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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 3270916, member: 181"] I love your enthusiasm. And I have ample experience with both Dino's in late 60's, and Joe's in the late 90's. Both have their fans.i wouldn't expect either to find wild or wide favor among the posters here. I liked Dino's, and I could recommend a stop-in to Joe's if you're in the West Village. Dino's was the first pizza I loved, because I grew up near Bishop's Corner. It was doughy, sweetly tomato-y, cheesy, and I most liked hamburger. Even after I broadened my palate and had different favored places & flavor profiles throughout Hartford (Uncle Sam's - better known for giant grinders but with a very sweet sauce; Whitney - $1.50 for a small honey-and-butter-crusted Greek pizza; Nolan's - maybe on upper Blue Hills Avenue, selling rectangular frozen pizzas on aluminum sheets with a clear plastic wrapper; George's which was on Park Street in West Hartford and maybe became Lena's), I would come back to craving Dino's. There is huge love for it on the You Know You Grew Up in West Hartford Facebook page.I think its ownership was the same as nearby Goldstein's Delicatessen, part of the Jewish diaspora from Hartford's north end to West Hartford's north end. To my later-evolved tastes, George's was likely the 'best' of the bunch. I think I'm forgetting somewhere else I liked. Joe's has been a Manhattan slice favorite for a long time. I've always liked it, but never loved it. I really don't get why it's so lauded, but, yeah, I do like it. Still, my favorite slice places, at least in their peak times, would be Patsy's in East Harlem, DiFara in Midwood Brooklyn, Artichoke on 14th St, and Two Boots on 7th Ave South. Ultimately, Joe's is like a real good version of the standard New York slice, a style which is good but not my most favorite style and certainly no match for a good or great New Haven pie. [/QUOTE]

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