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I Heart Pizza By Marco In Dallas

By Nancy Nichols |
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Thin crust pizza at Marco's.
Thin crust pizza at Marco’s.

The other night I was invited over to my friend Beric’s house to watch the baseball All-Star Game. I must tell you that Beric is quite a food and baseball expert. He travels all of the time and is always sending out mass e-mails about a great meal he had in Seattle or a fabulous pizza place he discovered in Chicago. (He prefers to dine in American League cities.)

So, I was not surprised to find pizza on the menu for the baseball game watching festivities at Beric’s house. His wife, Jean, made a great spinach salad. They offered two thin crust pizzas from Marco’s in Preston Royal
plus a frozen Chicago-style deep dish mail pizza Beric had ordered from Lou Malnati’s, a place he loves in Chicago.

Mail order pizza from Lou Malnati's in Chicago.
Mail order pizza from Lou Malnati’s in Chicago.

Pizza by Marco or Marco’s Pizza, whatever you call it, has been around since 1956. For years it was run by a group of nice Hispanic ladies with a huge collection of elephant statues. There were no places to sit—it was take-out and cash only. Now, according to Jean, you will find “just some kids” working the window and there are tables and chairs. Marco’s also has three other locations and a website.

But the thin crust pizza with green olives, mushrooms, onions, and jalapenos is still my go-to pie. And the frozen pizza, that had been in Beric’s freezer for six months, was pretty dang good—the thick crust is flaky and buttery like a sweet pie crust and the tomato sauce was heavy on the garlic. It was all gone before the first pitch. Luscher? Jerrier? Batter up.

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