| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/5/2007 7:55:23 AM | Best pizza in Charlotte is Tony's Pizza - real NY style Neopolitan pies.
And I guess I'm a bit of an anomaly because I love Chicago style pizza, too - Lou Malnati's is the best, but we only have Pizzaria Uno in town..... | |
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/5/2007 9:44:13 AM | pizza in Calgary Alberta sucks.
For some god forsaken reason persons of cultures that dont eat pizza make them.
So to me the best pizza here is homemade.
Man alive I miss the pizza and panzoretti from Windsor Ontario | |
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/5/2007 6:30:12 PM | The best pizza place in my hometown is whichever one will still deliver to my neighborhood after dark.
Geez....the pizza guys are getting wimpy, they oughta carry a gun or something if they have a problem getting robbed. | |
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/5/2007 7:45:26 PM | picnic pizza on murfreesboro and bell road.Awsome pizza buffet and run by Brooklin Itallians.We even have ear candy that comes in during the lunch period,the father who cant speak english.It is neat to hear the lingo makes me think the old country.
I believe the price for lunce is like $820 pizza pasta and salad.I dont think there is any dessert but you dont need it.they cook the pizzas in front of you in the brick ovens and Angello even flips the dough when he makes the crust..I dont go there much,cause the slices are so big and it tends to be carb city.it is nice couple of times a year. | |
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/5/2007 7:58:11 PM | | Lou Malnati's in Chicago is really nice. It's actually a chain, with many location in the city and suburbs, but it sure doesn't taste like it. Even spinach pizza, usually not my favorite, is really good there. Although sometimes, you have to eat it with a fork and knife, and Lou Malnati's restaurants actually provide them when you order a pizza. (They also have other things, like pasta, calzones, etc.) | |
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| Connie Pizza
Posted: 6/6/2007 4:49:53 PM | Trust me people - This place is has been there forever. It's located in Point St.Charles and still to this day, people come from everywhere to eat this Pizza. It makes Mikes, New System BBQ taste like nothing. But, if your into the 2-1 type Pizza, avoid it - this Pizza has flavor and dressings - not cardboard and tomato paste. They don't really advertise anywhere, they don't have to.
I usually ask for the "Connie Special", and ask for extra sauce and Well Done - Important - lol. Enjoy ;) Next time you call for 1 - Call me - I'm bringing the Beer ;)
Let me know what you think :)
Connie Pizza
Address : 801, rue Charlevoix, Montréal, QC H3K 2Y5
Telephone : 514-932-2045 | |
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/22/2007 1:53:52 PM | Joe's pizza in Dayton, Ohio!!! Yummy!!!
Unoriginal name but great pizza, they are coming up on their 50 year anniversary so you know they gotta be doing something right!!    | |
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/22/2007 1:53:53 PM | | Tomato Basil was the special of the day! Had a slice, delicious. I am onto another good pizza place but couldn't figure out the persons instructions. | |
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/22/2007 10:25:35 PM | | In North Burnaby, where I live, I'd say Mona Pizza has the best combination of crust, topping, and spices. | |
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Posted: 6/23/2007 7:08:21 AM | | Is anyone from Buffalo, NY? My family moved from there when I was 10, but till the day he died my dad always said Bocci's in Buffalo was the best ever - I'd be curious to know if it's even still there, or if anyone else can concur? I do remember going there when I was very young, but I don't think I knew good pizza from bad at that point in my life! | |
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/24/2007 2:44:40 PM | Jake's Gourmet Pizza in North Belle Vernon.
Absolutely the BEST I have ever had in my life....I will still drive the 30 minutes to get their pizza since I no longer live there. It is totally worth the drive! | |
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/24/2007 3:06:39 PM | Sadly, my favorite place "closed for renovations" a few years ago, and never re-opened.
My next favorite is Venice Pizza in town, they make a decent pie.
There was one right around the corner (1/2 mile maybe) from my house years ago that was really good, used to go there all the time, then they closed for a while and re-opened under new ownership... sucks now, crust is way to thin and dry.
And I tried a place a few miles away just last night, got a couple slices because I was at the grocery store just down the street and was hungry, didn't feel like cooking... but I really didn't like it. Dunno, for some reason the crust tasted like, uh, flour... Elmers Glue or something! 
Next town over has an ok place, I really like their veggie pizza... but I've been cutting back on the pizza (cheese, fattening and my cholesterol is kinda high, so trying to watch my diet). | |
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/24/2007 11:18:52 PM | I worked in a pizzeria when I was a kid and have made pizzas at home all my life. There's not many I like better than mine frankly. And although time consuming they're pretty easy.
Preheat the oveen to 550.
You can buy frozen dough in most markets, or just buy some from a pizzeria. They're more than happy to sell you dough. Or make it in a breakmaker using any decent recipe you find on the net. Note that the dough must sit for an hour in a warm place after the breadmaker says its done of you'll have cracker-pizza. Note also the yeast must be fresh. The package will have instructions for a how to test it.
Sauce can be quite variable. Although you can put a lot of effort into it there is something to be said for just plain crushed tomatos out of a can. The next step up is to chop 3 or 4 cloves of garlic, saute it till it's aromatic, add a can of crushed tomatos and can of tomato paste. Add a decent amout of salt and pepper, a T of dried basil. I add 10 drops of oregano oil (medicinal grade - I find it easier and stronger, fresher and cheaper than dried oregano, plus it's way good for you.
The next step up from that is so dice a small onion and one jalapeno and saute with the garlic, add the tomato goop and stuff and add fennel seeds you've smashed in a morter. A SMALL bit of rosemary is good too.
Roll the dough out. Press it down with your fingers first, keep turning if over and roll roll roll till it'll fit the pizza pan you have. A pizza stone is best. I use a giant aluminum thing with lots of holes in it. The least good is the solid metal ones.
You need to get the right cheese. Regular mozzeralla you use in, say, lasagna is high fat low moisture and us white. Pizza cheese is low fat high moisture and cream colored. Around here some No Frills dell Kraft's "Delicioso" brand in 2 kilo chunks for about $22 that makes about 8 pizzas. Grate about a 1.5" chuck, about a pound or so.
The most common mistake is to use too muc cheese and not enough sauce. You can do this and it'll work but you end up with a rubbery layer of cheese on top not the nice melding of sauce and cheese. Use a fair bit of sauce and not enough cheese to cover it so you can still see some sauce.
Properly you should finely grate a 1" square piece of parmasian and half that of romano on first.
One variation at this point if you like things spicey is to very finely chop 4-6 cloves of garlic, one japapeno and a quarter of an onion and mix them in with the sauce on the dough before you add cheese.
Now add 2/3 of the mozzeralla.
Now you ad ingrediends. My kids like plain cheese pizza so I put ingredients on half. First pepperoni, sliced fairly thick and for gods sake read the label. If it says chicken or turkey get some other kind. You don't want to overdo it, space them out so there's like a piece of peperoni then a space for one. Repeat.
Now the mushrooms - sliced fairly thick but not as thick as the presliced ones which do not seem to work well. These shrink a LOT when cooking so you can literally cover the entire surface.
Nex is olives. The cheap ones in jars just don't have enough taste. Get the deli packed giant ones. Don't add to many one every 3" or so is about right.
Next the jalapenos. Some people use bell pepper but I think they're vile. You do need some pepper flavour and 4 jalapenos per extra large pizza, deseeded and sliced very thin is about right.
Now slice a small onion thinly and put pieces of it everywhere.
Now you can put the remaining 1/3 of the grated mozzeralla on.
Stick it in the over and turn it down to 450. You do this so the element doesn't come on as much.
You can't tell if it's done by the top you have to look at the crust. Golden brown is perfect. Brown is oevrcooked and will be too crunchy. If it's golden brown it should be soft and chewy.
It'll take about 13-15 minutes to be done. Take it out, shake it off the pan. Iinvert the holy pan and let it cool on that. You want it very warm but not too hot to eat.
After a few minutes it's cool enough to cut with a proper pizza cutter or a cleaver. Cutting it with a knife or scissors is messy.
It may take a few pracice runs but once you get the hang of it you'd be hard pressed to want pizzeria pizza again. Plus it's stupid cheap by comparison. | |
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/25/2007 12:05:42 AM | .
Beyond a doubt, the best pizza sold in the metropolitan Detroit area today is from Buddies Pizza. Sigh . . . I have to force myself to stay out of there lest I’ll be adding “a few extra pounds” under weight on my profile.
There was a time, though, when Mr. G. (I’ll not use his full name here), the grand maestro of all foods Italian, owned a great little restaurant called Stromboli. Alas, Mr. G. retired years ago.
Both places were constantly the grand prize winners (each in their own day) in the local metropolitan pizza contests -- and for damn good reasons, too!
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/25/2007 6:27:17 PM | | Ginos in KW can be pretty good at times and so is dominos but my fav has got to be pepis pizza in kitchener.. Its really good and tons of toppings.. | |
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Posted: 6/25/2007 6:32:57 PM | | Best pizza in Tampa is at the supermarket ... Freschettas lol. Sadly pizza is absolutely horrible in Florida . | |
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/25/2007 10:45:36 PM | In Livonia, Michigan, there is a pizza place called: Fat Kats Pizza located on Middlebelt Road, near Joy Road.
They have another location in Redford,Michigan.
If you're in Southgate, Michigan, the best pizza place in that city is Roma's Pizza. This is located on Eureka Road, near Fort Street. | |
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/26/2007 12:51:51 AM | | I live in Dallas and this has to be the worst town to find a great pizza. The best I've had is from an old established place called Campisi's. They have a great thin crust pizza. Also, Angelo & Vito's has the most authentic Brooklyn stlye pizza i've found here. | |
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/26/2007 8:03:26 PM |
Roll the dough out. Press it down with your fingers first, keep turning if over and roll roll roll till it'll fit the pizza pan you have. A pizza stone is best. I use a giant aluminum thing with lots of holes in it. The least good is the solid metal ones.
Agreed, you should have posted that recipe in the pizza thread. There was a big one going that I put tons of my two plus decades of pizza making experience into. The oregano oil is a new one by me. I have an aluminum thing with lots of holes in it, too, that I use these days for thin crust more than my deep dish pizza pan.
I stopped in MIll City Pizza again today and got the special of the day which was Taco and had a slice. It had a dough bubble in the crust so I broke it open and poured the taco sauce/salsa mix into it for variety!
SO DELICIOUS! I never liked most eat out pizza over my own until I found theres. | |
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| Best Pizza Place in Your Hometown
Posted: 6/27/2007 10:29:51 AM | | OK, I didn't even bother reading all of these pages because the best Pizza in the world is at PizzaLand on the Belleville Turnpike in North Arlington NJ. Locals will know it as "Fred's" but Fred has been dead for quite a few years and his name wasn't Fred anyway. This place hasn't changed in 35 years (with the exception of Fred). The place was taking over by his son Tony (who I graduated HS with) but I think he inhaled more then just the pizza...if you know what I mean. Anyway, it has been sold to someone new but the pizza still tastes the same and I have never tasted anything quite like it. The store front for this place was prominently highlighted in the opening credits for the Soprano's. Also, if you go inside you can see a picture of me when I was 19 yrs old (I am the one holding the slice). I think it's the only picture in the place. There used to be a Juke box but the only song that would ever play was Day Tripper by the Beatles. This place is all of about 300 square feet. Don't let me get started on his Italian Hot dogs.....drool | |
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Posted: 6/28/2007 8:56:37 AM | | Well the best pizza im california is pizannos (hope i spelled it right for all you south bay locals) lol, in hermosa beach its the next best thing to being in new york city. most pizza places out here consider 14" to be a large funny as that seems, but they have huge slices and thin crispy crusts and the sauce is to die for, they also have a white pizza that just melts in your mouth, dominos pizza hut and pappa johns should take a cue from them i will never eat that crap again | |
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