NY style pizza recommendations

[Shark tooth necklace]

Originally Posted by drive carephilly

Just looked up coffee milk b/c I'd never heard of it before. Same caffeine as coffee?

In America we also have de caffeinated coffee available.
Put a few teaspoons of it in a glass of milk.
Now you have coffee milk.
Or as we say in Florida “cafe con leche”
(But we don’t use as much milk)

[Shark tooth necklace]

Originally Posted by masssachoicetts

fluuf in MA. Wieners in RI? Hvaent heard yet and I grew up 10 minutes from RI. RI is known for Coffee Milk, Quahogs, Red Clam Chowder (Manhattan), Calamari, Clam Cakes and Beach Pizza. Didn't even know of Weiners until now. Those Eyetalians.

RI is known for their toxic weiners and Dels lemonade.
Not for their Manhattan clam chowder.
Have you ever been there?
Bc when you said “fun fact” it gave off the impression that you googled what Manhattan chowder was bc you didn’t know. And it seems like you googled stuff again then listed what came up.
You seem like the kind of person that likes to pretend to be “in the know” bc you know you don’t know much about anything.
That’s just the vibe you give off.

[drive carephilly]

Originally Posted by Shark tooth necklace

In America we also have de caffeinated coffee available.
Put a few teaspoons of it in a glass of milk.
Now you have coffee milk.
Or as we say in Florida “cafe con leche”
(But we don’t use as much milk)

A good cafe con leche is made with espresso - it's not drip/pour over. Here in Florida I prefer mine iced with the sugar melted into the espresso rather than the sugar melted into the milk (when served hot).

Coffee milk looks to be more like a chocolate syrup by basically pouring hot simple syrup over traditional drip coffee. You then add this syrup to milk like you would a chocolate syrup. It's not exactly the same process as using hot water so I'm wondering if you get the same amount of caffeine.

[Shark tooth necklace]

Originally Posted by drive carephilly

A good cafe con leche is made with espresso - it's not drip/pour over. Here in Florida I prefer mine iced with the sugar melted into the espresso rather than the sugar melted into the milk (when served hot).

Coffee milk looks to be more like a chocolate syrup by basically pouring hot simple syrup over traditional drip coffee. You then add this syrup to milk like you would a chocolate syrup. It's not exactly the same process as using hot water so I'm wondering if you get the same amount of caffeine.

Dunkin Donuts (as well as others) uses a coffee syrup for its French vanilla and hazelnut coffees.
Put some in milk and you have coffee milk.
Or put regular coffee in your milk to make coffee milk.
It doesn’t matter if you use coffee syrup or actual coffee to flavor your milk.
Your milk will still have a coffee flavor to it.

You sound really high maintenance and OCD about cafe con leche lol.
Coffee flavored syrup has sugar in it. So I guess that’s like having the sugar melted into the expresso lol.

As far as your caffeine question goes how are you with coffee ice cream?
Is that too much caffeine for you?
If so just use de caffeinated coffee to flavor your milk if that’s what you want to do.

And if you put some maple syrup in your milk you will have maple walnut ice cream flavored milk.

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by drive carephilly

I went to Nino's yesterday - I got 2 slices. The crust is 100% on point. Perfect. My little helper got a bowl of spaghetti which comes with two slices of bread on the side. The bread was clearly made in house. Their bread game is so good (and their hours so strange) it makes me think that they should be in business as an Italian bakery.

Best NY slice . . ? Not in my opinion. I would definitely go back there if I was in the neighborhood at the right time of day/day of week but I wouldn't go out of my way to go that far again. It seemed like the cheese mix was 90% mozz and I couldn't quite put my finger on it but I want to say 5% asiago and 5% swiss. It's wasn't bad it was just weird enough to have me thinking the whole time I was eating it "what the heck is in here?" - and to the extent that swiss (or whatever that was) is not for me, the rest of the pizza makes up for it.

I don't know if it's people trying to stand out by doing something different. There was this place I used to go to regularly in Emeryville, CA in the "good for the Bay Area" sense of pizza that did the same thing with the swiss but they were a lot heavier on the asiago. Don't get me wrong - Nino's is much better than anything in the East Bay - I'm just asking out loud why people do it. It's like they're trying to get the same bite you get from aged provolone and parm but without actually having to use it.

Funny you mentioned that because I asked the pizzaiolo about what type and brand of cheese he uses just last week, because I really like it. He told me they use 100% low moisture whole milk mozzarella, no other cheeses. The brand is Roma. He game me a piece of the raw cheese to sample and it was delicious...very high quality. As I mentioned initially though, this pizza tastes different than other pizza places around. There is a distinct taste to it, for me it is a very nostalgic flavor. Most pizza places these days use the cheese brand Grande, which is why so many taste the same.

[masssachoicetts]

Originally Posted by Shark tooth necklace

RI is known for their toxic weiners and Dels lemonade.
Not for their Manhattan clam chowder.
Have you ever been there?
Bc when you said “fun fact” it gave off the impression that you googled what Manhattan chowder was bc you didn’t know. And it seems like you googled stuff again then listed what came up.
You seem like the kind of person that likes to pretend to be “in the know” bc you know you don’t know much about anything.
That’s just the vibe you give off.

You should watch how you say things, Ive been on the forum for 5+ years, you are brand new. Il give you a pass on this one. Go click on my profile and see where Im from and browse my posts.

"have you ever been there" . I grew up on the border of RI lol, I think that's pretty known by now. Literally look at my username. And yes, when you go to Newport and Westerley and Naragansett they have Red Chowder... which is the same thing as Manhattan Chowder. If you don;t know about Red Chowder or clear chowder in New England, you not a New Englander.

[Shark tooth necklace]

Originally Posted by masssachoicetts

You should watch how you say things, Ive been on the forum for 5+ years, you are brand new. Il give you a pass on this one. Go click on my profile and see where Im from and browse my posts.

"have you ever been there" . I grew up on the border of RI lol, I think that's pretty known by now. Literally look at my username. And yes, when you go to Newport and Westerley and Naragansett they have Red Chowder... which is the same thing as Manhattan Chowder. If you don;t know about Red Chowder or clear chowder in New England, you not a New Englander.

That is correct.
I am not a New Englander.

Wow you’re quite sensitive.
And in desperate need of a false sense of power.
I hope you feel better.

And I don’t care where you are from.
Or what your profile says.
Or about your posts.
I’m not interested in you.
But I will respond to your thoughts about the chowder.
They sell Manhattan chowder everywhere.
It’s here in Florida.
So I don’t know why you are saying that bc it’s sold in RI that means that RI is known for it.
I don’t know RI for its Manhattan chowder even though I know that I can purchase it there just like how I know that I can purchase it anywhere.
And I don’t know anyone else that ever says “oh RI. They have that great Manhattan chowder”
(I call it Manhattan chowder. Like most people do)
But people do say that they have had good New England clam chowder in RI.
And I’ve been to chowder festivals all over the north east.
Manhattan is not a winner in RI.
Everyone votes for the New England style.
I’m not even from there and it’s very clear which kind of chowder people are going to RI to have.
And it’s not Manhattan.

So you’re from under Plymouth Rock lol.
And since you’re in that area why don’t you run along and get yourself a weiner.
Then put some fluff on it.
Yum.
Lol!

[Shark tooth necklace]

Originally Posted by masssachoicetts

You should watch how you say things, Ive been on the forum for 5+ years, you are brand new. Il give you a pass on this one. Go click on my profile and see where Im from and browse my posts.

"have you ever been there" . I grew up on the border of RI lol, I think that's pretty known by now. Literally look at my username. And yes, when you go to Newport and Westerley and Naragansett they have Red Chowder... which is the same thing as Manhattan Chowder. If you don;t know about Red Chowder or clear chowder in New England, you not a New Englander.

You googled what Manhattan chowder is lol.
You didn’t know what it was.
I totally called that.

[3toneEYZ]

Anthony's in Gateway Crossing Plaza, Altamonte Springs.

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by 3toneEYZ

Anthony's in Gateway Crossing Plaza, Altamonte Springs.

Not a fan of this place. It's the closest pizzeria to my house. It will do in a pinch, but it's just so average. There is no really good NY style pizza in Altamonte IMO. I've tried them all. The closest actual good pizza is Nino's in Orlando or Pizzeria Valdiano in Winter Park (but that has become $$).