This quiet little street is parallel to Yong Kang St, famous for Ice Monster and Din Tai Fung. Alleycat’s serves crispy thin crust pizza that sends you far away from Taipei! ***Cash Only***

Entrance:

Small red entrance which leads down to a basement restaurant.

Interior:

Red walls, dark wood tables, black leather seats and a sleek bar along one wall. Even the menu was red text on black, a big no no for eye comfort! At 7pm it was pretty empty but it began filling up at around 8. Lazy blues music played in the background and only half of the diners and workers were Asian.

Italian Garden NT$120
Crispy Romaine and Quartered Fresh Tomato Tossed in our Homemade Vinaigrette Dressing

A basic salad of crispy lettuce and tomatoes with balsamic vinaigrette and some herby seeds (maybe mustard?).

Garlic, Herb, and Olive Oil Pizza Crust NT$120
Our Fresh Pizza Dough Baked Until Crisp, Sprinkled with Italian Herbs and Fresh Crushed Garlic, then Drizzled with Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Very airy, thin, light, and crispy, almost exactly like a saltine cracker! Topped with a ton of garlic and oregano and comes with a very thick and creamy parmesan cheesy garlic dip.
It was really fun to eat at first, but with time and the strong air conditioning, the light crispy cracker turned harder and staler by the minute. Once it had become fully chewy and we had eaten about half of it, the garlic became overwhelmingly spicy and we had to flip it over and pick at the back side, namely the still crunchy bubbles on the crust. Eat and finish this as soon as it arrives before it’s too late!

Spinaci Calzoni NT$320- spinach & creamy ricotta
Coke NT$50

Tons of thick melty creamy cheese, fresh boiled or steamed spinach leaves with long stems wrapped in a thin crispy doughy crust. Sprinkled with oregano and comes with a chunky tomato sauce and a small yummy creamy ceasar salad. And a nice cold bottle of coca-cola to wash it all down!

Quattro Formaggi 10″ NT$350- mozarella, pecorino romano, parmesan and feta
add shiitake mushroom NT$30

Super thin crust (the chewy cheese layer was equal in thickness to the crust) that resembled the cracker-like crunchy quality of the Pizza Crust appetizer. I love my pizza this way, with lots of cheese, mushrooms, and just enough tomato sauce to keep it moist and flavorful without causing the cheese to slide off or making the crust soggy. No need to ever dab off the oils on this pizza as it was perfectly “dry”.

Overall, good pizza. I haven’t been to many pizza places in Taipei yet, but being that it is Taiwan, and that most places create not so great Asian feeling and tasting pizzas, I would agree with all the reviews it gets, and have to say that Alleycat’s has gotta be one of the best pizza places here!

total+tax= NT$990 (dinner for 3 with leftovers)

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