Cecil Whittaker's Pizzeria- St. Louis, MO

Cecil Whittaker's is a St. Louis chain that spread across the city in the 90s to meet the market for "St. Louis style pizza". While it isn't the best tasting example of the style, Cecil Whittaker's Pizzeria is probably your best bet for pizza if you are low on cash. Tuesdays and Thursdays are customer appreciation days, where you can get a large 14" cheese pizza for 2.99, with additional toppings $1.50 each. On every other day, extra large 16" pizzas are two for one. The pizza is so thin, however, that a large pizza is like half of a thick pizza somewhere else...



Cecil Whittaker's is characterized by it's generous amount of spices and softer crust than most thin crust pizzas in St. Louis. The negative criticism concerning St. Louis style pizza is that Provel isn't good, and that the crust is too thin and hard like a cracker. Personally, I have found that Provel is only as good as the rest of the ingredients used in the pizza. It acts like a base that the other flavors and textures bounce off of. It is easy to get it wrong, but it is very good when done well. Cecil Whittaker's doesn't quite pull it off, but it's not horrible.

Cecil Whittaker's Pizza is extremely thin, but soft/flexible.

This is really the kind of pizza that you order when you have to feed a large group of hungry teenagers for cheap, but if you want to experience a better example of St. Louis style pizza, I would recommend a non-chain, like Cusanelli's (I'll do a post on them in the near future...).


Cecil Whittaker's Pizzeria
http://www.cwpizza.com
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