Meet the new boss!

 And it is not the same as the old boss.Will we get fooled again?

 Allrighty. We had some great pizza just awhile ago and I'm not(fooling) either. A few years ago along 53rd st in Bettendorf there was a pizza place called Crust Pizza. We had been there and you readers can find my blog post somewhere here. I'm too lazy right now to link it. 

Anyways Crust closed sometime last year and I don't know why because their pizza kicked ass. That said. A new owner started up a new pizza place in the old Crust location called Mio Russo's.

https://miorusso.com

Mio's has been open for a few months now and it was time for us to check it out. What is interesting about Mio's is that they serve New York style thin crust,but also Detroit style pizza too. That alone caught my eye because I don't think there is anywhere else in the QC doing that style of pizza.

Mio's was busy! Kentucky Derby day and while pretty busy we got a table right away.

We all got Cokes.

An upside down ketchup bottle for some reason caught my eye.

A few action pics. I'll just say Mio's was busy and the jockeys are small.

The menu.

As I usually frontload some booze I did have to use the restroom. Let me just say right now. Mio's mens bathroom was spotlessly clean. I've been in a lot of pizza joint bathrooms and this was the cleanest ever. Can't say how the womens room was,but probably just as clean.

Long time readers of this blog know that we have up until now have had a glut of Quad City Style(Frank's,Harris,Uncle Bill's et al) type pizza on this blog with a few exceptions like Pagalo's and Huckleberry's. And don't forget the tenderloins!

Last week we had a great New York style pizza at Lopiez's in Davenport. This week we finally had Mio's. New York and Detroit style.

Can't say I am familiar with Detroit style,but Mio's from what I tasted has a great Detroit pizza.

So here we go. It's Mothers Day weekend and well my faithful sidekick has been with me since we started this blog in 2016. Sher wanted pizza so why not? 

Sher and Moll(the chicken strip whisperer) wanted Taco pizza. I was down for that Detroit style. So we ordered a New York style Taco and I ordered a Detroit style triple pepperoni.

I'm not a big fan of taco pizza,but I love to hoover up lettuce and taco chips on the pan.

This Detroit style was the star of my show. Spicy pepperoni,cup and char pepperoni and regular pepperoni. So much sauce. The crust had that nice cheesy char on the rim. This pizza vaults right up there in my QC top 5 pizza joints. 

So good these pizza's are. 

We have been doing this blog since 2016 and every now and then we get a server that we bond with right away and takes a liking to us too. Tonite we had Leighanne. She was such a great host and gave us great service.

Such a great lady. I had to give her a song in our blog. This might be a first.

Final thoughts. It has been a long time since we have had two different type pizza's in one location. While I'm kinda on the fence about taco pizza. I can say Mio's Detroit style is the bomb! Saucy,awesome pepperoni and buttery charred crust. I'm not much of a deep dish kinda guy but Detroit style to me is not the same as Chicago Pizza Cake style pizza.

I give Mio's a 9.5

Moll gives it a solid 9 just for the taco.

Scotty

Aloha Mr Hand

 Today's post isn't really about going out to eat. We were needing a pizza peel for at home use. A Facebook post a week or so ago caught my eye. 

A brief interlude

So there is this store in Davenport that sells all kinds of grills and smokers and rubs and sauce and pellets and charcoal and pizza ovens and on and on and on! Tshirts too.

Like I said we needed a pizza peel and Midwest Grilling supplies was supposed to have this outdoor pizza oven going today as a demonstration. So why wouldn't we check it out? Rhetorical I know. It's located near the old Dunhams Sporting goods store and right behind Famouls Daves

https://www.midwestgrillingsupplies.com/

Well the pizza oven demo turned out to somewhat of a bust. The guy putting it on wasn't near ready when we were there. He had a pizza going but we had other things to do at that point.

But seriously. If you need grills or supplies you can't go wrong checking this place out. 

Full disclosure time. We have bought two grills here also and they have fantastic customer support.

Oh and we did get that pizza peel.

One more tune cause I'm talking about flames and such.

Spring I think has finally sprung and it felt good to get outside in just a t shirt.

Scotty