PrintThe Long Search for Pizza in South Florida
I've been looking for really good pizza in South Florida. I use to visit NY every year and my neighbor was Italian (she owned a pizza parlor and served the best pizza). I'm looking for pizza with a very thin crust, seriously chewy cheese that when you take a bite you get this long string of cheese from your mouth to the slice. Don't even suggest Miami's Best, I think they should be sued for claiming such an outrageous thing. Their pizza is terrible. Anyone knows a place with good pizza?
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I live in the Tampa Bay area and there are very few places that make decent pizza. Look for a place that claims to have their water shipped in from NY (I'm not kidding). Being in south Florida, you know the toxic waste that passes for tap water here. People think we're insane because we say the bread and pizza are so much better in NY - they don't understand that what they've been drinking their whole lives in Florida is sludge. People think NYers drink out of the East River but NYC water is nectar of the Gods and comes from places like Croton on Hudson. It's pristine - some mountain runoff, some rain, all good.
Believe it or not, the pizza at Carrabba's restaurant is consistently great. It is baked in a brick oven and tastes like it. There is really good pizza in Key West at a place called Upper Crust on Duval Street. You will find better, thin crust "gourmet" pizzas at restaurants. There's one in Clearwater called Cafe Ponte that serves excellent pizzas and flatbreads. As far as "pizzerias" don't waste your time :(.....
chiff0nade at 7:54PM on 02/08/08
When I lived in NC I made the best pizza till someone from Brooklyn moved there and opened up a place. My grilled pizza was famous.
I was the eyetalian lady who used the greel to make petezas. I miss NC!
JerzeeTomato at 7:51AM on 02/09/08
Great drawl there eyetalian who greels! ;) I love NC too!!
PerkyMac at 10:12AM on 02/09/08
mary41: Where in South Florida? When my parents lived in Wellington, I'd go with them at Christmas to Steve's Brick Oven in Boca. There are also a couple of coal-oven places to have opened up in Boca. Here's a map. (Or is Boca too far up the coast for you?)
Adam Kuban at 4:11PM on 02/09/08
archie's pizza in coral gables... their regular margherita pizza is nice, but my favorite is the brie & apple pizza... mmm.
wickedlady at 8:08PM on 02/09/08
Steve's Pizza on Biscayn and 125'th (ish) in North Miami. At least it was lasttime I was there.
superduck at 9:25PM on 02/09/08
i'm with chiff0nade on upper crust. they are a small chain out of boston. it is the only pizza i get in boston. but i actually tried it in key west first.
coolname at 11:30PM on 02/09/08
Steve's Pizza is still there--but it's a little past 123rd Street, actually, behind the Denny's at the RK Shopping Center and just before you get to The Home Depot. IMO Steve's doesn't have that cheese pull, but they do have crispy crust. It also has sweet pizza sauce--if you don't like sweet pizza sauce, avoid.
And I'm offended by chiff0nade's comment about the water. Yes, water does vary depending on where you live, but that doesn't make the water in South Florida "toxic waste."
heartnibbler at 10:02AM on 02/10/08
Thanks guys, I've tried Steve (too sweet), I like Archies margherita (however, it's not that Italian family own restaurant pizza). I want pizza whose cheese makes sort of a chewy sound when you bite into it. I haven't been to NY in 8 years, and every now I start thinking about the pizza and can almost taste it.
mary41 at 10:06AM on 02/10/08
You guys, you want seriously great pizza in South Florida, no doubt go to Di Piazza in Hialeah. Its a hole in the wall that has been there forever and the pizza is amazing- the cheese drips, the blend of garlic and sauce is perfect and the crust is crisp and not too thick, not too thin. They also make great garlic rolls. Try it and then come and see if you still think there is no great pizza in South Florida! This place beats Archie's, hands down. Miami's Best is a serious joke.
chonga at 12:01PM on 02/10/08
I lived in Miami for many years and never found really good pizza. I wish I had known about Piazza in Hialeah.....but I found Hialeah a difficult place to navigate even though I never got lost in Miami.
elaine nan at 2:20PM on 02/10/08
i know you said south florida, but it is worth a drive north to visit satchel's pizza in gainesville. amazing pizza, great atmosphere. they serve pizza, calzones, and salads. they often have homemade desserts too. they have a website, you can google it. worth the drive for sure!
jlhmm at 7:36PM on 02/10/08
without question - Casola's Pizza
2437 SW 17th Ave
Miami, FL 33145
They are the best ny style pizza hands down
finnadat at 11:55AM on 02/11/08
I live on Key Biscayne, where everyone is obsessed with Sir Pizza. I think it's pretty good at best. Their pepperoni is nice, but they cut it into small sqaures and it's NOT NY-style. Archie's is passable (I like their roasted veggie pizza). Mostly, I make my own.
bitchincamero at 11:57AM on 02/11/08
I grew up in Miami and we always ate pizza at Mario the Baker in North Miami. I think this location is much better than their other locations in the South Florida area. http://www.mariothebakerpizza.com/
alisonsilv at 12:32PM on 02/11/08
Living in Miami currently and I really dig Macaluso's lunch spot. It's in a hidden little strip center on the corner of 17th and Alton on Miami Beach. There's a lunch deli and dinner spot, and the deli has amazing thin Italian pizza, wood-fired and made only with spring water. It's not on the menu, but ask for a salad pizza and they'll bring you a cheese pizza topped with the famous delicious Vito salad. The ingredients are quality with Italian sausage, fabulous cheese and delicious fresh mushrooms.
lesliepariseau at 2:07PM on 02/11/08
Casola's is by far and away the best pizza in the world after a night out :)
bitchincamero at 2:14PM on 02/11/08
I can't remember the name of the place, but it's located in the at 705 (ish)Linton Blvd. in Del Ray Beach...the guys there are from NYC and I think they have their water sent in from NY, which is what makes the dough so good...it was the only decent slice I could find
KateRuby at 2:32PM on 02/11/08
I like Sam & Eddie's in downtown Tampa, they get their water shipped in from NYC. It's the kind of pizza you used to love as a kid. I never order anything except cheese because it's so good it ought to be illegal.
redfish at 9:19PM on 02/11/08
Marina's Pizza in Tampa.
kdeiu at 11:07PM on 02/11/08
Hey Redfish, I'm dying to try Sam and Eddie's but it's not listed with directory assistance. Where is it exactly? Can you give me the address/phone?
LauraReiley at 11:04AM on 02/12/08
Have you ever tried Pizza Kitchen around 124th and US1 in Miami? It's right by a baseball park and in the same strip mall as some Thai restaurant/video game store/office building!
Fantastic pizza and really great garlic bread. It is a pick up take out spot with maybe two plastic tables if you can't wait to eat a slice...which I never could when I lived there!
firelight1016 at 9:22PM on 02/12/08
I love Tutto Pizza in Brickell, I have to get a panini or a pizza anytime I go visit my parents.
1753 SW 3rd Ave
Miami, FL 33129
bitterpurl at 8:43AM on 02/13/08
If you want NY style pizza, try Michaelangelo's in Sunrise. I find that most of the "brick oven" or "coal fired" places produce a good pie, but it's not that traditional "New York" slice that you seem to be looking for. Michaelangelo's is as close as I've found...
Dominic
the zen kitchen
dvchurch at 9:15AM on 02/13/08