Pizza. How big do you like your slices. surely you guys fold your 'za a little, eh?  8-)

 

oh, and please no 'i like the grid cut'  nonsense  :laugh:

 

 

A 20 inch New York style pizza should be about 8 slices where you can fold it.

That NY BS is entirely too small for me.  I need a Jumbo Slice--overlapping two paper plates, where the slice flops around even after folding it in half, requiring the full-use of two hands while eating.

New York-style Pizza sucks. If you want greasy cheese slopped onto a soaked cardboard disk, go for it.

 

Gimme a Chicago deep-dish pie ANY DAY!

 

*drool*

 

As far as the topic goes...depends on the type of pizza. 90 degrees for deep dish, 45 for your standard pan pizza.

^sorry lasagna on pie crust is not pizza. jumbo? please, no steroids.

 

ok, sticking with unauthentic and despite mayday i'll go with dayton-style as it is locally very popular and unique (dont bug me st louis). who doesn't like cute bite sized party pizza? you just pop'em in.

 

otherwise, i like an authentic four slice margherita style best. a good sicilian square is hard to come by, but i like those too once in awhile. unfortunately, the typical ny slice is waaay to cheesy for me, but you should fold those to eat'em.

 

i used to like yala's in lorain because they used fresh mutz and it was ny style except for being cut again lengthwise (so 16 slices in that 20" pie instead of 8?). kinda wacky, but the long/skinny slices were easy to eat.

 

 

 

  I have to go with the majority on this on...NY style folded...I hate deep dish!  Damn...now I am going to have to go buy a slice somewhere...any good suggestions for NY style here on the near West side (Cleveland)?

So far the best pizza places I have found in the Cincinnati region are (forgive me suburban):

 

New York Style:

Flying Pizza (Montgomery)

Aponte's (Mason)

Fratelli's (West Chester)

 

Honorable mentioned: Dewey's

 

If there is a good New York style in the city of Cincinnati, please let me know because I have yet to find one.

 

Chicago style is blasphemy and isn't pizza IMO.  It has its place but call it something else. Pizza was brought to America via Gennaro Lombardi who opened a small grocery store in New York's Little Italy. An employee of his, Antonio Totonno Pero (also an Italian immigrant) began making pizza for the store to sell. Their pizza became so popular, Lombardi opened the first US pizzeria in 1905 at 53 1/3 Spring Street, naming it simply Lombardi's. 

 

 

BTW, DaninDC I know the pizza you are talking about and consider them a New York style.  You can find those pizza parlors in the DC neighborhood of Adam's Morgan and I had a slice one night when recovering from the great beer I drank at Madam's Organ Bar.

Oh yes, the Jumbo Slice is definitely New York style, but the size is all DC!  For what it's worth, I consider the Pizza Mart the home of the "true" jumbo slice--often imitated, never duplicated.  Best damn $4 slice of pie you'll ever have.

 

Aside from the "gourmet" pizza and the Jumbo Slice, pizza here is crap.

Ahhh an East Coaster after my own heart.  You called it a "Pie".  Now you just need a "soda" with your pie...

Of course!  "Pop" refers to the guy who never gave you any money as a kid....

 

I put it this way--I can order a soda in Cleveland, and I'll get what I want.  You can order a "pop" on the East Coast, and people will just look at you funny. 

Better cut mine in six slices; I don't think I can eat eight. :-D

 

In most parts of the country this may sound like blasphemy because in most places they really suck, but in Indiana, the Pizza Huts are generally very good. The Fort Wayne family that owns most of the Indiana franchises (even though they be very conservative Republicans) knows how to do it. Their restaurants are comfortable and busy, food is excellent, portions are generous, and service is prompt and friendly.

 

I got used to Indiana Pizza Huts, and one day while I was visiting my parents in Florida, Mom and I stopped at a pizza hut expecting something good. Godawful is the only word I can think of to describe it. The place was drab, plasticky and sterile, the service was indifferent, and the pizza was dry, cardboardy and not even hot. No wonder the restaurant was damn near empty.

Rob I am disappointed in you.  We need to get you out of Ft. Wayne.  A gay man promoting Pizza Hut is just wrong.  You need something with pineapples on it from a french restaurant ;)

Has anyone ever been to Cici's Pizza? It has to be the absolute worst.  (what happened to the smile of someone throwing up?)

 

I'm not gay, so I can be plain I guess. Hands down to any resturant, I prefer a Red Baron supermarket freezer pizza, 4-cheese, sliced in long thin strips. Unfortunately, my family likes resturant pizza, generally Larosa's or some chain.

 

Oh, and the pizza at Bahama Breeze and Bravo is pretty good.

There is a little family-run restaurant in the North End of Boston that has some of the best pizza on earth.  I have no problems putting away a large pie when I go there, although I can't remember the name of the place.  I do know it's on Hanover Street, though.  Any place that makes their own Italian sausage is okay by me (anyone ever have Danny's on Turney in Garfield Heights???). 

 

 

 

 

That NY BS is entirely too small for me.  I need a Jumbo Slice--overlapping two paper plates, where the slice flops around even after folding it in half, requiring the full-use of two hands while eating.

 

what's that place in adams morgan?

Pizza Mart

... ;)

uh, 6 ?

Cassano's (Dayton) salty pizza squares are ok, too.

In a recent visit to Rhode Island  I was introduced to "Pizza Strips".

Probably one of the worst edible (?) things in the world.

They sell 'em at the check out counters at gas stations next to the Slim Jims.

 

 

Hmmm...I think I'm attracted to the square pieces...Cassano's, Marion's, Joe's Pizzeria, and Donato's...but they do tend to be a bit small...Of the options I guess I have to go with the 6, but I'm liking the 72 degree option...I might have to ask for that sometime when I order a pizza from one of these non-square places and see what response I get

Nationally, one of my favorites is Bertucci's in Baltimore-Washington DC area.

 

Never was a fan of Dayton, St Louis, or New York's pizza.  I'm not going to lie, Chicago is my favorite style by a mile.  It's like pizza but a meal (and God, that cheese...).  New York pizza is too plain and boring for my tastes.  Surprisingly, Blonde's in Berkeley (CA) is quite good as well.

I think I'll vote for 6.  But I've never really thought much about the size of pizza slices.

So far the best pizza places I have found in the Cincinnati region are (forgive me suburban):

 

New York Style:

Flying Pizza (Montgomery)

Aponte's (Mason)

Fratelli's (West Chester)

 

Honorable mentioned: Dewey's

 

 

I'll secong Montecarlos.  I've been here for 2 years now and have pretty much given up on walking into a pizzeria and getting a coupla slices that meet my specifications.  Flying Pizza is acceptable by my NYC/via New Jersey/12 years in Philly standards, but its not great.  Fratellis is hte best Ive had here.  Havent been to Aponte's but its now on my calendar. I cant stomach McPizza or god forbid Larosas with the vomit extract in the sauce.  Seriously...when we moved here, w ewent to larosas andbrought the leftovers home.  I forgot it in my car for a n hour or so after I got home...went out to the car and swore someone farted in my car.  that sauce smells so bad.

Cincy Rise, I just looked up Adriatico's Pizza.  Some fool mentioned that it was in Mt. Adams on citysearch but it looks like it was right near Cactus Pear in Midtown, right?

 

http://cincinnati.citysearch.com/review/8169051

 

3205 Jefferson Ave

Cincinnati, OH 45220-2216

(513) 281-4344

 

I went to Corinthians by UC this weekend which I think is now called Pizza Pan or something and while it was alright for what it was (not pizza) I again came up short for finding a pizza place in the city worthy of returning too. 

 

How is Pomodori's Pizzeria located in Clifton Heights?  Is it New York Style?

Pizza was brought to America via Gennaro Lombardi who opened a small grocery store in New York's Little Italy. An employee of his, Antonio Totonno Pero (also an Italian immigrant) began making pizza for the store to sell. Their pizza became so popular, Lombardi opened the first US pizzeria in 1905 at 53 1/3 Spring Street, naming it simply Lombardi's. 

looks like a 6-slice piece of perfection!

 

 

Hands down to any resturant, I prefer a Red Baron supermarket freezer pizza, 4-cheese, sliced in long thin strips.

 

that sounds like you are making cheese sticks more than it is pizza  :lol:

 

^sorry lasagna on pie crust is not pizza.

i'd say that is a good way to describe chicago style, which i also like.

 

Cincy Rise, I just looked up Adriatico's Pizza.  Some fool mentioned that it was in Mt. Adams on citysearch but it looks like it was right near Cactus Pear in Midtown, right?

 

adriaticos is by UC. i prefer their sicilian to their new york, i eat it about once a week at the location they opened by osu

looks like a 6-slice piece of perfection!

 

or is that an 8-slice?...it looks big enough for an 8 slicer to have the right folds.

ah, Jumbo Slice! 

 

Just moved back to the DC area over the weekend and I'm already looking forward to my 3am hanging-over-the-side-of the-plate jumbo slice.

 

The first time I had it I took a picture of it on my cell phone and sent it to my girlfriend.  I was impressed.

^ Looks like I will be flying to DC tomorrow.  I might have to pay a visit to my favorite neighborhood of Adam's Morgan and buy a slice although parking is impossible and the metro is 2 miles away ;) 

The Metro is NOT 2 miles away from Adams-Morgan.  The Woodley Park station is a 15 minute walk from Pizza Mart.  Dupont Circle and U Street stations are both about six blocks away.  There are cabs or the 90 buses too, ya know.

 

You obviously don't want a jumbo slice that badly.

i get dizzy on the escalator

^ Looks like I will be flying to DC tomorrow.  I might have to pay a visit to my favorite neighborhood of Adam's Morgan and buy a slice although parking is impossible and the metro is 2 miles away ;) 

 

Woodly park/Zoo stop is about a 10 minute walk to Adams Morgan...on the way there by foot there is a great middle eastern place Mama Ayesha's...then in Adams Morgan hub Mixtec...awesome, authentic Mexican. if you like beer, go to the brickskeller in...crap can't thing of neighborhood in NW off 22nd I think! Huge, huge international beer collections. It was young peabody99's fav bar back in the 80's (yeah, yeah, underage) when I lived in Metro DC.  just went back last fall...still good.

DaninDC, it was sarcasm... notice the wink?

I prefer the litte squares, like at Donatos.  I think Donatos has the best tasting pizza too. I'm burnt out on Larosas. Nothing compares to Pizza Papalis in Detroit though, especially as far as deep dish.

The place I used to like was Rons.  They cut up the pizza into smallish square slices. 

 

Rons had a delivery operation here in Centerville and I used to order -in a lot from them.  Sausage Mushroom and Pepperoni.  very cheesy and tomatoey and gooey. 

 

The Centerville operation closed a few years ago, and the closest Rons is the original place in Miamisburg.  Havn't really found a good replacement yet...Cassanos is too salty, and I dont like Marions for some reason.

 

 

 

 

I like Dewey's the best - red sauce with spinnach and sun-dried tomatoes. 

 

I'm also burnt out on LaRosa's.  Their pizza tastes sort of bland now.

I like Dewey's because it's cheap lol.

Dewey's is fine but for all the people out there who are NOT LAZY, I recommend home made (Not the crust of course because even I am not that motivated). But seriously, it'll taste better and you get to choose what goes on it. No messing up on orders and you get to be playful with toppings. I dunno about you guys, but what does it for me on a pizza is the sauce. I could care less if it had no cheese as long as the sauce is good. *drool* My heart to pizza sauce ^^

jeff did you ever try giovanni's pizza in fairborn? good stuff.

 

i like my salty bottom crust centerville casanos. a must have every visit (along with milanos).

 

Dewey's is fine but for all the people out there who are NOT LAZY, I recommend home made (Not the crust of course because even I am not that motivated). But seriously, it'll taste better and you get to choose what goes on it. No messing up on orders and you get to be playful with toppings. I dunno about you guys, but what does it for me on a pizza is the sauce. I could care less if it had no cheese as long as the sauce is good. *drool* My heart to pizza sauce ^^

 

I do make pizza at home sometimes.  I use Trader Joe's pizza sauce, and it's delicious.  Trader Joe's also makes great pizza crust.  However, I usually make pita pizzas using whole wheat pita bread.  I also like to play with toppings. 

In Cleveland -Gulluchi's (someone feel free to correct the spelling on this) on Euclid and E. 68ish st. has the best homemade sauce and crust - already rolled out or raw frozen dough that you defrost, let rise, punch down roll etc. it is sooooooo good. this store is great: spices, olive oils, wines, olives,great deli-import cheeses well priced. everything Italian. I get the dough and sauce there and my sausage and other toppings at W.side market

360 degree slice.  Yum!

In Cleveland -Gulluchi's (someone feel free to correct the spelling on this) on Euclid and E. 68ish st. has the best homemade sauce and crust - already rolled out or raw frozen dough that you defrost, let rise, punch down roll etc. it is sooooooo good. this store is great: spices, olive oils, wines, olives,great deli-import cheeses well priced. everything Italian. I get the dough and sauce there and my sausage and other toppings at W.side market

 

Presti's Bakery also makes a pretty nifty dough you can take home with you.