Having spent several years out of Halifax, and only moving to Dartmouth recently, pizza purveyor…read moreYeah Yeahs was a big blind spot that I was looking to quickly remedy. I had previously tried and failed on the popular pizza night of Halloween, but better planning on a regular ol' Friday in the winter saw better success.
Famously perched above TIBS, the pickup was easy while I chilled for a few minutes in their paper-plate-art-adorned space and marvelled at the insanity of walk-ins waiting for more than 45 minutes WITH THEIR KIDS! Call ahead people, it ain't hard!
Somehow resisting having a slice in the car on the way home, I eagerly dug in once inside. For myself, I had ordered The Boss - onions, roasted peppers, sausage, feta, mozza and a tomato sauce. Is it Bruce Springsteen inspired? I don't care enough to Google it, but since we're living in the post-truth era, I'll just go ahead and say "sure".
All jokes aside, this was a great pie - airy cornicione, lightly charred crust, and overall such a damn good flavour; herby sausage, salty feta, and the bite of onions backed up by the savoury roasted peppers, you'd be crazy to not like this pizza.
My wife opted for The White, which I had also been eyeing up. Keeping it easy and cheesy, with parm, mozza and fior de latte, roasted mushrooms and green onions, Yeah Yeahs packed a lot of salty, savoury goodness onto this meatless pizza.
One drawback was that my wife had ordered the gluten-free crust, which is only 12", and is priced the same as the regular 18" pies, which have more than twice the surface area. I get that gluten-free flours aren't cheap, but neither is meat and cheese, and compared to other GF pizzas out there, it felt...disproportionate.
My next time there had me picking up their meat pizza for takeout.
Once again, Yeah Yeahs checked a lot of the right boxes for a top notch pizza - a little bit of char on the airy cornicione, pleasantly chewy crust, and a nice balance of flavours in the quality toppings.
As we've become more established in Dartmouth, we've been adding to our list of go-to spots, and Yeah Yeahs is right up at the top of the pizza category, thanks to their consistently great pies.