Best Deep Dish Pizza, outside of Chicago
Sep 22, 2011, 8:36 pm
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The best deep dish pizza in Detroit is Buddy's since 1946. Deep dish Chicago style is a little thicker than most deep dish I have had around the country.
http://www.buddyspizza.com/
http://www.buddyspizza.com/
I'm not saying Buddys is bad pizza, it is quite good I've been a number of times, but it isn't Chicago deep dish.
Sep 22, 2011, 8:42 pm
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Being Italian and living in NY I'm always amazed by the different kind of pizza in the US...
As you probably know in Sicily it doesn't exist a "sicilian" style pizza.. And I've never understood what's the NY pizza..
When I think about pizza I can usually recognize three different kind: bad pizza, real pizza, and deep-dish pizza (which doesn't exist in Italy, that's why I call it "american" pizza..) ;-)
So, any suggestion for a real deep-dish pizza in NY?
As you probably know in Sicily it doesn't exist a "sicilian" style pizza.. And I've never understood what's the NY pizza..
When I think about pizza I can usually recognize three different kind: bad pizza, real pizza, and deep-dish pizza (which doesn't exist in Italy, that's why I call it "american" pizza..) ;-)
So, any suggestion for a real deep-dish pizza in NY?
Sep 22, 2011, 10:48 pm
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Heh, "try it"? Although I did say "good NY pizza" -- I've tried a lot of pizza that called itself "NY style" which was perfectly good pizza, but you can tell just by looking at it that the only thing "NY style" about it was the name -- or as one of the better California woodfired style chains out here calls it "east coast"... ummm, no. Good for what it is, but the only way you'd sell it in NY would be to call it "California" or "gourmet."
Sep 23, 2011, 11:16 am
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Another Detroit option
http://pizzapapalis.com/Locations.aspx There are various locations around Detroit, but I have only tried the one downtown (Greektown).
Sep 24, 2011, 12:16 am
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It is by no means world-class, but there is a new American-operated brew pub in Tokyo which has the only passable deep-dish that I have encountered anywhere in Asia. Several local friends of mine became completely addicted to it around the same time...
http://en.devilcraft.jp/
http://en.devilcraft.jp/
BTW, I happen to like Connie's in Chicago over -- dare I say it? -- Lou Malnatti's.
Sep 24, 2011, 8:32 am
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You can say it, I wouldn't. Honestly, Connie's isn't bad. Connie's is a distant fourth (and last) on my list of places where I'll eat deep dish (Malnati's, Gino's East and Pizzeria Uno/Due). No one else measures up. (And again, for those who like Giordano's, it's OK, but it's not traditional deep dish pizza. It's stuffed pizza.)
Sep 24, 2011, 3:30 pm
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I'll believe that you can get good NY pizza in Chicago when I see it. You certainly can't out here, although that's as an expat New Yorker; I'd imagine a Chicago local might say the same about what passes for good Chicago pizza here in the Bay Area.
So... any recommendations for NY pizza in Chicago?
So... any recommendations for NY pizza in Chicago?
In Chicago, Ranalli's is not really New York style, but it is sort of a hybrid of New York and Chicago style, and quite good in it's own right.
BTW, as a New Yorker who went to Grad School in Chicago, and then went to Silicon Valley for professional endeavors, I consider myself highly qualified to speak on this issue.
Sep 24, 2011, 6:53 pm
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I'll have to try it next time I'm in that end of the bay. Funny thing is someone else mentioned that to me recently, but was off on the locaion and I assumed that was a name change of the rather "meh" Giovanni's over by Fry's.
Sep 24, 2011, 7:06 pm
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You can say it, I wouldn't. Honestly, Connie's isn't bad. Connie's is a distant fourth (and last) on my list of places where I'll eat deep dish (Malnati's, Gino's East and Pizzeria Uno/Due). No one else measures up. (And again, for those who like Giordano's, it's OK, but it's not traditional deep dish pizza. It's stuffed pizza.)
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There have also been a couple Do’s at Piece, I think this was the last one: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/commu...ay-8-16-a.html