Decent Pizza
 

Is there anyplace to get decent pizza in The Villages?

We had Papa John's last night and it wasn't very good. Way too much dough and very chewy. Hardly any sauce or cheese. It was like eating pizza dough and vegetables.

Flippers is not much better.

We've had Little Joey's but that a way's away.

Is there anything decent that is golf cart accessible?

Bravo Pizza in Lake Sumter. Cane Garden has good pizzas as well.

Bravo is pretty good. If you are from the NE Cane and Mallory are awful. Leaving TV Blue Highway in Ocala is very good and so as Belleview.

Francesco's is pretty good, but not in The Villages.

Legends in Fruitland Park

FINALLY!!!! A new post that doesn't have to do with Irma. Bravo, Doc, and btw, go to Bravo's at LSL.

Mallory CC

Stavros, Leesburg R441

We go to Little Joeys quite a bit but not in The Villages. We also LOVE Flippers pizza. Had NYPD pizza and it is very good as well. Born and raised in New York and these 3 places are the closest to real New York pizza around here!

Love NYPD pizza

We use to stop in Little Joeys a couple of times a year when my wife had her dentist appointment at Bayley Plaza, that is until last February. They failed their health inspection and had to close for a day or two. The Villages online newspaper had all the details and it is too gross to print here. Think of the worse, and it's worse than that. If you need to find out more, go to The Village News website and search, you cannot put a link on this website to that website, otherwise I would. I just did a google search and the Village News story came right up. BTW, I hadn't eaten at Flippers until they opened the new one at Brownwood and we really like it. We've had lunch there at least 5 times in the past month.

Sams choice thin mega meat only about 7 bucks as is or doctor up for my tastes best bang for the taste and bucks IMO.

I Totally AGREE !!!
 

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Giovani's is near the top of the list if not at the top. NYPD is also a good choice.

I have ordered from Bravo several times and I think the pizza is pretty good. They also have deep-dish and Sicilian, and even Gluten free. BTW, they serve many other Italian dishes. One caveat: if you order delivery don't hold your breath. Last time, I was told one hour; fine. 90 minutes later, it arrived.

Not bad, but for some reason the pizza at Gio's Deli is better than his pizza at the main restaurant

MCO to NY, NJ or Chicago, not cart accessible but guaranteed to satisfy.

We buy dough at Publix bakery and make our own. Deelish! Put whatever toppings you like and bake at 400 for 10 minutes.

Yuck!!! Cafe style, Greek pizza. I don't understand why people think this is good pizza.

If I were going to that I'd go back to my home town of Revere MA or to Boston's North End

Even the pizza chain, Papa Gino's is good up there.

Sorry, forgot MA...

I honestly think that you will need to try the different places and make your own decision. I know this is not helpful to your post, but as you have already opined, you don't care for Stavros although it was recommended here (I have not tried their pizza). Other places recommended here I have tried and I agree with some, disagree with others, but again it is my personal preferences against how I "value" the food.

Pizza Regina, anyone?

Pizza is a very personal choice. We happen to like Papa Johns for a cheap meal. You can usually get a large for around $10 if you order on line. But our favorite within TV is Sammy Joes on Mulberry Lane near the VA Clinic.

It is very sad that the OP simply wants a "decent" pizza. Shows how bad the pizza here really is.

Last year we discovered Sammy Joe's after one of my VA trips to Mulberry and loved their pizza. We made a habit to eat there at least once a month even though it's the opposite end of TV from us. However, the last time we ate there was in March and they changed their style from a thin pizza to a sort of thicker gooey style. Have you noticed a change this year? I like it either way but my wife didn't like the change.

We eat meals at Giovanni's at Southern Trace every week or two but hadn't tried their pizza, so we gave them a try. We found their pizza was identical to Sammy Joe's and I like it, but my wife didn't. Anyway, we now both like the pizza at the new Flippers at Brownwood, so that's where we'll be getting pizza.

Make my own. Double zero flour, dust with a little cornmeal, baste dough with EVOO then add sauce in SMALL amount plus Mozz, then your toppings ( prosciutto and arugula!).Thin crust and mmmm!

We like Bravo's, but for years I have also bought Frechetta's or Digiorno's at Publix and cooked it. Good, fresh, and variety.

What's good to me might be terrible to you. Sample a few and see what you like best.
PS.....there are a lot of "pizza snobs " around here. It's never as good as it was "back home ".

Bellview Pizza, will take a few hours to get there by golf cart if you can avoid the cops.

papa murphys Belleview

We also love Flippers and NYPD.
But TOTV opinions on pizza are all over the place.

Well, if everyone agreed on the best pizza, all of the other pizza places would go out of business.

Ok.

Sammy Jo's in Mulberry is the best pizza here. NYPD is second best in my opinion

wife making pizzas tonight for dinner.

Think I'll have my one brewski a month tonight

Good Pizza
 

You are spot on about "what's good to me might be terrible to you". Like another posted "I liked it but the wife didn't". Pizza taste is similar to wine tasting in that its a "personal thing".

We have tried several mentioned in this thread and it has been a mixed bag. For some reason, we keep going back to Bravo at LSL...... We are fairly easy to please and will do a frozen thin crust Digiorno occasionally and "Doctor" it up a bit.

Making your own English Muffin pizza is probably better than most of the dreck you get that is passed off as pizza in TV.

First of all, real pizza is sauce and cheese on a thin crust. Once you start adding all the insane toppings that those from the hinterlands think makes a true pizza all you are left with is a soggy flatbread sandwich.

For me, it's not a pizza without anchovies.

I can still remember the year, it was 1973. A fellow from work was visiting, I don't remember why because I thought he was kind of goofy, but he stopped by. We were having a couple of beers and he said, would you like some pizza. He picked up the phone and started dialing and asked, do you want anything special on it, I said no, whatever you want. The pizza arrived and it had anchovies. I had never seen little sardines on a pizza before. I picked them off my slice and the taste wouldn't go away, worse possible food flavor I've ever tried to eat. Who would of thought fish could taste so salty. How you can eat that I'll never know. If you ever capture any terrorist and during questioning they ask for food, this would be my choice to give them.

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