Pizzamore - Mt. Dora, FL

My mother surprised me with a trip to go get a calzone at a local Mt. Dora hotspot named Pizzamore (that's Pizza + Amore if you didn't already put it together). The surprising thing is that this restaurant is inside of a house. Literally, I felt like I was eating dinner in little johnny's bedroom.

I ordered their calzone and had them add pepperoni into it. The ingredients were pretty good, the pepperoni was a decent quality and the cheese was very thick. They did include ricotta, but no ham - which is why I added the pepperoni. The calzone was sufficiently cooked, the bread was overcooked at the tradeoff that the ingredients were at the proper temperature. One thing that this restaurant seems to do is to liberally pepper the outside of the bread with dry parmesan cheese and bake it into the dough. This gives the bread a crunch which, while not inherently bad, added to the feeling that the dough was overcooked.

The calzone was medium large, and was more on the expensive side, at $12.99 (because of the added pepperoni). The last criticism of this dish is that the marinara was not very good, and was clearly canned and reserved.

I give this calzone a C- for the value, and artistic merit that was taken with it that didn't quite add up.