@ESNY1077: If you've eaten a sausage pizza from any chain or American pizza parlor (as opposed to a pizzeria), chances are you've had pellet-sausage.
Well said, Gianluca.
@therealchiffonade, jimz, & JerzeeTomato - I'll echo what Nick Solares said in the comments of the Hong-An Tran Pizza Obsessives interview: you guys certainly have a lot of rules. Here's an idea. How about you try making and tasting the sauce before passing judgment on it?
Excellent write-up, Carey. I can't wait to get back to SF to try it for myself.
If I want frozen pizza, I go super-cheap with Totino's. I know it's crap, but it's tasty crap. I actually just had one of these Trader Joe's frozen Margheritas about four days ago, and it's not even tasty crap; it's just crap.
Lovely photography, and a great interview. Incidentally, I just had a Shakey's pie about a year ago, and while I can recognize that its quality is far below that of, say, anything from Motorino or Pizzeria Bianco, I still thought it was tasty.
That Tucci's slice looks delicious. For the first time in my life, I want to go to Florida.
Nice write-up, Daniel. I don't know what geeyore means by "foo-foo," but this is a good review, and it's convinced me to try Fritti (along with Varasano's and Antico, of course) when I make an inevitable visit to Atlanta.
Varasano is the reason I'm a pizza fanatic today. Glad to see his place finally get some Slice love. I can't wait to try it!
Oh MAN, Adam, you've opened the floodgates on this one. This thread's gonna be huge.
The best pizza I've ever eaten is from Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix. But here in Portland, I go to Ken's Artisan or Apizza Scholls. In Seattle, it's all about Delancey.
I didn't get a chance to taste Casey's pies on my last trip to San Francisco (didn't know about him until after I left), but those photos look great. When I make the trip down again to hit a few more places, including the new Una Pizza Napoletana, I'm definitely giving his pizzas a try.
Those pies look great, M. Sklar!
@ratbuddy: I was thinking the exact same thing.
Ha. That was the "official" slogan of the local pizzeria in my hometown growing up. I wonder how many other small town pizzerias used the exact same thing.
For Pizzeria Bianco...as long as it takes.
Thanks for the recommendation, Jeff14; Incendio's definitely going on the shortlist.
What about Nicli Antica Pizzeria, Red Card Sports Bar, or Marcello? Have you eaten at any of those three?
My apologies that I didn't see your request for Portland recommendations earlier. Then I could have told you what a waste of time Voodoo is!
Nope. I thought it was possible, but there have been too many times where a pizza has met all the visual criteria for greatness and ended up falling well short when it hit the tongue.
This looks delicious. I'll make it this week and post again to say how it went!
Yeah, I wouldn't consider using the broiler an "oven hack."
I never got a deeply charred crust or leopard-spotted undercarriage from using a preheated pizza stone at my oven's 550-degrees setting without turning the crust from pliant and chewy to crisp and crunchy. Perhaps it's because you have a convection oven? Unfortunately, I don't, but I'd like one if you're getting great results with it!
I'd love to see some pics of your convection-oven pie.
As much as I hate to say it (as I hate to concede anything to LA), I gotta go with Los Angeles on this one. I haven't had enough New York burgers to definitively say that they're #1, but I can say I've had dozens and dozens of fantastic LA burgers. Too many to list here. I'm sure New York's supply of quality burger joints is great, but based purely on personal experience, LA wins in my mind.
Even better is the rest of the story:
http://www.thesuperficial.com/dina-lohan-is-a-piece-of-work-06-2010
Yes, Dina Lohan had her card taken from her, but then had the balls to call the cops to get it back.
What a wonderful lady! I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not brave enough to play Russian Roulette with karma like Dina Lohan does. She's gutsy.
You kill me, Brooks.
Cool pics, guys. At some point I do want to try the no-knead recipe, since sometimes I just want to make pizza and don't want to wait 48 hours for my sourdough starter-dough to proof!
But I have to echo what phaelon56 posted above. Using a rolling pin to flatten your dough may be "easier," but you're also popping air bubbles in the process. I've actually seen a number of mentions of "rolling out the dough" on Slice recently, much to my confusion, as I thought that stretching the dough by hand was pretty much par for the course by this point. I used to use a rolling pin to flatten my dough when I first started making my own pizza, but once I switched to the "flatten by hand" method I noticed an immediate difference in the final appearance of the dough. So much airier when you aren't crushing the dough with a big cylinder of wood.
But that's just my experience with it. Perhaps rolling out this particular recipe of dough doesn't hurt it much? Looking forward to the post with the pics of the finished pie!
I'm heading up to Vancouver BC in a week or so for a little vacation, and want to know where to find the very best pizza there. Recommendations, anyone? If you do know of a great place, can you also mention the style of pizza they serve (NY, Neapolitan, etc.)?
My girlfriend and I are making my first trip to New York for the Food & Wine event this weekend (specifically, the Pieman's Craft Event) and wanted to hear some suggestions for good breakfast spots in the Midtown/Flatiron/Gramercy Park area (specifically, near W 30th and 5th Ave). We would also love to try some famous New York bagels, so does anyone have any suggestions for good bagels in that area? Thanks!
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@tonycalzone: Why did you become such a troll? Jim's reviewed good pizza and bad pizza. If Slice only covered the good pizza, this would be a very sparse blog indeed. As someone who works in the pizza industry, you should know that better than anyone.