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I agree -- the round pie is crap. There are at least 6 places in New York that make a better standard pie.

However, the Square Pie is the best thing I've ever eaten. Better than French Laundry. Better than every pizza place I've been -- including Bianco, Mozza and every major place in New Haven, Chicago, Naples and New York.

People go to Skyline because it's all they know, but it doesn't compare to the real chili parlors in Cincinnati -- Price Hill, Camp Washington, Blue Ash and the 30 or so other independantly owned mom and pop legitimate chili parlors in town. Judging Cincinnati Chili by going to Skyline (or Goldstar) is like judging Hamburgers by going to McDonalds. Or judging New York City by going to Times Square. Or judging America by listening to Paris Hilton.

I hope he raises the price of the slice to $10. Will still be the best damn pizza in the world and might keep out some of the riff raff.

Gotta agree with him on DiFara's thin-crust. It's no better than a dozen other places in NYC. I chuckle at people who go all that way to order a regular slice. It would be like going to L&B and NOT ordering the Sicilian slice. Or going to Beijing and eating a McDonalds.

But the square pie .. oh my god ... its like "Angels giving you a BJ"-good. Sometimes, I order the baby artichokes as a topping. But standalone, the DiFara's square slice beats anything I've had at Pizzeria Mozza or Pizzeria Bianco or any place in New Haven. As a single bite, the first bite of a DiFara square slice is better than anything I've tasted at the French Laundry.

The Glenwood Pines is indeed one of the great burger places. Probably not as much frou frou fancy burger as you might find at DB Bistro Moderne, but certainly superior in quality and ambience to places like In-n-out, Steak-n-shake, or the Shake Shack.

I personally don't like the Pinesburger -- which is a mess and has the wrong meat to bun ratio. I go for the Tully Burger instead. 4 oz burger instead of a 6 oz burger, but on a much smaller bun. But, the fries are great and most everything is homemade. They usuall have some pretty great homemade desserts -- rice pudding, carrot cake, pies, etc.

The Pinesburger challenge doesn't seem to be much of a challenge. Way too many Polaroids on the wall of people meeting the "challenge". However, I was just in Ithaca last month and saw another feat -- someone ate 4 Pinesburgers in 7 minutes, which seemed a bit more impressive (and a new world record)!! Think the person got a larger 8.5x11" picture closer to the front door for his accomplishment.