In search of good pizza. (Pittsburgh, Ambridge: live in, station, best place)

[Herodotus]

Originally Posted by sskink

A very good slice option from a Blodgett oven is Apizza Badamo, a block away.

I went a tried a couple of slices from there today. I wasn't really impressed. Fairly thick crust, with the cheese piled on. It wasn't overly greasy though. They don't come close to Slice in my opinion.

[PeterRabbit]

Della Salas on Verona Road, Rosedale/Penn Hills/Verona.

[Herodotus]

Originally Posted by PeterRabbit

Della Salas on Verona Road, Rosedale/Penn Hills/Verona.

What type of pizza?

[CortlandGirl79]

You have to come to Youngstown/Warren, Ohio for the really good stuff............especially the Brier Hill.

The neighborhood was the birthplace of "Brier Hill pizza", a homestyle treat with origins in the Basilicata region of Italy. Brier Hill pizza is prepared with a generous amount of thick "Sunday sauce", bell peppers and romano cheese, as opposed to the more typical mozzarella. It is un piatto tipico of Youngstown, that is, one of several dishes the area prides itself upon, in much the same way New Yorkers value their distinctive thin-crusted New York-style pizza.[11]. As of December 2011, St. Anthony's Church still sells its Brier Hill pizza (by the pie) on most Friday mornings in mild and hot varieties, with sausage as an optional extra topping.

Brier Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[sskink]

Originally Posted by Herodotus

I went a tried a couple of slices from there today. I wasn't really impressed. Fairly thick crust, with the cheese piled on. It wasn't overly greasy though. They don't come close to Slice in my opinion.

It is all about opinion when it comes to pizza. Haven't personally been to Slice as it's a bit out of the way. But a guy who likes a pizza place I think is truly horrible recommended it to me, so I don't know what to think at this point.

[Herodotus]

Originally Posted by sskink

It is all about opinion when it comes to pizza. Haven't personally been to Slice as it's a bit out of the way. But a guy who likes a pizza place I think is truly horrible recommended it to me, so I don't know what to think at this point.

Well, if you don't like real, thin crust pizza, or need for your pizza to have tons of cheese, then Slice probably isn't for you.

[eccotecc]

Herodotus,

IMHO, a great pizza is a blessed trinity, the crust, sauce, and topping. There has to be a harmonious blend of all three to create a great pizza. Depending on an individual's personal tastes, the trinity can be sacred or a sacrilege.

[Herodotus]

Originally Posted by eccotecc

Herodotus,

IMHO, a great pizza is a blessed trinity, the crust, sauce, and topping. There has to be a harmonious blend of all three to create a great pizza. Depending on an individual's personal tastes, the trinity can be sacred or a sacrilege.

So true! The biggest problem I have, and it's a recurring theme on this site, is when someone asks for a specific item, and posters keep recommending something entirely different, with no qualifiers. If someone comes on here asking where they can find something close to a NYC style pizza, why would you say, "hey, go to Beto's"? The correct thing to do would be to say, "I really don't know where you can find NYC style pizza". "I'm a Beto's fan myself". "It's very different from NYC style though." If the poster is curious, he may ask for details. Then, if he decides to go there, he'll be prepared for what he's going to get, and might even decide it's pretty good, as something a bit different. When you just send someone who's looking for NYC style to Beto's, or even Mineo's, what you get is a disappointed customer, who ends up bashing Pittsburgh pizza.

[XRiteMA98]

Originally Posted by Herodotus

Isn't pizza Mediterranean to start with? Just sayin'!

Well yeah, according to the legend pizza was invented in Italy by a baker who wanted to impress the queen. He made a pie put the tomato sauce (red), fresh mozarella (white) and basil leaves (green), very patriotic colors. Italy's flag is red, white and green. Thus resulted pizza Margehrita (some places will call it Regina which stand for queen in Italian). But from that pie to what we can eat on pizza today it's a long, very long way. For example Monticello downtow has pierogi pizza, steak pizza, chicken and broccoli... Even peperoni pizza doesn't have much in comon with its ancestor. peperoni sausage does not exist in Italy. Similarly ratatouille pizza or hawaian pizza does not exist in Italy. And the pide that I mentioned is a middle eastern thing.

Therefore we tend to qualify pizzas in terms of where the toppings come from. Thus by mediteranean pizza I undestand pies with olives, spinach, ham, all kind of cheeses, prosciutto, anchovies and in general lots of veggies.

[Herodotus]

Originally Posted by XRiteMA98

Well yeah, according to the legend pizza was invented in Italy by a baker who wanted to impress the queen. He made a pie put the tomato sauce (red), fresh mozarella (white) and basil leaves (green), very patriotic colors. Italy's flag is red, white and green. Thus resulted pizza Margehrita (some places will call it Regina which stand for queen in Italian). But from that pie to what we can eat on pizza today it's a long, very long way. For example Monticello downtow has pierogi pizza, steak pizza, chicken and broccoli... Even peperoni pizza doesn't have much in comon with its ancestor. peperoni sausage does not exist in Italy. Similarly ratatouille pizza or hawaian pizza does not exist in Italy. And the pide that I mentioned is a middle eastern thing.

Therefore we tend to qualify pizzas in terms of where the toppings come from. Thus by mediteranean pizza I undestand pies with olives, spinach, ham, all kind of cheeses, prosciutto, anchovies and in general lots of veggies.

Yeah, I'm familiar with that story. I just wonder why they wouldn't just call what you mentioned before, "Turkish pizza"? After all, you can't get much more Mediterranean than Italy.