Restaurant Review: Crust & Crumble (Asbury Park, New Jersey)
After our day at the beach, my middle America visitor and I wanted some pizza. Fortunately, Asbury Park, New Jersey has options! We chose Crust & Crumble, an omnivore pizzeria with a separate, fully vegan menu.
We started with an appetizer of vegan mozzarella sticks with marinara dipping sauce. These were, as with most vegan cheeses, more creamy than stretchy (not stretchy at all, really), but we enjoyed the flavor.
We also split two personal-size pizzas, which turned out to be big enough that we only ate one and a half of them:
The "Da Vinci" is topped with marinara, vegan mozzarella, vegan ricotta, red onion, spinach, and portobella mushrooms. We ate the whole thing!
We also had a deep dish pizza with vegan meatballs, vegan pepperoni, roasted red peppers, and various other things. I can't locate this specific pizza on their online menu. I think it may have been a daily special. But it was super tasty!
General thoughts: This was really a fun night out for us. I would very happily eat here again! It's too bad I don't live close enough to haunt it more regularly. 4.5/5
We also split two personal-size pizzas, which turned out to be big enough that we only ate one and a half of them:
General thoughts: This was really a fun night out for us. I would very happily eat here again! It's too bad I don't live close enough to haunt it more regularly. 4.5/5
I love pizza so much, and those pizzas both look delicious! Sounds like some amazing options in Asbury Park.
ReplyDeleteCan you believe I'd been vegan for about a year before I even knew such a thing as vegan pizza was possible? I was so excited to find that it existed!
DeleteOh wow!!! This looks amazing! I have been craving mozzarella sticks like crazy, those look so good. The pizzas look amazing. I'm a crust girl so I love a crusty pizza! The Da Vinci is so exactly what I need in my life!
ReplyDeleteIt was really good! I'm fortunate that my middle America visitor didn't mind that the cheese wasn't stretchy.
DeleteOooh yum, I would love to try the mozzarella sticks, and I have yet to have a vegan deep dish pizza!
ReplyDeleteI hadn't had deep dish in SO LONG. I recommend it! It was just so much that we didn't finish it.
DeleteOh wow, that deep dish pizza looks incredible! I've made my own once but never found anywhere that serves it vegan. Clearly I need to cross the Atlantic!
ReplyDeleteThey have some awesome vegan options! Vegan jalapeno poppers!? YES PLEASE! I am 99% sure this place is always closed when I am around (aka off season)
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