Honey on a pizza
 

Mind blown.

I had a pizza today (Union Full Board). Pepperoni, Detroit style. Only they brought me a little cup of spicy honey to drizzle on it and told me to try it. All I can say is wow! You have to try it. I am going to try it when I get home on a regular pizza.

What is Detroit style? I have had Chicago (thick pan with cheese on top of the toppings) and New York style (thin crust with toppings on top of the cheese), but never have heard of Detroit style, knowing Domino's started somewhere in Michigan.

It's close to Chicago style, it is a deep dish. But usually square, with a crispier crust. I think they might use a slightly different crust recipe too.

A rectangular pizza with the crispy crust almost burnt with the remaining dough a little chewy. The pan is oiled to achieve the contrast in the bread. Thicker than a NY pizza but not as thick as a Chicago pizza.

square pizza, well really rectangle. The crust gets caramelized after cooking and it's really delicious. As a native Detroiter think Buddy's pizza.

Hmm, does the honey need to be spicy or will this work with regular honey too? Might be worth a try.

At the Tarry Lodge in Port Chester, NY (USA), I tried one with pistachios, red onions, truffle honey, and chevre. Quite nice...but it has been a few years.

I've had pizza served with honey in Colorado (notably the Beau Jo's chain), but I was always told it was for the crust.
https://www.beaujos.com/how-sweet-it-is/

Thinking about it I guess it kind of makes sense. Deconstruct it - bread, cheese, pepperoni. Put them on a cheese plate and honey is a natural with them. The tomoto sauce kind of throws it off, but tomato sauce sometimes likes something sweet.

I might just have to try it.

There is a pizza food truck in San Diego that serves a pizza with cheese, garlic, fresh basil, and drizzled honey. Delicious.

Here we go... honey garlic pizza... https://criscitopizza.com/

I will try it as I'm always up for new combinations but am not holding out much hope that the marriage of pizza & honey will be a winner for me. I disagree with the statement it is like Chicago pizza, Detroit style isn't anywhere close to Chicago thick crust (& to further split hairs, Chicago thick crust consists of two styles, Pan or Stuffed)

Detroit pizza is closer to Sicilian style pizza, which is a thick crust (but a VERY light/airy crust, compared with the denser crust of Chicago thick), sparse sauce/toppings. Buddy's pizza is a good Detroit Style pizza chain, a more nationwide Detroit style would be Jet's.

I have visions of a pizza topped with brie, bacon, basil, garlic, and drizzled with honey on a somewhat sturdy crust (but nothing like Sicilian). I'm debating what kind of base I should use--olive oil?

That was the first time I tried honey and pizza crust. It is really good.

It will work with savory toppings that aren't necessarily spicy. For example, I find that honey works well on a pizza topped with caramelized onions, blue cheese, and pine nuts.

Tokyo Disney Sea - Ristorante di Canaletto
There the 5 cheese pizza is served with honey to drizzle over it.

It was nice enough. Wouldn’t go seek it out elsewhere though.

Brasilians use ketchup and mustard regularly on pizza, so I guess honey isn't too far of the beaten path.

Also Little Caesar's Deep Deep Dish pizza. (Yes, I'm not ashamed to admit I order it when the kids are having friends over.) Occasionally, I see that they offer packets of a powdered mix of salt, sugar, and spices that you put on top of the pizza. I tried it once, and I probably wouldn't put on a pizza again.

The best fusion cuisine the world has ever known is Italian Hawaiian. Pineapple is great on a pizza, so something sweet like honey should also work well.

I LOVE pineapple. One of my favorite fruits. Absolutely disgusting on a pizza. I'm pretty sure I would find honey equally if not more disgusting. Save the sweets for desserts. :)

There's a great pizza place called "B Side Pizza" in Hell's Kitchen that has a fantastic pizza with honey:

Come to NYC, go to Roberta's (either at their home location in BK or at Urbanspace in midtown Manhattan) and get the 'Bee Sting'. Yum.

Completely agree. Although in a 'free world' one would have the freedom to put anything they want on a pizza. So everybody longing for a pizza with dried anchovies, durian fruit, cups of chopped Carolina Reaper and topped with Epoisse cheese, feel free to 'enjoy', but I'll definitely pass, for many reasons.

A side comment: Why should it be named pizza ? What's next: Thanksgiving Dinner with Wild Boar Steak?

I had a lovely pizza in New London at Two Wives with goat cheese, roasted walnuts, sliced pear and drizzled with honey. A while back I had a white pizza (can't remember where) with lots of roasted garlic, duck and honey.

At the Sierra Nevada Taproom I was served some house-made ranch dressing with my pizza, which I never would have tried on my own. Was delicious. Not honey, but worth trying. I just dipped the pizza into the ranch dressing.

I also abhor pineapple and sweet toppings on pizza in general, but for some reason honey works really well. Especially spicy honey when there are meats present

From an early age, Southern children learn to dip everything in ranch dressing. Pizza included. When Mrs BV was a teacher in Tennessee, all cafeteria pizza was served with ranch on the side. I'm pretty sure the children wouldn't have eaten it without.

My home made pizza sauce has a crap ton of honey in it.

My neice and her husband dip everything in ranch, too. They also each weigh north of 300 lbs...I don't understand it. Though, in college, I used to dip Pokey Stix from Gumby's Pizza in ranch...yum.

I had a pepperoni and warm honey pizza the other day. It was pretty good, but I didn't think the honey really added anything to it.

like tabasco farther west?

or salt / salt & pepper for a lot of people

interesting so many people do things based on routine

I suppose they see their parents do it. At least tabasco is calorie free. There's a reason why obesity is greatest in the south.

I don't know if there already is a pizza topping thread. I haven't tried the honey yet...but will. Tonight I had pastrami pizza and it was delicious. Mustard, a little mayo, mozzarella, pastrami and dill pickles. It sounds weird but I loved it.

I have had it a few times, but the best was the pizza place in Kyoto train station, which served a 4 cheese pizza, each quarter being a different cheese, and it came with a little pot of honey just to go on the blue cheese quarter (as we were told by sign language). It shouldn't work, but it does!

We have Robertas now in LA! Culver City actually. I went last night--so good. And yes one of the pizzas we got was the Bee Sting and it was delicious. It was that perfect sweet and savory mix.
BEE STING
tomato, soppressata, mozzarella with chili oil, honey and basil
$19

I should try this honey idea; I like spicy pizza and it could be fun to add some honey.

I’m curious about Detroit pizza. I have the 8x8” cake pans for it. Oh I’m so curious. Will try it...

I was curious about honey too and I had it Roberta's here and I really liked the honey. But I love sweet and savory together--or sweet and spicy. One of my favorite pizzas is the Pastrami pizza at Mickey's Deli in Hermosa....and it has dill pickles on it!
The best part of a Detroit pizza is the super crispy corners and edges that are swimming in oil/butter. I think there might be cornmeal in the crust...I can't remember. And the tomatoes are on the top. Do it! Make one and post a photo. BTW, Costco now has Detroit pizza in the freezer section. I even texted a photo to Ian (both of us from Detroit) but it had some toppings that I don't like so I wasn't tempted.

There is one pizza chain, Jets, that specializes in Detroit style pizza. It’s my youngest’s favorite pizza. They sometimes have online sales that make it more reasonable.

Buddy's is the gold standard in Detroit pizza IMO. I don't think I have heard of Jets.

Jets has franchises in 19 states. No West coast locations.

Buddy’s seems to only have locations in Michigan.