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Comparing Chicago-style (read: Chicago stuffed/deep-dish) to NYC-style is like trying to compare a lawn chair to a sofa. They each have their purposes, and those purposes only minimally overlap. If you need a place to sit at the beach or a neighborhood block party, you're not gonna haul a sofa along with you. If you want to park your tired aching ass in something nice and comfy after a long workweek, a lawn chair sucks. Choose the right tool for the right occasion...
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, both pizza's are different species that cannot really be compared. The ONLY advantage Chicago has over NYC in this department is that you CAN get some fantastic thin crust pizza in Chicago, whereas I have never heard of truly good authentic Chicago style pizza being offered in NYC (if I'm wrong, please give me proof because I'm going to Brooklyn this weekend and would love some deep dish right about now)
Every city has its own pizza traditions, but clearly "Chicago-style" pizza refers to the deep-dish casserole style.
Deep dish for the most part is tourist food, plain and simple. It's tourists like yourself that label deep dish as the representitive of Chicago style, when in reality most locals prefer Chicago style thin crust.
I've had pizza all over NYC, I've had Chicago deep dish AND Chicago thin-crust style. They cut their thin crust pies into squares in Chi-town, I was surprised to discover. All 3 are great pizzas, but I like NYC's thin crust slices over Chicago's thin crust. Chicago's deep dish really shouldn't be compared to NYC's slices imo. It's almost a completely different food.
I've had pizza all over NYC, I've had Chicago deep dish AND Chicago thin-crust style. They cut their thin crust pies into squares in Chi-town, I was surprised to discover. All 3 are great pizzas, but I like NYC's thin crust slices over Chicago's thin crust. Chicago's deep dish really shouldn't be compared to NYC's slices imo. It's almost a completely different food.
Deep dish is def in a category of its own. Being a transplant living in the southeast there's not many places you can get a good pie. Best pizza in my area is an authentic NY style joint(kind of a drive, but well worth it). Imo NY style and Chicago style thin crust are different, yet equally great. I couldn't choose one over the other.
I do have to give NY props for serving by the slice, wish more places in Chicago did that.
Chicago by far, I was not impressed with pizza in NYC at all. But I've never really cared for thin crust. The worst was this pizza I had in Hoboken, NJ, I'm sure there are better places but it's not as easy to come across good pizza in NY or NJ as some make it out to be imo.
this coming from a guy in california. i can understand not caring for thin crust, but to say the worst pizza you had was in hoboken when you live in san francisco is sad. i had one of the top rated pizzas in san francisco and i wanted to puke. the dough was soaked, there looked to be dishwater puddles on the cheese, the cheese wasn't even cooked all the way through, the sauce was runny like water which diluted the disgusting sauce's flavor, and the pepperoni was like it came out of a lunchables. maybe you're just so used to garbage pizza that it's damaged your taste buds.
this coming from a guy in california. i can understand not caring for thin crust, but to say the worst pizza you had was in hoboken when you live in san francisco is sad. i had one of the top rated pizzas in san francisco and i wanted to puke. the dough was soaked, there looked to be dishwater puddles on the cheese, the cheese wasn't even cooked all the way through, the sauce was runny like water which diluted the disgusting sauce's flavor, and the pepperoni was like it came out of a lunchables. maybe you're just so used to garbage pizza that it's damaged your taste buds.
Says the guy who lives in NYC's shorts. Your (highly biased) opinion is no more credible than his. Even Woody Allen thinks you're a stalker.
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