Pi - Southfield's Best Sandwich

[poshpeckish]

friends,

i had an unbelievable sandwich yesterday at Pi, formerly Caffe Milano, out on Northwestern Highway. It's the same Roasted Pork sandwich that you can get at Il Posto (not exactly as i reveal below) but here the portion of succulent brick oven smoked pork is much better. the tomatoes were unbelievably ripe - even in march, no less. and the organic greens were impressively fresh as well. the ciabatta bread was in perfect proportion to the interior and gained a bit of smoke itself from a toasting in the brick oven. phenomenal. the sad thing is that you must ask for this preparation otherwise the management will desecrate it swiss cheese and dijonnaise. i kid you not.

and this is the key problem with pi. all the elements for a dynamite restaurant are there but it can't decide if it's going to be lunkhead sports bar, black swinger's lounge or a solid southern european bistro.

monday nights pizzas under six bucks! i had an italian sausage and red onion one last week that blows anything that you get anywhere in the metro area, including tomatoes apizza.

check it out. who knows how long this place will last before it's turned into something else.

[Alex]

friends,

i had an unbelievable sandwich yesterday at Pi, formerly Caffe Milano, out on Northwestern Highway. It's the same Roasted Pork sandwich that you can get at Il Posto (not exactly as i reveal below) but here the portion of succulent brick oven smoked pork is much better. the tomatoes were unbelievably ripe - even in march, no less. and the organic greens were impressively fresh as well. the ciabatta bread was in perfect proportion to the interior and gained a bit of smoke itself from a toasting in the brick oven. phenomenal. the sad thing is that you must ask for this preparation otherwise the management will desecrate it swiss cheese and dijonnaise. i kid you not. 

and this is the key problem with pi. all the elements for a dynamite restaurant are there but it can't decide if it's going to be lunkhead sports bar, black swinger's lounge or a solid southern european bistro.

monday nights pizzas under six bucks! i had an italian sausage and red onion one last week that blows anything that you get anywhere in the metro area, including tomatoes apizza.

check it out. who knows how long this place will last before it's turned into something else.

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Interesting -- the menu also is all over the place, so I wouldn't have given Pi a second thought if you hadn't mentioned it here. Is the roasted pork sandwich the one listed on their lunch menu as "Apple Marinated Sliced Pork Loin?"

What makes their pizza so good? I'm going to be in Southfield in a couple of weeks and was planning on eating lunch at Tomatoes Apizza, but if this is better...