{"id":1369,"date":"2014-08-21T16:17:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T20:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/margotspizza.com\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2014-08-21T16:17:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T20:17:22","slug":"new-jersey-bar-pizza-kinchleys-star-tavern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/margotspizza.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/21\/new-jersey-bar-pizza-kinchleys-star-tavern\/","title":{"rendered":"OPP: New Jersey bar pizza mini crawl \u2013 Kinchley’s and Star Tavern"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday night my\u00a0longtime friend Justin<\/a> and I went on a mini two-stop bar-pizza crawl of North Jersey. We started at\u00a0Kinchley’s Tavern<\/a> in Ramsey, New Jersey, a\u00a0legendary bar-pie joint I had never been to\u00a0despite all my\u00a0years of Slice<\/em>-ing. LOVE.<\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/a><\/p>\n

I mean, look at that horse outside. WHAT?!? Who does that? Had I not already known what lay inside (thanks to lots of blog posts I’d read about it), I would have loved the place already. Here’s the interior:<\/p>\n

\"kinchley-panorama\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As I think about what I’d like Margot’s Pizza to look like or embody, I can’t help think of places like this. I don’t want to be too kitsch, but I definitely would love to incorporate elements of this classic 1970s “pizza parlor” look. What’s that you say?\u00a0Where’s the pizza? Here ya go:<\/p>\n

\"Kinchley's<\/a>
From left: sausage and onion, pepperoni and hot pickled pepper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Very thin-crusted, cracker-crust pizza. The closest thing to it I can reference in NYC would be maybe the Gruppo-Vezzo-Spunto empire or Lee’s Tavern.\u00a0Much different from what we would later have at our second and final stop of the evening, Star Tavern<\/a>\u00a0(which I’d been to a handful of times before):<\/p>\n

\"Star<\/a>
The pepperoni pizza at Star is much heavier on the cheese and has a more flexible crust than Kinchley’s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was a nice trip to take and the first time I’d\u00a0had other people’s bar pies since I started experimenting\u00a0with Margot’s Pizza. In a way it was very fitting to sample these two pies, because I would say Margot’s Pizza is somewhere between the two in terms of texture, crispness, and topping\/cheese density.<\/p>\n

In all, a great night out.<\/p>\n

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Other People’s Pizza: In which we visit Kinchley’s and Star Tavern, two of the reigning heavyweights of New Jersey bar pizza. 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