OT: Best Pizza in CT

[NH Husky]

Food for Thought! Oh wait, they didn’t do pizza, but were great for solving munchies.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Towers dining hall in like ~2005 used to have a legitimate pizza oven. Now it wasn't amazing by any stretch but it rated pretty well compared to the other mediocre retail joints.

 

[HooperScooper]

That place was terrible.

There's a reason it didn't last.

I used to love the one in Cromwell. Was the one in Storrs not the same?

 

[HooperScooper]

I've never been to one, but it appears Square Peg Pizza is leasing Geno's old space. Here's a copy paste with some other new restaurants.

Storrs Center at Uconn will welcome four new restaurants! The lifestyle center at UConn's flagship campus is already home to a diverse array of restaurants.

Square Peg Pizza has leased the former Geno's Grille space on Dog Lane according to leasing documents received by The Connecticut Scoop! The pizza shop has locations in Vernon, Glastonbury, Newington, Berlin, Enfield, Orange, Berlin, and Higganum. The pizza shop has more locations coming soon in Windsor and Wethersfield.

I heard the one in Glastonbury is good. Can anyone confirm whether that's true or not?

 

[WhereistheDove?]

I lived in the hotel right there junior year (2010-2011) and I remember the crummy personal pizzas (along with wraps and such) but never calzones

Whoah, as someone who worked making crummy personal pizzas and wraps at south during that timeframe, I take offense.

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

I used to love the one in Cromwell. Was the one in Storrs not the same?

I've never been to the one in Cromwell so I'm assuming no?

I suspect it's similar to the Pepe's in Manchester. Nowhere close to the original.

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

There is no good pizza near UCONN. None.

Depends what you mean by “near”. If you mean within a 10-15 min drive, then that’s not true.

Camilles in Tolland and Trigo in Willimantic are excellent.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Whoah, as someone who worked making crummy personal pizzas and wraps at south during that timeframe, I take offense.

Hey you worked with what you had lol no offense directed

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Hey you worked with what you had lol no offense directed

Plus we loaded up those buffalo chicken wraps so much that they had to put in a camera to see who was giving away so much free product. Jokes on them, it was all of us as a service to the school.

 

[Uconn77Duke74]

The pizza shop in Willington was the best pizza in the area. When i was a student back in early 90's Gumby's pizza was king.

 

[ToolzieFan]

Yes, "In The Zone" was the name. That and the spot in Alumni where I could load up on waters and Powerades at the end of each semester with whatever was left on meal plan made living in West awesome. That and having no roommate for a year and half.

The place in Alumni was the W.E.B.B. site, or something like that, right? That was a decent place to grab a sandwich when I didn’t have time for the dining hall. The real benefit, as you said, was using the last of my remaining meals on Powerades at the end of the semester. My buddy and I did that every semester and wondered why more didn’t. We’d also hit up Jonathan’s, because we could grab some packaged baked goods and a few extra spicy chicken sandwiches to go with our Powerades. Good times.

 

[husky429]

I heard the one in Glastonbury is good. Can anyone confirm whether that's true or not?

I've probably been there 30x because I used to live nearby and my friends always wanted to go to trivia night.

At their best, it was an edible faux-Neapolitan. They also served a faux-Detroit style. Both fine, but nothing I'd take more than a short drive to go get. Better than anything in Storrs right now... maybe on par with Blaze. I certainly wouldn't drive an hour and make a trip of it like I would with New Haven za.

I tended to get A LOT of burnt pizzas unless one specific guy was cooking, which was always frustrating... older, red-headed, and my hero. I didn't want to be an balloon knot and send it back to the other cooks, but you've gotta learn to control the temperature in your oven at a certain point. I LOVE "char"... I know the difference between char and burned, and I got A LOT of burned bottoms because the oven was too hot.

 

[HooperScooper]

I've probably been there 30x because I used to live nearby and my friends always wanted to go to trivia night.

At their best, it was an edible faux-Neapolitan. They also served a faux-Detroit style. Both fine, but nothing I'd take more than a short drive to go get. Better than anything in Storrs right now... maybe on par with Blaze. I certainly wouldn't drive an hour and make a trip of it like I would with New Haven za.

I tended to get A LOT of burnt pizzas unless one specific guy was cooking, which was always frustrating... older, red-headed, and my hero. I didn't want to be an balloon knot and send it back to the other cooks, but you've gotta learn to control the temperature in your oven at a certain point. I LOVE "char"... I know the difference between char and burned, and I got A LOT of burned bottoms because the oven was too hot.

Thanks. My parents live very close to there so I was wondering if it was worth getting when we're there. Sounds like there are better options around.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Not going to lie, I'm surprised the amount of love Peps is getting.

It's fine for what it was: a cheap option for late-night food on campus for when you're drunk. Outside of that, it's a trash sober option.

Come to think of it, I guess I just didn't eat a lot of pizza in college.

Willington Pizza does hold a place in my heart, though. Instant dopamine rush every time I walk in.

 

[Dove]

I used to think Sgt Pepperoni made a very respectable NY Style pizza on campus. Disappointed it closed.

Ahhhh, well.

 

[Dove]

Does anyone up there make a Buffalo jalapeno mac and cheese pizza?

 

[McLovin]

Sgt Pep's was the best. DP Dough got all the hype (and is good in itself), but give me the Sgt Pep's calzone 100 times out of 100. The pizza was above average too

1000%. Buffalo Chicken Sargent Pep calzone was the move.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

Does anyone up there make a Buffalo jalapeno mac and cheese pizza?

Those are fighting words

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

The buffalo chicken pie from Willington Pizza is where it's at

 

[Mr. French]

There is no good pizza near UCONN. None.

I won’t indulge in any of the CT pizza discussion but I’ll say the last 2 times I visited campus as an out of towner I was stunned how little access there was to grabbing a quick slice. Good or bad I could barely find a slice.

 

[Austin316]

There is no good pizza near UCONN. None.

Best nearby…

Willington Pizza - 8 mins away
Camille’s Wood Fire - 13 min away

 

[Deepster]

Does anyone up there make a Buffalo jalapeno mac and cheese pizza?

Shut up, Dove.

 

[tdrink]

I've been living in Storrs for the last 25 years and seen it all come and go.

Part of the issue here is that standards have gone way up. I was a Gumby's guy back in the day, but if that same pizza was still available I don’t think I could take two bites of it.

Pizza Mike's, Willington, Apollo, Tony's and Pleasant are all mediocre but nothing to write home about options. (Apollo prob the best of those, imo.)

Wooster St. was great and always crowded when it first opened. The quality dropped off a cliff very quickly and the place was always empty after that.

The disaster that became the “downtown “ jacked rents throughout Storrs and cleared out anything that didn’t have a good profit margin.

The University requiring all students in dorms to be on a very expensive meal plan (cash cow) was another stake through the heart.

There are currently many Asian food options in Storrs because they cater to one of the biggest demographics of renters, especially in the downtown.

 

[HooperScooper]

Wooster St. was great and always crowded when it first opened. The quality dropped off a cliff very quickly and the place was always empty after that.

Ah, so that's what happened. The Cromwell one was really good when I lived in Rocky Hill in the early to mid 1990s so maybe all the locations changed ownership and the quality went down hill. Too bad.

 

[McLovin]

I've been living in Storrs for the last 25 years and seen it all come and go.

Part of the issue here is that standards have gone way up. I was a Gumby's guy back in the day, but if that same pizza was still available I don’t think I could take two bites of it.

Pizza Mike's, Willington, Apollo, Tony's and Pleasant are all mediocre but nothing to write home about options. (Apollo prob the best of those, imo.)

Wooster St. was great and always crowded when it first opened. The quality dropped off a cliff very quickly and the place was always empty after that.

The disaster that became the “downtown “ jacked rents throughout Storrs and cleared out anything that didn’t have a good profit margin.

The University requiring all students in dorms to be on a very expensive meal plan (cash cow) was another stake through the heart.

There are currently many Asian food options in Storrs because they cater to one of the biggest demographics of renters, especially in the downtown.

Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head. I also think UConn lacking any sort of traditional strip of bars like most but universities also makes it tough.

They can’t have any $1 slice spots because there is no concentration of late night drinkers. Storrs Center was a big whiff IMO, the town of Mansfield wanting it to be family oriented / the crazy rents / the anti party culture of the Herbst tenure when it was being built really forced it to become a bunch of chain spots serving fast food.

For as great as UConn is, some things about the university are an enigma.