The dough you dream of
Perhaps, for some newcomers, Cambridge and Boston feel provincial. You miss New York. You miss Rome. At Campo de Fiori in Harvard Square, tucked inside the Holyoke Center, you'll find a taste of both. Fresh, colorful pizzas are laid out on tile -- like a Manhattan pizza parlor at midnight. Their names reflect Italy's regional cuisines: A Milano has prosciutto and cheese, a Napoli anchovies and light tomato sauce.
The pizza dough is thin and crusty, similar to that made on Rome's famous square the Campo de Fiori, where pizza is sold by the pound. The Cambridge restaurant of the same name (and now a new branch in Weston) sells pizza by the slice: Small ($5) is generous for one; large ($6) feeds two handily. Don't forget the sandwiches (below), made on the same dough. As you order from the counter, knives crunch loudly through the thin crusted bread, and large squares are filled with all kinds of real Italian meats and cheeses. Provincial? Hardly. Close your eyes and you'll imagine you're bathed in Rome's golden light.
Campo de Fiori is at 1352A Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 617-354-3805, and at 37 Center St., Weston, 781-893-6135.
