Bambino's of Hopkinsville, KY

I like to sample the regional pizzas. In Hopkinsville Kentucky there is Bambino's. The inside has a pool table and a bar. There are neon lights. There are some decorative chalk drawings along one wall.  

There is a scale for thickness of  crust. 1 is paper thin, usually new york style. 5 is a sicilian or thickly crusted deep dish. Papa John's would get a 3. Pizza Hut pan pizza would get a 4.  

There is a scale for the volume of sauce. 1 is a very thin spread. Not enough to make a 1 crust become soggy. 1 sauce with any other type of crust will make the pizza seem like cheesy bread. A 5 for sauce would be a lake between a curved bowl of crust and cheese. Papa John's would get a 3. Pizza Hut would typically get a 2.  

There is a scale for the volume of cheese. 1 is a dusting of a finely shredded cheese. The sauce will be visible and there may be holes in the coverage. 5 is a piling that spills across your pan (or box) when a slice is pulled away. Papa John's would get a 3. Pizza Hut would get a 4.  

For scale, Bambino's get a 2.5/2/4  2.5 for crust. 2 for sauce. 4 for cheese. Let's simplify this for future reference. Bambino's pizza is 2.5cr2ce4ch. That's the code.  

I'm also going to rate my general satisfaction within categories.  

Crust gets a 3/5. Cooked on a a grill pan, it would have been pretty dry without the cheese grease.  

Sauce gets a 3/5. Adequately thick. Quite plain but that's okay. The tomatoes know how to do their job.  

Overall Quality gets a 4/5. As you can see, this bad boy was made with love. The cheese had a very nice stretch. However, without toppings the pizza was fairly bland.  

Style gets a 2/5. Bambino's makes a very plain, midwestern pan pizza. There was effort into making the joint a cool place to hang. Not for me, though. I'm not into playing grabber games and shooting pool at their one table. At least they didn't go too fancy. I should've included some pics. Maybe if I lived in Hopkinsville I'd want to party there.  

They get 60%.  

That's okay because even bad pizza is better than non pizza and I think their pizza was great.  If they had a Bambino's in my neighborhood I'd get it all the time.  Overall quality is a pretty big selling point.