Where did you eat the best pizza in the world?

Rome – traditional Neapolitan pizza

closet I’ve had in the states is Punch Pizza.

It’s from my hometown of Sarnia (I’m sure that I’ve yet to try to the good, GOOD stuff, though). Anyhow, it’s from a little Mom and Pop restaurant called “Firenzes”. You’ll often seeing Mama in the front window rolling and tossing the dough. Mama has rather large, flappy chicken arms and never seems to shave her armpits. Quite a sight to see. The pizza is the best, though.

I remember when I was a kid my mother used to buy pizza bases and loads of different things for toppings and let my brother and I go wild creating our own. Certainly the most fun pizza but I don’t know about the best.

Anchorage, AK. I was 16 and this little shop opened up around the corner and it was BY FAR THE BEST PIZZA I’VE EVER HAD!!! and that’s saying a lot since I’ve been to Chicago, Jersey and NY and still nothing has ever compared. Don’t get me wrong Jersey and Chi-town have some awesome pizza, but I will never have pizza like that little shop made ever again.

Little cafe just outside of Pompeii. I think North American tomatoes must be wrong. I bought some tomato seeds from Italy to try to grow and make better sauce.

The best pizza I have ever had is a place called “cafe verdi” in Vegas

I don’t think traditional Italian pizza is all that. I’ve had some darn good pizza in Italy, don’t get me wrong. A little place called Mara Meo in Lucca, Italy would make my top ten list for sure. But the single best pizza I have ever eaten was at a place called Cogan’s in Norofolk, Virginia. I remember it had roasted garlic on it, don’t remember what else. Everything about that pizza was just right.

Santarpio’s in East Boston, MA.

WHOA!! is it good
in fact, I may go there tonight

Corner of 8th and 57th NYC

The best pizza I ever had was a taco pizza in Creswell ,Oregon about 25 years ago.

Venice, a sidewalk cafe next to the Tre Arch bridge. Eggplant with orange bell peppers on a thin crust. But normally pizza Margherita is my favorite-mozzarella, basil, and tomato.

@faye Yes organic tomatoes taste so much better for pizza. Mm…

Guess what I am having for dinner tonight?

THANKS!

Agreed, Rome. Tricky to eat with a broken arm, but luckily I spilled some tomato sauce on my cast to remember the incredible pizza forever:)

Antonio’s in Amherst, MA, and Pizza Chef in Windsor, VT (I’ve also been to one of their other locations in New London, NH). Absolutely delicious.

Now I want pizza…

Rays, on Prince St.in between Mott and Elizabeth, Little Italy NYC. They got busted a few years back for laundering money.

Practically any little hole in the wall pizza place in NYC!

The worst has to be this cardboard crusted, pineapple and ham covered stuff they call pizza in Australia!

Stefano’s whole wheat deep-dish pizza in Knoxville TN. It’s mind-blowing.

I made it myself when I worked at Pagliacci in Seattle.

Italy, particularly in places that have wood-fired ovens. The crust is thin and delectable, fresh and delicious toppings, and the best part is that with less crust to fill you up, you can pretty much eat a whole one by yourself. The place I eat most of my pizzas in Italy is in my mom’s village (Monterosso) and it’s called Smorfia. I alternate between the Diavola and the Quattro Stagione.

Aside from that, my next favorite place would be Milano’s Pizzeria in SF.

P.S. Thanks to the Domino’s pizza crust thread a few days ago, I found a really great crust recipe and have been eating some bangin’ homemade pies.

Charley’s Pizza, Bischowsweg, Neustadt, Dresden. Order the medium “Barcelona” (salami and cheese). Best ever, anywhere.

It was also a Ray’s in NYC, but I think it was a little independent shop because Ray was there (and wanted me to go out with him while I was there. LOL) I have no idea what the address was, but I remember it was near the Met.

I want to eat the best pizza in the world – according to Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love. http://www.damichele.net/ Doubt I will ever make it there, though.

A slice from a little hole in the wall in Manhattan.

John’s Pizza on Bleecker St. in NYC. Was there the other day. Soooooo good!!!

Pizza Man and Zaffiro’s in Milwaukee are damn excellent. And Pizza Man has an award winning wine cellar. mmm mmm good.

DeNino’s in Staten Island, NY, is great, too!

@Supacase Eat, Pray & Love I just purchased that book for my mother for Christmas, strangely enough it arrived by courier this morning.

OMG, my family used to try pizza in every city we went to. It was like a thing we had to do. We had fantastic pizza in Montrael, but I have no idea where it was. Mariella’s in NYC is really good. I used to love Larry’s pizza when I was little in Hastings, NY. I gotta say for a chain Johnny Brusco’s isn’t half bad either. In Boca Raton, FL, Brooklyn Boys pizza is yummy like NY pizza.

Overall I am a NY pizza girl. I don’t want deep dish generally and I don’t want a bunch of stuff on my pizza.

When I was in Chicago, the best deep dish I had was Giordano’s.

@ParaParaYukiko YES Antonio’s!!!!!

Hmmmmm I wonder if my username is about pizza…..
It was a translation of a menu item from Porguguese.

Broadway Pizza in Minneapolis, without a doubt.

My husband and I recently discovered our absolute favorite pizza so far. It’s called Coal Fire Grill here in our Columbia, MD. Along with choosing your toppings, you can choose your sauce. The taste and texture of this pizza is absolutely amazing.

1st place: Coal Fire Grill in Columbia, MD
2nd place: Hot Tomatoes in Baltimore
3rd place: B.O.P. in Baltimore, right across the street from Hot Tomatoes.

Pizza Casbah in Fort Collins, CO. Amazing!

@Likeradar will back me up.

Dominoe’s, Papa Johns, Pizza Hut and similar franchise places do not make pizza. They make a frozen, poorly flavored substitute that resembles pizza. The worst pizza places near me in Queens, NY are 10x better than the best the chains can offer.

Living in NYC, there are many great places to choose from, but my favorite is a place called Little Italy located near Grand Central Station (around 42nd St and Lexington Ave.). Because they’re located in midtown, they work business hours, opening at 11am and closing around 6pm-7pm (leaving a very small window of time when you can go in and get some of the good stuff). They don’t have tables (standing room only) and they have the best dough, tomato sauce and mozzarella I’ve ever had. Plus, they cook the pizza the way I like it: thin, crispy on the bottom, soft and chewy on top. I could eat that crust forever… Interestingly, I found another “Little Italy” down the block from where I worked (around 3 blocks from the other place) and their pizza tasted surprisingly similar to the first place, though not quite as good (a 9.8 vs a 9.6, really). I asked the guys behind the counter about the similar name and taste; one guy told me that a group of partners used to own several places named “Little Italy” together, but then divided the stores between themselves when they dissolved the partnership. The guy at the better “Little Italy” called the other one a filthy liar and claimed that his Little Italy was the only real one and the best one. He got the “best one” part right.

At a close second place behind the Little Italy’s mentioned above is Delmar’s Pizzeria in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Completely different flavor than the Little Italy’s, and yet there’s a quality to their pizza that I can’t describe. The first time I tried it, I had flashbacks to a pizzeria that my parents took me to as a little child. Every time I eat there, it tastes like the pizza I ate as a kid, and I don’t know if you can put a value on something that triggers that feeling of something you loved as a child.

For all the places mentioned above, if I’m anywhere near the area, I must pay a visit, hungry or not, and have a slice, diet be damned. That stuff is too good to deny yourself a taste.

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At my house. It’s called Gramma’s Pizza

From my very own pizza place – Luigi’s. When the kids come home – and even my daughter-in-law now – they want Luigi’s on the first night.

best pizza is in chicago. i’ve had east coast pizza and west coast pizza. even southern pizza. but best pizza by far is in the midwest. we do pizza in squares here. thin, deep dish, whatever. our triangular pizza is deep dish. we lay it on thick and saucy and cheesy.

1. home run inn
2. beggars
3. giordano’s
4, ginos east
5. lou malnati’s
6. vito and nick’s
7. rubino’s
8. italian fiesta (a hood pizza)
9. connie’s
10.aurelio’s

Beto’s in Pittsburgh

Grimaldi’s in Brooklyn, NY. I don’t know if it’s any good now. It’s a bit of a tourist trap these days.

I’d avoid the famous pizza restaurants in Chicagoland. Be brave and try out the Mom & Pops!

I would say my favorite pizza is either Sardella’s (there is music, watch out!) or Ray’s. Admittedly, there’s not as good of selection as in a more Italian city. :P

I have yet to come across a pizza I dislike, though! I recently tried Brooklyn Pizza Company and I was surprised at how good they were…mmm, now I’m hungry!

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Maybe “avoid” is too strong a word, but my favorite pizza memories growing up close to Chicago involve small family-run restaurants (D’s Little Italy in LaGrange Park, Brunetti’s and Paisan’s in Brookfield). Home Run Inn and Aurelio’s are decent in my book. I can’t stand Giordano’s.

Poor Peoples Pub, Sanbornville NH