizza for that ultra meaty satisfaction, and the Big Poppa is big on satisfaction alright.⠀
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The dough base for the pizza was truly impressive, as it managed to achieve balance. The crust was thin yet satiating, it was crisp yet soft, and it was neither dry nor soggy. The rim of the crust was the most intriguing part, as it was light and riddled with air pockets, yet it was supremely crunchy and rigid like a good cracker. The pizza dough is baked till an almost uniform golden brown as opposed to the usual spots of charred dough you’d get elsewhere.⠀
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The tomato sauce on the pizza was decent, albeit unremarkable, and I was expecting more cheese on the pizza, perhaps due to expectations that came from Youtube food shows & Man vs Food back in the day. Still, the melted cheese here is sufficient, but the simple yet stellar toppings really stole the show. The pork pepperoni was splendidly salty, slightly spicy & herby, while the fantastic fennel sausage was the winner with it’s juicy, fennel-infused meatiness. And of course, the smoky bacon made it even better. But wait, you even get a couple of basil leaves as garnish to cut through all the rich, cheesy & meaty elements with it’s pleasantly pungent aromas!⠀
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Choice Cuts got some choice slices on deck, so make your way down to this quaint lil joint to get your cut of the pie.

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The girl at the front desk was not approachable, did not offer to take our order even though we were standing infront of the cashier , and she stood infront of us and stared, we had to ask if she could take our order and she replied yeah?? 🙃🙃

Would not go back there.

There are other bagel stores around that has competitive prices with friendly staff🙄

served all day err day, my only choice

(smoked salmon dill cream cheese bagel $13)

- rude service staff. girl at the cashier was talking on the phone while trying to take my order. then she left halfway while taking my order without saying anything, she just walked off……..
- waited more than THIRTY FIVE MINUTES for our order. we weren’t told that we would have to wait that long beforehand.. and there are no seats in the place either, so we stood the whole entire time. we were only the second in line and the place wasn’t crowded at all but we waited SO LONG because they were very slow and inefficient. only ONE girl was preparing all the orders and the other girl was talking on the phone, walking around.
- no apology given whatsoever from start to end. ridiculous. no explanation or apology was given, extremely unprofessional.
- a poor couple came in shortly after us and they had ordered grab pick up. when we got our order 35 minutes later, they hadn’t even started on the couple’s order. the rude girl even told them that there are still many orders before theirs. unbelievable
- the bagels themselves were actually quite delicious. otherwise this review would be 0 stars not 1 star lol