Egyptian pizza offers a tasty off-campus experience
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The food at Egyptian Pizza is, on the whole, quite delicious and the pricing reasonable.
Although I have been a patron of the restaurant for a long time, I still find myself sometimes liking and sometimes questioning the thematic décor, which can be overdone in some instances and cheap in others.
Case in point: You may find yourself sitting on a hard-cushioned chair and staring via mirror-lined walls at dimly lit Egyptian ruins (molded plaster pillars and randomly placed red brick). Some find this appealing; most likely, you will simply forget your surroundings after a few minutes of acclimation. The plastic chairs and matching marble-patterned tables are highly reminiscent of a beachside sandwich shop or inexpensive café of the late 1980s, but since Egyptian Pizza can deliver its slightly sweet, very moist pita bread pizzas and halal Middle Eastern entrées to your front door, this will probably not be an issue for the average undergraduate student living within its delivery area, which includes the Homewood Campus.
That's right, they deliver! I highly recommend that you give them a call one night when you are tired of the same five or 10 dinner options in the area. In the past, I have found their delivery service a bit slow, but certainly no worse than that of other area delivery joints. Compared to your normal nightly options, the food will certainly be higher in quality and quite different in taste.
Still, even if delivery is very tempting, I encourage you to take a shuttle ride (or befriend and coerce someone with a car or Hopkins van privileges) so that you can enjoy more freshly-cooked food and "get out" for one evening. A great many Baltimore residents will have heard of Belvedere Square, which houses not only Egyptian Pizza, but numerous other restaurants, four or so bars (including two wine bars), a gourmet bakery and soup bar, a bookstore and several cafés.
Having grown up in Baltimore, I can assure you that this is a relatively safe area surrounded by middle class and upper middle class neighborhoods.
Although I have been a patron of the restaurant for a long time, I still find myself sometimes liking and sometimes questioning the thematic décor, which can be overdone in some instances and cheap in others.
Case in point: You may find yourself sitting on a hard-cushioned chair and staring via mirror-lined walls at dimly lit Egyptian ruins (molded plaster pillars and randomly placed red brick). Some find this appealing; most likely, you will simply forget your surroundings after a few minutes of acclimation. The plastic chairs and matching marble-patterned tables are highly reminiscent of a beachside sandwich shop or inexpensive café of the late 1980s, but since Egyptian Pizza can deliver its slightly sweet, very moist pita bread pizzas and halal Middle Eastern entrées to your front door, this will probably not be an issue for the average undergraduate student living within its delivery area, which includes the Homewood Campus.
That's right, they deliver! I highly recommend that you give them a call one night when you are tired of the same five or 10 dinner options in the area. In the past, I have found their delivery service a bit slow, but certainly no worse than that of other area delivery joints. Compared to your normal nightly options, the food will certainly be higher in quality and quite different in taste.
Still, even if delivery is very tempting, I encourage you to take a shuttle ride (or befriend and coerce someone with a car or Hopkins van privileges) so that you can enjoy more freshly-cooked food and "get out" for one evening. A great many Baltimore residents will have heard of Belvedere Square, which houses not only Egyptian Pizza, but numerous other restaurants, four or so bars (including two wine bars), a gourmet bakery and soup bar, a bookstore and several cafés.
Having grown up in Baltimore, I can assure you that this is a relatively safe area surrounded by middle class and upper middle class neighborhoods.
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