A couple of fake posters for a fictional pizza place offering a roman style pizza called "teglia romana", very popular all over Italy the last 10 years or so. Crispy on the bottom, soft inside.

A different kind of gastronomical experience to the-impossible-to-get-in Dorsia, featured in the book and the movie. Even for Patrick Bateman. Something is also kind of "off" here as well, judging by the posters. The lush basil, the melting cheese, the pizza name etc. 

The font used is very similar to Copperhead Gothic used for Paul Allen's business card. 

The pizza name "Il Polentone" comes from an italian term used in the south of Italy for northern Italians who traditionally eat polenta (very coarsly ground corn cooked with water). A very mediterranean thing. A short Wikipedia description in the comments bellow. 

Also, the dough was made with sourdough, wheat bread flour AND cooked polenta. The bread flour to cooked polenta ratio was 1:1. Around 75% hydration. Hence the name "Il Polentone". Not an easy dough to pull off due to the lack of gluten in corn.

Our pizza also had a sauce made with fresh ripe tomatoes, garlic, dried oregano, olive oil, salt and cracked black pepper. Cooked ham (prosciutto cotto), pancetta, mozzarella and grated grana padano also. 

A delicious pizza and a nod to a cult book/movie.






Inspired by Bret Easton Ellis's "American Psycho" (1991)