Pictured:  Pizza at a recent test bake: cheese with fresh basil and garlic.  

 

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If bread could be so good it hurts, this place would have me popping prescription painkillers.  Nestled in a little storefront in a marginal part of West Philadelphia, somewhere in the transition between "too upscale" to "too sketchy", lies this unusual gem.

Everything I've tried here has been outstanding...from the bread to the pretzels to the bagels to the pastries.  The bread, if you get it unsliced, stays fresh for a couple days, and towards the end of its freshness, it's good when popped in the toaster-oven and doused with a bit of olive oil, or made into grilled cheese.  It's best right when you buy it though.  The bread is also very reasonably priced.  Metropolitan bakery, up the road, charges a good $1-2 per loaf over this place.  Its bread, in my opinion, is very good, but not quite as good...and thus, sorely overpriced.  This bakery changes the

marketplace for bread, it recalibrates my sense of value. Alex Z. via yelp.com.

 

Four Worlds Pizza is Here. This Sunday, we will keep the bakery

open until 7pm and offer hot veggie pizza to order and pickup from

4pm until 7pm.  

For now, we plan to do the same each Sunday; and hopefully iron out

all kinks before expanding the pizza offerings; so stay tuned for

more developments; including possible future delivery options.  Call

215-967-1458 on Sunday to order.

Menu:  (prices do not include sales tax)

Cheese Pizza                    Large  14"  $10   Extra Large  16"  $13

Special (5 or more options)  Large 14" $14  Extra Large 16" $18

Pizza Pie (no cheese)              Large  14"  $9    Extra Large 16" $12

Options Price:     Large  $.75 ea   Extra Large  1.00 ea.

Options:    Fresh basil, black olives, green pepper,

                  mushroom, garlic, onion, extra cheese, Parmesan.

Many of you might have heard my take on Pizza over the years.  Pizza

is bread; but somewhere along the way mainstream pizza lost its

artisan roots and instead, for efficiency and profit sake, began

adding sugar and/or other fats to the both the dough and the sauce to

make it taste good.  Pizza is still a huge draw because, for most

people, it's the only source of fresh, hot bread; one of the most

pleasurable foods around.  For this reason, take-out pizza places

have mostly replaced the neighborhood bakery.  But, we hear,

something lacking in our pizza options; while wonderful, we are left

with the feeling it could be much better.

Our pizza will feature true artisan thin sourdough crust with no

added sugar or fat (just flour, water, salt and a bit of barley

malt).  Our sauce is tomato puree (tomato and water) with some

spices, not sugar or fats added to the sauce.  Taste the difference

for yourself; it's an amazing pleasure and one we have been eager to

offer West Philly for quite a long time.  We think West Philly is

ready for it.

 

Gift Idea.  We sell gift certificates at the store and through the order forms.  When you buy one, we set up an account for your beneficiary and, if you want one, issue you a paper certificate.  After the account is set up, your beneificiary can use the credit at the store or for online ordering.  If you buy a $36 certificate, your account will be set up with $40 in credit.  So consdider giving the gift of bread and supporting your local merchants.  Gift certificates don't expire.