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Another Garland place with great pizza is OliveOyl's at I-30 and Belt Line, 
next to Kroger.



"Gregory A Greenman"  wrote in message 
news:MPG.27887d4a3b64b779896a8@news.newsguy.com...
> Tonight, New Year's Eve, my wife, mother-in-law and I went to
> Pizza by Alex for dinner. It was the first time eating there for
> each of us, although my wife did have a pizza delivered from
> there once and a second pizza that I went to pick up myself.
>
> The two pizzas that we had were both the same. They were deep
> dish with a bunch of ingredients. IIRC, we had ricotta, Canadian
> bacon, green olives and artichokes. I'd guess that in all, the
> pizza was about an inch and a half deep. That comes to about $25
> for a 14 inch pizza, so it is not cheep, but it was possibly the
> best pizza I've ever had.
>
> As with most pizza places, you can customize your pizza pretty
> much any way you want it. At Pizza by Alex, you can also do that
> with pasta. They have several different pastas, each of which
> can be ordered with any of five or so different sauces.
>
> Tonight, I decided to get something other than pizza, so I
> ordered the chicken parmigiana. My wife ordered linguine with
> clams and my m-i-l ordered a 12 inch thin crust pizza with
> artichokes, green and black olives and ricotta. Normally, I'd
> order veal parmigiana, but there was no veal on the menu. My
> wife also ordered a dinner salad while my m-i-l and I each had
> the minestrone soup. Finally, my wife and I each had flan for
> dessert.
>
> My m-i-l and I both thought the soup was very good. My wife
> thought the same of her salad.
>
> My chicken parmigiana was quite good. The portion of chicken was
> just about perfect for me. It came with way more spaghetti than
> I could eat. My wife tasted the chicken and also liked it.
>
> My wife thought her linguine was very good too. I tried one of
> her clams and concurred.
>
> The only real problem with the meal is that when I ordered the
> pizza for my m-i-l, the waitress misunderstood me and so the
> pizza came with anchovies instead of artichokes. When I pointed
> this out, they took the pizza back, added the artichokes and
> left the anchovies on. This was fine by me as I kind of like
> anchovies. My m-i-l also seemed to like them. As with the other
> two pizzas, this one was excellent.
>
> We arrived a little after 5 PM. When we got there, we were the
> only patrons eating inside. There was another party picking up a
> to go order. By the time we left, there were three or four other
> parties eating there. The dining room is quite nice and, while
> not large, it had room for several more parties.
>
> Pizza by Alex is located at 103 S First Street, in the same
> strip as a furniture store. It is across First Street from
> Burger King (or "Burge" if you go by the lit up letters of their
> sign), across Main Street from Taco Bell and caddy corner to
> Quik Trip. It scored a mediocre 86 in it's restaurant
> inspection.
>
> In short, I highly recommend the restaurant.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Greg
> http://www.spencerbooksellers.com
> newsguy -at- spencersoft -dot- com
>
> 
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