Eat This! Gets Three and 1/2 Stars (Business Lunch)

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By: Northwest Arkansas Business Journal staff

Eat This!
5415 Pinnacle Point Drive
Rogers

3.5 stars

We’ve been anxious to check out the food at Eat This! — a place that claims it has a New York City flair — mostly so we wouldn’t have to actually go to New York.

The restaurant presents itself as a pizza joint, however, when our lone reviewer sat down, the menu read like a copy of The New York Times: it was packed with interesting words and contained plenty of variety.

There were hero sandwiches, paninis, salads and pizzas, not to mention dinner entrees and burgers. Many of the items have playfully New York-centric names, such as the “Guggenheim Chicken” or the “Woody Allen Wagyu Burger.”

But our diner chose to go for the pizza, a 10-inch pie called “The Basil” ($11) with sausage ($1.50 extra).

The pizza had a traditional thin New York crust, savory red pizza sauce and mozzarella topped off with plenty of fresh basil and a modest helping of sausage.

It was delicious, he said. He’s never had a real New York pizza, but it was as good or better than any he’s had in Arkansas, except for a Chicago-styled pie in Hot Springs.

There was plenty of cheese, and it was “good ‘n’ gooey,” he said. The crust was right on, not like a cracker and not soggy, he said.

As he was eating, our reviewer eyed a desert case and felt like going New York all the way with some cheesecake.

But then he spied a slice of apple pie ($5), a personal weakness. The waitress said it was made on-site and was the owner’s recipe, so the reviewer had to try it.

It was different from any Southern style pie he’s had. There was little or no “goo.” It was just apple slices piled high. But the crushed pecan and lattice top made the pie well worth a slight case of culture shock, he said.

We liked Eat This! — particularly its two different kinds of pie — so the next time you’re looking for a twist in the usual Benton County business lunch fare, don’t fuhgetaboutit.