Red Brick Pizza has closed.
mmm-yoso is not on vacation. Cathy is back to blogging about what she eats.
Hi. You do know, I am merely researching everything in sight, for your sake. Sometimes The Mister and I go to Starbucks and get some beverage and sit and read for a while. There is a Red Brick Pizza in the same mall as one of numerous Starbucks on Clairmont Mesa Boulevard. This one is near the Registrar of Voters Office (one block east of it). I will admit we have been curious. There were coupons online, so…that clinched it for us. (click here for lots of coupons)
So, the concept is the old brick oven to cook pizza dough…and the Red Brick people have superheated the oven ( I would bet with ceramics) so that it will cook the dough at 1000° in 3 minutes… hmmmm…fascinating. I love the concept of superconductivity. We decided to try a medium Chopped Italian salad ($6.49), which included artichoke hearts as well as salami, mozzarella, olives, tomatoes, pepperocinis, Parmesan and croutons
. The lettuce was mostly Romaine and stayed crispy. There was a lot of cheese and meat on the salad. Easily it is for two people and could be a meal in itself. The dressing was a very good Italian.
The Mister decided to try a Fhazani™…a creation of the Red Brick Pizza people. Its a Fire roasted gourmet Italian sandwich basically the fire roasted pizza dough, cooked with toppings and then stuffed with fresh lettuce, tomatoes and served with salad dressings (Italian and a Ranch) on the side…so you can top or dip. ($6.50)
As you can see, its cut in half and seems quite large. The Mister got just the basic cheese Fhazani™, so we could see how it was. 
From this view of the open dough, you can see it was stuffed quite well. It was very different, the hot and cold and fresh dough. It was quite good. Unique and tasty.
The best part about Red Brick Pizza is…the Italian ode to dessert- Gelato. They have a selection of about 50 gelato flavors and make 12 different ones fresh a day. This is a one serving cup ($2.60) but with two flavors in it- coconut and green apple. 
Both flavors were *so wonderfully* concentrated and rich. I know I will stop in here in the summer just got a cup, if nothing else.
They sell "Party Paccos ™- party packs: A Sides Pacco™ is $9 and has 28 bite size appetizers (Breadsticks, mozzarella breadsticks, and Fire Roast Toast™); The Pizza Pacco™ is five nine inch pizzas with any one topping cut into 20 slices and costs $30; The Salad Pacco™ is a choice of any two chopped medium size salads for $12; The Fhazani Pacco™ is a choice of five Fhazani™'s cut into 20 pieces and the Gelato Pacco™- $12 for fresh packed gelato. All of these Paccos™ serve 6 to 8 people
The "Italian party!" which includes the Sides Pacco, the Salad Pacco, your choice of Fhazani™ or Pizza Pacco and the Gelato Pacco for $60 seems like a great bargain (especially with the gelato)
Red Brick Pizza,website, numerous locations.
Seems like you guys pigged out – I would too 😉
Heard of the place just never been in one. Thanks
Hi Cathy, thanks for all your research, they all sound delicious! I’m overseas and so it’s not likely that I’ll ever get to taste any of these food that you’ve written about, but I sure do enjoy reading about them. Keep on writting!
Hi Cathy!
It looks YUMMAY! I was wondering where you found the coupons. 🙂
I googled and couldn’t find anything… 🙁
Thanks!
Hi Bill- We shared everything and there was salad left over for the next day. Had to finish the bread and gelato right away 🙂
Thanks for commenting, Hungry. I can see via our Site Meter that we have visitors from IP addresses all over the world, and I am always curious as to who and what they are looking at.
Hi, again, Miss Vicky. The Mister had found a flyer on his car window at work (near this location) more than a year ago, but on this visit, we went to http://www.get1free.com for the coupon. It is great food. I do always try to use a coupon the first time, in case it isn’t great food. Then I don’t feel ripped off.
Hi Cathy!
Thanks for the heads up! I do that too…. find coupons so I don’t feel too bad if the food wasn’t up to par. Have you checked out
http://www.studentdollarstretcher.com?
Hehee… it’s from my college days when they used to pass out the booklets on campus , now you can print the pdf and the restaurants will take them too! (There’s one in there for Nozomi-La Jolla)
Hi Miss V…Hadn’t seen that coupon site, and just saw that some places offer discounts to UCSD alumni all the time. Since we have both taken Extension Courses at UCSD over the years…hmmm… We do like using coupons mostly for someplace new, and always buy something additional, like an appetizer or dessert, and, of course, always tip on what the whole bill would have been.
Thanks for the review, Cathy! Since you’ve been to both Italy and San Diego’s Little Italy, i was wondering how you would rate this in comparison?
Ah, the sense of smell evokes the most memories in all of us, and when I walk in the front door of Filippi’s in Little Italy, with the small store right inside the front door, with the dried salted fish, olives, cheese and dried everything, well, that is it for me. I go back to the good times we had in Naples. Now, the food is not quite the same. Pizza is merely an appetizer, never a main dish. Antipasti does not include lettuce… The main courses are not as spicy hot or garlic-y as we have over here. Sauces are pretty much crushed tomatoes and olive oil, the main meat was veal, no sausages. Fresh, hot bread kept coming out from the kitchen, as did wonderful room temperature wine…refilled into the same uncorked bottle you started with. Desserts were plain/few ingredients but wonderful tasting. Pastry balls (protiferoles) in a bowl of fresh whipped cream…and you could walk down any street and get a cup of espresso or latte which cost less if you took it at the counter, standing, rather than using a table at many places up and down any street or side street. Oh and back then, a bottle of wine cost $1, a bottle of mineral water was $2 and a small bottle of Coca Cola was $3. Guess what we drank?..and… thanks for letting me get back some of those memories.