Whenever your restaurant is featured on “Oprah Winfrey,” you should have a party. That's just what Tommy Jr. and Jimmy Marcos decided. Their restaurant, Ledo Restaurant of Adelphi, Maryland, founded by their father, Tommy Marcos Sr., was featured in an interview by Gayle King on the Oprah Show last week as having one of America's favorite original pizzas.
I went to the restaurant to enjoy the festivities last Saturday. One of the owners, Jimmy, was offering free slices of the award winning pizza to all the patrons in the dining room. Along with cheese pizza, Marcos offered the same pizza that King enjoyed when she came in for the interview: pepperoni and onion. I see Gayle King and I have a couple of things in common.
Friends and fans crowded into the restaurant's bar to watch the Oprah clip on the televisions. It was fun to be part of the crowd cheering on their coworkers and friends.
I have never been disappointed with Ledo pizza. I have tried several combinations. This time I tried chicken, zucchini and garlic. Tommy Jr. indicated it was the combination of the sweet sauce and salty cheese on a basic dough crust that makes their pie unique. I have to agree.
Jimmy, wearing his festive tie adorned with pictures of pizza, excitedly pointed out patrons who were returning alumni from the University of Maryland as well as one couple who drove down from Pennsylvania just to see if Oprah was right. That couple, Ed & Joyce Strushensky of Johnstown Pennsylvania, left with a large sausage and mushroom pizza to take to their friends back home. Looks like Oprah was right.
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