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Glenwood, Iowa, pizza joint makes list of 101 best in U.S.

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Pizza at a family-owned restaurant in Glenwood, Iowa, is on a new list of the 101 Best Pizzas in America.
Adriano’s Brick Oven is No. 99 on the rankings at thedailymeal.com, a popular food website. The entry says the restaurant makes its own dough and sauce and offers a variety of toppings — including pineapple, jalapeño and basil — so you can customize your own pie.

Glenwood, population 5,316, is about 25 miles south of Council Bluffs on Interstate 29. Most of the other entries on the list are from larger cities. Several are from New York and Chicago and their suburbs.

The website said the list was compiled by considering the expertise of staffers, Yelp entries, online review sites, local news coverage and suggestions from readers.
A review on the Adriano’s website said: “I live in Nebraska and heard about this pizza from a friend. … It was totally worth the drive.”

 
Were you there on a Thursday for the throwback pizza?

No, I did a SW Iowa trip for a weekend last month. Went to Lake of the 3 Fires and did some swimming, stayed in Shen one night and went hiking at Waubonsie State Park near Hamburg.

Clarinda was a lot nicer than Shen from what I saw.
 
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Lived in Iowa my first 25 years, never heard of Glenwood. There's some good pizza porn in their list.
 
No, I did a SW Iowa trip for a weekend last month. Went to Lake of the 3 Fires and did some swimming, stayed in Shen one night and went hiking at Waubonsie State Park near Hamburg.

Clarinda was a lot nicer than Shen from what I saw.
Sheridan boulevard in Shen is their small business district. Clarinda has the square. My office is on the west side of the square, so you would have been right by it
 
If I had said that five out of the top 50 were from one area, you would say NY, right? Maybe Chicago? No, 5 in the top 50, including 1 and 9 in the top 10, are from New Haven, CT (one is in West Haven just down the road). That is unbelievable. I am driving through there on my way home from a Cape Cod vacation tomorrow, and I might stop by and grab a pie or two.

It is quite impressive that a small town in Iowa made the list. It must really be good stuff.
 
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