Schmook's

These people are famous now!

Christine and I went to Schmook's yesterday for stop #2 on the Greenpoint Pizza Crawl (GPC).
Plain slice $2.25



Again we got slices from a pie that wasn't fresh. This pizza looks better than it tastes. It's pretty heavy - there is a lot of cheese. No complaints there. My main issue with this slice is that the crust was too thin for the amount of cheese it had on it. The crust was crispy but undercooked and didn't have enough salt. The sauce was good and the cheese was good, I just don't like it when you fold the slice and it breaks in half. I'm gonna have to take points off for that. I mean, it was good but nothing special.



Christine liked it better than I did.

There are ten seats, so I guess the seating situation is good enough. One thing that really bothered me was the horrible screeching sound of the bottom of the chair scraping against the tile floor whenever someone stood up or sat down. It's really hard not to be distracted by and totally takes away from the ambience.



This guy was really nice. And you see that pie? $12

Pizza porn:




...They also have beef patties? $1.75

Pros: Huge slice, Cans of Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi, Convenient to Nassau stop, Good topping selection, Good slogan "Schmook's - It's a Pizza Place"
Cons: Annoying sound from chairs that I can't get over, Lame crust




Schmook's Review By Christine

I think that Schmook's is probably the 3rd or 4th by-the-slice pizza place that I have tried in Greenpoint. I've always been intrigued by its circus-lights exterior, but it's a little out of the way for me, so I was glad to finally have an excuse to try it.

I hear all of Joanna's points, but for me, the way the crust cracked when folded was hardly an issue. This could be a question of style -- I don't really like to fold my slice in half because eating it that way makes me feel like I'm eating half as much. For this reason, I like a slice with a relatively crispy crust, and this one didn't sag or get sloppy.

I thought the interior of the place was pretty nice. It looked like they had put a little money into new tables, chairs, and a paint job relatively recently, and to me that made the place seem clean. However, the entire back of the restaurant was taken up by stacks of empty pizza boxes. I don't know what's going on storage-wise in other parts of the building, but I have to believe that there is a better place to keep all those boxes, especially given the seating crunch that was going on while we were there. There's nothing I hate more than feeling like I have to race to vacate my seat because someone else is standing and waiting -- in this case it was a woman who eventually wound up grabbing an empty chair and lifting it over our table to a corner. If that had been me, I would just have gotten my slice to go rather than do that, but I guess that's neither here nor there, and certainly it isn't Schmook's fault.

Overall, I agree with Joanna that the crust, especially the thick edge, could have used a lot more salt. There was a lot of cheese, which I liked, and it stayed in place even though my slice wasn't folded. I also liked the size of the slice -- huge.

Finally, I think this is a great place to order delivery from. Delivery is free with a minimum order of $10, and as you can see in the picture, $12 gets you an absolutely gigantic pie.

Schmook's, if you are reading this, your pizza makers are very friendly, and I like that you have a bar along the front window for casual people-watching. Get some new felt on the legs of your chairs to cut down on that awful screeching, and maybe consider storing your ready-to-go pizza boxes someplace else. B+!



Schmook's
86 Nassau Ave (btwn Manhattan and Leonard)
Brooklyn, NY 11222