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GlastonTim said:
It’s one of their specialty pies. Salami sweet and hot peppers and hot honey oil plus other stuff. Never had the spooker.
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Your pizza choices are awesome but come back when you’ve had the spooker. Best pizza in country . Portnoy gave verdolinis a 9.8
 
dvegas said:
Sally's Norwalk (not that it matters to me, its easily my least favorite of the Big 3) delayed again until 2025 Norwalk Sally's Apizza Restaurant Opening Delayed To 2025 Pretty sure it was the first expansion location announced way back in 2019. I've got not clue how SoNo Collection is even staying open, but know they've filed suit to reduce their 2023 revaluation assessment by half...
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They just dropped their appeal recently...
 
GlastonTim said:
What exactly is the “spooker”?
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Going to Fouco Apizza for lunch tomorrow. Hear it’s great. Whenever I go to a new pizza place I always get a cheese pie and my favorite , some variation of a sausage, hot pepper, hot honey, whatever special they have that’s similar. Apples to apples.
 
GlastonTim said:
Going to Fouco Apizza for lunch tomorrow. Hear it’s great. Whenever I go to a new pizza place I always get a cheese pie and my favorite , some variation of a sausage, hot pepper, hot honey, whatever special they have that’s similar. Apples to apples.
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Had their stuff at least a half dozen times, all excellent overall. Tomato pie is on point. I might have only gotten something with sausage once and I believe it was fine.
 
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August_West said:
Your pizza choices are awesome but come back when you’ve had the spooker. Best pizza in country . Portnoy gave verdolinis a 9.8
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Spooker not on the menu early on:cool:
 

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AidanFan20 said:
Nobody's gonna answer what the "spooker" is?

I'm starting to think it's an urban myth. Somebody fess up...
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I never had one. I don't know what's on the "real" Spooker, which apparently died with Verdonlini's back in 1992. But seven years ago ADub posted a photo of a menu from some joint that offered something called "Spooker".
 
 
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HooperScooper said:
I've never been to Square Peg. Is it good? My parents live pretty close to the Glastonbury one but I still haven't been there. Columbia? What is in Columbia?


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CT's Square Peg Pizzeria announces first out-of-state location, plus new restaurants in Columbia and Shelton​

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I've had pizza from their Vernon location. For eastern CT, it's not bad. Compared to the rest of the state, it's edible but not very good.
 
Stew Crew said:
I've had pizza from their Vernon location. For eastern CT, it's not bad. Compared to the rest of the state, it's edible but not very good.
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For some reason they don’t know how to crisp the crust. If they could do that it would be way better. I asked them to bake it longer , doesn’t seem to work there.
 
huskymedic said:
@superjohn can you go sniff it out and do a TikToc review for us?
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Ha. I was hoping this was a new New Haven pizza place opening up out here. It was one of the two or three best thin crust places in the city but nothing like New Haven. It's in my neighborhood but I haven't had it in many years. I've basically given up eating pizza in Chicago. If someone has it at their house I'll eat some but I hardly ever go out for pizza anymore. If I do I would go to one of the deep dish places. The pizza is very bad out here.
 
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Well, being that I live in California and find it unlikely that I ever land a ticket far enough ahead of time to plan a trip, most likely I'll only get to CT if/when I visit my friend in Poughkeepsie and take a lengthy side trip.

But I have some fine NY pies when visiting there in the past and consider that the 2nd-best style I've had, and Detroit deepdish just behind that.
 
AidanFan20 said:
and Detroit deepdish just behind that.
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???

Do you mean "Detroit-style"? It's square, but in no way deep dish. More like Sicilian or Grandma style in construction. You can eat it by hand.

When done well, it's very good. Looks like it would be heavy, but is surprisingly light.
 
Well, okay... detroit semi-deep dish. To me, it's at least sorta deep-dish... It's certainly deeper than the typical fast-food chain-store types of pizza. (I like those, too... just not as much as the really good stuff!)

I eat most Chicago deep-dish by hand, too. Fortunately for me, there are a few places in NorCal that serve this style... and those compare very well to the ones I've had much closer to Chicago, Giordano's in Des Moines, the westernmost of that chain that I know of offhand... and Tony's Chicago Style Pizza in Moline, IL.

I'll make my first-ever visit to Chicago next summer, and I can't wait to try what's reputed to be the Holy Grail of Chicago-style pizza, Lou Malnati's.

Best Detroit-style pie of this type I've had is the one they serve at Hudson & Packard in Poughkeepsie, but I haven't run across many of these pies in the wild.
 
AidanFan20 said:
Well, okay... detroit semi-deep dish. To me, it's at least sorta deep-dish... It's certainly deeper than the typical fast-food chain-store types of pizza. (I like those, too... just not as much as the really good stuff!)

I eat most Chicago deep-dish by hand, too. Fortunately for me, there are a few places in NorCal that serve this style... and those compare very well to the ones I've had much closer to Chicago, Giordano's in Des Moines, the westernmost of that chain that I know of offhand... and Tony's Chicago Style Pizza in Moline, IL.

I'll make my first-ever visit to Chicago next summer, and I can't wait to try what's reputed to be the Holy Grail of Chicago-style pizza, Lou Malnati's.

Best Detroit-style pie of this type I've had is the one they serve at Hudson & Packard in Poughkeepsie, but I haven't run across many of these pies in the wild.
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Chicago deep dish from Northern California?

You’re in the wrong thread, bubie.
 
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huskymedic said:
@superjohn can you go sniff it out and do a TikToc review for us?
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Also, a large pepperoni pizza is $35 out the door. He has a bagel shop connected to Piece Pizza and he charges $30 out the door for a half dozen bagels and a small tub of cream cheese. His prices are totally ridiculous and I'm not a fan. I might have to make a tiktok video about it.
 
Went to Pepe’s in Danbury last night. It was pretty good but nothing special. Did the tomato pie with mozzarella and the Italian salad. The crust was crisp and lightly charred but there was too little sauce and I actually needed to put salt on it. I’m not a salt person, but a little salt really helped bring out the tomato flavor. It was meh but the texture was just right. It has me wondering if I just don’t like Pepe’s much anymore because the feel and appearance were there. The flavor was just underwhelming.

We were heading north from White Plains and I really regretted not going to Pizza Post in Greenwich instead.

I am looking forward to getting pizza in Vermont this week. I think Piecasso in Stowe produces an outstanding NY Style Pizza and I’m certain I’ll be happier with it than I was at Pepe’s. If you ever get the opportunity, give it a try.
 
This is about as good as I can get in western panhandle of Florida.

Pepperoni, sausage, artichoke hearts and sun dried tomatoes.

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