Originally Posted by Peazoup (Post 1915417)

In your opinion, which restaurant has the best thin crust pizza in The Villages?

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 1915532)

OP, your tagline says Connecticut. So I'll express this to you as someone who knows northern pizza and who has a preference for NY/New Haven/Boston style pizza:

Avoid Flippers at all costs. It's worse than Domino's (using the above as the benchmark).

I've heard from a few northern neighbors that Paisano's is decent.
I'll add Giovanni's at Wedgewood in the same plaza as the Publix (a couple of doors down).

You won't find anything truly comparable to NYC/New Haven/Boston pizza anywhere in Florida, and most sauce here comes from a can, not from the restaurant's kitchen. They use Florida tap water to make the dough, and that's sort of like adding a forkful of half-chewed well-done filet mignon to a bowl of Kibbles and Bits and calling it gourmet dog food.

Originally Posted by Fredman (Post 1915420)

Piesanos:mademyday:

Originally Posted by chinook234 (Post 1915776)

being originally from the New Haven ct area...I have tried many places here in TV...so far Mallory Hill club house gets my vote

Originally Posted by Pairadocs (Post 1915809)

You've summed it up pretty well, but maybe should have added "in central Florida", as a native I can tell you you can get some great pizza, non chain, in south Atlantic coast Florida... but that doesn't help us much here, LOL ! Canned, sour tasting almost, sauce at all places. One or two non chains in Ocala have good pies, but 18-20 mile drive each way ? Haven't found anything in Leesburg, many rave about Belview pizza, but it was more a midwestern style in our opinion.... it's like trying to find really good Chinese, it's like looking for pot of gold at the rainbow !

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 1915705)

Pizza is like Chinese food. Whatever was the style in your home town or home state is what you consider good. Everything else is terrible. They are also the same in that neither one is authentic. Pizza in the US is nothing like Pizza in Naples where it was invented. Most Americans would balk at true Italian pizza. Same for Chinese food. It's nothing like what is served in China.

Recently, I saw a documentary about pizza in the US. It was about two pizza chains that started in mid-west. One was Pizza Hut. They were hugely successful when expanding throughout the mid west, but when they opened stores in the northeast, they failed miserably.

Most Italians who emigrated to this country settled in the northeast. So when this different type of pizza came to them, they rejected it. American style pizza had been around New England, New York and New Jersey for decades, so this new mid western style was not what people were used to. Pizza Hut added a thinner crust to their menu and it helped, but where I came from it still wasn't very popular.

Then there is Greek or cafe style pizza. I lived in an area where there were two restaurants that served this style and local people raved about them. I never understood it, but they were very popular locally.

Having said all this, it's very rare that I complain about pizza or Chinese food. Even the worst of it is pretty good.

Originally Posted by WindyCityzen (Post 1915819)

There are no joints that compare to Chicago legends Malnati’s, Gino’s, Giordano’s, Aurlieo’s, UNO’s, and others. It’s a pizza desert here.

Originally Posted by Peazoup (Post 1915417)

In your opinion, which restaurant has the best thin crust pizza in The Villages?

Originally Posted by Peazoup (Post 1915417)

In your opinion, which restaurant has the best thin crust pizza in The Villages?

Originally Posted by ladyastor1948 (Post 1915855)

No one mentioned Napolinos on 301 in Wildwood....thought pizza pretty good...others opinions?

Originally Posted by barkriver (Post 1915664)

takis in leesburg, but keep it a secret!

Originally Posted by Choro&Swing (Post 1915645)

I ate at Red Sauce last week for the first time and ordered a pepperoni pizza. I thought it was mediocre. I’m afraid I’ve been spoiled by eating too many pizza slices in NYC. I can enjoy thin and crispy flatbread pizzas, but I didn’t think the one at Red Sauce was very good. But I’ll try again. Maybe it’s usually better.

Originally Posted by rmd2 (Post 1915665)

My favorite is Ledo's Pizza. Opened in College Park, MD (now they have it in VA, N&S Carolina and Fl). It was hands down the best pizza anywhere! The closest one is north Tampa. I'm going to have a pizza there and bring another one home for the freezer.

Originally Posted by Peazoup (Post 1915417)

In your opinion, which restaurant has the best thin crust pizza in The Villages?

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 1915532)

OP, your tagline says Connecticut. So I'll express this to you as someone who knows northern pizza and who has a preference for NY/New Haven/Boston style pizza:

Avoid Flippers at all costs. It's worse than Domino's (using the above as the benchmark).

I've heard from a few northern neighbors that Paisano's is decent.
I'll add Giovanni's at Wedgewood in the same plaza as the Publix (a couple of doors down).

You won't find anything truly comparable to NYC/New Haven/Boston pizza anywhere in Florida, and most sauce here comes from a can, not from the restaurant's kitchen. They use Florida tap water to make the dough, and that's sort of like adding a forkful of half-chewed well-done filet mignon to a bowl of Kibbles and Bits and calling it gourmet dog food.

Originally Posted by Peazoup (Post 1915417)

In your opinion, which restaurant has the best thin crust pizza in The Villages?

Originally Posted by sheena0904 (Post 1916051)

New Haven is the Pizza capital of the U.S.!!!

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 1916062)

Yup. I grew up on Pepe's, Sally's, the Modern, the Spot, Rose Garden, Sorrento's, Luigi's, Domenic's. In grade school my neighbor Susie and I would walk from the school to Sorrento's, where Johnny was spinning the dough and his wife Irene would bring us our cokes with crushed ice, and then we'd get a small cheese pie to share. Total cost for 6 slices and 2 cokes: $2.00. Pretty steep for a couple of 9-year-old kids but it was just once a month. Old fashioned pizza joint, with red and white checked tile and a jukebox with Sweet Caroline and I Love You Baby playing in between Frank Sinatra songs.

Johnny and Irene moved back to Sorrento, and the new owners took the business across the street to expand next door to the IHOP (which is now a decent Indian restaurant).

The pizza was always burnt bubble-edged super-crispy thin-crust, with plenty of home-made sauce, a fair amount of cheese, a drizzle of olive oil, a dash of romano, a sprinkle of oregano, and a lot of love.

Originally Posted by Dgammon1 (Post 1915647)

Have you tried NYPD Pizza?