My problem with Zachary's isn't the massive crowds and almost impossible wait, it's the (related) fact that people seem to worship this place. It may be the only one around (for all I know) that serves stuffed Chicago-style pizza, but that doesn't mean that much to me. I love their pizza sometimes, when the cheese is good and the sauce is savory and full of those big bites of tomato, and the toppings go well or are left off; but there are times when the sauce is overly sweet and flecked with funny herbs that just aren't working, like an overdose of oregano, and the crust has gone soggy and... those are the days when I wish people wouldn't gasp "Zachary's!" like bosomy heroines waiting in filmy nightgowns for handsome vampires to woo them in some bad horror movie.
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