check this out if you want to avoid a bad pizza experience:
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/new-york/how-to-tell-you-are-in-a-bad-nyc-pizza-place
The guys who started it came from New Haven.
I will probably go down in flames for this , but I think NY style pizza is the most tasteless boring pizza ever. I live in NJ and it isn’t all that great here either.
I grew up with the New England greek style and that is what I like, unless I am making it myself.
I think sauce should have more that canned tomato puree with salt and oregano flakes in it…so boring
Boston given all of my paisans living there has pretty mediocre pizza from what I can tell, though there was at least one place in the north end that came close…NYC has a lot of great pizzerias, some heralded, some not, the best neighborhood pizza outside of my old Bronx neighborhood is on 54th and 9th, Sacco Pizza, it is a true NY neighborhood pizza to me. NYC has a secret ingredient, the water is one of the reasons that pizza and bagels are hard to beat:)
@NEPatsGirl , I was going to mention my favorite pizza coms from Cape Cod ( I grew up there ) but I thought no one would understand. I used to like a place in Hyannis , but it isn’t as good as it was when the original owners had it. I really like George’s in Harwich
Quote The first time I went to Pepe’s on Wooster St. in New Haven, at 18, and learned what pizza could be. That was a sausage pizza. (2) The time I finally ordered a clam pizza at Pepe’s, about 20 years ago. I have rarely ordered anything else there since. (3) The time my wife, my kids, my dog and I were sitting in Wooster Square eating a take-out clam pizza from Pepe’s, and we realized that six or seven squirrels were stalking us and our pizza as a pack, in a coordinated manner, just like the velociraptors in Jurassic Park.
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I will be in New Haven in a few weeks and will try it.
Besides pizza anywhere in Italy, we enjoy Home Slice in Austin where they make NY style pizza. I love their Margherita. Dang, now I’m craving a slice.
Frankly Pizza in Kensington MD. House made toppings and oak fired crust. Get there early before the small dining room fills up for the day!
I’ll take just about any pizza in NYC.
Just not the bagels.
My fav is a gooey mess from a small shop around the corner from my house. Traditional crust.
Agree about Flatbread. Once in a while they have the steak and something and arugula with some vinaigrette.
The Nines in Ithaca NY opened in an old firehouse in the early 1980s, and their deep dish pizza was amazing. I was there just a few weeks ago and it’s still fantastic!
@lje62 , my guess is you are doing it wrong.
Have you been to any of the NYC places listed in this thread (or the other one?)
I do not like thin cracker like crust so I am more a Chicago deep dish person or a thick doughy crust with a char on the bottom. Best pizza was at a little Chicago pizza joint that I can’t remember the name or neighborhood! Next would be my friend’s homemade pizza with pesto sauce, kalamata olives and shrimp! Yum!
@lookingforward And their salad with the seaweed!
re #21:
“Did not eat pizza at Cornell…”
Depends how you define “pizza”, but you can definitely eat a sui. I get one every time I go back there.
The original owner of The Hot Truck sold the recipe to Stauffer’s, and they make a (evocative but not nearly as good) variant as their “French Bread Pizza”. Available in nearly every supermarket freezer section.
http://www.seriouseats.com/2007/02/the-hot-truck.html
You cannot deviate from pizza, this thread will be shut down.
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I have pizza rules. Do not ever put the cheese on top of the toppings. Steamed toppings are gross. The order is as follows: crust (thickness is personal, but the dough must contain only flour, water, oil, yeast, and salt); sauce; cheese; toppings.
My specialty is smoked mozzarella, broccoli, and walnut pizza. Thickness of crust depends.
I believe the best pizza I ever had was at a place called Pagliai’s in Carbondale, IL, decades ago when I was a student at Southern Illinois University.
Wiseguy Pizza in downtown Washington DC is a great NY style place.
Pupatella in Arlington, VA is a great clasic Neopolitan style.
@Postmodern , I lived in NYC from 1987 to 1991. I ate at several pizza joints, many of which were recommended by native New Yorkers…from Manhattan to Brooklyn to Staten Island…they all were the same despite all the claims of being the " best "
I feel the same way about pizza in the area where we live. People rave about this place or that, but they are mediocre at best.