Pizzas: What is the best one and where is it from?

[Yared]

The thread says it all!

Discuss.

 

[Bill3000]

New York, Lombardi's. Or more generally, most pizza from the New York or Chicago metropolitan areas. Absolutely not any pizza made in Europe.

Next thread?

 

[Godwynn]

The best one comes from whatever city the poster is from.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Best pizza I ever had was a properly hot chilli con carne plonked on a pizza base with tomatoes and cheese in Bradford UK, after going to see Dumpy's Rusty Nuts.


Link to video.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Deep Dish and Chicago!

 

[Red Door]

The best one comes from whatever city the poster is from.

No, Washington has terrible pizza with the exception of a few places that have okay pies. I like Chicago-style a lot; New York/New Jersey has some great places for pizza, but some are terrible.

But, as I said in the rants thread, the best pizza comes from the Motherland. Go to Naples, Rome, Florence, or Sienna - there is some good pizza.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

New York, Lombardi's. Or more generally, most pizza from the New York or Chicago metropolitan areas. Absolutely not any pizza made in Europe.

Next thread?

Take a picture of it next time.

* Lombardi's opened in little Italy as a grocery store in 1897. It was established as the first pizzeria in America in 1905 with New York's issuance of the mercantile license.
* Over One Hundred years of history and still recognized as one of the best.
* The very best ingredients, Coal fired ovens and long lines can attest to what ZAGAT SURVEY reviewers exclaimed as "Best on the Planet" .

It sounds great, but probably isn't better than the common neighborhood pizza here in Malmö.

I just microwaved a slice of old Capricciosa and it was great ... I should've taken a picture of it... :-/

 

[madviking]

The world - Italy
USA - Chicago deep dish

 

[_random_]

The best pizza in Dayton comes from Cassano's. I don't do a whole lot of pizza tourism, so I can't really comment on other cities' pizzas outside of Papa John's, Pizza Hut, Domino's, and Little Caesar's (which go in that order of quality), but all of the "Chicago-Style" pizza I've had is terrible.

 

[PeteAtoms]

Chicago deep dish is awesome.
I also really like my local Papa Murphy's store. The BBQ Chicken pizza is my favorite there

 

[Nekkerbee]

If it comes from a chain like Dominos, Pizza Hut, etc., it's not really pizza but a pizza-type foodstuff, same as McDonald's and Burger King produce hamburger-type foodstuff. Not to say it's necessarily bad or bad-but-enjoyable (I'm looking at you, Taco Bell), but it's a pale imitation of the original thing.

I was born and raised in New York (well, Long Island), home of the best pizza in America, and I now live near San Francisco. California, for the most part, has crappy pizza. But I've been lucky enough to find a restaurant that makes thin crust pizza in the New York tradition, and it's not bad at all.

Best I've ever had was Original Ray's in Manhattan, but I admit to having barely scratched the surface of all the pizza New York has to offer.

 

[Dachs]

I am not particularly discriminating as far as pizza taste goes.

 

[Grisu]

Italian, of course....Personally, I prefer just plain Margherita or maybe Calzone

 

[Truronian]

Piero's!

There garlic pizza was so good that I could overlook the frequent rumours that the staff spent most of their time snorting cocaine in the toilets.

 

[downtown]

The two best pizzas I've ever had were in Chicago, and Florianopolis, Brazil (Tuna pizza!!!). I have no idea what city in Brazil is supposed to have the best pizza...but thats where I had it and it was awesome.

RedDoor, Armands has the best pizza in DC, by far. I like it better than most Chicago joints I've been to.

 

[luiz]

As the largest Italian dispora in the world, São Paulo has some awesome pizza (I am yet to see a pizzeria that beats the cost-benefit of Brás, a chain from SP which also has some stores in Rio). São Paulo also has plenty of disgusting pizza, though.

Funny thing about pizzas in Brazil is that to get a decent one 20 years ago you pretty much had to go to São Paulo. Nowadays there 4 excellent pizzerias in walking distance from my home, which owe nothing to SP's best.

 

[LucyDuke]

The best one comes from whatever city the poster is from.

That's usually the problem... a more useful thread would be "what's the best pizza where you're from?"

My answer would be "almost any of the one-name Italian or Greek restaurants like Maria's or Basil's or some of the Tony'ss". Caserta's is alleged to be RI's best pizza, but this is false. (You wanna talk about Italians, we got federal hill, bro.) Maria's is my personal favorite but I think they're still out from the flood.

 

[Bill3000]

That's usually the problem... a more useful thread would be "what's the best pizza where you're from?"

The problem is that if you are in, for example, Germany, that question is equivalent to "which parcel of raw sewage tastes the best?"

 

[Oerdin]

New York, Lombardi's.

Fail.

The best pizza is real pizza and that means wood fired Neapolitan pizza with real buffalo mozzarella.

 

[Theige]

Rizzo's, block and half from my apartment in Astoria, New York City

The best pizza overall is in New York. This is indisputable fact.