The best pizza I've ever had is probably the Little Caesars by my old apartment. Money can't buy the experience of getting a couple cheap zas on your way home from work, sitting down in your living room with your brother, and playing Overwatch "split screen" (two TVs next to each other) until 4 o'clock on Friday (as in 4:00 AM on Saturday)
Okay this is totally not what you’re asking but I have to share a funny story. (To answer your actual question, can’t think of anything but I don’t live in NY or Chicago so…)
My family visited Scotland when my daughter was about 6, and there was one night we got to a hotel and just needed some food, and not a lot of places near us were open. But there was a pizza place, which would satisfy the kids. My daughter chose the “American” pizza, which had chicken, barbecue sauce, and yellow corn on it. (Yes, I’m serious.) She has been asking for that pizza for years since then. WTF?
they dont really think of it as american, they just dont really care. like american pizza in ireland is almost always "hot" pepperoni and jalepenos, mixed peppers and like a shake of some kind of pepper flakes.
also in ireland they have "american wine gums" which as you know isnt a thing, theyre these really chewey gummy things live ive never seen
Does it not depend on hunger for you? I'll honestly find the frozen pizza from Aldi to be amazing when I'm super hungry.
Apart from that I had really great pizza at an Italian grocery store in Dijon. They're all the same after a certain point. It was also great somewhere in Amalfi
Aldis pizzas are passable, used to get the thin crusts all the time and jazz em up with sautèd veggies and extra cheese. Unfortunately, like most low cost items, it was hit extra hard when inflation price increases started ramping up.
I've actually started buying fancier frozen pizzas. The prices comparatively haven't risen as much as they have for the cheap aldis za
I dunno if it was the best, but the pizza that lives in my memory was a whopping 24" pizza from a local place. That's over 450 square inches of 'za, or 11 square meters for the Europeans.
It was glorious, and took four incredibly high stoners about a day and a half to work through.
Ordering from Sysco is the same as going to a giant grocery store. Quality entirely depends on how much effort they put into it.
That said, I still get annoyed when I order at a high end place and I can tell they used some sysco pre-made sauce instead of their own recipe. Don't get me started on pre-packaged hollandaise, it tastes like miracle whip.
A random delivery from a place I can't remember the name of in Vancouver. The cheese was fresh and thick, the veggies were fragrant, the sauce was sweetly herbal with a hint of red wine, the pepperoni was perfectly crispy and the dough was soft and firm in all the right ways with that just-baked-bread earthy musk.
When I tried to order again they'd just shut down. That pizza was too pure for this world.
Off the Bryn Mawr stop on the far North Side of Chicago, there was a little storefront called "Barry's Pizza Spot". They sold stuffed pizza^*^ by the slice, and they almost always had one that sausage, mushroom, and onion. I sublet an apartment off this stop for a month one summer and ate this slice for dinner over a dozen times. The first time, it was the best pizza of my life. Two other times surpassed the record before I moved away. It closed a couple years later. My mouth is watering just thinking about it now.
^*^If you don't know what stuffed pizza is, it's the best of the three Chicago pizza styles. It's stopped pretending to be anything other than a pie, and the cheese and "toppings" are all underneath a second, upper crust that's prevented from burning by a top layer of sauce. One slice is a meal.
Imo's in St. Louis is my favorite overall. Thin, crispy crust, square cut, Provel as the base cheese. It scratches an itch that all other pizzas don't. I'd eat it 7 days a week if I could, hot or cold.
I've had pizzas with superior ingredients, made in fancy ovens, served with wine instead of cold beer, but if I could get any pizza right now, it'd be Imo's black olive or veggie pizza.
It’s right across from the Theater of the Living Arts and we used to stop there all the time before and after a show. They were massive slices for cheap and really hit the spot every time.
When we were on holiday in Malaysia as kids, we ordered room service one evening. My brother was a picky eater so we asked for a plain cheese pizza, expecting like a margherita style.
Instead it was pizza base with just some sad grated cheese melted on top. Didn't taste great but just thinking about it makes me laugh. We waited about 40 minutes for that disappointment.
The best single pizza was a pepperoni pizza from a street vendor in Hawaii many years ago, with hot sauce I still special order from the islands.
However... if we're just talling toppings a pineapple, peppercini pizza is my dark horse favorite pizzas. I first tried essentially on a bet. Never would've expected it to be so good, and have since determined it's best (optionally) with chicken, feta, and/or roasted garlic.
The best pizza I've ever had is probably the Little Caesars by my old apartment. Money can't buy the experience of getting a couple cheap zas on your way home from work, sitting down in your living room with your brother, and playing Overwatch "split screen" (two TVs next to each other) until 4 o'clock on Friday (as in 4:00 AM on Saturday)
Okay this is totally not what you’re asking but I have to share a funny story. (To answer your actual question, can’t think of anything but I don’t live in NY or Chicago so…)
My family visited Scotland when my daughter was about 6, and there was one night we got to a hotel and just needed some food, and not a lot of places near us were open. But there was a pizza place, which would satisfy the kids. My daughter chose the “American” pizza, which had chicken, barbecue sauce, and yellow corn on it. (Yes, I’m serious.) She has been asking for that pizza for years since then. WTF?
Yeah. Love sweetcorn on my pizza.
I mean, you do you! My daughter agrees with you in matters of taste. I did think it was awfully funny what the Scots thought of as “American.”
they dont really think of it as american, they just dont really care. like american pizza in ireland is almost always "hot" pepperoni and jalepenos, mixed peppers and like a shake of some kind of pepper flakes.
also in ireland they have "american wine gums" which as you know isnt a thing, theyre these really chewey gummy things live ive never seen
I was introduced to sweet corn on pizza by someone from the U.K. It was pretty good.
Elephant & Co. in Detroit. But I grew up on Detroit style, so I may be biased.
Detroit style is the deep dish pan greasy crunchy stuff right? If so, then thats probably my favorite second to wood fired hand tossed.
Yeah. Deep dish with thick bread, crispy cheesy edges, and always square (or rectangular). It should also use brick cheese, not mozzarella.
Brick cheese?
Does it not depend on hunger for you? I'll honestly find the frozen pizza from Aldi to be amazing when I'm super hungry.
Apart from that I had really great pizza at an Italian grocery store in Dijon. They're all the same after a certain point. It was also great somewhere in Amalfi
Aldis pizzas are passable, used to get the thin crusts all the time and jazz em up with sautèd veggies and extra cheese. Unfortunately, like most low cost items, it was hit extra hard when inflation price increases started ramping up.
I've actually started buying fancier frozen pizzas. The prices comparatively haven't risen as much as they have for the cheap aldis za
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I dunno if it was the best, but the pizza that lives in my memory was a whopping 24" pizza from a local place. That's over 450 square inches of 'za, or 11 square meters for the Europeans.
It was glorious, and took four incredibly high stoners about a day and a half to work through.
Not to detract from the glory of that pizza, but that's more like 0.3 square meters.
11 square meters is literally the size of a bedroom lol
I was gonna say.
Now that I'd like to see! Though I'd still only eat the pieces with the crust, that's my favorite part.
Oh man. There used to be a place in Nashville that would make a 5 foot pizza. It included delivery and final onsite assembly. That was so much fun!
Nothing in my area after 2020. They all got greedy, switched to Sysco to save a buck, and now they all taste the same.
Ordering from Sysco is the same as going to a giant grocery store. Quality entirely depends on how much effort they put into it.
That said, I still get annoyed when I order at a high end place and I can tell they used some sysco pre-made sauce instead of their own recipe. Don't get me started on pre-packaged hollandaise, it tastes like miracle whip.
A random delivery from a place I can't remember the name of in Vancouver. The cheese was fresh and thick, the veggies were fragrant, the sauce was sweetly herbal with a hint of red wine, the pepperoni was perfectly crispy and the dough was soft and firm in all the right ways with that just-baked-bread earthy musk.
When I tried to order again they'd just shut down. That pizza was too pure for this world.
Off the Bryn Mawr stop on the far North Side of Chicago, there was a little storefront called "Barry's Pizza Spot". They sold stuffed pizza^*^ by the slice, and they almost always had one that sausage, mushroom, and onion. I sublet an apartment off this stop for a month one summer and ate this slice for dinner over a dozen times. The first time, it was the best pizza of my life. Two other times surpassed the record before I moved away. It closed a couple years later. My mouth is watering just thinking about it now.
^*^If you don't know what stuffed pizza is, it's the best of the three Chicago pizza styles. It's stopped pretending to be anything other than a pie, and the cheese and "toppings" are all underneath a second, upper crust that's prevented from burning by a top layer of sauce. One slice is a meal.
Pesto base, grilled chicken, cashews, red onions, sun-dried tomatoes.
Some place in Rone when I was about 10 on a trip with my parents. Cut out of a massive rectangle, ate in the street, it was memorable.
Imo's in St. Louis is my favorite overall. Thin, crispy crust, square cut, Provel as the base cheese. It scratches an itch that all other pizzas don't. I'd eat it 7 days a week if I could, hot or cold.
I've had pizzas with superior ingredients, made in fancy ovens, served with wine instead of cold beer, but if I could get any pizza right now, it'd be Imo's black olive or veggie pizza.
The first time I had Papa John's with the garlic sauce. I guess I just like garlic.
Burt's in Morton Grove Il is still my favorite.
Burt passed a few years ago, but some locals bought it and reopened. It's as good as ever.
It was in a cellar in Genoa many many years ago. Fond memories
The best things in life are in basements.
Lou's
I'm still curious WTF kind of pizza Jennifer Aniston is making that drives all her fellow celebrities wild.
Riip Pizza in Huntington Beach, California hands down
Patsy’s in east Harlem not the others all around manhattan
Lorenzo and Sons in Philly
It’s right across from the Theater of the Living Arts and we used to stop there all the time before and after a show. They were massive slices for cheap and really hit the spot every time.
When we were on holiday in Malaysia as kids, we ordered room service one evening. My brother was a picky eater so we asked for a plain cheese pizza, expecting like a margherita style.
Instead it was pizza base with just some sad grated cheese melted on top. Didn't taste great but just thinking about it makes me laugh. We waited about 40 minutes for that disappointment.
Chicken Alfredo pizza.
I'm a fan of flatbreads, where you pick your own toppings sandwich shop style.
There's no pizza I've enjoyed more than a Fantasia from Il Mondo in the Lombok neighborhood in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
It was in a pizzeria called Da Michele in Naples. It does only Margherita and Napoletana. It is on another level.
Julia Roberts, in the movie, Eat, prey, love ate there.
Famoso. It's pricy unfortunately, being a restaurant instead of a takeout style place, but the price is indeed worth it
Mellow mushroom, god I miss it.
Margherita at a random restaurant in Naples, duh
In most recent memory it was a caprese cheesy pizza at 3 am on a cold autumn night. Nothing hits like that imo.
The best single pizza was a pepperoni pizza from a street vendor in Hawaii many years ago, with hot sauce I still special order from the islands.
However... if we're just talling toppings a pineapple, peppercini pizza is my dark horse favorite pizzas. I first tried essentially on a bet. Never would've expected it to be so good, and have since determined it's best (optionally) with chicken, feta, and/or roasted garlic.
Johns Pizzeria of Times Square in NYC.
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