Why is New York City known for "good pizza" if their pizzas are <insert bad word here>? (Naples: eat, average)

[busterkeaton]

Try the California Pizza Kitchen. It's off the hook!!!! Baby Baaaaaby!

[nybbler]

Comedians are out in force. Don't quit your day jobs, guys.

[iameLvi]

Patsy's pizza reigns supreme. i give it 2 thumbs up..

[sweetchas]

Originally Posted by Miss J 74

Hmm will have to check this place out, it's in my hood.

I stand by L&B Spumoni Gardens in Bensonhurst. The place has a line all summer long.

Otherwise Pizza Den on 18th Ave & 86th St in Bensonhurst is pretty good, although at times can be a bit on the greasy side.

L&B is ok what I had wasn't fresh they just handed me a box, I'll try them again though.

[sweetchas]

In Bay Ridge I love Peppinos and Elegante mmm Im always satisfied.

[xxbabeechick]

Best pizza is in hole in the walls in the Bronx, or artisan places in Brooklyn, lower Manhattan and Queens. No those big restauarants and chains.

[skyway31]

As a whole, NYC pizza is overrated. Lots of mediocre pizza places there. And I have no idea why pizza that can be folded is supposedly superior to other kinds. That's a highly subjective, personal preference that I do not have. That said, the OP did not mention Artichoke pizza. That's among the best pizza I've ever had. And I tend to be a pepperoni pizza guy and was shocked to find they don't serve pepperoni pizza there. The regular artichoke slices are fantastic and are certainly not thin or foldable.

[italianuser]

Originally Posted by newtoli

The pizza in Italy is very thin, not thick like it is in Chicago

It depends on: in Rome and Central Italy pizza is thin (and bland), in Naples and Southern Italy is more like this... usually Southern Italy's people strongly dislike thin pizza.

[Fred314X]

Originally Posted by YoungTraveler2011

No offense or anything but seriously. New York pizza needs to go down the scale by a huge chunk.

Just had to vent. For the real taste, you'll have to go down to Brazil. I have never seen a place here that makes pizza like down there. Not in NY or any other state I've been to (and I've been to most states in the US).

Then the solution to the problem is right there in front of your face: get your pizza in Brazil! (Unless you can find a place in Little Brazil, located in midtown Manhattan if you didn't already know, that makes the kind of stuff you like).

But speaking as a native-born Brooklynite, if you can seriously call DiFara's pizza crap--he's one of the last remaining people in the city who uses no domestic products; all of his ingredients are imported from Italy--then you just plain don't know what you're talking about.

[11KAP]

ny italians and sicilians make the best pizza. fuhgedaboutit.