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OT: Best Pizza in CT

huskymedic said:


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New Haven pizzerias lead the top vote-getters for the Connecticut Pizza Capital Trail

Gov. Ned Lamont declared Connecticut the “pizza capital of the world” earlier this year, and now we know that New Haven is the pizza capital of Connecticut. With the state […]
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Here is the list of the top 20 vote-getters:
  1. Modern Apizza, New Haven
  2. Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, multiple towns
  3. Sally’s Apizza, multiple towns
  4. Zuppardi's Apizza, West Haven
  5. BAR, New Haven
  6. Roseland Apizza, Derby
  7. Tony’s Pizza, Willimantic
  8. Colony Grill, multiple towns
  9. Little City Pizza, Avon
  10. Domenic’s & Vinnie’s, multiple towns
  11. Pizzeria Marzano, Torrington
  12. Ernie’s Pizzeria, New Haven
  13. Little Rendezvous, Meriden
  14. Vero Cucino Rustico, Middletown
  15. Mangos Wood Fired Pizza Co, Mystic
  16. Pizza Palace & Restaurant, Old Saybrook
  17. Grand Apizza, multiple towns
  18. Mondo, Middletown
  19. Fuoco Apizza, Cheshire
  20. Est Est Est Pizza & Restaurant, New Haven
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I’d drop Sally’s down to #7 nowadays. My top 4 are Zuppardis #1, Modern a very close #2, Pepe’s #3, Roseland #4, Bar #5, Ernie’s #6.
 
HuskyNan said:
I live in Florida aka Pizza Hell. You can’t believe what they sell as “NY or Northeast Style” pizza here. The Buffalo chicken pizza is baked chicken on top of a gluey crust with barbecue sauce instead of red sauce. Every single pizza I’ve had here is undercooked. Ick.
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Truth… a couple of years ago I was in Disney and my kid and I wanted pizza. So we scoured for a local, non-Disney place. It was absolutely horrible. Like terrible. Might have been only time in my life I threw away pizza.
 
boog204 said:
Truth… a couple of years ago I was in Disney and my kid and I wanted pizza. So we scoured for a local, non-Disney place. It was absolutely horrible. Like terrible. Might have been only time in my life I threw away pizza.
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I hate Florida, food sucks, rains at least once a day during certain times of the year, expensive……only reason I’d go there is to experience a CAT 5 hurricane. JK
 
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Purple Stein said:
Florida pizza is awful.
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CONN78SEJ said:
I hate Florida, food sucks, rains at least once a day during certain times of the year, expensive……only reason I’d go there is to experience a CAT 5 hurricane. JK
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I have a few options which are decent out on the Panhandle.
Y'all inspired me to get this today.

Sun dried tomatoes, artichoke, feta and sausage.
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Not CT but I finally had Town Spa Pizza in Stoughton, MA. Boston area bar pie. Was actually Dave Portnoy's first review nearly a dozen years ago.



It was really good. Definitely recommend if you're in the area.
 
TheHorde said:
If someone opened a New Haven style pizza place that did it right on Cape Cod they’d make money hand over fist. I’m actually surprised that it hasn’t been done properly yet.
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You want to hear something crazy though I now live in the WesMass area. Some of the guys I met up here in the last 30 plus years coaching our kids, playing golf together and families hanging around, they grew up here. And when I ask them about opening a New Haven style pizza place in this area they say NO WAY, people around here like Roma’s, Nicky’s, Red Rose, Bruno’s and many others in this area. Not sure that’s automatic but I think with the fact the Cape is more tourist I would have to agree especially there for the summer. Maybe they zone them out?
 
mauconnfan said:
You want to hear something crazy though I now live in the WesMass area. Some of the guys I met up here in the last 30 plus years coaching our kids, playing golf together and families hanging around, they grew up here. And when I ask them about opening a New Haven style pizza place in this area they say NO WAY, people around here like Roma’s, Nicky’s, Red Rose, Bruno’s and many others in this area. Not sure that’s automatic but I think with the fact the Cape is more tourist I would have to agree especially there for the summer. Maybe they zone them out?
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My in laws live on the Cape and miss New Haven style pizza terribly. Whenever they come to visit, that’s the first thing they want because they have nothing close to it there. A place like Modern or Pepe’s on the Cape would do solid business from the year round residents. They’d do insane amounts of business from the summer tourists, especially with carry outs.
 
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When I read about these Apizza outlets elsewhere in the country failing to make apizza the same way (usually because of crust thickness), I'm reminded that many people outside Connecticut aren't into thin pizza, nor into charring. They don't understand it really. They grew up on thick, doughy, undercooked pizza with a lot of sugar in the sauce, and a carpet of cheese on top (that usually slides right off the crust with your first bite).

If you took a classic Pepe's pizza from its heyday and dropped the store in the middle of most American cities or small cities or suburbs, they'd probably go out of business and they'd hear a ton of complaints about people feeling ripped off because:

#1. The crust is too thin, you're going light on the dough, they can't get their fill
#2. Not enough cheese, you're going light on the cheese
#3. Light on the toppings. Or you charge too much for toppings.

They might also say the tomato sauce is too tangy.
 
mauconnfan said:
You want to hear something crazy though I now live in the WesMass area. Some of the guys I met up here in the last 30 plus years coaching our kids, playing golf together and families hanging around, they grew up here. And when I ask them about opening a New Haven style pizza place in this area they say NO WAY, people around here like Roma’s, Nicky’s, Red Rose, Bruno’s and many others in this area. Not sure that’s automatic but I think with the fact the Cape is more tourist I would have to agree especially there for the summer. Maybe they zone them out?
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People like what they grew up eating. Greek style was the popular place in my home town, so that's what I measured all pizza against for years after leaving.
 
TRest said:
People like what they grew up eating. Greek style was the popular place in my home town, so that's what I measured all pizza against for years after leaving.
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You just made me think of Yorkside Pizza (downtown New Haven) for the first time in 20 years. My grandparents used to take me there. We were a Sally's family but I enjoyed Yorkside's greasy, cheesy Greek pizza like it was fast food pizza.
 
nomar said:
You just made me think of Yorkside Pizza (downtown New Haven) for the first time in 20 years. My grandparents used to take me there. We were a Sally's family but I enjoyed Yorkside's greasy, cheesy Greek pizza like it was fast food pizza.
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Hasn’t changed much in those passing decades: Yorkside Pizza
 
nomar said:
You just made me think of Yorkside Pizza (downtown New Haven) for the first time in 20 years. My grandparents used to take me there. We were a Sally's family but I enjoyed Yorkside's greasy, cheesy Greek pizza like it was fast food pizza.
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That the place next to Toad's? If so, that hit soooo hard after a show/gig there.
 
TRest said:
People like what they grew up eating. Greek style was the popular place in my home town, so that's what I measured all pizza against for years after leaving.
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Yeah no doubt I agree. Honestly a good greasy Greek pizza isn’t bad once in a while. There’s one near us over the CT line in East Granby CT which I have no problem having their pies as well as their entrees, great spot good people.

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TheHorde said:
If someone opened a New Haven style pizza place that did it right on Cape Cod they’d make money hand over fist. I’m actually surprised that it hasn’t been done properly yet.
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Its pretty seasonal on the Cape and they would need to make their money during that time, though if they were to open one I'm sure they would meet their quota for the year in that time period with out a problem.
I would love to see New Haven style pizza on the Cape since we go every year around June and July, there is nothing that even comes close there, imo.
Even the resturants are eh, people will argue that Arnold's is great but it's no better than a Lenny and Joe's.
 
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Husky Alien said:
Its pretty seasonal on the Cape and they would need to make their money during that time, though if they were to open one I'm sure they would meet their quota for the year in that time period with out a problem.
I would love to see New Haven style pizza on the Cape since we go every year around June and July, there is nothing that even come close there, imo.
Even the resturants are eh, people will argue that Arnold's is great but it's no better than a Lenny and Joe's.
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There aren’t a ton of places open year round there, but the ones that are generally are very good and have a loyal following from the locals. The glut of quality pizza there would definitely be a fertile ground for a place that makes it right to do very well.
 
Probably doesn't (or didn't) measure up to your guys' standards... but we used to love Spiritus in PTown years ago. Floppy, foldable, delicious.
 
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nomar said:
Heartens me to see it still open. A great family restaurant. I used to occupy myself while waiting for our food by looking at the annual Yale football team photos. I wonder if those are still there.
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I knew the owners and the kids. Spent quite a lot of time playing video games in the finished basement.

Speaking of Yale pizza places, Naples Pizza was our go-to pre-drinking place. Cheap beer and cheap pizza, great place for 16 year olds back in 1983.

But the cheapest place of all was called the Josey Wales Saloon in Westville.

49 cents for a pitcher of beer. It was Genny Cream Ale but so what!!!
 
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