DE Pizza Review: Titanic Pizzeria

Review At A Glance:

The pizzas: Sicilian cheese, pepperoni, vegetable

The final rating: 4 out of 8 slices

Thinly sliced review: Much like the Titanic’s pre-iceberg voyage, the pizza looked like it should have been good, but that's not how the story ended. Titanic Pizzeria’s Sicilian pizza left us wondering whether the dough came from a pizza kitchen or the Wonder Bread factory. The vegetables looked like someone had dumped a package of “vegetables for pizza” on top. The sauce seemed to have lost its tomato along the way. The best part of the night was the service, which was terrific, cordial, and warm.

Review date: October 31, 2026

Full Ratings:

Final Composite Score: 4 out of 8 slices (a rare unanimous verdict!)

[Her: 4 out of 8 slices]

[Him: 4 out of 8 slices]

[Goodfriend Her: 4 out of 8 slices]

[Goodfriend Him: 4 out of 8 slices]

Read the full "dialogue review" below this picture approximating one of the pizzas consumed by your reviewers.

Picture by Titanic Pizzeria

Him:

This is our review of Titanic Pizzeria in Milton, Delaware. It's located in a small strip mall off Cave Neck Road in a shopping center we've never visited before. Our guests, Goodfriend Him and Goodfriend Her, have been there before, although apparently not for the pizza.

We ordered three pizzas: a Sicilian cheese pizza, a regular round pepperoni pizza, and a vegetable pizza. We had four reviewers and three pizzas. That seemed like a reasonable arrangement. What could possibly go wrong?

Goodfriend Him:

I started with the square pizza, the Sicilian, and it didn't taste like Sicilian pizza to me. The dough was really bready, and I don't think they added enough salt. It was very bland. The cheese was okay, but I thought it was rather scarce. I wasn't impressed.

Him:

You think use of the name Titanic was something like a warning?

Her:

Well, the Titanic sank. Is that what happened to our pizza expectations?

Him:

Oh, very good. I thought you were going to say our taste buds hit an iceberg. Or maybe "my heart will go on, but this meal shouldn't." There were several directions that joke could have gone.

Goodfriend Him:

Back to reviewing, I thought the pepperoni tasted good. I could actually taste the pepperoni, which was a positive. But it had the same bready crust. When I got to the crust itself, it was really chewy and doughy. I like my pizza thin, crisp, and crunchy, and this wasn't that.

Him:

Your favorite kind of pizza is vegetable [read aloud sarcastically], so let's hear what you thought about that one.

Goodfriend Him:

Unfortunately, I can't give a review of that tonight. I've had too many vegetables this week and not enough pizza. I think I may have reached my vegetable quota for the year. So I didn't have any of the vegetable pizza.

Him:

You didn't have a vegetable slice?

Goodfriend Him:

No. But overall, I don't think we're looking at a very good rating.

Him:

We're not ready for the ratings yet! The ratings come at the end. Don't jump ahead. You don't want to influence the jury's opinion.

Goodfriend Her:

That's right.

Him:

All right, Goodfriend Her. If you want to take a run at it, go ahead.

Goodfriend Her:

I didn't have the Sicilian pizza, in full disclosure. I never had a slice of it. I was too full. The reason was that I started with the vegetable pizza, which had a lot of vegetables on it, and then I had some pepperoni. Both the vegetable and pepperoni pizzas had a massive amount of cheese. The crust was very doughy and thick. It almost felt like I was eating a calzone. It was that thick. There was just too much of everything.

There was too much cheese, quite honestly. That's what I didn't like about it. I was too stuffed.

Her:

Too much cheese, too much dough, too many vegetables. It was a lot.

Him:

But how did it taste?

Goodfriend Her:

I thought it actually tasted okay. But it was very, very filling.

Her:

You said you like vegetable pizza.

Goodfriend Her:

I do like some vegetables. I don't like raw onions, though, and I thought the onions on this pizza should have been cooked. There were also sweet peppers, which I thought were a little unusual on a vegetable pizza. I've mostly had sweet peppers on hoagies. I love sweet peppers, so that wasn't a problem. The flavor was good. It was just a lot to eat for one slice of pizza. I couldn't eat more than two slices, and I didn't even finish the two I had.

Him:

I wish I had that problem. But I don't. I always seem to find room.

Her:

Now I feel like I ate too much.

Goodfriend Him:

I feel like I need a body-fat treatment.

Him:

What did you think about the crust?

Goodfriend Her:

The crust on all three pizzas was pretty much the same. Sicilian or not, it was basically the same crust, just cut into a square. There really wasn't any difference. Sicilian crust is usually thicker and airier, more like focaccia. This was just the same crust on everything. It tasted like it all came from a pizza dough factory attached to the Wonder Bread factory.

Him:

So, your theory is the crust dough factory gets the leftover dough from the Wonder Bread factory?

Goodfriend Her:

Yes. When they're making those little loaves, they just shave off a little bit and turn it into pizza dough.

Goodfriend Him:

It was the whitest, breadiest pizza dough I've ever had. Although maybe not the worst.

Her:

Not as bad as Ledo's pizza.

Goodfriend Him:

No, that was worse.

Him:

Let's not go there yet. We're not qualified to make that comparison. We haven't reviewed Ledo yet. I'm not saying we won't, but we don't know how it will turn out.

Her:

We're going by history.

All right. So, the crust was pretty mediocre at best. Very manufactured and mass-produced. I don't think there's any chance it was homemade.

The vegetable pizza looked as if somebody had opened a package labeled "Vegetables for Pizza" and dumped it on top. The vegetables didn't look fresh. They looked processed. The black olives, for example, didn't taste like olives. The onions were way too raw. Even though it was a vegetable pizza, it didn't taste like anything fresh.

I had a slice of everything because apparently I have a good appetite. The pepperoni was my favorite. Pepperoni is usually mass-produced, so it doesn't necessarily need to be fresh. It's supposed to get crispy, and it gave the pizza a nice texture and flavor.

The cheese pizza was fine. It tasted like pizza cheese, presumably including some mozzarella. But I could barely taste the sauce. It was so insignificant. There was practically no tomato flavor. Even the fresh tomatoes on the vegetable pizza didn't really taste like tomatoes.

Goodfriend Him:

That's about it.

Him:

I thought the pizzas looked as if they should taste good. They were nicely presented. But they didn't live up to their appearance. It was all superficial.

I had the same reaction to the Sicilian. Sicilian slices aren't supposed to droop, are they? They're supposed to hold their shape. You should get a nice crunch when you bite into them, something like focaccia. This one was so soft that you had to fold it like a regular pizza slice. That's not what you want from Sicilian pizza. It's the one kind of pizza that isn't supposed to fold.

And Sicilian pizza should have a different flavor, too. It should be richer, perhaps a little more herby. This was just regular cheese pizza in a different shape.

I like vegetable pizza. I like fresh vegetables. But these vegetables definitely weren't fresh, and they didn't have much flavor. I didn't want to go back for seconds.

I actually disagree with Her about the pepperoni. I thought it had no flavor.

Her:

It didn't have much of a taste.

Him:

So, we agree. I didn't get the salty, crunchy, fatty flavor I want from pepperoni. It didn't curl up into little cups, which is what you want when the fat renders out. It was just chewy, with a little bit of a ham flavor. It didn't do what I want pepperoni to do on a pizza.

And every single one of these pizzas needed salt. The crust needed salt. The cheese needed salt. I think it was mozzarella, but it was obviously not particularly good-quality mozzarella. This wasn't the mozzarella Pomodoro uses. This was more like something you could pick up at a grocery store. It was really mediocre.

I agree with you about the sauce, too. You could barely taste it.

Goodfriend Her:

That's partly because there was so much cheese.

Him:

There was also very little flavor in the sauce itself. It had just a hint of tomato.

Her:

Not even a hint of basil or oregano.

Him:

I was missing the typical Italian spices, too. That was true of all three pizzas. None of them had the flavor I expected.

I want to say something positive about the service. The woman who served us was terrific. She was very nice and diligent. Everything came out on time, and she provided me with more water than a table full of people could possibly drink during a meal. She did a really, really nice job, and I want to be positive about that part of the experience.

Her:

And we didn't feel at all as if we were being pushed or rushed out because it was closing time.

Him:

Even though it was close to closing.

Goodfriend Her:

When we went in, the restaurant was pretty full. It was about 6:45. By 7:45, we were the last table there. In less than an hour, the whole place had cleared out.

What I don't like about that is that I feel as if I have to get going. I feel like everybody wants to go home, and I should leave.

Him:

Do you think that's because they were ready to go home?

Goodfriend Her:

Maybe. Maybe not.

When I used to be a server, I couldn't stand having the last table. Everybody else was gone, and I wanted to go home. You naturally feel like you need to get out of there.

Him:

I'll mention one other thing. We've been to some pizzerias that are really interesting. Some are in very nice locations. Dough Bar, for example, had a very nice setting and a very nice interior. Other places we've visited have had attractive interiors, too.

This was almost completely an unadorned storefront with televisions on the wall. That was pretty much the entire wall treatment.

Goodfriend Him:

They did have some decorations.

Him:

They were completely swallowed up by the televisions.

Goodfriend Him:

Yes, the decorations were kind of overwhelmed.

Him:

The whole place seemed to absorb anything interesting. Maybe it sucked up the pizza flavor.

Goodfriend Him:

It didn't really have the atmosphere of a pizza place. It could have been brighter and more inviting.

Goodfriend Her:

It was bright. There just wasn't any music, and apparently there weren't any people for very long.

Him:

Put on a Dean Martin CD. Give us something!

Goodfriend Her:

I won't go into a place that doesn't have some kind of background music.

Him:

I'm with you.

All right. We're ready to do our scores. Remember, we grade on a scale of one to eight slices. Eight slices means metaphysical perfection: the pizza that would be served in Nirvana. One slice means please sell something different. Sell plumbing supplies, auto parts, potting soil, anything—but don't sell pizza anymore.

So, on a scale of one to eight, what's your score?

Goodfriend Her:

My overall score would be four.

Him: Four. Good. Her, what do you have?

Her:

Four.

Him: Also a four. Goodfriend Him?

Goodfriend Him:

I was potentially going to go with four.

Him:

Keep it at four. I'm also a four.

Her:

That's a unanimous opinion. I think it's our first.

Him:

That's right. This is the first time we've had a unanimous score among all four reviewers.

Her:

Have we ever agreed on anything before?

Him:

I think the last time we agreed on something, Hoover was president.

Her:

I wasn't even around then, although you were.

Him:

So that's our review of Titanic Pizzeria, fill in your own joke about icebergs, ships sinking, pizza, and the Delaware Shore here.