The 101 Best Pizzas in America

[ThorneStockton]

I literally lived upstairs from Modern Pizza (#20) for my last two years of college. And a stones throw from the #1 and #7 as well. New Haven pizza is definitely the best, IMO.

That explains how you became so uhh, uhm, uh.. robust.

 

[H4wkfan4life]

No pizza hut stuffed crust?
I call fake news!!!!


Since some people on the net are a bit slow, I'll let you know I am kidding.....

 

[Obviously Oblivious]

St. Louis style pizza is an abomination and should be avoided at all costs. If you’re topping a pizza with a CHEESE PRODUCT you’ve completely failed.

 

[EpenesaEpenesa]

That explains how you became so uhh, uhm, uh.. robust.

I can’t really blame him

 

[RunRonnieRun]

I had a decent enough reason to be in the neighborhood of O4W pizza today, so I stopped in for an early lunch.

Decent Detroit Style. Good cheese char. 5.7

Grandma’s is pretty good. A little too much basil and too much cheese for me, but a solid crust and great sauce. 7.1

 

[FSUTribe76]

St. Louis style pizza is an abomination and should be avoided at all costs. If you’re topping a pizza with a CHEESE PRODUCT you’ve completely failed.

Yeah, both times I tried the St Louis style (Imo’s and Guido’s) I got the traditional provel cheese(food) rather than mozzarella. And it completely ruins the pizza for me. In both cases my wife and I got a whole pizza and then tossed it after one.slice.

I will say that I DO really like the super thin, crunchy yeastless crust. And I do know that some of the St Louis style places including the famous Imo's offers mozzarella in place of proven, but I'm not convinced it would be good even with the cheese substitution simply because I also disliked the thick but sweet ketchupy sauce.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

That explains how you became so uhh, uhm, uh.. robust.

It helped. The Worcester Square are of New Haven should be a top destination for any foodie/ pizza lover. There's a place called Abate's Worcester Street (on the same street as Pepe's and Sally's) that makes the best Calzone on earth. Such great food there. Damn. I miss it.

 

[FSUTribe76]

It helped. The Worcester Square are of New Haven should be a top destination for any foodie/ pizza lover. There's a place called Abate's Worcester Street (on the same street as Pepe's and Sally's) that makes the best Calzone on earth. Such great food there. Damn. I miss it.

Unfortunately, I've yet to find a really good calzone in Tallahassee. The area I grew up in Hernando County has a ton of transplants from mainly Philly, Jersey, Brooklyn and Long Island NY. So we have a ton of great mom and pop "Italian" and Pizza places in and around my hometown plus some great small chains from those areas (plus a great Milwaukee/Chicago Thin style pizza place where the owner of a small chain in Milwaukee and Chicago moved retired to Florida but wanted to keep working periodically). And I grew up eating amazing calzones and strombolis.

Meanwhile in Tally, we have a lot of really great pizza places including a Neopolitan style place called Isabellas I consider on par with Pizzaeria Bianco in Phoenix the best Neopolitan place in the US, a fantastic blend between NYC traditional thin and Washington DC style "jumbo slice" pizza in Momo's, a long-lived (from the 70s) Midwestern "Bar-style" thin pizza called Barnaby's Family Inn which had its recipe stolen and turned into a Southeastern regional chain called Red Elephant, and a branch of the definitive "Southern"/Georgia style of pizza Mellow Mushroom. Plus we have some really good California style pizza chains in Blaze and Uncle Maddios and several good NYC style traditional places like Decent Pizza, Gaines Street Pie, Bubba's Pizza, Brooklyn Pizza and Milano Pizza. So with pizza we are great here in Tally. But calzones and strombolis....there's nothing of quality. A couple of places like Gaines Street and Momo's carry them, but they're complete garbage. I ended up buying a pizza stone and just cooking them at home because no one here does even a halfway decent calzone or stromboli.