GOAT Pizza: New York, Chicago and California

[9erempiree]

It is a toss up, no pun, for me in regards to which region makes the best pizza. The New Yorkers and Chicago have always argued which is better but in my opinion the gourmet pizza from California is the best.

How do you eat a New York style pizza? The call it pie. Fold it in half.


How do you prefer your crust in Chicago? Thick crust on deep dish.


Pizza? In Cali? We do it California style cuisine with great ingredients.



As someone that lives in the country of California, I would have to go with our gourmet pizzas.

[Milbuck]

Grew up on Chi deep dish. It's often hit or miss for people outside of that area..If you're ever there, Burt's Place and Giordano's are damn good.

[9erempiree]

Don't forget about St. Louis style pizza.

Looks like a potato chip with fancy dip.

Definitely will try if I am ever there. If I am there, it is probably for a sporting event.

[GimmeThat]

Cookies

[9erempiree]

Grew up on Chi deep dish. It's often hit or miss for people outside of that area..If you're ever there, Burt's Place and Giordano's are damn good.

Duly noted.

Will do if I am there, use to date a girl that frequents back and forth to Chi-town.

[MadeFromDust]

California W-T-F??

[Nanners]

cali style pizza is so bland and boring. good pizzas only have a few ingredients, and they sure as hell dont have artichoke and advocado and stupid cali shit like that. my favorite is the northern italian style- basically a thin crust baked in a super hot oven with just one or two toppings. the closest mainstream variety in america that is like italian is probably ny style.

[9erempiree]

cali style pizza is so bland and boring. my favorite is the northern italian style- basically a thin crust baked in a super hot oven. the closest mainstream variety in america that is like italian is probably ny style.

Bland?

We use fresh ingredients and gourmet-style.

[DukeDelonte13]

True Naples style Pizza is the true GOAT. You haven't eaten pizza until you had it perfectly cooked in a olive tree wood fired oven at super high temp, only fresh buffala mozzarella, and fresh sauce made that day.

American pizza is mass produced sauce w/ mass produced cheese going through one of those conveyor ovens. Don't get me started on those bullshit mass produced pepperoni that tastes like sh*t.

American pizza is all more or less pretty similar. Not as good.

Chicago deep dish shouldn't even be considered pizza. It's good, but it's not pizza.


Good American pizza can be had in any major american city.

[andgar923]

L.a. Born and raised.

Cali pizza IS bland.

They focus less on flavor and more on its healthy content.

Naturally.... Not all pizzas are made the same way, cause there is some good shit around.

[GimmeThat]

I take lasagna over Chi-Deep dish

I like variety and veggies on my pizza, so.
Probably ease up on that soda with a thin crust though

[Shade8780]

I prefer Irish pizza with mash potato instead of cheese, Guinness instead of tomato sauce and black pudding as topping.

[Akrazotile]

Buffalo NY makes the best pizza. For real. Well, the greasiest anyway. But damn it taste goood.

[Godzuki]

when i've had NY style pizza its always sort of plain, greeasy, style pizza

chicago is like deep dish, at least thats how i've had it and it being advertised chicago style...

napolli/italy is like brick oven i think with the real ingredients like leaf stuff put on it where it tastes real fresh...

don't know about cali pizza tho.

i think most people have a good pizza in/around their area since there are so many pizza joints of all varieties everywhere.

its all decent to good but i prefer a american style where its got this cheese that tastes better than most of the other cheeses, and tastes sort of processed i guess, just the flavor with the cheese is better than the rest and noticeable different imo. theres like 2 joints around whre i live that make it that way, and one in Ocean City, MD thats real popular for it that makes it that way too. its really about preference.

[Thorpesaurous]

It's New Haven Connecticut.

And I've been around. The whole Northeast really, which is not surprising since it's got the heaviest mob influences, has the best italian food in general.
I've always found most of the Cali pizza's I wasn't fond of the dough, it was too chewy, and my buddy who's a chef in San Diego says that the salt air really has an effect on anything baked out there. And it's probably why the Mexican flat bread culture grew out of that pacific south. I made one trip to San Fran over the years and the pizza was certainly the best I had in Cali. And comparable to the better pizza's I've had at home in the northeast.

I've also taken several trips to Chicago. In fact my friend with the Bulls tickets has a large ownership stake in Giardano's. It's excellent, but just not what I think of when I think of Pizza.