OT: Best Pizza in CT

[imno1]

Spot on mate! Anybody asking for pepperoni on a pizza in Italy would be met with an incredulous look and a schiaffo to the back of the head.

This ain’t Italy and while I rarely order pepperoni on my pie it’s probably a top 2-3 most popular topping at least here in CT. Now I want to go to Italy just to ask for pepperoni

 

[superjohn]

OMG, you trolling, right? I've had some great pizza in the south of Italy where my parents are from, and some great pizza up north where many of uncles, aunts, and cousins have relocated. And I'm not talking about tourist areas but where the locals go to eat. The worst I had was in Venezia.

It tastes pretty good because the ingredients are fresh but it's just that it's nowhere near as good as pizza in CT, IMO.

With all the other great food in Italy I just wouldn't waste my time again with pizza there. A lot of people think pizza in Chicago is great, I would tell people not to waste their time with pizza there as well.

 

[superjohn]

This ain’t Italy and while I rarely order pepperoni on my pie it’s probably a top 2-3 most popular topping at least here in CT. Now I want to go to Italy just to ask for pepperoni

Pepperoni is by far the most popular pizza topping in the US and yes the super thin processed stuff at bad pizza places isn't very good the thick cut locally sourced pepperoni at the great pizza places is excellent, especially when it gets a nice char on the edges and curls up a bit.

 

[storrsroars]

It tastes pretty good because the ingredients are fresh but it's just that it's nowhere near as good as pizza in CT, IMO.

With all the other great food in Italy I just wouldn't waste my time again with pizza there.

Awful take on the first part. Reasonable take on the second part. But if you really have a jones for pizza, you're gonna be happy (unless that jones is for buffalo chicken or pineapple and ham).

I've had pizza at the convention center food court in Bologna that could make a CT top 20 and be a top 3 in most states.

 

[superjohn]

Awful take on the first part. Reasonable take on the second part. But if you really have a jones for pizza, you're gonna be happy (unless that jones is for buffalo chicken or pineapple and ham).

I've had pizza at the convention center food court in Bologna that could make a CT top 20 and best a top 3 in most states.

I had pizza at what I was told by a local was the best pizza in Bologna. It tasted pretty good because it's fresh but it didn't compare with the great pizza in CT. Same thing in Napoli.

The food in Bologna is outstanding, I would tell people not to waste their time on the pizza. My dad lived in Bologna for 5 years.

 

[storrsroars]

I had pizza at what I was told by a local was the best pizza in Bologna. It tasted pretty good because it's fresh but it didn't compare with the great pizza in CT. Same thing in Napoli.

The food in Bologna is outstanding, I would tell people not to waste their time on the pizza. My dad lived in Bologna for 5 years.

If I went back to Bologna, I'd have a hard time not ordering risotto for breakfast, lunch and dinner. A mushroom risotto I had there is in my top 5 all-time meals. Never had anything remotely close to it in the US.

That said, given the numerous comments here about many of the top NH-area pizza places being inconsistent, I'd argue that you're unlikely to run into that in much of Italy. I can't say that as a fact because I've only had five pizzas there, despite visiting Bologna, Verona, Florence and multiple trips to Rome. That's why I agreed on your second point - that there's usually something more interesting and delicious on the menu besides pizza. IIRC, I've had 3 pizzas in Rome and one each in Florence and Bologna. So one about every 15 days I spent there.

I used to work on a tradeshow in the tile & stone industry, so I'd go over to Italy to talk to potential exhibitors. When I was at the Bologna convention center, I only ordered the pizza because it was the fastest thing to get and I could eat it on the run. But when I bit into it, it was a "Holy Shiite" moment. I'm not exaggerating that it was really, really good and completely unexpected. They care about food there.

 

[j66kicker]

Pepperoni is by far the most popular pizza topping in the US and yes the super thin processed stuff at bad pizza places isn't very good the thick cut locally sourced pepperoni at the great pizza places is excellent, especially when it gets a nice char on the edges and curls up a bit.

Totally agree:
1) Pepperoni is by far the most popular topping in the US, and
2) For most pepperoni pizza I need about 5 paper napkins to sop up the orange grease off a decent-sized slice. So I never order it. Unless I see a pizza at the next table with "good" pepperoni on it