Yet another, but VERY IMPORTANT pizza thread...

[krazy]

I would like people to recommend specific pizza places in specific cities, that other GCers can visit if in town. I am not talking about just random good places, but FREAKING WONDERFUL pizza places... I have 3...

Lilly's Pizza - Raleigh, NC

Pepper's Pizza - Chapel Hill, NC

2Amy's - Washington DC


Any other's? Anyone been to these?

[AllUnderstood]

Glad to see a thread like this....

Aljon's Pizza: West Windsor, NJ

Maruca's Pizza: Seaside Heights, NJ

[ZTAngel]

Thick and Thin Pizza: Boca Raton or Coral Springs, FL
Midnight Pizza: Orlando, FL

[PhiPsiRuss]

1. Totonno's (http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7373608) pizzeria, in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn, is a place where we would get pizza, on occasion, when I was growing up. It has been there since 1924. Best pizza, and the absolute worst table service anywhere.

2. Patsy's (http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7182722) on 1st Avenue, in East Harlem. This small Italian enclave has produced some of the most notorious mobsters in American history. The pizza at the original Patsy's, open since 1932, is the best of the Patsy's clones.

3. John's of Bleeker Street (http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7116744), open since 1929, is the best in Greenwich Village.

[krazy]

It has been there since 1924. Best pizza, and the absolute worst table service anywhere.


That usually means it will have great food... Bad service is great, as long as the food is good...

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by krazy
That usually means it will have great food... Bad service is great, as long as the food is good...
I haven't been there in a while, but they had the rudest waitress on the planet. An absolutely miserable woman who was very, very nasty. No one cared because the pizza was so good.

Totonno's made fresh sauce and dough every morning. They would often close early because they ran out of sauce and/or dough.

[FHwku]

Calderone - Milwaukee, WI (either East side, or downtown)

I asked the doorman at our hotel where to get good pizza. He said, "Calderone," and "tell Gino and Larry(?) I sent you."

Any pizza place, with a guy named Gino, will have spectacular pizza.

[ISUKappa]

Because I know you're all dying to visit Corn country:

Ames, IA: Great Plains Sauce & Dough, Co. This is the best pizza in a 60-mile radius. They make both white and wheat crusts and have honey on the tables to drizzle on it when you're done eating the pizza part. Yum!

Marion, Ia Zoey's Pizzeria. A dinky hole-in-the-wall. They have both Chicago and New York styles and it's Just Good Pizza

Cedar Rapids, Ia Tomaso's Pizza. Another good, mom and pop pizza place where everything is homemade.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Mama's Pizza - Toronto, Ontario
It's a small chain restaurant, but the pizza is really good.

Vesuvio's - Toronto, Ontario
Local family business. Great pizza

[KillarneyRose]

A subject near and dear to my heart! :)

Grotto Pizza - Locations throughout Delaware. Yummy, chunky, spicy pizza sauce, not a ton of cheese, crispy crust. My favorite location is the one on the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk.

Riccetta's Brick Oven - South Portland, Maine. Crust is tender on the inside, crunchy on the outside. Tons of unusual toppings. Love the pizza buffet during the week.

Amato's - Etna, Pennsylvania (just north of Pittsburgh). I've loved this pizza since I was a kid and make sure I go there whenever I'm home. Square pieces, very light crust, mild sauce and little fluffs of mozzarella on top. I never get toppings; no need to mess with perfection.

Beto's - Somewhere in the South Hills of Pittsburgh. Super chunky sauce and they bake the pizza THEN sprinkle the cheese on just when it comes out of the oven.

[AXJules]

Most people will tell you Lou Malnati's is the place to go in Chicago, but those who really know what they're talking about will tell you to go to Giordano's or Pizzeria Uno.

[Dionysus]

Pizzeria Uno- Chicago IL

IMO's- St. Louis MO

California Pizza Kitchen- CA :D

[Sister Havana]

Papa's Pizza in Bolingbrook or Woodridge, IL. (suburbs of Chicago) My absolute favorite pizza. :)

Home Run Inn in Chicago is really good too.

Bloomington, IN: Mother Bear's, definitely.

Champaign, IL: Garcia's Pizza in a Pan. We used to have this in Bloomington too, and I miss it!

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

Lorobi's Downtown: Awesome & greasy pizza! The owner always gives me and my best friend a free pizza at the beginning and at the end of the school year, so, I don't mind stopping it, lol

Avalanche Pizza: It's in Athens, but dag on, GREAT pizza :D *yum*

Fatboyz Pizza: This place is for the super-thick-and-deep pizza's, great place in general

[ADPiAkron]

DONATO'S PIZZA!!

It is absolutely awesome! They have pizza, subs, and salads. Also, they just came out with the Low Carb Pizza (no crust)! Check out their website at www.donatos.com

They are located all over Ohio (originally founded in Columbus), in select cities in Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

[AGDee]

Detroit (and suburbs): Buddy's Pizza. It's amazingly good! Voted #1 in Detroit by every major news paper, magazine, etc.

I'll agree on Uno's, originally from Chicago, but they do have a chain now and the one that opened near me recently is just as good as the original!

Dee

[valkyrie]

In Chicago, the best place to go for pizza is Pizzeria Uno or Pizzeria Due -- but ONLY the original locations in the city. I think that the chain Pizzeria Unos suck.

If you want thin crust in Chicago, my personal favorite is Giordano's, but usually every little neighborhood hole in the wall has good thin crust.

In Colorado, well, I'm still looking for really good pizza. I don't think there is any.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by valkyrie
In Chicago, the best place to go for pizza is Pizzeria Uno or Pizzeria Due -- but ONLY the original locations in the city. I think that the chain Pizzeria Unos suck.

If you want thin crust in Chicago, my personal favorite is Giordano's, but usually every little neighborhood hole in the wall has good thin crust.

In Colorado, well, I'm still looking for really good pizza. I don't think there is any.

Chicago blows for thin crust (or normal as I like to call it). But have you ever had Lou Malnatti's with butter crust? Awesome. I'd say for thin crust there is a place near rush and division but they charge about 4 bucks a slice which is a rip. I personally don't know how great it is because each time I've had it, I've been gnarly trashed from one of the bars/clubs around there.

-Rudey

[Rudey]

Originally posted by AXJules
Most people will tell you Lou Malnati's is the place to go in Chicago, but those who really know what they're talking about will tell you to go to Giordano's or Pizzeria Uno.

WTF are you talking about? Pizzeria Uno maybe. Giordanos??? Noooo way. Maybe even Ginos East but not Giordanos. Next you'll say Pizza Capri and Eduardo's are awesome. All same crap.

-Rudey

[Rudey]

Originally posted by russellwarshay
1. Totonno's (http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7373608) pizzeria, in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn, is a place where we would get pizza, on occasion, when I was growing up. It has been there since 1924. Best pizza, and the absolute worst table service anywhere.

2. Patsy's (http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7182722) on 1st Avenue, in East Harlem. This small Italian enclave has produced some of the most notorious mobsters in American history. The pizza at the original Patsy's, open since 1932, is the best of the Patsy's clones.

3. John's of Bleeker Street (http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/7116744), open since 1929, is the best in Greenwich Village.

I almost cried reading this. What I would do just to sit in Totonno's for a bit right now.

-Rudey
--Oh well...Indian food it is.

[AXJules]

Originally posted by Rudey
WTF are you talking about? Pizzeria Uno maybe. Giordanos??? Noooo way. Maybe even Ginos East but not Giordanos. Next you'll say Pizza Capri and Eduardo's are awesome. All same crap.

-Rudey
Edwardo's= SICK SICK SICK. How can you compare Giordano's to Edwardo's?? Not a fair comparison.
And I totally agree with Valkyrie- the Pizzeria Uno & Due chains are nothing like the original.

[valkyrie]

Originally posted by Rudey
Chicago blows for thin crust (or normal as I like to call it). But have you ever had Lou Malnatti's with butter crust? Awesome. I'd say for thin crust there is a place near rush and division but they charge about 4 bucks a slice which is a rip. I personally don't know how great it is because each time I've had it, I've been gnarly trashed from one of the bars/clubs around there.

-Rudey

LOL you hang out around Rush & Division! I can never trust your judgment about anything ever again. :p

[Rudey]

Originally posted by valkyrie
LOL you hang out around Rush & Division! I can never trust your judgment about anything ever again. :p

Don't even start. Only for a couple of the food places there, le passage every once in a while, and possibly if one of my boys talks the rest of us into coming back with him. I hit on a 30 something year old who had just been a bridesmaid there once...of course I got nothing out of that but I don't think I could have done that in any of the places in Fullerton or whatever.

-Rudey

[mmcat]

in el paso
house of pizza
italian kitchen
both good traditional pizza with lots of sauce.
you can even get green chiles if you want.

[AlphaSigOU]

In Elmhurst, Queens, ya gotta do Singa's Pizza. On Broadway next to the LIRR station.

Here in Texas, this is chili country, they can't make good pizza to save their lives around here... unless there's some hole-in-the-wall pizza joints I don't know about! :)

[sigtau305]

Originally posted by ADPiAkron
DONATO'S PIZZA!!

It is absolutely awesome! They have pizza, subs, and salads. Also, they just came out with the Low Carb Pizza (no crust)! Check out their website at www.donatos.com

They are located all over Ohio (originally founded in Columbus), in select cities in Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

We have Donato's here in Cleveland.

Other Pizza Places in Cleveland:

CiCi's Pizza
A Touch of Italy
Panini's
Italian Cafe'

[valkyrie]

Originally posted by Rudey
I got nothing out of that but I don't think I could have done that in any of the places in Fullerton or whatever.

-Rudey

Ahaha Fullerton. You're such a Chad.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by valkyrie
Ahaha Fullerton. You're such a Chad.

There's no winning with you but I don't have a car and I'm not some 6'4'', 200lb, jetta driving frat boy so I can't be.

Were you like a Wicker park girl or something or hang out at places like buddha lounge?

-Rudey

[Betarulz!]

In kansas city...

Minsky's is pretty good but I haven't eaten there in years. There also was a regional chain called Gambino's that I absolutely loved, but the location by my house closed while I was still in HS.

Torre's is probably the best local place in KC.

Other than that the place my family usually gets pizza from is called Rosati's. It's another franchised place but I guess the original is in Chicago and their website shows about 70 locations in Illinois. I love it b/c they put crushed tomatoes on in place of sauce so you always get a rich tomato taste.

In Nebraska: VALENTINO'S!!! the best pizza ever, and the most mammouth buffets outside a casino. Just a great pizza, and there's nothing like getting a slice of regular hamburger at a Nebraska Football game for $3. Awesome, it's making me hungry.

Finally b/c I do work at Old Chicago, I'll put in a push for our pizza, especially our original creations. Our dough is handmade on the premises, as is all the sauce, the cheese is grated in the restaurant, and you can taste it. Personally our deep dish isn't deep enough for me and the crust gets too crisp (I hate thin usually), but other than that it's all good1

[valkyrie]

Originally posted by Rudey
Were you like a Wicker park girl or something or hang out at places like buddha lounge?

-Rudey

I've never been to the Buddha Lounge, but I did used to hang out in Wicker Park. It's too bad that in recent years it has pretty much turned into Lincoln Park West.

[dakareng]

Back home: Ginos Original (that's Toledo OH); Pizza house and COttage Inn in Ann Arbor MI are pretty good too.

For Chicago deep dish, Giordanos all the way (been known to carry a half baked on planes... you should see the looks you get when THAT goes through security)

AlphaSigOU was on the money re. pizza in Texas-- although there's a new family run place near me that's decent (Upper Crust).

[DigitalAngel126]

Norwich, NY (upstate): Nina's. Family owned. BEST. PIZZA. EVER. I was spoiled with this WONDERFUL pizza for the first 10 years of my life. I then moved to Indiana and have since wanted to choke anyone who argues about which pizza place is better (i.e. Pizza Slut vs. Papa Johns...Domino's vs. Pizza King. gag me.). Also, down the road from Nina's is Pasquale's. Don't know much about them, but I heard they moved from NYC (not sure what part, but I heard little Italy) and that they have a joint or two up there. Any NYCers know of them?

Donato's (and pizza hut and domino's and etc etc etc) are DISGUSTING.

[CatStarESP4]

When I lived in NYC, I went with my parents to John's Pizza on 44th St and 8th Ave once a week. Now that we live in Arizona, we have yet to find a pizza place that we could go to on a regular basis (once a week).

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[smiley21]

Jacksonville, Florida: The Loop Pizza and Grille. oh my word this is good pizza. one bite and you will swoon. okay that is an exaggeration but the taste is incredible.

pizza hut and papa johns are nasty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad: domino's is semi good. i remember when i lived in gainesville, there was this place called Road Doggy's Pizza. the taste of it made me want to puke!!

[Hootie]

Valentino's - Very good pizza and even better buffet ;)

Big Fred's - I know PenguinTrax will agree, Two Thumbs Up!

Sam & Louie's - Making great pizzaria pizza.

Don Carmello's - Similar to Sam & Louie's...BIG SLICES!!!!

Sortino's - Haven't had it in a while, but also very good!