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Location: Vermont USA | Who has the best Pizza?
I perfer Boston Pizza from the North End.
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Patsy's Tavern, Paterson NJ. |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Absolutely! Patsy's Tavern! |
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Location: Utah | The best pizza is Ferraro's, in Westfield, NJ. |
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| Denino's in Staten Island.
Pal Joey's used to be great... but that was a long time ago.
Boardwalk pizza.... Mac's
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Grimaldi's or Di Fara's in Brooklyn |
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Location: NJ | T'me, pizza is like guitars.
It depends on what you "want" at that particular time . . .
(tho I haven't had it in YEARS) Patsy's in Paterson DOES make a GREAT down&dirty, GinMill "tavern"-style pizza (gotta' have it with anchovies, tho!).
Sun-Ray in Paterson used t'make a really good Sicillian pie.
L'Trattoria in Rhinebeck, NY makes a REALLY good crispy, thin-crust pizza (if yer in the mood for that particular "variety").
Black River Barn in Randolph, NJ makes really good thin-crust, wood-fired, brick-oven pizza.
I particularly like their ArugulaSalad Pizza.
Planet Pizza in Quebec City does some really nice, "nouveau-style" pizzas.
There's a LOT of good places in Manhattan, but the BEST are the ones that still use coal-fired ovens.
About a year or so ago, I had some REALLY good pizza at place called Bohemian Pizza in Litchfield(I believe), CT. They have live music there, as well. REALLY cool place! Run by a bunch of hippies . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Somebody emailed me yesterday asking if I or any of my clients wanted to open a Boston Pizza franchise in Boise. Is it any good? I've never had pizza in any of the 3 choices, but I like Chicago style better than New York style pizza. I can't remember if I've ever even been to New Jersey. I know I tried to go there once, but got stuck in a snow storm and never made it. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Post Corner Pizza, Clearwater beach. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Mark,
It would be a great place to hold a NW OFC gathering! We could set up a stage for the Grand Opening.
What would the rest of us have to loose? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | As far as the poll (and not the Pol) - None of the Above.
Northern Italy, by far. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Mark - BP is a very strong franchise. I could recommend it to anyone with the cash.
It's a full service Family restaurant/sports bar concept.
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Best pizza?
All the good places around here are gone, taken out by chain pizzerias. Ambrosia in Vancouver, Gandalfs' in Comox, Pizza Island in Campbell River.
Bring back the independants! |
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Location: CT | So there's only pizza in Boston, N.Y., or Jersey?? of all the places I've eaten pizza, my favorites are in none of those places.. |
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Location: chicago | lets see here in the chicago area theres only a few places I like.
Little Villa
Rosatis
Bacinos
Ginos East
Ginos west
La Villa
Pizzario Uno
Pizzario duo
Taylor street is good
leonas makes good Pie!
Lou Mlnattis
nick and Brunos
Edwardos
Nancys
The rest I havent tried.......Yet!
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Location: Vermont USA | Well I must confess I would eat any Pizza :(
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Location: boulder | the best chicken chimichanga I ever had was in Nagano Japan, by an american Italian guy...go figure!
oh pizza....any new york style is good, some better then others...like guitars and girlfriends... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | The worst pizza I ever had was in Rome. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | You've never been to Virginia. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Sorry guys and gals. You haven't had pizza until
you've been to Wooster St in New Haven, CT!!!!!!
It is the birthplace of pizza as "we" know it!
NOTHING and NO ONE beats Pepe's or Sally's Apizza!!!!! The next Trip to the "Mothership" you should drive an hour south down "91" and check it out. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Pizza, one of my other passions. Actually, I never really thought of this before, and the opportunity has never come up to mention it, but I have probably had and made Pizza in more Pizza places over the years than anyone I know. I've had Pizza in Germany, France, Switzerland, England, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Virgin Islands, most of the 50 states, Navy Ships, Cruise Ships, Ferry Boards and probably a few places I hadn't thought of.
My dad made Pizza once a week for most of my life growing up, and taught me how to make Pizza. When I was in the Military and get assigned somewhere on a temporary mission, I would take Vacation there too, where ever it was, I would stay with friends and offer to make Pizza.
Ok.. enough with the resume.
There is a lot of good Pizza out there. Like Cliff says, its a little what you are in the mood for... but.. New Jersey (and some parts of Eastern PA) has probably the best Pizza in the world, no matter what style.
The things that affect the flavor the most are what I call the WAH factor. Water, Altitude and Humidity. There is something about Jersey. The water and humidity are fairly consistent which allows places to "work" a recipe, really dialing it in.
There are pockets of "great Pizza" around the world. Great Pizza joints abound, but there is more good Pizza throughout Jersey, than any place I have ever been to, or could make consistently myself.
The Pizza my dad made in CT, was best in spring as we had well water, which the mineral content went up in the spring.
There are not many things I know about or even have a strong opinion about, but Pizza is one of those few things. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The best pizza is north of the Mason-Dixon line. |
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Location: Utah | The strangest pizza I ever had was in Kathmandu, Nepal. It was more like a piece of Pita bread with cold veges and spices piled on top. No cheese and it wasn't baked. Great view, though. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | We have a Boston's here in Denver.
Pretty good pizza with plenty of choices but their choice of decor REALLY SUCKS (specially after the recent World Series).
We have a good selection of family owned joints here.
BeauJo's is EXCELLENT pizza. |
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Location: NJ | WATER is also one the reasons you can't get a really good Bagel outside of NY/NJ . . .
We once stopped for breakfast on the way home from Florida at this little "DownHome" joint in Georgia.
The waitress asked me what kind of toast I wanted, and I said "could you please bring me a Bagel??"
. . . she brought me this noisy little hunting dog. |
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Location: closely held secret | It's the way the chemicals in the NJ water react with the baking ingredients. In Portland you can't get a good bagel because sewage doesn't have the same effect. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | On the other hand, pizza is like sex.
Even when it's bad, it's pretty good. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | If your partner tasted like canned spinach, you'd give up sex. |
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Location: Vermont USA | Mark in Boise posted "If your partner tasted like canned spinach, you'd give up sex."
If it was good enough for Popeye its good enough for me :D
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
It's the way the chemicals in the NJ water react with the baking ingredients. Exactly... I have taken NJ water at different times from two different Pizza places in Jersey. Once bringing it back to CT, and the other time to Maryland. I think I may have filled a bottle at Al's house once and used it for making a Pizza too.
It's not the same. It's the chemical reaction of the Water with the ingredients which is a direct result of Altitude and Humidity.
The worst Pizza I think I have had, is high above Lake Tahoe at a place called the New York Pizza shop or something like that. At 5000+ feet, it just ain't gonna happen. I'm guessing good Pizza in Denver is pretty hard to find too. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Brutus: "Where have you been, Olive Oyl"
Olive Oyl: "Out with the girls."
Brutus: "Out with the girls my ass!- You have spinach on your breath!" |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
At 5000+ feet, it just ain't gonna happen. I'm guessing good Pizza in Denver is pretty hard to find too. I think I recall something about taste buds not working well at high altitude. May have been in relation to flying but perhaps the same situation applies? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | If your partner was built like Olive Oyl, you couldn't have sex.
Pizza, pizza, pizza, pizza. There, back on topic. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | I've had pizza at many places in NJ & NY... could take it or leave it.
I REALLY like Donato's in Columbus, OH. Think they use provolone instead of mozzerella. It's a nice change. |
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Location: big island | i ain't ever been to ny, nj or boston. best pizza i ever had is from "pizza hawaii" a couple miles from here. it has feta cheese, pesto (spinach), sun dried tomatoes and roasted garlic. excellent! |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Dominios!... :D ;) |
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Location: Vermont USA | "Dominios!"
Be careful with those they may have lead paint on them.
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Location: Pittsburgh, Pa. | Gino's East in Chicago, unfortunately I live in Pittsburgh. |
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Location: Michigan | HALF AN HOUR OR SO AFTER YOU HAD A BIG FAT BOB MARLEY MOST OF YOU WOULD THINK THAT A STALE PIECE OF WHITE TOAST WITH SOME TOMATO PASTE ON IT WAS THE BEST PIZZA YOU EVER HAD NO MATTER WHERE IN THE WORLD YOU WERE AT.....GWB |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I haven't had a "Bob Marley" in over a year, and the last time before that was 20 years. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | There's a place in the Chambersberg section of Trenton NJ called Delorenzo's. Nothing fancy, just thin crust pizza, tomato pies, and soda. There's always a line. It's worth the trip, but I like thin crust pizza. A year ago I enjoyed a pizza at a place in Siem Reap Cambodia. It was actually quite good. |
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Location: Yakima, WA | You eastern board OFCers have it made.
Way out west, Dominos and Pizza Hut would be running neck and neck for the best pizza award. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Not entirely. We have a local Flying Pie pizzaria. Started by some hippies right down the road from our fist apartment in 1978. Next to the laundromat where we did our laundry. Actually hand tossed it. They continue to do well and have several local stores now. |
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Location: Utah | There's a little hole in the wall place in Apalachin, NY called Angelo's Pizza. They make a great white and green pizza. The sauce is garlic instead of tomato based, with brocolli on top. Sounds iffy, but tastes great. Apalachin is upstate west of Binghamton, and is a tiny little one intersection town. |
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Location: Detroit Mi | I have to agree with Wabbit - I left NJ for Detroit to get away from all that crime - but the one thing I really miss is the pizza ( and all the other stuff that glows in the dark). |
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Location: NJ | You left New Jersey for DETROIT(?!?!?!?)
". . to get away from all that crime . ." ????
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Location: Brisbane Australia | As Jimmy Buffet says:
"The eighth deadly sin is Pizza" :D
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by cliff:
You left New Jersey for DETROIT(?!?!?!?)
". . to get away from all that crime . ." ????
:D Kinda reminds you that you don't want to get on my bad side, eh? Deeetroit bad ass... yep... that's me. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Down South it's "Papa Johns".
Up in New York to numerous to mention, especially down near the city. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Recently a place opened up here in Cherry Hill, NJ, calling itself "Boston Pizza" I haven't tried it yet, but asked some friends who lived in Boston about "Boston Pizza", they said there's no such thing. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Boston Pizza started in Edmonton Alberta in Edmonton Alberta in the late '50s- early '60s. They just liked the name. |
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