Pizzapalooza-Paul's Pizza Falmouth MA

What: Paul's Special Pizza, no anchovies, taken to go.

Where: Paul's Pizza & Seafood

14 Benham Road

(Off Falmouth Heights Road, opposite Red Horse Inn, behind Dr. Fitch's office)
Falmouth, MA 02540

508.548.5838

How Much: $10.95

 
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This day's travels took me to Falmouth MA as it often does.

Paul's is a local institution in Falmouth.  It has great pizza and seafood.  The menu is kid friendly (though the wait may not be-if so, call in a to go order).  The waitstaff is super friendly and has been the same for years.  Their ads in the local newspaper The Falmouth Enterprise often features the birthdays of their waitstaff.  You have to know their location as there is no sign for Paul's on Falmouth Heights Road.   They are closed Mondays and Tuesdays and open at 4PM the rest of the week.  Paul's can fill up fast on summer weekends.  The wait for takeout on a recent Friday night at 8PM was an hour and a half.  Wait, it is DEFINITELY worth it.

They serve beer and wine, but don't expect too much variety, though I did notice an ad for Cape Cod Beer on the tables and booths when I dropped by to pick up some takeout.  There was no mention of Cape Cod Beer options on the take out menu.

The Paul's Special is onion, hot Greek peppers (pepperoncini), linguica, sausage, mushroom, with or without anchovies.  I always go without anchovies.  Red Bullmoose goes with anchovies.  I love hot and spicy, but even I can't take a whole Paul's Special pizza's worth of the pepperocinis.  I usually get half way through and peel the rest off.  When I am not feeling so adventurous, I order the meatball and onion.  They also have some interesting toppings such as Paul's own Meatsauce, Apple (no tomato sauce), shrimp, scallop or Chourico in addition to the standards.

Paul's pizza is different than most other pizzas.  It is 10" diameter cut into eight slices. A single pizza will more than fill you up.  The only pizza that I've had like it is from Town Spa in Stoughton MA.  I have seen it described as bar style pizza.  It is pretty thin, but not thin like Regina's/Papa Gino's style (not that those deserved to be lumped together) and not Fig's gourmet style.  As you can see, there is not much crust either.  Paul's cheese pizza is available frozen too.  I guess you just have to try it (though most of you reading this have already been forced by me to try it) as it escapes an coherent description.by me.

Almost everything on the menu is great, even the chicken strips.  The fries are batter coated and onion rings are thin and very crispy.  The scallop plate is excellent, as is the clam plate which is served with bellies.  You can even get fried smelts.  The only thing strange is that they serve their subs with bags of potato chips.

If you are in the Falmouth area or on the way back from Martha's Vineyard (especially if you just got off the Island Queen, it is most definitely worth it to grab dinner here.
 
  5.5B/6

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Do not miss Paul's Pizza.  It is a destination unto itself, as appealing as Falmouth's beaches are (well, maybe not Chappy).