Too many good ones to list all of them so here are my top 2 in Chicago.
1. Pizzeria Bebu
2. Labriole
1. Pizzeria Bebu
2. Labriole
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Dang....I made pizza last night. Apparently I jumped the gun. Thankfully I made 2, so there are leftovers.
I will list the bad ones.
1. QC style pizza
1. QC style pizza
Half off any large pizza today!
Pizza Hut has been bringing their A game lately.
The best Deep Dish pizza I found in Chicago so far is Louisa's Pizza & Pasta. I liked it alot better than the usual suspects Lou Malnati's, Giodardno's, Uno's etc....
I haven't spent enough time in Chicago to talk knowledgeably about the thin crust and other styles. I definitely prefer the Milwaukee style pizza I got in Wisconsin better than the deep dish but I don't truly hate deep dish, I like it well enough to have on occasion.
So far amongst my travels I've found a huge number of pizza styles I love (Trenton NJ tomato pie, NYC style, Connecticut Apizza, Neopolitan, Detroit Deep Dish, California thin crust, Tarpon Springs Florida Greek style, Amish-area Pennsylvania pretzel crust, Georgia yeasty thick crust, Milwaukee Thin Crust, and Philiadelphia tomato pie in that order) and most I like.
But there are two styles I find absolutely disgusting: 1) St Louis style with the gross provel cheese and 2) Old Forge PA style with its sickeningly sweet tomato sauce that tastes like Heinze ketchup you dumped a bunch of sugar in and a little bit of wine and caramelized sugar. I have not had Quad City style pizza unless Casey's counts (and I'd give Casey's a C or C-, it definitely neither lives up to the hype on here nor the intense disgust it also gets on here, it was very mediocre).
Thin crust pineapple and ham with tons of tobasco is the way to go
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We made homemade pan pizza in a cast iron skillet tonight.
very good.
very good.
Best in Eastern Iowa
1. Casey’s, of course
2. Zoeys
3. Wig and Pen
4. Mabes
5. Pagliais
6. Leonardo’s
1. Casey’s, of course
2. Zoeys
3. Wig and Pen
4. Mabes
5. Pagliais
6. Leonardo’s
Got some wig and pen tonight as well. Were like 8 other people there waiting on their pizzas here in NL. Never seen it that busy before.
Got Casey’s today but ONLY because I didn’t feel like driving to Zoey’s. Zoey’s is my shit.
In my college days at UNI ('88-'92), it would have went like this.
Rocky Rococo's
The Other Place
Paul Revere's
Godfathers
Pizza House (The Stein)
Domino's
@McLovin32 , edit above. I forgot one.
Rocky Rococo's
The Other Place
Paul Revere's
Godfathers
Pizza House (The Stein)
Domino's
@McLovin32 , edit above. I forgot one.
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Is that in order? If so, effing Paul Reveres at #2?! That’s what we had at our high school concession stand.
OP and Paul Revere's were 1a and 1b. Although Paul Revere's had killer sticks.
I’ll eat the Rueben from the Ritz any day of the week. So damn good.
Happy Joe's Pizza is still one of the best
places in Iowa. Their sausage, pepperoni
toppings are first class. Delicious treat
for pizza lovers..
places in Iowa. Their sausage, pepperoni
toppings are first class. Delicious treat
for pizza lovers..
Seriously craving the GOAT and original taco pizza from there right now.
Saturday is my eat anything day and that normally includes pizza. I have a frozen Pagliai's set aside.
