A few weeks (!) have already passed since the last limited edition from Papa John’s, and indeed we wondered, together with all the hungry people of this country, what was going on, and why one has to wait so long between announcements. Haven’t we suffered enough?
And here, just in time, and regardless of the moderate pressure that was applied, a new series lands here. Straight to the binge.
The sweet edition (or perhaps The Sweet Edition, not to say The Magical Pâtisserie Triangle) of Papa John’s and Dudu Outmezgine knows winter and knows that the defenses were removed long ago. It understands very well the psyche of its orderers and aims for their weakest point, and in fact for the sweet spot—the moment after the pizza, and the dessert that seals a good meal.
This stage is, traditionally and quite naturally, also the weak stage in the evolutionary chain of trays and chains. You start hungry and craving, and by the time the pizza does its thing you lose interest and almost forget that a good dessert is also required on the side, not to mention the sparse options in the field.
Here, not only did they not forget, they almost made the pizza itself forgotten. Heaven help us. Outmezgine, a master of display and sweetness, teamed up with the famous base dough and got to work. He mixed and spread, piled and sprinkled, and came out with three sweet options, which are also worthy dessert pizzas (NIS 49.90). The worthiest, and exactly in the right state of matter for the timing of the meal.
There is a “Red Forest” with almond cream, berries and crumble that manages to maintain an eruptive tangy punch within all this warmth; “Golden Almond” on the same almond cream base, with properly liquid chunks of chocolate chips and crumble; and a winner in the form of “Ricotta Royal” with vanilla cream and cheese, crumble and powdered sugar—delicate and elegant, certainly considering the genre and the potential, sweet only to a measured degree, in the most surprising way there is, and excellent as an after slice. As its creators intended, presumably.