Ancora Pizzeria/Salumeria
4508 Freret Street (near Jena Street), New Orleans, LA
Ancora is a fairly new addition to the NOLA dining scene. They specialize in Neapolitan style pizza and house made salumi. Ralph and Terri celebrated Terri’s birthday this year by giving them a try. We were joined by our good friend Michelle.
For a first course, we shared an “Anti Pizza Plate” which combined several salumi items selected by the chef along with some other anti pizza items. (If you are not familiar with salumi, think “artisan cured meats”). In addition to the various sausage items, we snacked on an assortment of savory items. They included greens with smoked pork, artichoke hearts, white beans and other yummy things.
For dinner, we ordered two pizzas. One was the daily pizza, topped with one of the some of the spreadable sausage that we’d had in the first course. The other pizza was a Margherita, with a cheese we’d not had before -- Fior di Latte -- along with the usual tomato and basil. The crust was thin and crisp, and satisfying. The service was efficient and helpful, and the servers took the time to answer (and re-answer) our questions about the food.
We filled up long before the food was gone and also before we had dessert. We ended the night by
checking out the really hot but cool looking custom pizza oven. It is covered with colorful tiles, and backed up by gleaming stainless steel walls.
Pretty impressive all around…
