Cameli’s Gourmet Pizza

September 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I had a quick lunch with a bunch of friends over at Cameli’s Pizza on Ponce. Cameli’s is a family-owned pizza joint next door to Atlanta’s City Hall East inside the non-descript Kroger plaza. While there’s not much to say about the decor (excuse the mess as they’re in the process of expanding), the pizza surely makes up for it. Well, at least my friends’… not mine.

I ordered the Pax Americana pizza with chicken, spinach, and mushrooms. I was sorely disappointed with the crust — it was thick, hard and crunchy which is what you got from your grocer’s frozen section way before they invented good frozen pizza. It was like eating days-old toast. The pizza overall was so dry and tasteless I had to have a heavy hand on the pepper flakes just to give it some flavor. Anyway, it was so bad, it doesn’t even deserve a picture. But like I said, I ordered wrong.

My friends’ pizzas were all oozing with bubbly cheese and their crusts were thick and doughy or thin and crispy. The pepperoni pizza was very good as well as the vegetarian pizza which had spinach and mushrooms. The calzone was huge with tasty filling.

I definitely have to go back and try other pizzas. I’m not crossing them out of my list completely yet.

Insider tip:

Personal piizzas are a good 10 inches. Daily specials available.

The scoop:

Cameli’s Gourmet Pizza
699 Ponce De Leon Ave NE,
Atlanta, GA 30308
404-249-9020
M-TH 11:30-10:00
FR 11:30-11:00
SA 12 noon-11:00
SU 5:00-10:00