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Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine: Italian
Price: $$
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Rating Criteria
1. From Scratch: Serves mostly (i.e., more than half of the menu) fresh food, prepared from scratch. Does NOT rely primarily on kits or prepared/partially prepared foods from commercial food services.
Yes
Comments: practices the craft of pizza making that originated in Naples
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
Yes
Comments: Buys food at the local farmers market. Some authentic foods, like olive oil and cured meats, are direct from Italy. They make some of their own cheese, esp. mozzarella.
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
Yes
Comments: Meats from Italy are pasture-raised, and looking for local sources.
4. Organs: Offers some dishes made with organ meats (liver/paté, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, brains, etc.).
No
Comments: The chef is interested in experimenting with liver pate
5. Cooking Fats: Cooks (sautés) in natural fats such as butter, lard, tallow, duck fat, coconut oil, or olive oil; uses lard, duck fat, or tallow for frying.
Yes
Comments: Uses extra virgin olive oil from Italy, real butter. Some frying is done in high oleic sunflower oil.
6. Bone Broth: Makes own bone broths/stocks for use in soups, stews, gravies, and sauces (does NOT use canned broth or powdered soup bases).
Yes
Comments: Soups made from scratch
7. Seasonings: Makes most of its own seasoning mixes (does NOT use flavoring packets or MSG).
Yes
Comments: Uses fresh herbs, no canned stuff.
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
Yes
Comments: Their olive oil is pure imported. Balsamic vinegar and olive oil is available as dressing.
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
Yes
Comments: They make their own pizza dough from non-GMO unbleached wheat flour and fresh yeast, starting two days ahead. The freshly mixed dough is allowed to set for an hour at room temperature, then it proofs in the frig for 48 hours before being made into pizza crust. They also use the same dough at that point for make the bread they serve. The result is delicious.
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
Yes
Comments: Chef is interested in getting locally make kombucha, which is available.
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
Yes
Comments: They do have fresh sauerkraut.
12. Desserts: Offers desserts made with natural sweeteners (such as raw honey, maple syrup, maple sugar, molasses, date sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, sorghum syrup, or malt syrup).
No
Comments: They don't serve much dessert. They avoid high fructose corn syrup. Use cane sugar.
Rating Created by:
Kris Johnson
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Location & Contact
5577 Monroe St
Sylvania, OH 43560
Toledo Blade review: No one in Toledo executes the art of pizza making like 5th Street Pub on Monroe St. The local restaurant is named after the street in Perrysburg where the original restaurant is located. Part of the Association of Neopolitan Pizzaiuoli, it practices the craft of pizza making that originated in Naples, Italy hundreds of years ago. Pies are hand-stretched, then fired in a wood burning oven, direct from Italy. The restaurant also features hearty burgers, hoagies that will make your heart sing, and a variety of Italian inspired appetizers.