Several months ago, there was an article about the best pizzas in the ATL and Nashville-based Slim + Husky’s appeared on it, and to me. Like everything else that catches my stomach’s eye, I put it on “the list” and waited for the right time. So, on a drive home on Friday evening, I ordered a couple of pizzas for carryout, from the location on Metropolitan Parkway (they have one on Howell Mill, also). Since that first visit, we’ve now been back twice more – and they seem to be busier each time.

Founded by three Tennessee State University grads (friends and football players), their tag line is “Pizza. Art. Music.” The interior reflects their love of art. And the pizza name’s reflect their love of music.

Their pizzas come in two varieties – slim and husky. For those who aren’t children of Sears & Roebuck, you may not know this was how they classified kids clothes from the 50s, up to whenever. You either bought:

“regular” jeans;

a pair with SLIM on the leather patch (where Levi’s went on more expensive jeans) when you had to have a belt to hold them up because you had no hips; or

“HUSKY” on the tag if your belt was for different reasons.

On the first visit, I ordered a Nashville Hot Chicken husky:

a spicy chicken blend with jalapeños, banana peppers, a dill parm shake (powder) and a hot honey drizzle. I LOVE Nashville hot chicken and this is a perfect reinterpretation. It’s medium hot and the hot honey drizzle balances that heat so well. It’s hard to judge the size from a picture, but this pizza can feed two – or make two meals for one.

Since then, we’ve had:

a Cee No Green, a carnivore’s pizza with pepperoni, ham, ground beef and sausage – which was excellent;

the Cali Love (which has artichokes, spinach pesto, their house blend of cheese, tomatoes and red onions – this was for my wife, so I can’t speak directly to it, but it received rave reviews; and

the Rony, Roni, Rone, a pepperoni overload pizza with their red sauce and house cheese blend. This is truly a “Pepperoni Lover’s” pizza.

Prices are reasonable and pizza is excellent. Here’s to their continued success – and did I mention they have wings? We’ll be trying those on our next visit.