Nino’s Pizzarama

Best place in town to get a cheese steak. always good. Yeah … The restaurant it’s self isn’t pretty but the cheesesteaks speak for themselves. Soo good. Can’t find a better cheesesteak anywhere else.

As others say, NOT a place to eat in — but best cheesesteaks in the area and great pizza and antipasto — I’m now a regular.

Pizza, especially the sicilian, is real good. Cheesesteaks and chicken cheesesteaks are to drive for. Forget about dining in, unless your on the job. Reasonable in price and uncommonly good for what and where it is.

In a word, disappointing. I had heard good things about Nino’s Pizzarama, so one day while in the area and feeling hungry, I dropped in for a slice. I walked into the small, old converted diner and felt like I stepped into the 1970’s. I ordered one slice, to go. $ 2.25. I pulled the slice out of the brown paper bag it came in, and was greeted by globs of oil resting in the middle of it. After dabbing the excess oil off with napkins, I was able to take a bite. A tad salty, and way mediocre. I wouldn’t go out of my way to return.

Don’t know what everyone else has been smoking, but this former corner diner cum Nino’s Pizzarama doesn’t make very good pies.
The place sits at the intersection of Chambers and Genesee Streets, a locale that is not designed to make you feel secure. Through the large dirty windows pass the tempest tossed ravages of Trenton. The dive is tiny with 5 tables, and floors, walls and windows that have not been washed in who knows how long. I came in for a couple of slices, and was told by the counterman that the uncut pizza in front of him had just come out of the oven.
No reason to doubt him.
He tried to fit both slices on a single white paper plate, and when the point of one folded over and began to drip onto his counter, I asked for a second plate to hold both triangles. He handed me the plate and I slid it under the drooping offender. I sat down at a booth, sprinkled on the hot pepper flakes, and picked up the first slice. It had not folded, and the undercarriage was actually thin and quite firm. It held its point well until I snapped it off with one bite.
It was indeed hot. The immediate taste was that of pizza — if a little salty from the cheese, and slick from the oil moistening the surface. After putting it back on the plate, the oil began to run off the slice and onto the plate and ultimately the table when I picked it up again. Too much poor quality cheese, and not enough of any quality sauce. I could not taste it over the shouting of the fromage.
The second slice, cooler, was no better. The original damage required a two handed pickup. The fold where I bent it to be able to pick it up began to run a rivulet of oil, and dripped from the outer rim. the oily saltiness was the dominant message.
Just not very good. The young lads next to me said their cheesesteak was good, so maybe that is the way to go.
Straight pizza slices, certainly wasn’t.

Great pizza and cheese steaks!