Pizza is love, pizza is life, but can they be works of art? Enter @lartepizzasg, which earned a fair bit of fanfare when it first opened. Of course, beer and pizza are like Romeo & Juliet, so it was no surprise that L’Arte collaborated with @urbanbeerfest during that wild weekend of drunken debauchery. Two slices of their Roman style pizza were priced at three tokens, which is about $10.80. Yessir, I was making good deals at Urban Beer Fest like prime Donald Trump.⠀
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They had three varieties of pizza available, and the most attractive one was their titillating Tartufata. L’Arte’s top secret pizza base is blanketed in mozzarella & parmesan, which is in turn topped by parma ham & ricotta cheese studded with little bits of truffle. As I’ve mentioned previously in prior pizza reviews, the pizza base is ultimately the most important component in a pizza. Here at L’Arte, it’s the undisputed rockstar. The crust is cracklingly crispy, but that crispness lasts all of two seconds before your teeth plunge into an abyss of airy, ethereally light dough for a few seconds before the gluten in the dough push back.⠀
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The result is an extraordinarily crisp crust that falls into a cloud like dough that pushes back only right at the very end of every bite. You get the satisfaction of briefly chewing through the pizza base, but it’s ultra light and you never run the risk of getting sick of it. The truffle ricotta is also sublime, with a subtle truffle aroma that grows the more you chew on it. There’s the perfect amount of cheese for a sexy cheesepull shot, and it makes for a charmingly cheesy pizza. Oh, and let’s not forget about that palatable parma ham, which made the entire pizza absolutely transcendent with its fatty, meaty charms.⠀
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Here at L’Arte, pizzas have ascended into being an art form. An ambrosial, amazing art form.