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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 12.2%

  • No. I can't live without it.

    Votes: 59 72.0%

  • Move it to another board.

    Votes: 13 15.9%
  • Total voters
    82
My favorites outside the New Haven area would be Sassano in south Glastonbury, Rossini's in East Hampton, and Brick and Basil (actually a pizza truck) in Norwich
 
HooperScooper said:
Ballot stuffing? I've never heard anything about some of these places.

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The 16 best pizzerias in Connecticut, according to our readers

Which Connecticut pizzeria makes the best pizza? We left it up to you to vote for your favorites, and we’ve determined the top 16 pizzerias with the most votes.
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Alternate free access: Pizza showdown: You’ve picked the top 16 best pizza places in Connecticut. Time to vote again.
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I've been to about half of the places on that list. Some are great, some shouldn't be in the Top 16. I will say that Little City was amazing when it was in Simsbury, and that Naples is really good for the Hartford area.

I recently had Domenick & Pia in Waterbury. It was superb. Easy to see why it's busy all day long.
 
storrsroars said:
I guess you never got to Amore in Springdale when the former owner had it. I haven't been since its reincarnation, but it was right down the street from where I grew up and IMO was the best Stamford had to offer in the 80s/90s before the wood fired ovens came to town. If I wasn't having Colony, I was having Amore. These guys knew about it.
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Had it many times growing up. Born here in 1970. But I never found it outstanding or underrated. A step above John the Baker, Luigi’s or Pellicci’s.
 
Huskybass said:
I've been to about half of the places on that list. Some are great, some shouldn't be in the Top 16. I will say that Little City was amazing when it was in Simsbury, and that Naples is really good for the Hartford area.

I recently had Domenick & Pia in Waterbury. It was superb. Easy to see why it's busy all day long.
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I’ve been to 11 of the 16 on the list. Agree, some great, some shouldn’t be on the list—but good enough that on a given day I could see someone getting an excellent pie. Bobby’s in North Branford—an @August_West fave—is in that category.

Definitely not a bad pie among them, which is really the bigger story about Connecticut imo, i.e., there is never a reason to settle for crap pizza.
 
8893 said:
Definitely not a bad pie among them, which is really the bigger story about Connecticut imo, i.e., there is never a reason to settle for crap pizza.
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So, I have a really great pizza place, a really good pizza place and a meh pizza place in a 3-4 mile space.

Really great = 25% of the time
Really good = 50% of the time
Meh = 25% of the time

And that's pure laziness. The Good/Meh spots are on my "regular route" and maybe 5 minutes easier on a normal weekday. And reading what I wrote has me really second guessing that whole situation.
 
KSC94 said:
My favorites outside the New Haven area would be Sassano in south Glastonbury, Rossini's in East Hampton, and Brick and Basil (actually a pizza truck) in Norwich
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Rossini's love (by someone other than me) FTW.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Where was Shakey's located? Unfamiliar with that name.
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It was just up from Vernon Circle, near the Rockville town line (not sure which side of it). The people wore these outfits, and kids could get those hats too. One of those old school places that were for kids, but were also essentially a bar for the parents.

Picture Vernon: When Pizza Ruled The Circle (msn.com)

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Anyone try the Detroit style pizza? I hear Joey Garlic's has it, but don't I don't want to ride all the way to Newington (passing New Haven) just to try it without info. Was in Detroit a couple of years ago and heard nothing about it.

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Kitaman said:
Anyone try the Detroit style pizza? I hear Joey Garlic's has it, but don't I don't want to ride all the way to Newington (passing New Haven) just to try it without info. Was in Detroit a couple of years ago and heard nothing about it.

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Well there must be a Pizza Hut closer to your house. I'd rather starve than eat it but hey knock yourself out if you really want to try Detroit Style Pizza without driving to Joey Garlic's. Or Detroit.

 
HooperScooper said:
Well there must be a Pizza Hut closer to your house. I'd rather starve than eat it but hey knock yourself out if you really want to try Detroit Style Pizza without driving to Joey Garlic's. Or Detroit.

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Very insulting brother. IHOP makes pancakes, McDonalds makes hamburgers and Taco Bell's makes Tacos, all okay for a hunger attack but when it comes to Pizza I never eat a chain's pizza. Perhaps if I move out of State and am going through withdrawals, but I rather eat a possum when in CT.
 
Kitaman said:
Very insulting brother. IHOP makes pancakes, McDonalds makes hamburgers and Taco Bell's makes Tacos, all okay for a hunger attack but when it comes to Pizza I never eat a chain's pizza. Perhaps if I move out of State and am going through withdrawals, but I rather eat a possum when in CT.
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In fairness, no one out-pizzas the Hut.
 
8893 said:
Looks like we missed out on what would have been good timing for @Deepster ’s Boneyard pizza investment:

Pizza Was the Restaurant Hero of 2020
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Kitaman said:
Very insulting brother. IHOP makes pancakes, McDonalds makes hamburgers and Taco Bell's makes Tacos, all okay for a hunger attack but when it comes to Pizza I never eat a chain's pizza. Perhaps if I move out of State and am going through withdrawals, but I rather eat a possum when in CT.
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I live in a near pizza desert. Might have 1 good place and it's 30 minutes away.

Last May our son got a job delivering pizzas for one of the national chains. He was 18 about to graduate HS and wasn't ready for college. He needed a job.

Got his W2 in the mail last week and looked at it. Between salary and tips he made a shade under $27k in 8 months. Extend that out to a full year and it's right about $40k.

Might not be able to do that in New Haven, but there are plenty of places where a bunch of $7.99 pizzas fills up a family, soccer team or whatever else is buying.
 
Kitaman said:
Anyone try the Detroit style pizza? I hear Joey Garlic's has it, but don't I don't want to ride all the way to Newington (passing New Haven) just to try it without info. Was in Detroit a couple of years ago and heard nothing about it.

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In Detroit, it's just "pizza".

Here in Pgh we have one outlet of a chain called Jet's that serves it. Also two chef-owned startups that do interesting things with the style (there's a ricotta/lemon zest Detroit slice I love). I kinda like it. It's got the charred cheese edges of a pan pie, but the airiness of something much lighter than a Sicilian (a style I never took to). It's not heavy like a Greek pizza, although that's kind of it's lineage. It's different. It's not going to make you like NH style any less, it's simply another different thing called pizza.
 
Kitaman said:
Very insulting brother. IHOP makes pancakes, McDonalds makes hamburgers and Taco Bell's makes Tacos, all okay for a hunger attack but when it comes to Pizza I never eat a chain's pizza. Perhaps if I move out of State and am going through withdrawals, but I rather eat a possum when in CT.
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Obviously my post was tongue-in-cheek. I don't really get the Detroit pizza thing. And I definitely don't get the Pizza Hut thing. Yuck.
 
Detroit pizza looks like what they gave us in middle school.
 
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