Favorite pizza place?

[yoda313]

So whats yours?

Mine would be dominos. Thats who I order from most of the time.

[Supreme2k]

Pizza Chicago. Period.

[Conquest10]

Giordano's

[ZAPPER]

I haven't been in in like a looonng time and don't know if it is still there, but Genos East in Chicago was pretty good!

I am sure that it has much to do with what you grew up with too.

I grew up in Gary In. We had a few pretty good places Like a corner Pizzaria/bar called The Flamingo and another place called Broncos.

Bronco was an old greek guy that enjoyed his art. He would give us pizzas that he scorched on the bottom or that people didn't pick up on time. I suspect that some of the pizzas that he gave us kids where not really accidently burned or late pick ups. He used to make his version of a stromboli, a sliced open Italian loaf of bread covered with all of the pizza ingreidents that you wanted. It could barely be folded into a sandwich form for eating. Some SOB shot and killed him in a robbery.

I often kick around the idea of opening a pizza joint. I have built a few. Unfortunatly, I keep thinking towards the hospitality side of it and not the business side. No place for nice guys in business these days.

[gadgetguy]

Would home(made) be considered a "Local Place" or "Other"?

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

http://www.cicispizza.com/cicis/

$3.99 All you can eat, anytime and it's pretty good pizza.

You can't beat that!

[yoda313]

I also like digornio's Some of the best frozen pizza out there.

IT'S NOT DELIVERY ITS DIGORNIO

[Conquest10]

I also think its mostly where you grew up. I love deep dish. Theres been a surge in places that sell "New York style" pizzas. The really long slices you got to eat like a sandwhich and all the cheese and sauce comes gushing out when you take a bite out of it. I hate those.

Frozen I like Red Baron 4 cheese pizza.

[Cobra]

The Parade Bar, University of Bath.



Pizza, booze, mates, music. Sorted. 8)

[lordsmurf]

http://www.cicispizza.com/cicis/
$3.99 All you can eat, anytime and it's pretty good pizza.
You can't beat that!

Not the best pizza, but it's decent. Best price by far.
The local mom-and-pop's are usually where you get tasty pizzas.

[ZAPPER]

I don't know that I would call Cicis even decent, but the kids will eat it and it is cheap. I have been involved in the kids baseball for a few years now and that has introduced me to a lot of other dads out there in the area. A few days ago I ended up at Cicis and reconized a fellow by face only and he probably the same towards me. At the same time we each shrugged our shoulders and said "The kids made me come ". Maybe you had to be there, but it was pretty funny at the time.

I kind of like their BB-Q pizza, it is about the only thing there with much flavor, but it is kind of on the sweet side.

There used to be some Pizza Inns or Pizza Villages or something around that where all you can stuff in your face places, but I think that they all went belly up so to speak

[SquirrelDip]

Wicked Wedge - local joint, not cheap, always fresh.

[Faustus]

Pizza Inn thin crust rules, but a full Pizza Inn and not "Pizza Inn Express" is very hard to find these days.

Other then that I like Mr. Jims alot, good pizza. I call it Scientology pizza though since the owner well...

[offline]

An Americana thin crust from La Tavana, in Lygon Street - Italian hot sausage drenched in extra virgin olive oil, fresh black olives, light covering of mixed Italian cheeses and spices, on a fresh tomato pesto base. Crunchy & melt in the mouth golden goodness.

[Treebeard]

I love little ceasers, unfortunateley they have all gone out of business in my town a couple years ago. 2nd choice would have to be a place called Valentino's, started locally and growing, http://www.valentinos.com/

[Xylob the Destroyer]

haha, Little Ceasers is owned by KMart!

my fave is Anthony's on 112th & Colorado Blvd in Denver CO!!

DELICIOUS!!!!!!

[Faustus]

I love little ceasers, unfortunateley they have all gone out of business in my town a couple years ago.

guess what? Wrong!

http://www.littlecaesars.com/

There are very few out there but at least 2 in the Dallas area that I know of.

Good Pizza.

[mrtristan]

There's a local place, called Big Kahuna's. They're my favorite restaurant pizza.

Other than that, I make my own, based on a recipe that I learned... of all places, here.

[stiltman]

Uno's or Duo's or home made

I got some old Little Cesars deep pans from the early 80's that I make my pizza in

[Noahtuck]

Peppinos!!!!!!!!
Formerly "Sara's"
Best damn local pizza within a 30 mile radius!!!!!!!!!!!

There is a "Papa johns" about 1 mile away, but their pizza's always give me bad hearburn!!!!!!

and there is this one place that is the only place open past midnight, until like 4am that delivers, "late night" pizza, but they use WAAAAAAAAAAAY too much Garlic on their pizza's!!!!!!!!!!
Just open the main door with the storm door still closed, 10 feet away & the garlic is so strong it would kill dracula on the spot!!!!!!!!!!!!!


You can smell them coming down the road a block away!!!!!!!

But the best i ever had, as stupid as it sounds, was "Dominos"!!!!
It's a francise and there are a ton of them around me, but they all do their pizza's diff., and years ago there was this one loacation, their pizza's would bring tears to your eyes!!!!!!!!! hottest and spiciest pizza's ever had!!!!
Used to have to drink a whole bottle of coke for 2 slices!!!!!!! :P

Ahh!!!!!!!! the pain was exquisite 8)

Demons to some...
Angels to others.....

[tmaxwell2435]

Pizza Inn thin crust rules, but a full Pizza Inn and not "Pizza Inn Express" is very hard to find these days.

True! I have to drive 45 minutes one way to the nearest Pizza Inn.

[Faustus]

Yeah its about 40min round trip for us, but we still do it sometimes.

[yoda313]

Wow the local joints are on top of the poll.

[ZAPPER]

Wow the local joints are on top of the poll.

Why would you be suprised about that? Most of the big chains have to tone down the flavor so as not to be too spicy for some folks or when buying 50 tons of sausage they go for a cheaper lower quality product to keep cost down. I was thinking the other day that if they figure out how to slice Pepperoni any thinner, they will be removing the last two molecules that have any flavor in them.

I was going to decsribe the the pizzas that I remember earlier, but I didn't have time. But now...

Nice thick pepperoni slices that ooze grease when heated in the oven.

A course ground sausage made from pig, with no sawdust filler, and fennel seeds that get stuck in your teeth and enough garlic to keep you from dating for three days.

Veggies cut big enough to let some of their juices flow onto the pizza and still be recognizable from three feet away.

Tomato sause made from quality fruit that wasn't engineered for mechanical handling, but chosen because it was the highest acid, best tasting, right for the job product. Tangy!

Cheese, 100% cheese, no veggie oil modern marval food stuff, but the real thing and lots of it! (On a side note, one of the guys that I have built a restraunt for, has told me that cheese is the most expensive part of his pizzas. Go figure)

Canadian bacon that you can't see daylight through!

Grease that chokes your arteries and anchovies so salty that they can induce instant high blood pressure and stroke!

No thin crust and no thick crust, just a perfect medium crust whose dough was mixed by hand using a dash of the water that the green peppers where soaking in and a splash of the water from all of the other sliced veggie pans. With just the right amount of scorched corn meal that was used to keep the pizza from sticking to the peel and hearth.

Serve it up on a night with a heavy wet snow fall and slush in the streets, and I have gone back to my childhood when eating such a creation wouldn't cause heartburn or angina


Now you know why I don't open a pizza joint. I couldn't afford to make and sell good pizzas and if I did, I would be killing off my own customers or eating up all of the profits myself

[iLuvLandingStrips]

Most local Pizza joints are far better than Dominos.
Dominos is the McDonalds of Pizza.

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

Nice thick pepperoni slices that ooze grease when heated in the oven.

A course ground sausage made from pig, with no sawdust filler, and fennel seeds that get stuck in your teeth and enough garlic to keep you from dating for three days.

Veggies cut big enough to let some of their juices flow onto the pizza and still be recognizable from three feet away.

Tomato sause made from quality fruit that wasn't engineered for mechanical handling, but chosen because it was the highest acid, best tasting, right for the job product. Tangy!

Cheese, 100% cheese, no veggie oil modern marval food stuff, but the real thing and lots of it! (On a side note, one of the guys that I have built a restraunt for, has told me that cheese is the most expensive part of his pizzas. Go figure)

Canadian bacon that you can't see daylight through!

Grease that chokes your arteries and anchovies so salty that they can induce instant high blood pressure and stroke!

No thin crust and no thick crust, just a perfect medium crust whose dough was mixed by hand using a dash of the water that the green peppers where soaking in and a splash of the water from all of the other sliced veggie pans. With just the right amount of scorched corn meal that was used to keep the pizza from sticking to the peel and hearth.

Serve it up on a night with a heavy wet snow fall and slush in the streets, and I have gone back to my childhood when eating such a creation wouldn't cause heartburn or angina


Now you know why I don't open a pizza joint. I couldn't afford to make and sell good pizzas and if I did, I would be killing off my own customers or eating up all of the profits myself

I HATE YOU, now I want one of those pizzas!!!!

Has anyone noted that nobody has voted for pizza hut?

[rallynavvie]

If I had to choose from a national chain I'd probably go with Papa John's. However I rarely get that unless I'm ordering for picky eaters. Here in the Twin Cities the best pizza I've found is a place called Frankie's, a Chicago-style that's very true to it. In fact what makes theirs so great is the dough they use for their crusts. I could eat the crusts plain it's so tasty. IMO it is the dough/crust that makes the pizza.

I'm also a big fan of Papa Murphy's take-and-bake pizzas. Far better than national chain delivery pizzas and far far better than frozen pizzas. It's just kinda hard to transport a large one in a car since it's too big to fit on a seat and the toppings sometimes slide around on it. Still worth it though.

[shelbyGT]

Of those listed, pizza hut.
of local, a place the "The pizza Maker" in Lenexa, KS.
The best ever is Giordano's Stuffed Pizza in Chicago. THE BEST EVER

[jimmalenko]

Within 2 kms of my house I've got the choice of Pizza Hut, Dominos, Pizza Haven, and 3 local joints (not to mentions Maccas, KFC and Hungry Jacks).

TBH I really like Pizza Hut or Pizza Haven or one of the local joints. Dominos is shite (or at least our local store is, anyways). The other two local joints are so-so. The great thing about having all stores so close together is that they're all in a price war with each other, so it's $5 pizzas almost every night of the week if you're prepared to shop around. Good for the consumer