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mgjim 11-29-2012 01:10 AM

Best Pizza in the USA
 
I stumbled across an interesting website while looking for opinions on the best pizza in the USA.

This read may take you a while but I'd be intersted in hearing about your favorite pizza places out of the many examples listed on this site:

Best Pizza Places in the U.S. | Food & Wine

Being from Minnesota, I happen to like Punch Pizza and I'm going to try Pizzeria Lola (recommended by Andrew Zimmern) this weekend. But, having lived in Italy, I still haven't found an American pizza that matches what I was able to find there.

Which ones do you like best?

jblum315 11-29-2012 05:16 AM

Best pizza in New York. Great pizza in California and Maine. I think it's the water.

Bobbie416 11-29-2012 06:12 AM

My husband has his own theory. The further away from New York City you go, the worse the pizza is. He has not yet tried pizza in TV.

Bobbie416 11-29-2012 06:19 AM

My favorite is Don Pepe's white clam pizza in New Haven, CT. I am not a purist.

cbg150 11-29-2012 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Bobbie416 (Post 586946)
My favorite is Don Pepe's white clam pizza in New Haven, CT. I am not a purist.

I love white clam pizza...can't understand why it hasn't spread from CT!

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archerlc 11-29-2012 07:46 AM

The pizza capital of the world is Old Forge, Pennsylvania.

cathyw 11-29-2012 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by mgjim (Post 586923)
I stumbled across an interesting website while looking for opinions on the best pizza in the USA.

This read may take you a while but I'd be intersted in hearing about your favorite pizza places out of the many examples listed on this site:

Best Pizza Places in the U.S. | Food & Wine

Being from Minnesota, I happen to like Punch Pizza and I'm going to try Pizzeria Lola (recommended by Andrew Zimmern) this weekend. But, having lived in Italy, I still haven't found an American pizza that matches what I was able to find there.

Which ones do you like best?


I looked thru all 50 pizza places and have only eaten at one....Totonno's of Brooklyn. It is and always will be one of my favorites.
A picture says a thousand words. When I looked at the pictures, I saw SEVERAL that I would love to try. Most of the pictures look NOTHING like what you get in this area. Several had a fried egg in the center....the only place I have seen that was in Italy and it was DELICIOUS. I am very hungry after viewing those pictures. I think I'll have to make homemade pizza tonight !

bluedog103 11-29-2012 09:27 AM

[QUOTE=mgjim;586923 But, having lived in Italy, I still haven't found an American pizza that matches what I was able to find there. [/QUOTE]

I agree, I haven't found pizza in the U.S like I had so many times in Italy. I've looked all over and nothing comes close. That being said, in the U.S. I prefer NY pizza. It isn't remotely similar to Italian but it's great in its own way. I don't think water has anything to do with the quality of NY pizza since NY City water comes from all over. Westchester County, Sullivan and several other locations are homes to NY City reservoirs. Good NY pizza can be found all over the NY area including New Jersey and Connecticut and these areas all have their own water sources. I think it has everything to do with knowing how to make pizza in this style. I'm heading north next week for the holidays and as usual, our first dinner in NY will be pizza.

rtime 11-29-2012 10:31 AM

Flying Pie, Portland, Oregon

skyguy79 11-29-2012 11:07 AM

Why does Deja Vu come to mind???
 
Technically there is no "best in the USA" pizza, only "The best pizza's in the USA!" You'd have to have tried any and all pizzas to claim which one is "The best," and I'm sure that only I have tried the pizza my mother used to make. Yes, I feel that my late mother's homemade pizza was the best I ever tried but... alais, no more! :sigh:

joycenemetz 11-29-2012 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by archerlc (Post 586977)
The pizza capital of the world is Old Forge, Pennsylvania.

Oh...how I miss Old Forge pizza! Can't find anything here even close!!

2BNTV 11-29-2012 01:17 PM

Imho
 
I think some of the better pizzas had higher quality ingredients.

Although not scentific, I think the water has something to do with the taste of pizza. Ironically. New York City water supply is high in quality.

FWIW - I am originally from Yonkers, Yew York.

paulascorpio 11-30-2012 01:02 AM

Love Al Forno in Rhode Island and Grimaldi's Pizza in NY and also Ft Myers and Palm Beach Gardens......

flhr95 11-30-2012 06:16 AM

Ozzie's Pizza
Park Avenue
Rochester, New York

Wi11iam 11-30-2012 06:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mgjim (Post 586923)
I stumbled across an interesting website while looking for opinions on the best pizza in the USA.

This read may take you a while but I'd be intersted in hearing about your favorite pizza places out of the many examples listed on this site:

Best Pizza Places in the U.S. | Food & Wine

Being from Minnesota, I happen to like Punch Pizza and I'm going to try Pizzeria Lola (recommended by Andrew Zimmern) this weekend. But, having lived in Italy, I still haven't found an American pizza that matches what I was able to find there.

Which ones do you like best?

Hi everyone,
I have learned the secret of the Famous New York Pizza..... As stated it is not the water, I learned the secret is the number of times the dough hits the floor. Lol...:a20::a20:
1 time = fair
2 times = good
3 times = very good
4 times = outstanding and no extra charge for the cleaning process...
:pepper2::pepper2::pepper2::pepper2:

Parker 11-30-2012 07:03 AM

Round Table Pizza in California. Nothing close out this way.

Villages PL 12-01-2012 01:47 PM

I don't eat pizza anymore but I have a theory on which ingredients make the best pizza.

Lots of good quality cheese, tomatoes, olive oil and high sodium.
The higher the fat content the better it will taste and the more calories it will have. High sodium helps to enhance taste also.

Calories per slice depends of what kind of pizza you have.

Cheese pizza 230 calories per slice

Pepperoni pizza 290 calories per slice

Sausage pizza 280 calories per slice

Meat-piled high pizza 350 calories per slice

Veggie pizza 215 calories per slice

Spinach Alfredo pizza 240 calories per slice

I assume if you ask for double cheese you will increase the number of calories quite a bit. That's why doubble cheese usually tastes better. Double cheese means more fat and sodium.

If you're hungry and eat 3 slices with beverage, you're up around 1,000 calories. :22yikes:

eweissenbach 12-01-2012 01:53 PM

My favoite is the original Pizzaria Uno in Downtown Chicago. It is Chicago style deep dish, and purists will say it is more of a casserole than a true pizza, however I found it delectable.

eweissenbach 12-01-2012 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Villages PL (Post 588130)
I don't eat pizza anymore but I have a theory on which ingredients make the best pizza.

Lots of good quality cheese, tomatoes, olive oil and high sodium.
The higher the fat content the better it will taste and the more calories it will have. High sodium helps to enhance taste also.

Calories per slice depends of what kind of pizza you have.

Cheese pizza 230 calories per slice

Pepperoni pizza 290 calories per slice

Sausage pizza 280 calories per slice

Meat-piled high pizza 350 calories per slice

Veggie pizza 215 calories per slice

Spinach Alfredo pizza 240 calories per slice

I assume if you ask for double cheese you will increase the number of calories quite a bit. That's why doubble cheese usually tastes better. Double cheese means more fat and sodium.

If you're hungry and eat 3 slices with beverage, you're up around 1,000 calories. :22yikes:

Jeeze, no offense, but when it comes to food you are really a scold or Debbie Downer! I think most people realize pizza is not "health food", and it shouldn't be eaten daily, but for a calorie splurge once in a while it is heavenly.

ugotme 12-01-2012 03:33 PM

Just like making the fast food places put the nutrition data on the walls.

I truly don't believe that ANYONE would walk into McDonalds to get a Big Mac, look at the data and say "OH MY THAT ISN'T GOOD - THINK I WILL HAVE A SALAD INSTEAD." BULL !

People go to these places because 1) they enjoy it; 2) it is fast and 3) it is cheap. You know what you are getting into when you go there.

Remember - there was a guy who wanted to sue because eating at fast food places made him fat !! DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

rubicon 12-01-2012 03:47 PM

I suspect that the best pizza you have had occured when you were really hungry. The best pizza ordered out for me came from Auburn New York. The pizza was 3 feet long and 1/1/2 feet wide and doughy and we order four of them for a party . The toppings excellent as they were not over the top. My wife makes all sort of pizza Neapolitan, some with various toppings white pizza with asparagus or spinach deep dish, thin round, square. I love it all. Pizza, salad and a glass of vino.

It would b difficult to determin the best pizza in New York city as they have thousands of pizza places. However, its a dirty job but someday ust has to tackle it and make that determination:D:D

ugotme 12-01-2012 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by rubicon (Post 588187)
It would b difficult to determin the best pizza in New York city as they have thousands of pizza places. However, its a dirty job but someday ust has to tackle it and make that determination:D:D

OOH OOH PICK ME - I'LL DO IT !!!!

:BigApplause:

2BNTV 12-01-2012 08:25 PM

Pick me. I am only half an hour drive from NY. :smiley:

ugotme 12-01-2012 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by 2BNTV (Post 588282)
Pick me. I am only half an hour drive from NY. :smiley:

Yeah but I'm a NEW YAWKER !!!! :wave:

2BNTV 12-01-2012 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ugotme (Post 588288)
Yeah but I'm a NEW YAWKER !!!! :wave:

So am I. I just live in CT. :smiley:

Joe :wave:

SyrNancy 12-02-2012 08:56 AM

Varsity Pizza on Syracuse Univ. campus!!

graciegirl 12-02-2012 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by jblum315 (Post 586936)
Best pizza in New York. Great pizza in California and Maine. I think it's the water.

JEAN! I hardly EVER disagree with you.

But La Rosa's from Cincinnati has been making people smile for over fifty years.

YUM!

Maybe it IS the water, but I don't think they use the water from the old muddy. (OHIO RIVER)

applesoffh 12-02-2012 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Bobbie416 (Post 586945)
My husband has his own theory. The further away from New York City you go, the worse the pizza is. He has not yet tried pizza in TV.

Neither have we...(we're from Queens). I just can't...

mgjim 12-02-2012 04:55 PM

Great Responses
 
Clearly, most of us prefer our "home-grown" pizzas but I think there is some truth to the opinion that New York wins the pizza wars in the USA. I've been fortunate to have lived in a lot of places in my life incuding Chicago, Brooklyn, Monterey, and northern Italy. The pizza in New York is definitely competitive with Italian pizzas; Chicago pizza is really good too, but an acquired taste. I think there may be a lot of good pizza locations missing from Wine and Food's list.

Sadly, Florida is badly unrepresented in the pizza discussion. I'm surprised, with the number of New Yorkers who have settled in Florida that someone hasn't opened a great pizzeria.

So, if you need a pizza fix in The Villages, where do you go?

eweissenbach 12-02-2012 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by rubicon (Post 588187)
I suspect that the best pizza you have had occured when you were really hungry. The best pizza ordered out for me came from Auburn New York. The pizza was 3 feet long and 1/1/2 feet wide and doughy and we order four of them for a party . The toppings excellent as they were not over the top. My wife makes all sort of pizza Neapolitan, some with various toppings white pizza with asparagus or spinach deep dish, thin round, square. I love it all. Pizza, salad and a glass of vino.

It would b difficult to determin the best pizza in New York city as they have thousands of pizza places. However, its a dirty job but someday ust has to tackle it and make that determination:D:D

Best New York pizza I have had was a kosher place about a block or two from the Empire State Building. An orthodox Jewish friend took me there when we were at a two week meeting in NYC. I am not Jewish, but damn was that good pizza.

eweissenbach 12-02-2012 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by mgjim (Post 588594)

So, if you need a pizza fix in The Villages, where do you go?

We go to Mallory. Love their brick oven baked portabella and swiss.

Patty55 12-02-2012 06:43 PM

It's not the water, it's the dough. Freezing yeast forever doesn't work.

You know, making pizza is not that difficult. Satisfying all the different palates from all over the country is the hard part, so I guess they go the easy road and serve frozen dreck.

I'm good with that.

graciegirl 12-02-2012 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Patty55 (Post 588616)
It's not the water, it's the dough. Freezing yeast forever doesn't work.

You know, making pizza is not that difficult. Satisfying all the different palates from all over the country is the hard part, so I guess they go the easy road and serve frozen dreck.

I'm good with that.

Who does Patty? Never had frozen dreck. Never even had defrosted dreck.;)

zummy 12-02-2012 08:25 PM

I agree with Mallory for Pizza in the Villages

graciegirl 12-02-2012 08:49 PM

What do you think makes a pizza from New York great?

For instance..If you order a pepperoni pizza in New York, what makes it better than my deeeeelicious LaRosa's Pizza from Cincinnati???

LaRosa's Pizza...pepperoni pizza has a thin crust and a slightly sweet tomato sauce with the pepperoni hidden under the cheese.


Tell my about your New York pepperoni pizza...how is it different...and DON'T say the water. I am just not buyin' that...:crap2:

I am listening....;)

ugotme 12-02-2012 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 588655)
What do you think makes a pizza from New York great?

For instance..If you order a pepperoni pizza in New York, what makes it better than my deeeeelicious LaRosa's Pizza from Cincinnati???

LaRosa's Pizza...pepperoni pizza has a thin crust and a slightly sweet tomato sauce with the pepperoni hidden under the cheese.


Tell my about your New York pepperoni pizza...how is it different...and DON'T say the water. I am just not buyin' that...:crap2:

I am listening....;)

Actually Gracie, I was told by friends who run pizza parlors in NY that the water (which obviously makes the dough) has A LOT to do with it.

But the main thing - IT'S NEW YAWK PIZZA !!!! :a20:

Patty55 12-02-2012 10:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ugotme (Post 588711)
Actually Gracie, I was told by friends who run pizza parlors in NY that the water (which obviously makes the dough) has A LOT to do with it.

But the main thing - IT'S NEW YAWK PIZZA !!!! :a20:

I still say it's the dough. Frozen dough doesn't give it that 3-4" raised edge where it's all airy and crunchy. It's also in the throwing. To me the sauce is more spicy than sweet, I don't get pepporoni, but if I did it would be on top of the cheese getting kind of crunchy.

I like to fold it and have the olive oil a bit dripping.

And not for nothing kiddies, if NY pizza (NYMA, not Buffalo)was not held in such high regard, then why is there a chain called NYPD? HUH? I don't see a chain called DesMoinesPD or ClevelandPD. HUH?

ugotme 12-03-2012 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Patty55 (Post 588715)
I still say it's the dough. Frozen dough doesn't give it that 3-4" raised edge where it's all airy and crunchy. It's also in the throwing. To me the sauce is more spicy than sweet, I don't get pepporoni, but if I did it would be on top of the cheese getting kind of crunchy.

I like to fold it and have the olive oil a bit dripping.

And not for nothing kiddies, if NY pizza (NYMA, not Buffalo)was not held in such high regard, then why is there a chain called NYPD? HUH? I don't see a chain called DesMoinesPD or ClevelandPD. HUH?

Ha Ha - I love it!
My brother and I call this the "flop test."
The pizza - obviously folded - has to flop a little in the front and have some good old olive oil dripping from it.

In addition to your comment - why do many, many pizza joints exclaim "New York Style?"

:pepper2: Can we get a "pizza" emoticon? LOL

graciegirl 12-03-2012 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by ugotme (Post 588792)
Ha Ha - I love it!
My brother and I call this the "flop test."
The pizza - obviously folded - has to flop a little in the front and have some good old olive oil dripping from it.

In addition to your comment - why do many, many pizza joints exclaim "New York Style?"

:pepper2: Can we get a "pizza" emoticon? LOL


Now listen carefully, because I am only gonna tell you this once.

Because they have NEVER been to Cincinnati.:shrug:

;);)

ugotme 12-03-2012 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 588796)
Now listen carefully, because I am only gonna tell you this once.

Because they have NEVER been to Cincinnati.:shrug:

;);)

CINCINNATI ?

I SPENT A WEEK THERE ONE DAY !

:a20:


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