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a place in my hometown does a "pita pizza" which is actually a very large pita (it might be a pizza crus i dunno) like 16 or 18" which is split down the middle and then cut into pizza sized slices and filled with lettuce, tomato, onion, olive oil, salami, ham, cheese, peppers...xcept this is GOOD

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

sounds suspiciously like a "sandwich"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

pepperoni and black olive.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The pizzas consumed in NYC for the FAP were indeed delicious, both JBR's recommendations and the random 'Pie' place we found. I would also vote for Nick's Pizza in Costa Mesa. Mmm. In all cases, it was nothing to do with any sort of random fancy combination, merely just the right combination of sauce, bread and cheese, but each in their own ways.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

and the absent pineapple....

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

the one I made that had onions, garlic, black olives, green peppers, jalapeno peppers, and ricotta cheese.
besides that: Giordano's stuffed with spinach, onion, green peppers, and mushrooms

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The Wallingford Pizza House in Seattle (which is where Ned and I first ate upon his last visit here) is amongst the best pizza I've ever had. (Granted, it was deep-dish Chicago style... so I expect all the Chi-towners to pipe in and boast.) I do miss Nick's Pizza in Costa Mesa, surely. Also Barrera's in Pacific Palisades.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Pino's in Brighton, Ma.
Santarpio's in East Boston
Wonder Bar in Worcester.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I forget the name of the pizza but its from a place in perugia. Baked inside the base is a layer of ricotta. on top was ham an articoke hearts and mozzarella and tomatoe and other goodies.

However

La Vera Pizza Napolitana owns this thread.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

and the absent pineapple....

Its inclusion would allow for even more enjoyable contexts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I make lavash pizza sometimes where I just brush olive oil on the lavash, top it with kalamata olives, sliced tomatoes, asparagus tips, garlic, and copious quantities of chevre crumbles, bake it at like 400 for about 10 minutes, and it's all crispy crusted and the chevre's all melty and gooey and the tomatoes are all supple and such. Most everyone I've fed it to found it exceptionally yummers.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.shuttercity.com/public/daveL/Photog%20copy.jpg

― Dada, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't really actually like pizza much.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm really fond of Armenian lahmajun pizza (pita topped w/ spiced minced lamb).

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

look the best pizza ever is edwardo's stuffed pesto pizza in chicago.
chicago stuffed pizza owns this thread in general.

― praying mantis (praying mantis), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

pizza hut bacon pizza

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

oooh i haven't had eduardo's in years, and pesto you say? damn.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn Jody just reading that made my mouth water!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

A great NYC pizza chain:

http://www.twoboots.com/newMenus/images/rest_delmenu1.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

The 'Edith Prickley' sounds more like an uncomfortable dance or the world's worst escort service.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Poor man's pizza-gasm:
Hie the forth to the grocery store for a pre-fab large Boboli (or other thin, not thick readymade pizza crust). And....
Ingredients:
Olive Oil
Fresh Garlic
Shallot (NOT onion)
Fresh Basil
Fresh Italian Parsley (NOT curly parsely--flat leaf)
Ground lamb
Real feta (in water)
Salt and fresh ground coarse black pepper
A decent Merlot or Zinfandel
Ground nutmeg
Ground cinnamon
Dash of wine vinegar

Heat some olive oil in a skillet, add garlic until it sweats, add lamb. DON'T let the garlic brown and don't overcook the lamb because it's going in the oven later. Add the shallots near the end for the same reason. We don't want them to carmelize and overpower the lamb.

In a bowl, drain some of the olive oil/lamb cooking juice into the tomato paste, add salt and pepper, dash of nutmeg, dash of cinnamon, dash of red wine vinegar. Mix it up well. Brush the mixture onto the boboli.

Drain the lamb mixture so it's not soggy.

Place basil leaves as the first layer on the Boboli so they won't burn
Next layer: Cover with sprinkled feta.
Next layer: Lamb mixture. Salt and Pepper, just a dash on top. Thinly sliced tomatoes on top if desired.

Place in oven until warm and the smell stops passerby.
Take it out, and sprinkle the top with chopped parsley.
Open the wine.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm quite fond of Amato's in Toronto. The one on Queen, not College.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

that recipe is giving me an erection

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Lamb is a poor man's pizza ingredient??? Try crumbled up old hamburger and shredded cheese on a tortilla. . .

Mangia's in Austin does an excellent stuffed, chicago style pizza. I usually prefer NY-style but this pizza is beyond words. And extremely filling. yum.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Satisfy your urges!

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe it's an L.A. thing, but you can find lamb just as cheap as hamburger...

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I could find goat fairly cheaply around here. . .would that work?

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The lahmacun/turkish pizza thing/or on pitta bread is callec PIDE and it's becoming a bit trendy in London due to gentrification happening in neighbourhoods where there is a huge Turks/Cypriot population eg. all of NE London. So it's perfectly okay to be served this, although it ain't pizza. Although lamb drives me mad for basically smelling like armpit/sock and needs herbs and/or spices to mask this.

Chicago deepdish made me feel like Sisyphus because my mom won fifty Green Mill deep dish pizzas in a raffle and into the freezer we went. A year later she was still trying to foist them on us.

Most satisfying pizza ever is fron the stand on Campo Santa Margherita in Venice. Translucent thin crispy crust, gorgeous sauce, mozzarella and the most gorgeous prosciutto.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry That Girl, goat is too greasy...and requires long looking and Jamaican works best for it.

...and I am pining for the procsiutto pizza suzy mentions....

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

oops pardon my typos! Prosciutto

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i might hit the cheap mexican pizza joint later. this thread has my drooling. ..

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

(Did no one else read Mangia's as Mangina's?)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

At home:

Fresh cow's milk (not buffalo milk) mozzarella, fresh basil, good tomato sauce that's neither too sweet nor too acidic and has oregano in it, pancetta, cappacolla, roasted red peppers.

Out:

Pizzeria Regina's, North End, Boston. Coke in green glass bottles, red-and-white checkered tablecloths. (At least the last time I was there.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel compelled to mention Gaspare's in SF. They have a very nice margherita pizza. It is my bandmate's favorite in the world and she will demand that you go there.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Orbit, I don't think I've ever had this particular pizza and now I am hungry.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i am ordering pizza TONIGHT...i don't care if it will eat up the last of my money

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I may make one now -- well, tomorrow night, I don't have time for the dough -- but shit, I'm still not used to my new kitchen and having a gas oven for the first time in 14 years. And dammit, I haven't found pancetta here.

(There should be a thread called "Tep says, 'Dammit, such-and-such arbitrary thing about Bloomington is different than in New Orleans, The One True City.'" No, there shouldn't.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

(Did no one else read Mangia's as Mangina's?)
Probably not Dan.

Jess, too bad you don't have a mexican pizza joint in yr neighborhood. El Pizza Patron - Mas Pizza, Menos Dinero.

They have two sizes, half and whole. and 3 toppings on a whole cost only $6, half, $3. Yeah! It satisfies the urge and then once you've finished it, puts off wanting pizza for a good while longer.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn Orbit! I hope you don't mind; I've printed out your recipe. I like that last line "open the wine". Nice touch!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Please, the pizza should be eaten! Print, cook, open the wine, enjoy!

and Nedlet, dahling, of course you know I can be bribed with the right bottle of wine to cook said recipe...ILE dinner party anyone?

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

DELICIOUS. And in fact there is a show happening on Saturday in LA and all...but I think we were all going to actually eat at Zen Sushi? Time to start the thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

zen sushi = you pay $15 and contemplate what eating raw fish would be like

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

What's that pizza place in NYC called? The one which has huge cheap pizzas and the first stone oven in America or something, which may have been in Little Italy (do you have one of those or am I just thinking of Little Venice) where we had to queue for Nina from the cardigans to get the hell out of the table? They do nice pizza.

Am now thinking best pizza just has to involve lots of garlic and nice cheese. As I mentioned before, you want different types of things from different types of pizza. YOu want COMFORT you go for DEEP PAN TRASH pizza pref. with stuffed crust mmmm stuffed crust. And hawaiian, I'm with the Raggett on this one. THe pineapple serves to hem hem MOISTEN the cheese and provides a nice contrast to the ham ALSO cheese and pineapple = instant memory flashback to every single wedding reception that I've been to with the cheese and pineapple cocktail stick combination RAH! That or MEAT FEAST. There's something gloriously decadent and yet so WRONG about Mighty Meaty/Meat Feast/MEAT IN YOUR FACE options that always appeals.

For a more ur GASTRONOMIC experience you just go for garlic garlic and more garlic.

Avoid ONIONS peppers olives and EGG on the cheapo pizzas unless you are at La Porchetta in which case GO GO GO on all fronts apart from the dread ONIONS.

Ooh look there are MONKEYS on Big Brother!

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Mystic, Dan.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Generally I am something of a pizza rockist, but I have to give a shout out to gorgonzola and pear pizza.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know about the best restaurant pizza ever, but the best "pick it up in the frozen foods section of your friendly area grocery store" pizza has to be the Freschetta Sauce-Stuffed Supreme Pizza. Mmmm. Not enough positive things can be said about this, especially considering how it's One of Those Frozen Pizza Jobbies that normally would taste of cardboard but ends up tasting very, very nice. Hint time: During the preparation process, make sure to let the oven preheat about five minutes over its normal preheating time. You want that oven nice and hot so the pizza can bake thoroughly. And leave the pizza in there about a minute or two after you're supposed to take it out. That way you'll be sure not to get a pizza with soggy bits.

― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely normal preheating time = time it takes to get to the chosen temperature, so 5 mins over that will make no difference. You have a thermostat in your oven, right?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Somehow, I have not gotten sick of Red Baron's Mexican Pizza. It even has the 'optional' tortilla chips. Course, gotta throw a lil tabasco sauce and fresh jalapeno on it.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I have an oven that automatically beeps a signal when the preheating period is supposedly complete. Most of the time, it works. Sometimes, though, the oven is not hot enough, and so I just let it go on preheating for a few more minutes. I've found letting it go over a few minutes helps a great deal in heating up frozen items in the oven, such as frozen pizzas and fish sticks.

Er, that could just apply to my type of oven, though. Hm.

― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh come on! Hands down, it's Zachary's Pizza in Berkeley, California! It's definitely the best in the bay area, if not the world!

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm still upset that the Red Baron didn't win Best Actor this year:

http://www.everythingoscar.com/162227__daniel_l.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

(that red stuff on his face = tomato sauce)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

when i was a pizza delivery boy (ameci's pizza simi valley 2 yrs!) i always read in the pizza magazines about this really successful hippie ass pizza place with deadhead style names for dishes and stoners running the place... and here it is (with an animated website done by the homestarrunner.com people no less!)

http://www.mellowmushroom.com/

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Somehow, I have not gotten sick of Red Baron's Mexican Pizza. It even has the 'optional' tortilla chips. Course, gotta throw a lil tabasco sauce and fresh jalapeno on it.

WTF??? This must not be distrubted in Texas on purpose. Sounds horrid.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Most satisfying pizza ever is fron the stand on Campo Santa Margherita in Venice. Translucent thin crispy crust, gorgeous sauce, mozzarella and the most gorgeous prosciutto.

Two Amys in D.C. has been certified by some Italian authority as producing authentic Neopolitan-style pizza. Gareth and Aaron G., do you remember our FAP that started there? *mouth waters at the memories of the pizza*

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

best pizza I've ever had was from DC's Pizzeria Paradiso, run by the people who run what may be DC's second best restaurant, Obelisk. then again, I've never been to Lombardi's/Totonno/etc. John's is good, but doesn't live up to the hype. V&T is as good or better. Patsy's v. good, not great, but I've never been to the uptown. AV is the V&T of DC.

Lahmajun /= mere pizza on a pita. In NYC, nuns from the Armenian church on the ne corner of the 35th and 1st used to make incredible lahmajun at an annual streetfair. I've seen it a few times as well at the financial district's Zeytuna, but theirs is only ok.

A pizza story - driving North from LA along the coast for the afternoon. Sister and I very hungry and complaining. Arrive in Malibu, see stripmall sign for "New York Pizza". Stop. Sister asks for slice of sicilian. "What's a sicilian?" Leave in disgust.

― Extra cheese is $2 (gabbneb), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

What's a sicilian?

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

about $5 a week

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy shit, now I know what happens when you turn Google SafeSearch off.

― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

it's hip to be square.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Gabbneb: The Pizzeria Paradiso people now run Two Amys.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

it's hip to be square.

http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/party/Square%20Pizza/Square%20Pizza.gif

― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

WHY ISN'T MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA THE MOST POPULAR RESTAURANT ON THE PLANET?

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 10 July 2003 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Because nobody ever HEARD of it until now you freak-cake.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 July 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Sicilian is the best style, especially when the crust has olive oil and garlic baked into it. Pizza Hut of all places did a pretty good job with it like nine years ago but haven't done it since, possibly because theirs turned into cement in your intestines. Also necessary is for the cheese to be cooked against the pan edge so it turns into a black bubbly crust-type substance that is delicious. Go to Barry's Pizza in Houston for this.

Mangia Austin is quite good as well, their sign at the moment says STUFF YOUR LOVER WITH A PIZZA which is a bit gross. Thin crust can be quite delicious but is inevitably ruined by clueless New Yorkers who are not able to eat thin crust pizza without bitching about how it's better in New York. There is nothing sadder than hearing some pathetic attempt at non-Texas jingoism in Texas. Haven't you heard about us?

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 10 July 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Because nobody ever HEARD of it until now you freak-cake.

Uh, well obviously a big chunk of the South has heard of it, since there are several locations there.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 10 July 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

ILX is the universe and beyond that all is dream.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 July 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Freak-cake"

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 10 July 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Papa Gino's, Lygon Street, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia.

olives and anchovies. even better for breakfast the morning after.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Thursday, 10 July 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I just had pizza with sundried tomato pesto, spinach, artichoke hearts, and mozzarella. I wouldn't go so far as to call it the Best Pizza Ever, but it was tasty.

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 July 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

goddamn.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 July 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/pizza.menu.html

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 10 July 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

donut bitch wrote: WHY ISN'T MELLOW MUSHROOM PIZZA THE MOST POPULAR RESTAURANT ON THE PLANET?

I dunno. Their crust is really, really amazing. It's perfect. A bit like European bread: tough and crusty on the outside, chewy on the inside. I got a pesto/artichoke one tonight (mmmm), and the "gourmet white" is pretty fantastic. Looking at their website, I see that they just have restaurants here in the South, though. The CRUST. THE CRUST, I TELL YOU.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 11 July 2003 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

ten years pass...

Stromboli's on University Place closed after 47 years. It was the best cuz I went there 2x a week during college.

http://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2014/03/more-changes-on-university-place.html

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 April 2014 15:36 (eleven years ago)

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