Papa's Pizza in Cabo Rojo was formerly Pizzeria Seda. New name, new pizza, and this time they got the special recipe just right.

Of course, pizza preferences vary depending on the individual. I was raised in a place where the pizza was always cheap, often quite different (think BBQ Chicken Pizza with diced chicken breast and Bulls Eye barbecue sauce), and almost always addictively great tasting. It was a staple for family's on the week-end, working class lunch-ers, and for after hours club jumpers drying out from the nights' events.

In Cabo Rojo, I've never really discovered the right pizza here, probably extremely biased by my consumption of some of the greatest pizza you can find. When I recently had Papa's, it reminded me a lot of one of my all time favorite pies from university, "The Classic". By looking at it, it seemed like just a regular medium crust pep and cheese. But the classic came with three distinct surprises: (1) garlic basted crust, (2) sweet sauce, and (3) sprinkled shredded real bacon bits.

Papa's pep & cheese is not quite at that level of divine pizza greatness, but Papa's sauce does have a sweet edge that reminds me of it, enough so that they make the fan roll of the most under read blog in Puerto Rico (I have to find my niche).

No more frozen & re-heated pies from Pizza Delight & Little Ceasar's. If you are in the Cabo Rojo area, give Papa's Pizza a call and try it out. $20 will get you a large delivered & cover most or all of the tip depending on how generous you are in these economically challenging times.

Tell them the Insider sent you. No - it won't get you a discount. Just for fun.

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