PIZZA
youngEINSTEIN
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who has the best?
youngEINSTEIN
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word, im not from there, i have family there and i ALWAYS hit up that place when i visit, NY pizza holds the game down.
Around here there are 2 bests - (1) actually tastes good
(2) mass quantity of pizza for the price
Mineo's on murray ave
in pittsburgh.
Any good pizzeria in Naples (birthplace of the pizza) - and either the Margherita or Napoletana: nothing ornate, neither laden w/ cheese, but just the full flavors of the tomato paste and basil breathing and enveloping the thin crust... It's the[/b] consummate pizza experience...
And then jump on the train to Rome to cop some gelato @ Giolitti's! The watermelon gelato w/ chocolate seeds!
pizza and fries? thats some crazy shit.
the best:
Difara's
the rest:
L&B (for the whole pie)
Joe's (I need to do one more taste check, but since they moved it hasn't been the same)
Rosario's (for late-night fix)
There's one out in Coney that I've been meaning to try, I think The Gooch knows it? Heard real good things about it.
In the Bay Area dudes like Zacharys. That shit is NOT PIZZA! It's good, but it's not. pizza.
I fuck with Arinells in the Bay pretty much exclusively.
Word there are some good slices uptown. I forget all the names, but I had spots on Amsterdam above 133rd, that was real good, and also on Kingsbridge Rd about a block off University.
I prefer not to wait on line when it comes to pizza. I defeats the purpose. I like a little grime to my slice. I'll do chi-chi style pizza in Manhattan, but on a hot summer night,drunk and shit, I'm not messin' w/ a line/lines. Two Boots has a nice crust.
Favorite toppings:
Fresh Garlic
Black Olives
Sun-Dried Tomatoes
Anchovies
Mushrooms(got that Zinc)
Fresh Basil
Well, I looked at it as the same thing as waiting for a table in a restaurant. No way would I hit up a pizza place on the regular where I had to wait 20 minutes or a half hour, but Grimaldis is worth the trip. The setting is dope too, right at the Brooklyn Bridge.
Two Boots does nice things with goat cheese.
On Long Island, the best spot to hit up (though I don;t know about that place in Kings Park that someone mentioned) is Umberto's in New Hyde Park, right near the Queens border on Jericho Tpke (Rte. 25). Unfukwittable.
New Haven: the birthplace of American pizza
In the early years of the 20th century (the Pizza Legend goes) Frank Pepe immigrated to New Haven, where he created the first American pizza by putting tomatoes on top of old bake-shop bread. His creation was so successful that in 1925 Pepe opened his first pizzeria on Wooster Street. By 1938, business was booming, the whole family was involved, and Pepe's nephew Sal Consiglio split off and opened his own pizzeria, Sally's.
brick oven 4ife
i'd also like to add Mack and Mancos that are located in the Ocean City New Jersey are. their Pizza is FIRE!
I'd have to make/buy some collards put it on a good slice. I wish someone in NYC would try that shit w/ hot sauce on it.
dude...american food in the UK sucks dog balls.
Indian food on the other hand...mmmmm
I think you're referring to totonno's.......and yes it's worth the trek out there. Read this for more info.
Don't know any joints out in mississauga... but I'd love to know where you had that naan pizza!!! Naan is the shit. Just the other night I was eating some chana masala, naan, and chicken tikka from a dope little indian spot at Carlton and Sherbourne, called New Diamond Restaurant. Cabbies love it, partially because it's open 'til like 5 am or something. Atmosphere is shite... so take out is recommended.
I gotta admit I don't get a lot of pizza anymore.. so I don't have any dope spots.
The Big Slice on Yonge is a dirty dirty drunk fix. Can become an aquired taste when sober...
I've had Mama's Pizza, on College in little italy... that shit is good. Only a slice though... not a whole pie.
That's about it. Pizza Pizza is shite, but EVERYWHERE. I swear it's like the pizza version of Tim Hortins here in Canada.
I live almost right above a Dominos, and I don't like their pizza, except lately I've been turned on to their thin crust... it's decent. I do just olives and some oregano and basil... it's not amazing, but it's literaly 10 steps from my door.
Terroni's:
1 Balmoral Avenue
106 Victoria Street
720 Queen Street West
Best thin crust I've had in the city...
Gerrard Pizza on Danforth comes in 2nd - usually get the Margherita when gettin' 'za - somewhat of a tainted version given the inclusion of cheese (see above)...
Had pizza in India - soggy, bland, really unpalatable - nor a good look - although it was/is pretty popular for those people of the Subcontinent lookin' for Western fare, especially in Bangalore...
Delisis on Western
Lou Malnatis on Lincoln
Jb's on Morse
Gullivers on Howard
Pete's on Western used to have some of the best pizza for a corner spot in the city until Suparossa bought it a few yrs back. Anyone else know what I'm talking about?
Bacino's on Lincoln
Freddy's on 61st
Carmens on Sheridan
Pat's on Sheffield
Pequod's on Clybourn
Major cosign. The wife and I have made the drive to New Haven a couple of times just for the pizza (and made a couple of lengthy detours other times. Truly unfuckwithable.