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@ajmill1978
Minimum 2 hours but a little longer is better.

I have to disagree that amount of time the meat is salted makes a diference. I have been making all of my own charcuterie for my restaurant for over 2 years and fennel sausage is my favourite. Mixing is important and I mix by hand just until the texture of the sausage changes. It becomes sort of tacky. You don't want to overmix.
For me it goes like this, grind meat and fat, add salt(42g per 5lbs of meat), add spices(2T of toasted fennel seeds per 5lbs of meat, chili flakes, sugar, black pepper, garlic etc.), add half cup of very cold dry white wine and a half cup of ice water(again per 5lbs of meat). Then mix. I do let it sit for 2 hours before using to let the flavours come together. My recipe with photos was posted in Canadian Pizza Magazine. They showed my stuffed sausages but for pizza I apply the sausage in raw chunks. The only way to go!

A margherita with fennel sausage and red onions. That is what I have eaten about 90% of the time for the last 17 years or so.

4th one is perfect. 5th one is burned.

I'm sure Adam will know the place that is my sentimental favorite. It's Pizzatown on 5av in Park Slope. Not because the pizza is all that great, but because when I first moved to New York in 1993 I lived on Prospect Place between 5th and 6th in a house full of jazz musicians. I was always broke and the guys at Pizzatown were always really good to me and would take my 99 pennies for a slice and sometimes even give me a sicilian slice for the same price.
My second choice would be Joe's on Carmine St. because I worked at The Village Flute and Sax Shop at 35 Carmine for a couple of years and I ate lunch at Joe's nearly every day.

I had the same problem at my place so I just stopped selling slices.

@pauliegee I've never been to Spumoni Gardens.

Someone came into my pizzeria and asked me if it was correct to order "a regular" to get a slice. Like, "Give me a regular". I told him no, not unless you want a coffee with milk and two sugars.

That should say not icluding Di Fara in the top 25 list emoves all credibilty.

French fries and hotdogs on a pizza? That is disgusting and shameful. Have some respect!

'za? People still say that?

Actually, I don't think he knows much about making pizza.

Vera's sucks. It's so overrated.