What I Ate: October 25, 2009 (Mangieri's Pizza Cafe)

Lunch: We tried another place in Escarpment Village - Mangieri's Pizza Cafe (5900 Slaughter Ln W # 490, Austin, TX‎ - (512) 301-0063‎) which apparently won several CitySearch awards for best pizza. We started with a Greek salad that had too many sun-dried tomatoes, too little feta, and didn't really taste like a Greek salad.

Then we shared a 12-in. Supremo Pizza. I had asked them what style of pizza they serve and they claimed it was New York-style - clearly it was not. The crust is best described as very similar to California Pizza Kitchen but without the sweetness. Although fairly thin, it's neither crispy nor foldable. The pizza toppings or pretty decent, but really when the crust isn't very good, it's just not worth it for me. At the end of the day, pizza comes down to bread with toppings and that foundation has to be better than this.

Dinner: Tina and I attended a Beer-themed Food Bloggers Potluck at 512 Brewery.

A variety of foods cooked with beer from beer braised Brussels sprouts to beer battered fried avocado to beer tiramisu were eaten while participating in enjoyable conversation with other food lovers.