Calling all pizza whores! Calling all pizza whores! There’s a ton of you sluts out there and you know who you are. I’ve struck gold. It’s time for you to drop what your doing and spread it wide open, your mouth that is. I’ve been living on this bountiful island for 8 months now and have been to a good handful of pizza joints. Off the top of my head, Antonio’s NY Pizzeria, Bostons North End Pizza Bakery, Spaghettini, Round Table, Buca Di Beppo, California Pizza Kitchen and Costco. Is Costco a pizza joint? No, but they probably put out more pizza than all of them combined, being in the bulk industry and all. In my professional opinion L.A. Pizza Rina makes the pizza pie that’s supreme of them all.
The inside is a pretty basic joint. See that lady in the red, she was our waitress and I think her husband was the cook in the back wearing red as well. I don’t know if they were the owners or not, but I’m quite certain they were Chinese. All I’m saying is that the Chinese are taking over everything, even pizza joints in Hawaii.
We decided to share a spaghetti with 2 meat balls , $7.00. and a pizza pie. The spaghetti came with garlic bread. First, I want to apologize for the picture. The sensor on my canon was off so I had to make due. Fortunately I went to Canon and got it fixed yesterday. As we all know, spaghetti isn’t rocket science, yet, so many places still manage to fuck it up. This wasn’t one of them. If I had to rate it I would give it a 8/10. The taste was right on. The sauce tasted really sweet, not like they added sugar to it, but like the tomatoes were really sweet and fresh. I loved the way it tasted. However, if your like my little sister, and freak out at the sight of grease, then order a salad, or sub instead. You can’t really tell by the picture because the camera wouldn’t focus, but there was an unnecessary amount of grease that came with the spaghetti. The meat balls were nothing special.
I know this garlic bread looks boring, but I enjoyed it. I know most of you will disagree with me when I say this but I think most places spread way too much garlic butter on bread these days. The bread comes out salty and soggy soaked with fat. Yuck! This way nicely toasted and buttered.
Drum roll please . . .
And here is the moment you all been waiting for. I’m not a pizza whore, but just looking at this picture brings back fond memories of me pulling the stringy cheese off the end of the pizza, tilting my head back, spreading my mouth wide open as I slowly lowering the cheese, sacrificing it to the hungry Goddess. She is pleased, no heart burn for me today. This picture doesn’t serve it justice. the cheese was hot and perfectly melted. It was the kind where every bite left you connected with a string of cheese that led from your mouth to the end of the pizza.
My only complaint is that the toppings were scarce. Oh, by the way we ordered a Two Topping Medium Pizza, 14″ for $13.00. There was like 3 pieces of meat on each slice, but the pieces of meat, oh boy! I mean, just look at the meat on the pizza, that’s what real sausage on pizza should look like, not the puny little slices, but nice hearty chunks.
There you have it, another great find. Lunch cost us 8 bucks each and we had two slices left over. If I had to do it again, I would add an extra topping of sausage and mushroom for .60 cents each. That would of been fucking amazing and I would of been complete.
L.A. Pizza Rina
1425 South King Street
Honolulu, HI 96814
(808) 941-6634
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October 17th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
We were just talking about this place last night. T and I went here a few months ago on a recommendation and it was the worst pizza I’ve ever had.
Although the dough was cooked, the cheese was unmelted and the veggies were totally cold. Looking around, everyone else’s pizza looked just like ours so we assumed that was just how they made them. Suffice to say that our pizza looked nothing like yours!
We also got salads that consisted of wilted lettuce and – no joke – salad dressing that was an inch deep.
Since we live within spitting distance of La Pizza Rina, maybe we’ll check it out again one of these days.
PS – my coworker just recommended Rosarina’s in Chinatown as the best pizza in Honolulu.
October 17th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
rosarina’s actually looks very similar to la pizza rina and I wouldn’t doubt if they were the same owners. and I don’t think they are chinese but rather vietnamese or possibly vietnamese-chinese (chinese that grew up in vietnam) anyways, I’ve never tried their pizza but I do love their sandwiches! cheap and oishi! me and my hubby usually split a sandwich and whatever pasta special they might have that day. I live that they cook the pasta noodles al dente and I know what you’re talking about the sweetness of the sauce. I like that it’s not acidic but I do have a feelig it’s from sugar, although I like the sauce nonetheless. I also have a feeling they put msg in the sauce which makes it taste better. oh well, next time I will ask them to not put msg in my pasta and see how it tastes. oh and the sandwich I get is the hot pastrami sub but my co-worker says the italian sub is ono. they give u this oil and vinegar sauce to pour all over your hot sub and just takes it up another notch.
October 18th, 2007 at 1:24 am
You ever heard of JP Spaghetti in the Wahiawa Town Center, 935 California Ave.? Small place but ono spaghetti! Recommend you try it. Pretty cheap!
They have this chicken anchovy pasta ($5.25), it’s chicken sautéed w/ anchovy & twice-fried, crispy garlic. I once ask them to leave out the chicken, and they gladly prepare it for me. Just anchovies and crisp garlic chips. It’s my regular dish since. Love it!
October 18th, 2007 at 5:31 am
Hi there, I stumbled into your blog and ended up reading it front to back. And from the looks of it, I think I’d be stopping by more often. Kudos to good food with sensible prices! :D
Oh um, and thank you for this blog would be a lovely guide if I finally could come to Hawaii for a vacation :D
October 18th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
You should definitely try to make it out to Oahu Hawaii. I’ve been here since March of 2007 and absolutely love it.
October 18th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
omigosh, i loooove, looove, love La Pizza Rina! It’s all wrong (not really Italian, often greasy, waaay too much cheese on everything), but all right (for the same reasons :) at the same time! Prices are awesome, the people are nice and it’s sooo relaxed and always dependable…thanks for this post! I think you made me homesick! :)
October 19th, 2007 at 1:18 am
I’m gonna have to agree with you. I’m not a fan of pizza, but after this place I definitely see myself eating it a whole lot more. By the way, that red velvet cake you just had, oh, my god, that looked so friggin good. Totally better than the shitty one we had at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf
October 19th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
too bad this place probably isn’t as good as REAL NY pizza…booyaaa
oh and Boston had dollah slices everywhere. orgrasmic heaven! but i shoulda tried this place considering how many times i passed it on my scooter