OT: Best Pizza in CT

[CTBasketball]

I have feeling he’s going to like both! Prediction…

Mondo’s 8.1
Sicily 8.3 (New Haven Style which Dave loves)

Plus a little compliment on Siciliy’s set up and Main Street as a whole.

Sicily sucks IMO.

 

[Deepster]

Sicily sucks IMO.

I think the restaurant is very good, the pizza isn't anything to write home about though.

 

[boog204]

I think the restaurant is very good, the pizza isn't anything to write home about though.

I gig there from time to time and the food looks (and smells) absolutely delicious...

 

[Fishy]

I've only been back East a couple times, both to my best friend's place in Poughkeepsie. Knowing that I was a HUGE pizza nut, she arranged a Hudson Valley Pizza Tour for me... We had slices at five or six places. most NY style. Loved 'em all!

But the best one was actually a Detroit style pie, at a place called Hudson & Packard, right in the middle of Poughkeepsie.

Out here in NorCal, I don't think there are any really good NY style pizzas, but there some decent ones... For me, Chicago style is the best. Zachary's, a four-store chain in the East Bay is the bomb diggity! (Okay, I'm sure that's already an old phrase... and get off my lawn...)

There is supposedly a "California style", but I just call that fast-food pizza... like Chuck E. Cheese or Straw Hat. Still better than a hamburger in my book, but I can find better almost all the time.

I've been to Davenport, IA for their great traditional-jazz festival, and while there, had a couple other Chicago-style pies, one just over the river to Illinois, the other at Giordano's, a fairly large chain based in Chicago that makes a GREAT Chicago pie! Zachary's compares very closely to both of those places. BTW, if you've ever tried the chain "Old Chicago", that's a pretty good pie but not really Chicago style, no matter what they say.

The Davenport area also has its own style, Quad-cities style... do NOT try that! EEEEEEEEyuck!

If I ever actually make it to Connecticut, I'll refer myself to this thread.

Best pizza in the Hudson Valley is Hudson and Packard in Poughkeepsie, Pizzeria Posto in Rhinebeck and Eastdale/Town of Poughkeepsie and Lucoli’s in Red Hook.

Hudson and Package also has good wings which are almost impossible to find around here.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Out here in NorCal, I don't think there are any really good NY style pizzas,

Don’t tell me you live in/near the bay and have never been to Tony’s in SF

 

[HooperScooper]

Best pizza in the Hudson Valley is Hudson and Packard in Poughkeepsie, Pizzeria Posto in Rhinebeck and Eastdale/Town of Poughkeepsie and Lucoli’s in Red Hook.

Hudson and Package also has good wings which are almost impossible to find around here.

I don't think any of us should take food recommendations from a person who would eat cardboard and be happy with just its caloric value.

 

[speckle]

Only pizza worse than the above brand is Little Ceasar's regular round pies.

However, Lil C's Deep Deep Dish is pretty decent. Hard to believe they are made in the same kitchen as the round crappy ones...

But actually, I have had even worse pizza, both one-store independent places.

First one, the ex and I went to a concours car show in Napa, out in the sun all day... Went to find a pizza place in Napa... Wine country and all that, the pizza should be good right???? Probably so, but not at the place we selected. They had the sheer AUDACITY to call themselves "New York West Pizzeria"... Well, everything on the pie was awful. I think they used manhole covers for the crust, and the rest wasn't much better... We were STARVING, so we forced down a slice apiece to hold ourselves over, left 90% of the pie sitting there, and left for another place, which fortunately had much better pizza. That parlor is long since gone. Good riddance...

2nd one... Went up to Seattle for a relative's wedding... long wedding, followed by a reception with a little bit of finger food and that's it.
We were starving, ordered from a place called Acropolis Pizza (That should have been our first warning, a Greek name...) I think the cheese they use is Brie? Either that, or it was raw sewage... Absolutely inedible. I should have noticed the smell before I paid the driver... If I had, I would not have accepted the pizza and told the driver to take a hike. We then jumped in the car and found some other spot... That pizza was lousy, too... but nowhere CLOSE to as bad as that crapola from Acropolis. We were like, "Hey does anyone have a clue how to make a pizza up here?"

Okay, enough horror stories...

Sorry you had to experience the Seattle pizza scene. There's tons of great food around here, especially any type of Asian, but the pizza and subs scene is absolutely terrible. I literally daydream about CT pizza and Italian subs a couple days a week. If you've got money and want to make some more, bringing CT pizza to greater Seattle is a no brainer. We serve some of weakest pies imaginable for $25 a pop.

 

[superjohn]

Sorry you had to experience the Seattle pizza scene. There's tons of great food around here, especially any type of Asian, but the pizza and subs scene is absolutely terrible. I literally daydream about CT pizza and Italian subs a couple days a week. If you've got money and want to make some more, bringing CT pizza to greater Seattle is a no brainer. We serve some of weakest pies imaginable for $25 a pop.

The thin crust in Chicago sucks and they charge $25 out here as well. Deep dish is good but it's $33 before u even add a topping and then you're over $40, it's ridiculous. I just make my own now for the most part.

 

[Fishy]

I don't think any of us should take food recommendations from a person who would eat cardboard and be happy with just its caloric value.

Two of those places are like seven miles from me.

That is 6.5 miles too far.

 

[speckle]

The thin crust in Chicago sucks and they charge $25 out here as well. Deep dish is good but it's $33 before u even add a topping and then you're over $40, it's ridiculous. I just make my own now for the most part.

I make a mean Traeger flatbread. It's not pizza but for 12 bucks all in I can feed a bunch of people and avoid all the moral hazard

 

[Mazhude]

The thin crust in Chicago sucks and they charge $25 out here as well. Deep dish is good but it's $33 before u even add a topping and then you're over $40, it's ridiculous. I just make my own now for the most part.

Piece Pizzeria in Chicago (Wicker Park) is a very good New Haven style place run by the Jacobs brothers from Wooster Square. They were regulars at Sally's (had the secret number and everything) growing up. Highly recommended if you are in the area... and they brew some mighty fine beers as well.

 

[AidanFan20]

Don’t tell me you live in/near the bay and have never been to Tony’s in SF

I try not to go into SF no matter what the reason.

 

[I Bleed Blue]

Sicily sucks IMO.

I think their pizza is inconsistent but have had a couple good pies there. I do like their non-pizza items. Their spicy ragu cast iron pasta dish is excellent.

 

[AidanFan20]

Just looked at photos from that Tony's place in SF... Boy, I'm gonna have to brave the traffic, parking, prices, etc. and explore that. Someday.

 

[AidanFan20]

Now that I think of it, I have been to some pizza parlor in North Beach, but it was long ago, don't remember if it was Tony's or not.

 

[HooperScooper]

Now that I think of it, I have been to some pizza parlor in North Beach, but it was long ago, don't remember if it was Tony's or not.

Tony's is pretty famous. You'd probably know if you were there. It has a bunch of different kinds of pizzas (New York, coal fired, Detroit, Napoletana, Sicilian, etc.) on the menu and they say what degrees it is cooked at. The menu is huge.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Just looked at photos from that Tony's place in SF... Boy, I'm gonna have to brave the traffic, parking, prices, etc. and explore that. Someday.

I was gonna say, you absolutely should. Not sure if you checked out the menu but there’s a reason they’re consistently rated among the top in the country

Not sure if they count as north beach since they’re up on the hill on the Chinatown/Little Italy border but hey

 

[dvegas]

New Haven to take its U.S. 'pizza capital' claim to D.C. and the halls of Congress​

New Haven to take its U.S. 'pizza capital' claim to D.C. and the halls of Congress (not that there's any doubt)

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[Rocktheworld]

New Haven to take its U.S. 'pizza capital' claim to D.C. and the halls of Congress​

New Haven to take its U.S. 'pizza capital' claim to D.C. and the halls of Congress (not that there's any doubt)

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I’m sorry but this is incredibly lame

Just shut up, make your apizza, and let the product speak for itself

 

[superjohn]

I’m sorry but this is incredibly lame

Just shut up, make your apizza, and let the product speak for itself

She did the same thing over 20 years ago with Louis' Lunch and their hamburger. You're right, it's incredibly lame.

 

[Husky25]

She did the same thing over 20 years ago with Louis' Lunch and their hamburger. You're right, it's incredibly lame.

To be fair, Louis Lunch is ridiculous. A flattened meatball between wonder bread and no ketchup? The line between child and adulthood is the preference between ketchup and barbeque sauce, but for a restaurant to tell anyone what they should prefer (and for that preference to be neither), as if it compromises the integrity of the [ground beef] (IYKYK).

Get the [heck] outta here with that!!!

Besides, Ted's is a 1/2 hour closer. Every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

 

[Rocktheworld]

She did the same thing over 20 years ago with Louis' Lunch and their hamburger. You're right, it's incredibly lame.

I actually get that. The objective founding/invention place of anything as monumental as the hamburger is totally fine to claim for the sake of history. North Carolina gets to claim it’s the birthplace of man-made flight.

But some subjective “capital of ” claim is a total joke. Hopefully it doesn’t lead to other cringe like Chicago being the capital of hot dogs, or SD being the capital of tacos (even though it is), or SF being the capital of sushi

 

[imno1]

New Haven to take its U.S. 'pizza capital' claim to D.C. and the halls of Congress​

New Haven to take its U.S. 'pizza capital' claim to D.C. and the halls of Congress (not that there's any doubt)

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I'll suggest that while Rosa is at it she adds "College Basketball Capital" also.

 

[superjohn]

I actually get that. The objective founding/invention place of anything as monumental as the hamburger is totally fine to claim for the sake of history. North Carolina gets to claim it’s the birthplace of man-made flight.

But some subjective “capital of ” claim is a total joke. Hopefully it doesn’t lead to other cringe like Chicago being the capital of hot dogs, or SD being the capital of tacos (even though it is), or SF being the capital of sushi

Sure it's different but it's also lame, people were obviously eating hamburgers way before Louis Lassen started selling them.

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

I actually get that. The objective founding/invention place of anything as monumental as the hamburger is totally fine to claim for the sake of history. North Carolina gets to claim it’s the birthplace of man-made flight.

But some subjective “capital of ” claim is a total joke. Hopefully it doesn’t lead to other cringe like Chicago being the capital of hot dogs, or SD being the capital of tacos (even though it is), or SF being the capital of sushi

And that was stolen from CT as the Wright brothers were not the first to fly - were beaten by a group in Bridgeport... Was Connecticut First in Flight?