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Ok this is my first post... I'm going to try to do this... here goes nothing...
I have been to both New York and Chicago and people in both cities act like it is common knowlege that they have the best pizza.
Well... now we are going to have a showdown... Which city has the best pizza in America? Which city has the best pizza restaurants? Who is the pizza capital of America?
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.
I agree NYC's pizza is underwhelming and Chicago's flat style is just as good, if not better. New York Pizzaria's like to boast that NY pizza gets it's distinct flavor (particularly the crust) from using water from the Hudson river. They BRAG about this. I lived in New York long enough to know what's floating around in the Hudson river, so no thanks I'll stick with Chi. If Deep Dish is tomato soup with crust, then NYC pizza is a big floppy sail made out of cheese and grease. I've spent enough time in Italy to know that NYC's pizza is just as inauthentic as Chicago style, but then again, America has it's own school of making pizza, so maybe the Italy comparison is even apt.
I grew up in Chicago though, so you can blame it on regional bias.
I voted for New York Pizza. Nothing surpasses it. I live in Rockland County, and refuse to eat pizza outside of the New York state border (unless I really have to.) For some reason, pizza in the downstate area of New York taste a lot better than it does anywhere else, nothing compares. I've eaten at countless places in Rockland, Westchester, the Bronx and Manhattan, and the pizza all tastes the same and is some of the best you can eat. I've had pizza in New Jersey dozens of times as my girlfriend and her family are from there, and for the most part have been dissatisfied aside from a few places. The place that really made the best pizza in Jersey was the Brooklyn Pizza in Hackensack. A side from that, pizza in Jersey all tastes the same although some are better than others. Too greasy in my opinion, which is another difference between the pizza in New York and New Jersey. If you have knowledge of both pizza in New York and New Jersey, you can tell the difference.
I'd love to have the opportunity to try Chicago pizza some time though.
Gaby's pizza and Gertz Mall pizza is da best Chicago ain't got nuttin on that
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