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'The Syracuse Pizza Manifesto'

Pavone's must be higher, as well as the Varsity. Oh. You must like thick crust (i.e., bread with some sauce and cheese). Syracuse really does not merit a top 10 list. Make a pilgrimage to The Colony, in Stamford, Connecticut. You have to wait for hours just to get a pie. The hot-oil pizza is without parallel.

Pawlie Kokonuts at 7:54PM on 06/18/08

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From the Mailbag: 'The Definitive Top 10 List'

Puh-leeez. Any list that does not have The Colony (a.k.a. Bohanon's or Jimmy Bobo's), the oldest restaurant in Stamford, Connecticut, is guilty of a mortal sin of omission. Your penance? You are forced to eat that dreck on your top 10 list. As for Syracuse (where I live), it should not be part of the discussion. It's mostly a pizza wasteland. But if you must list, Pavone's and the Varsity should be 1 and 2, respectively. Incidentally, the late William F. Buckley's favorite dish? The hot oil with pepperoni from The Colony. You can look it up, stugatz. (The hot oil, plain, is my fave.)

Pawlie Kokonuts at 7:50PM on 06/18/08

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From Slice

'The Syracuse Pizza Manifesto'

Pavone's must be higher, as well as the Varsity. Oh. You must like thick crust (i.e., bread with some sauce and cheese). Syracuse really does not merit a top 10 list. Make a pilgrimage to The Colony, in Stamford, Connecticut. You have to wait for hours just to get a pie. The hot-oil pizza is without parallel.

Pawlie Kokonuts at 7:54PM on 06/18/08

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From the Mailbag: 'The Definitive Top 10 List'

Puh-leeez. Any list that does not have The Colony (a.k.a. Bohanon's or Jimmy Bobo's), the oldest restaurant in Stamford, Connecticut, is guilty of a mortal sin of omission. Your penance? You are forced to eat that dreck on your top 10 list. As for Syracuse (where I live), it should not be part of the discussion. It's mostly a pizza wasteland. But if you must list, Pavone's and the Varsity should be 1 and 2, respectively. Incidentally, the late William F. Buckley's favorite dish? The hot oil with pepperoni from The Colony. You can look it up, stugatz. (The hot oil, plain, is my fave.)

Pawlie Kokonuts at 7:50PM on 06/18/08

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'The Syracuse Pizza Manifesto'

Late to the table here, but as a Syracusian ex-pat living in Chicago I must comment. First I have never found better pizza in Chicago - Homemade Pizza Co comes closest - than Syracuse, which I consider the best pizza city I have ever spent time in. Patsy's is by far my favorite ever and have been eating there since I was 8 (orginal locale near LeMoyne College). Pavones, Twin Trees, Sabistino's (if they're still open?), Johnny's, Varsity, Alki's (aka Acropolis), Before-is-was-Dorians & speaking of Skaneateles, there used to be an excellent joint out there, since closed. Now I'm hungry and off to find some pizza cut in squares.

kingstitt at 6:15PM on 07/27/09

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'The Syracuse Pizza Manifesto'

@dhorst Thanks for the recommendation. I'll be sure to check it out if I ever go back. Hopefully in the Summer. As far as the snow removal goes, don't try to tell that to the families of the victims of these two seperate crashes. I used to drive past that spot every morning:

http://www.bookrags.com/highbeam/speed-snow-blamed-in-i-81-crashes-20040204-hb/

Ciao,

Paulie Gee

pauliegee at 9:35PM on 03/04/09

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'The Syracuse Pizza Manifesto'

Avicolli's on rt. 57 Liverpool (northern 'burb of Syracuse) is awesome. Much better than Gino and Joe's in my opinion. The sauce is bright, fresh and lively. Just the right amount of cheese and the crust is fairly thin with a bit of chewiness.
@pauliegee--yup that was a nasty winter. It's just one of those things we're used to and our snow removal rocks. All that salt on the road is hell on the cars though. Syracuse does have some strong Italian roots. If you're up here again, try Avicolli's for some good pizza.
@slice who cares? We happen to have some great water here in the Syracuse area. Our water comes from Skaneatles Lake; one of the most pristine lakes in the country. It's definitely not from Onondaga Lake which unfortunately became quite polluted due to industrial plants dumping crap. However it is being cleaned up.

dhorst at 7:28PM on 03/03/09

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'The Syracuse Pizza Manifesto'

I never had pizza when I spent the 2003-2004 winter from hell working in Syracuse (http://goldensnowball.com/golden-snowball-03-04-season.htm ) but I did discover a great place for a brew and a roast beef sandwich in Armory Square called Clark's Ale House:

http://www.clarksalehouse.com/

Ciao,

Paulie Gee

pauliegee at 7:24PM on 03/02/09

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'The Syracuse Pizza Manifesto'

Syracuse I say is a great small city with GOOD water, really cheap tickets to the local sports teams, and really crummy tv ads/service.

btw Joe's pizza in whitesboro,ny (outside Utica) is da BESTEST

Running with Pizza at 8:01AM on 03/01/09

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From the Mailbag: 'The Definitive Top 10 List'

1.) Patsy's in East Harlem

You got that right. Period. Beat New York style pizza (coal oven, very thin crust, locally made mozzerella) in New York beyond any doubt. And very inexpensive. I used to live in Astoria and would take the bus across the Triborough and walk to Patsy's for lunch (I was working at home at the time). It was great exercise combined with great pizza

2.) Grimaldis, under the Brooklyn Bridge

A close second, a serious close second. Someone said it had gone downhill; don't know about that since it had been a while since I have been there (getting there takes some effort); I know that the last few times I was there, Patsy was not (he has another place in New Jersey). Still, I can't believe he would let anything happen to the quality

3.) Di Fara, Avenue J in Brooklyn

Didn't particularly care for this pizza

4.) Una Pizza Napolitana, 12th Street, Manhattan

Really really good Napoli style pizza but a better one is a restaurant whose name I can't remember but they are on 20th street between Park and Broadway (near Moore Brother's Wine - great people, great place to get wines, they share my love of reislings - and Silver Swan which has great German beer, free pretzels and pretty good German food; I sometimes go there, have a few or more beers then go for a pizza)

5.) Lombardi's, near Little Italy

Really didn't like them; crust was too thick and just didn't have the right flavor

6.) Nick's, Upper East Side

They were OK, not great but if you live in the neighborhood and don't want to venture out too far (which is ridiculous since NYC is such a great food town), this place is fine

7.) Totonno's, Coney Island

Been there once; very, very, very good. Chuck Shumer's favorite pizza. They also have a location on Second Avenue, around 80th street that is quite good as well


8.) Franny's, Park Slope, Brooklyn
9.) No. 28, The Village, Manhattan
10.) La Villa, Park Slope, Brooklyn

Never been to either of the Park Slope places. No 28 is OK, well better than OK. Napoli style pizza, very acceptable but I would go to 20th street first

But once again Patsy's, Patsy's, Patsy's. Very thin crust, chewey and tasty. The sauce is sweet and the cheese is just perfect. The pizza has this really sweet taste and what's wonderful is that the crust is so thin, you can eat more because the tomato sauce and cheese is healthy

phlssten at 3:06AM on 11/21/08

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'The Syracuse Pizza Manifesto'

DJ Bubbles was joined on most Syracuse junkets by a guy appropriately named MC Treats. I can't say much about the pizza in the salt city, but the italian food in the Cuse and Utica rocks and is better than anything I've tried in NYC !

therealslimshady at 9:12PM on 06/20/08

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Seltzerboy - How did you make it through freshman year drinking so much Schlitz? Good lord.

worldcupfever at 11:12AM on 06/19/08

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