Buddy's is not deep dish it is Sicilian style which is VERY different than a good Chicago deep dish pizza.

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.

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?

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."

Another Detroit option
 

http://pizzapapalis.com/Locations.aspx There are various locations around Detroit, but I have only tried the one downtown (Greektown).

OK, gotta remember to try this on my next trip. I'll compare it to Pizza Chicago, our local Chicago-style place, not to the real Chicago competition.

BTW, I happen to like Connie's in Chicago over -- dare I say it? -- Lou Malnatti's.

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.)

Little Star Pizza - 3 SF Bay Area locations. It is deep dish, not stuffed. Yum.

I would vote for Carmen's in Evanston - and Evanston is certainly outside of Chicago.

Try Vito's in Sunnyvale. Vito and his sons are from Brooklyn, and their product is very much identifiable as the genuine article.

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.

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.

Oh, I screwed up, my rating of Connie's was for stuffed pizza, not deep dish! I stand corrected (if I am standing at all).

Yes!!! When I lived there in the late 1980's - early 90's, I would exist on their pepperoni or spinach pies. It is still my favorite Chicago area deep dish place.

For those that care (like I do when discussing food;)), Carmens is stuffed pizza, not deep dish.

For something different in Chicago try Piece on North Ave in Bucktown. It's New Haven style pizza and is quite tasty!

http://www.piecechicago.com/

Piece has been mentioned more than a few times in the Chicago Forum: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/chicago-511/ and just for those who might be wondering, Piece is not deep dish.

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