My spouse and I
enjoyed drinks at Crust on a Sunday afternoon in late October 2015. Crust,
which opened in the fall of 2014, is open for lunch and dinner on Mondays
through Saturdays (closed on Sundays except when an event is occuring at the
PPL Center). Surprisingly in this day and age, Crust does NOT have its own
website (it has only a mediocre page on the PPL website), nor do they accept
reservations. The wait time can be long just prior to events, but otherwise
seems reasonable.
Crust is located
on the street level of the PPL Center. The restaurant can roll back the front
windows of the space in nice weather for semi-al fresco dining. Inside, the
restaurant has two levels: the main floor, and a higher mezzanine level a few
steps above. The tables on the street level of the restaurant are high-tops
(with regular tables on the mezzanine level), and the main dining area area
also features an L-shaped bar that seats about 15 people. The coal-fired pizza
oven is located at the back of the main level and is open to the dining area,
so you can watch the chefs prepare your food. The ceilings on the main level are
high, making the space seem more spacious than it actually is. The predominant
color of the décor is black. Besides a large selection of pizzas, the
restaurant also offers a few appetizers (like meatballs, wings, and a cold
Mediterranean pie), salads, sandwiches and wraps, and entrees (which are cooked
in skillets in the coal-fire oven). Parking is available on the street, or in a
nearby surface lot or garage.
We saw enough to
want to return to Crust to try the food; we just wish that they were open every
Sunday.
