Apizz Review

September 18, 2002 New restaurants continue to sprout on the Lower East Side. A few nights ago a little group of ours made it to Apizz, the strangely named new joint on Eldridge that, alas, has already been played up by the execrable Daily Candy. It's a gorgeous spot on a block otherwise overrun with housing projects. A massive brick oven takes up about a third of the total floor space (everything, it seems, is cooked in it). Alas, the food is not yet up to par. From-the-oven pizzas are plain and the spinach lasagna was drab. We'll give it another go in a month or two, as the spot is too beautiful not to mature.