I like pizza a lot. A kinds of pizza. I love the frozen Jewel (Chicago Supermarket chain) Chef's Kitchen (house brand) cheese pizza, for the love of God.
So I don't have a there's-only-specific-pizza-all-other-pizza-is-absolute-garbage mentality. I have had crummy lukewarm soggy shitty slices in New York. I have had change your life perfect New York style slices here in the city of big shoulders and vice versa. My favorite NY style is at Cafe Luigi on Clark St. My favorite over by me is the thin crust at Ledo's in Countryside. They do that Chicago thing of cutting up the round pie into squares - thassa bummer. But the za is reliably tastey. Growing up, I really liked the deep dish pizza at Kelsey Road House on Rte 12. Or rte 14, one of those.

And Zomalomadingdong is correct. You can get you some awe-inspiring pizza in the old country. That Neopolitan stuff. Oh, Madon.

r0ck1r0ck2 wrote:go to fucking newyork already..

shit..

NO!

freak..
I'll even hook you up with a floor to sleep on.

joelb wrote:

TheMilford wrote:Have any of you had a NYC pie with olives and roasted peppers and anchovies?

That sounds like a divine combination. There's a thin-crust place in Chicago that has clams. CLAMS! Someone there swears that a clam and white pizza with lemon wedges is a slice of heaven but I haven't been there with anyone who's been willing to get it.

I'll go! I'll go! I'll add it to my 'dream culinary tour of Chicago map'! What are you doing in August 2009?

i once wrote this..

every time i order mushrooms on a pizza at a 'NYC style' pizza place (either in NYC or northern Jersey), they put those slimy, anchovie-like canned mushrooms on them. what the fuck? even pizza hut uses real sliced mushrooms. retire your superior pizza complex if you're gonna use that shit.

canned mushrooms.. have some fuckin' dignity.

though i'm not too crazy about much pizza anymore except for the super thin woodburning oven stuff. it's hard to beat a good pizza margherita.

The best pizza I've had is at a place where I grew up. I would recommend it if you are over by dere.

r0ck1r0ck2 wrote:freak..
I'll even hook you up with a floor to sleep on.

Can't. I've got a rep to protect.

Pitchfork wrote:Pitchfork had run afoul of a few wild rumors about an MSG gig (other permutations involved The Shins and... Devo?!) in previous weeks, but this is the real deal, and should serve as the most bombastic New Year's gig for any of these bands, the Lips' longstanding tradition of ringing in the New Year in Chicago notwithstanding. ("New York can lick my dick," notes a FlamingLips.com message poster named Emperor Clobbersaurus. "NYE belongs to Chicago." Touche, Clobbersaurus, touche.)

NYC stole my favorite band and for that they will never be forgiven.

I couldn't say that the 'style' of a pizza factors much into whether I prefer one pizza over another; the ultimate determinant is the quality of the toppings. Am I right or am I right?

itchy mcgoo wrote:I am a glutton. I fear no lipids, but Chicago-style pizza is just too fucking much.

Oh my dog, it's like a....stromboli cake.

I love Giordano's stuffed pizza, which looks pretty similar to the one Itchy McBeff posted here. It's delicious. I eat it with a fork and knife when it's hot, and then eat it cold by hand for another two or three meals worth of food in the following couple days. Fucking kills.

Thin pizza, too, we got a million places do it good here.

The style I think of as "New York" pizza is basically what you get at Sbarro... one big floppy triangle. It's also excellent.

But it can't touch thick and stuffed (we got at least four places here that do it great, assuming Guliano's is still around) or the cut-into-pieces-the-size-of-a-credit-card style thin we got here.

Sometimes I get NY style pizza here, at Bacci. It's roughly NY style. I like it, cause it's a block away and it's easy. But it's not the best.

Sorry NY!!! Just add it to the list!! One more way Chicago kicks your lame ass!!!