A corner pizzeria in Cleveland. Pizza by the pie and by the slice.
01 / The Place
Sal's Alleged Pizza is a corner pizzeria on Detroit Avenue in Cleveland. Thin crust, baked in a deck oven. The sauce is crushed tomatoes, salt, and oregano, and nothing else. The dough is made fresh each morning and used the same day.
The oven is the original, in since 1986, kept running by one repair tech in Parma. It's the same pizza it was in 1987, which is either the point or the problem, depending on who you ask.
The corner. Detroit Avenue.The 1986 deck oven. One tech keeps it running.Dough, made fresh each morning.
02 / Ordering
Order at the counter, or call ahead for pickup at (216) 555-0182.
Delivery within about a mile. Depends who's working.
Parking in rear.
Kitchen stops taking pizza orders about fifteen minutes before close.
Cash and cards.
Boxes, folded to order.
03 / The Pizza
Fourteen inch, pepperoni, on the pan it came out on.
Fourteen inch and eighteen inch. No small. Slices from eleven to two, whatever's out.
