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OT: Best Pizza in CT

Is it time to get rid of the pizza thread?

  • Yes. It's past it's useful time here.

    Votes: 10 14.1%

  • No. I can't live without it.

    Votes: 50 70.4%

  • Move it to another board.

    Votes: 11 15.5%
  • Total voters
    71
storrsroars said:
We don't have Greek pizza around around Pittsburgh, but every 10 years or so when I'm up in CT I'll stop at Hope St. Pizza in Stamford for one because some deep, dark part of me misses all that grease. Then I wonder why I did it. And I'm good for another decade.
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I used to live on Hope st. The pizza there is a decent guilty pleasure but colony hot oil was always the go to.
 
VCE said:
What’s the best in the Rocky Hill/Cromwell/Middletown area? Headed back there for my nephew’s bday and I’m tired of Ilianos.

Do you guys have a best bagel thread? I know there was a place in West Hartford we went to once which was great, but it was a bit of a pain to get to.
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Krust in Middletown is good. Thin crust, woodfired.
 
Greek is okay for a change or if there is no thin crust around, but nearly anything with green peppers is a non-starter. If the bell won't at least start to ripen, it's compost.
 
Caronimo said:
I used to live on Hope st. The pizza there is a decent guilty pleasure but colony hot oil was always the go to.
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Well yeah. That's why Greek is only an every decade thing. Colony is every single trip.

I go back well before they even offered hot oil. Bobo was still kickin around back then with Fitz before Skeets came on board and they took out the shuffleboard to add more tables. Schafer in pitchers with juice glasses. When it was still a cop bar and when you stopped in at 7pm there were regulars at the end you just knew were there since 10am. IOW, I'm old.

I tried Riko's about 3 years ago. Got the runs.
 
VCE said:
What’s the best in the Rocky Hill/Cromwell/Middletown area? Headed back there for my nephew’s bday and I’m tired of Ilianos.

Do you guys have a best bagel thread? I know there was a place in West Hartford we went to once which was great, but it was a bit of a pain to get to.
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Pizza:
-Mondo’s, Main St. Middletown
-Vera Cucina, Saybrook Rd. Middletown
-Michael Angelo’s, Rocky Hill

Bagels: Probably thinking of Lox Stock or maybe Isaac’s?
 
Ok so went to the Barrett Jackson auto auction yesterday and prior to getting to sit we wanted a beer and a bite. Thank God instead of nacho's, burgers, dogs, sausage grinders there was a Frank Pepe's for slices. The girls went to get some fruit and crap no good for you and the boys went shopping at Pepe's after grabbing a Sam's. I will say this it was better than the other selections but they do prepare their slices anything like they do a pizza at any of the Pepe locations. At Mohegan Arena it's thick and crusty, still flavored ok but too much dough to take away the sauce, cheers and pepperoni to feel like you're eating a high end pizza.
 
8893 said:
New special alert! Rhode island little neck clam pizza

garlic-parsley oil, parm, bacon
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White Clam Apizza’s nothing new yet always has been special in New Haven. Luckily, it’s not overwhelmed with unnecessary bacon. Beauty’s in the taste buds of the beholder.

On the subject of pizza, AAC vs NNBE; improvement? Trade Tulsa, Witchita, bum puck East Carolina for Butler/Indy, Creighton/Omaha, Marquette/Old Swilwaukee ...
 
Chief00 said:
Get some facts - try it with onions and peppers - and come back and see me.
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Chief, with all due respect, you just don't get it when it comes to pizza. Stick to critical basketball insight to enlighten the masses. Far more in your wheelhouse.
#bitchesandhos
 
HoopsHype34 said:
1. Modern
2. Pepe
3. Sallys
4. Olde World
5. Bar
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1. Zuppardis
2. Modern
3. Sally's
4. Roseland
5. Pepe's

HM....Bar, Ernie's

20 or 30 years ago I'd of put Pepe's at 1 or 2. Loved that place back then, "The Spot" too. Had pizza at Pepe's in Danbury last week, ok decent, if not a little overpriced, but definitely not like it was years ago.
 
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HoopsHype34 said:
1. Modern
2. Pepe
3. Sallys
4. Olde World
5. Bar
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1) Modern
2) Pepe's (original of course)
3) BAR
4) Sally's (haven't; tried it since the new owners took it over, so...)
5) Roseland (my childhood hometown pizza)
6) Colony (its really good when one get out fo the office at 6 PM in Stamford and has a pie first while traffic is at its peak before driving home to Jersey)
7) Rossini's (my teenage hometown pizza)
?) Zuppardis (heard great things; but, have never been there)
 
Chef David Chang Plans At Least One Pizza Run While He's In Hartford For CT Forum

>>"Collectively as a town, New Haven has some of the best pizza," Chang said in a recent phone interview. "I've always thought that. Even when we were freshmen. Anytime we'd go past New Haven...and sometimes we'd drive there, get it and come back. It was something I'd eat on the regular."

And his favorites? "I think Bar is good...Sally's is great, too, but my favorite pie is the Pepe's clam pizza. With bacon. You've got to get it with bacon."<<

>>New Haven pizza earned a prominent spot on the first episode of Chang's 2018 Netflix documentary series, "Ugly Delicious," described as a "mouthwatering, cross-cultural hunt for the world's most satisfying grub." Each of the eight episodes highlights one particular food or topic, including pizza, tacos, barbecue and fried chicken. The premiere episode found Chang wearing a Hartford Whalers T-shirt as he visited Brooklyn pizzeria Lucali and interviewed its chef and owner, Mark Iacono.

"I think New Haven pizza, as a community, has the best pizza in America," Chang told Iacono, who said he had never experienced Connecticut pies. "It's a surprising statement, I understand, but you've got to check it out." Later in the episode, Iacono traveled to Wooster Street to meet Pepe's co-owner Gary Bimonte, grandson of the founder. <<
 
I'm going to drop a controversial bombshell here... other day, wife asked me to pick up a slice of pizza from Whole Foods. I got two, one for each of us. Granted, Pittsburgh pizza ain't NH, and I'm not gonna say this was Top 5 NH quality, but I was dumbfounded at how good it actually was. Crust was excellent. No idea if our local WF is an outlier, but wondering if any of y'all have tried it? Might be an option for those not around NH. Expensive though - 2 slices for $7.50 (although big NY size slices).
 
storrsroars said:
I'm going to drop a controversial bombshell here... other day, wife asked me to pick up a slice of pizza from Whole Foods. I got two, one for each of us. Granted, Pittsburgh pizza ain't NH, and I'm not gonna say this was Top 5 NH quality, but I was dumbfounded at how good it actually was. Crust was excellent. No idea if our local WF is an outlier, but wondering if any of y'all have tried it? Might be an option for those not around NH. Expensive though - 2 slices for $7.50 (although big NY size slices).
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I haven’t had the WF’s pizza. But have you seen this?
It’s hilarious and you feel embarrassed because if you shop there, you’re guilty of half of it...

 
browndog319 said:
I haven’t had the WF’s pizza. But have you seen this?
It’s hilarious and you feel embarrassed because if you shop there, you’re guilty of half of it...

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I'm not in LA and I don't see d-bags like the guy in that video in my store. Parking never an issue. Can usually get within 4 spots of the front of lot, any time of day.

Hey, I get WF is pricey and has a ton of crap nobody really needs, but for what I buy there it's fine and competitive - salsa and hummus always on sale and they've got the best bread of any nearby market. I've got five supermarkets w/i 1.5 miles of my house. Each has a different application for me.
 
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