This is the best meal I’ve had in Kingston yet. On the day before my call, I decided to grab a nice meal to remind myself of why I do this. I went out with a few of the first years and we grabbed a few beers and some pizzas at Woodenhead’s.

Here is a hint: don’t ever sit inside. The wood burning fire is simply too hot. On a humid day in Kingston, I wanted to die inside. I had a Big Rock Grasshopper to cool off but it just wasn’t enough. We asked to be seated outside and eventually, as tables left, we were able to move outside.

The first pizza we tried was the Nonna Mela for $14.80. It may be an acquired taste for some. Essentially, it is made of apple butter, roast garlic, cheddar, sweet onions, and blackened chicken. The apple butter really made it savoury-sweet, which I love. But this is the exact reason why it might be an acquired taste for some. The crust was light without being too crispy. The chicken breast tasted realistic, not foamy. I really enjoyed this dish a great deal. I particularly enjoyed where the apple butter was glazed over the crust so that it tasted like apple toast!

The next pizza was the Pazzo for $12.55. Essentially, it is made of tomato sauce, blue cheese, grilled red onion, and blackened chicken. This was really unique. I’ve never had blue cheese on a pizza. It stood on its own, without the back up of mozzarella. The blackened chicken was a carry over from the Nonna Mela but once again, it wasn’t dry, wasn’t foamy, and was actually quite tasty. This was another really unique pizza but may be an acquired taste for some because of the blue cheese. I also noted that the tomato sauce on this pizza was rather pasty. It seemed like it came out of a can.

Our final pizza was the Monet for $15.15. Essentially, it was made of tomato sauce, chipotle salsa, mozzarella, salami Calabrese, and feta. The feta was a bit of a strange mix with the mozzarella. The salami Calabrese was nicely spicy, especially when combined with the chipotle salsa. The pizza was a bit wet so it was difficult to eat. Once again, the tomato sauce seemed very pasty.

Each pizza wasn’t particularly large (12-14” or so) but they were really well priced. I look forward to trying each and every flavour! The crusts were thin without being too crispy or burnt. The toppings were plentiful and flavourful. The ingredients were fresh. My only complaint: some pizzas also have really rather poor quality tomato sauce. But this shortcoming is negligible compared to the inventiveness and value of the pizzas.

Woodenheads Gourmet Pizza, 192 Ontario St., Kingston, www.woodenheads.com

Addendum:

Since this last post, I’ve been to Woodenhead’s 3 more times. These are a few new pizzas I tried out.

This is the Louisianna (mushroom veloute, smoked cheese, blackened chicken, banana chili and black olives). The smokiness was a bit underwhelming and the blackened chicken a touch salty. A somewhat unremarkable pizza but quite costly at $15.45.

We had a girl with us when we chose this pizza. It would not have been a typical choice from me. This is the Arbre Amore (tomato sauce, sundried tomatoes, mozzarella, marinated mushrooms, artichoke) for $12.25. Again, a bit underwhelming a pizza in terms of zest and flavour. The artichokes were a touch sour and overpowered the rest of thepizza. The marinated mushrooms were reminiscent of canned mushrooms. I wouldn’t get this pizza again.

I love the crust at Woodenhead’s but I am a bit tired of their blackened chicken. It is in a lot of their pizzas. The toppings are also somewhat bland in comparison to Atomica (which I will review later). Between the two… I am torn. Atomica has better toppings and more inventive pizzas (except for the Nona Mela which I adore from Woodenhead’s). However, Woodenhead’s has better crusts, thicker, crisp without being dry, fantastic. I will still likely go to both as I am indecisive.

Addendum: June 1, 2009

Visited Woodenhead’s again for my anniversary with J. Not particularly glamorous but we didn’t have a lot of time as we were both busy at work. Let me just reiterate that Woodenhead’s is a really really great find in Kingston. We had the Nonna Mela again and it is simply fabulous. Apple butter is a regional thing special to Eastern Ontario (so I hear on Chowhound). Honestly, there aren’t a lot of places that I fully recommend in Kingston but this is one of them.

Another pic of the Nonna Mela.

Again, My God, from: http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1661877.ece

The Norwegians were called Woodenheads by DONSURBER on: http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2007/08/19/norwegian-woodenheads/

“…News analysis

Police struggling as Oslo’s crime rate jumps

Oslo’s police department is having a hard time coping with a rising crime rate. Only one in five reported cases is currently being resolved, police seem as frustrated as crime victims, and commentators worry that citizens are having to rely on private security firms to ensure their safety.

The numbers, reported in newspaper Aftenposten, speak for themselves: No country has fewer police per capita than Norway, as many as 70 percent of so-called petty crimes are never followed up, and while the police force has increased 150 percent since 1960, the crime rate has increased 700 percent…”

——-

The Norwegians were called Woodenheads by DONSURBER on: http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2007/08/19/norwegian-woodenheads/

And an English-written Danish blog http://Dissidentpress.WordPress.com run by Jens Nielsen was almost block by the nonsence from Aftenposten and our unsuspecting friend on the Western side of the Atlantic. This blog got 6,903 on 22 or 23 August 2007, because we long ago had tried qualified with Interpol as literaly the last source to unravel the miss the statistics concerning comparing by nationality had ended up in on: http://danmark.wordpress.com/2006/07/01/last-comparison-of-crime-rates-between-nations-ever/

Comparisons comes to an end we wrote in August 2005: http://www.lilliput-information.com/engsamm.html or http://danmark.wordpress.com/2006/05/21/comparative-analyses-doomed/

And that is the real reason why they write as they like now when all the actually documentation from statistics has been deliberately destoyed.

But now this so-called News-analysis has made enough mistakes and troubles for more than two months

Aftenposten reported in extract from the first link on this entry:

“The dilemma facing the prison authorities is that failure to show up at prison is not yet illegal. Although Parliament has passed new legislation making it a criminal offence to skip prison, the law has not yet been implemented and until it is, prison authorities can do nothing but hope that the criminals will eventually show up at the prison gates.”

——–

I am sure that 99.9 p.c. of the Norwegians agree that the culture and general ethical or moral behavior of Norwegians does not differ very much from that of the Danes or of the Swedes.

Denmark:

The number of notified violations of the criminal law has more than doubled from 1960 to 1990 (200 p.c. increase), and in the period 1980-1990 they increased by 35 p.c. to 550,000 notified violations in average a year.

Earlier about 30 p.c. of such violations were solved, in 1991 about one of five (20%) ended with a solution. I remember when the number decreased to less than 50% in Denmark, and I am 57 years old. In Berlin 44% of such violations were solved in 1996.

In 1960 the Police and Prosecution in Denmark had 7,375 employees, in 1991 the number was 14,500, including 10,200 policemen.

The last year in Denmark:

Source is DR-TTV nr. 122, 15 Mai 2007: The number violations in the first three months of 2007 was 104,604 an increase of 10,000. The violence increased from 3,716 occurences to 4,600, an increase of 23.8 p.c. The total number of violation of the criminal law increased from 95,944 to 104,604 from 1 quarter 2006 to 1 quarter 2007 an increase of 9 p.c. Forced entries to houses and flats increased from 7,400 to 9,500 in 1 quarter compare with 1 quarter 2006, an increase of 28.4 p.c. Violence increased generally from 3,716 to 4,600, 23.8 p.c. Sex crimes, totally : increased from 557 til 647, 16,2 p.c.We naturally know that criminal violence against public authorities weigh heavier in the public pan, but the figures speak themselves. (a tiny bit more than 23.8 p. c. increase)

http://danmark.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/kriminaliteten-er-voldsomt-stigende-ikke-mindst-voldskriminaliteten/ (more details in Danish)

It has nothing to do with a former criminal law in Norwegen about petty crimes.

It has nothing to do with Norwegians. Their number is still decreasing as planned, and they behave, just like the Danes and the Swedes. They are civilized.

Did you know that more than 82 p. c. criminal acts in Copenhagen committed by youngster18 years old or less concerns second and third generation of immigrants?

http://www.lilliput-information.com/domv.html (try this in Danish)

Sonia

Again, My God, from: http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1661877.ece

The Norwegians were called Woodenheads by DONSURBER on: http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2007/08/19/norwegian-woodenheads/

“…News analysis

Police struggling as Oslo’s crime rate

jumps

Oslo’s police department is having a hard time coping with a rising crime rate. Only one in five reported cases is currently being resolved, police seem as frustrated as crime victims, and commentators worry that citizens are having to rely on private security firms to ensure their safety.

The numbers, reported in newspaper Aftenposten, speak for themselves: No country has fewer police per capita than Norway, as many as 70 percent of so-called petty crimes are never followed up, and while the police force has increased 150 percent since 1960, the crime rate has increased 700 percent…”

——-

The Norwegians were called Woodenheads by DONSURBER on: http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2007/08/19/norwegian-woodenheads/

And an English-written Danish blog http://Dissidentpress.WordPress.com run by Jens Nielsen was almost block by the nonsence from Aftenposten and our unsuspecting friend on the Western side of the Atlantic. This blog got 6,903 visits 22 or 23 August 2007, because we long ago had tried with Interpol as literally the last source qualified to unravel the miss the statistics concerning comparing by nationality had ended up in on: http://danmark.wordpress.com/2006/07/01/last-comparison-of-crime-rates-between-nations-ever/

Comparisons comes to an end we wrote in August 2005: http://www.lilliput-information.com/engsamm.html or http://danmark.wordpress.com/2006/05/21/comparative-analyses-doomed/ 

And that is the real reason why they write as they like now when all the actually documentation from statistics has been deliberately destoyed.

But now this so-called News-analysis

has made enough mistakes and

troubles for more than two months

Aftenposten reported in extract:

“The dilemma facing the prison authorities is that failure to show up at prison is not yet illegal. Although Parliament has passed new legislation making it a criminal offence to skip prison, the law has not yet been implemented and until it is, prison authorities can do nothing but hope that the criminals will eventually show up at the prison gates.”

——–

I am sure that 99.9 p.c. of the Norwegians agree that the culture and general ethical behavior of Norwegians does not differ very much from that of the Danes or the Swedish.

Denmark:

The number of notified violations of the criminal law has more than doubled from 1960 to 1990 (200 p.c. increase), and in the period 1980-1990 they increased by 35 p.c. to 550,000 notified violations in average a year.

Earlier about 30 p.c. of such violations were solved, in 1991 about one of five (20%) ended with a solution. I remember when the number decreased to less than 50% in Denmark, and I am 57 years old. In Berlin 44% of such violations were solved in 1996.

In 1960 the Police and Prosecution in Denmark had 7,375 employees, in 1991 the number was 14,500, including 10,200 policemen.

The last year in Denmark:

Source is DR-TTV nr. 122, 15 Mai 2007: The number violations in the first three months of 2007 was 104,604 an increase of 10,000. The violence increased from 3,716 occurences to 4,600, an increase of 23.8 p.c. The total number of violation of the criminal law increased from 95,944 to 104,604 from 1 quarter 2006 to 1 quarter 2007 an increase of 9 p.c. Forced entries to houses and flats increased from 7,400 to 9,500 in 1 quarter compare with 1 quarter 2006, an increase of 28.4 p.c. Violence increased generally from 3,716 to 4,600, 23.8 p.c. Sex crimes, totally : increased from 557 til 647, 16,2 p.c.We naturally know that criminal violence against public authorities weigh heavier in the public pan, but the figures speak themselves. (a tiny bit more than 23.8 p. c. increase)

http://danmark.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/kriminaliteten-er-voldsomt-stigende-ikke-mindst-voldskriminaliteten/ (more details in Danish)

It has nothing to do with a former criminal law in Norwegen about petty crimes.

It has nothing to do with Norwegians. Their number is still decreasing as planned, and they behave, just like the Danes and the Sweedes. They are civilized.

Did you know that more than 82 p. c. of the criminal acts in Copenhagen committed by youngster18 years old or less concerns second and third generation of immigrants?http://www.lilliput-information.com/domv.html (try this in Danish)

Sonia