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Whoever thinks Grimaldi's pizza is good must have dead taste buds. That pizza is missing something and that absence leaves it almost tasteless. There is a pizzeria in Park Slope that has the taste Grimaldi's is missing. If only I could remember it's name.
Pizza is so generic, imo, that "New York Style Pizza" really doesn't mean anything. Perhaps it did at one point many, many years ago before there was a Sbarro's in every mall from Long Island to Honolulu. The pizza in NYC is virtually indistinguishable from pizza everywhere else.
I prefer Chicago style. It feels like I'm getting a meal rather than a nice little snack.
Pizza is so generic, imo, that "New York Style Pizza" really doesn't mean anything. Perhaps it did at one point many, many years ago before there was a Sbarro's in every mall from Long Island to Honolulu. The pizza in NYC is virtually indistinguishable from pizza everywhere else.
I prefer Chicago style. It feels like I'm getting a meal rather than a nice little snack.
You post your location as Brooklyn, NY and you actually wrote this??
Although the fact that you consider what they serve at Sbarro's "pizza" makes your judgment a bit suspect after all ...
You post your location as Brooklyn, NY and you actually wrote this??
Yep. I sure did. The quality is not any different from what you find elsewhere. Pizza is generic as all f***.
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Although the fact that you consider what they serve at Sbarro's "pizza" makes your judgment a bit suspect after all ...
Who said I considered Sbarro "real pizza?" My point was that "New York Style" pizza is what gets served up at most pizza parlors across America whether the shop owners know it or not. It's not some exotic cuisine like Doro Wat. And in some of these places, the pizza is actually quite good.
Yep. I sure did. The quality is not any different from what you find elsewhere. Pizza is generic as all f***.
Who said I considered Sbarro "real pizza?" My point was that "New York Style" pizza is what gets served up at most pizza parlors across America whether the shop owners know it or not. It's not some exotic cuisine like Doro Wat. And in some of these places, the pizza is actually quite good.
You really need to eat at some GOOD New York pizza places! Try some of the ones mentioned on this thread! It is disturbing to know that you live right here and think this way. Sure there is plenty of "ho hum nothing special" pizza floating around in NY, but there IS truly great pizza here too that you cannot find just anywhere in the country. I was talking to a relative who is coming to visit for Xmas and she cannot wait to get here and eat all our amazing NY food, including PIZZA!
You really need to eat at some GOOD New York pizza places! Try some of the ones mentioned on this thread! It is disturbing to know that you live right here and think this way. Sure there is plenty of "ho hum nothing special" pizza floating around in NY, but there IS truly great pizza here too that you cannot find just anywhere in the country. I was talking to a relative who is coming to visit for Xmas and she cannot wait to get here and eat all our amazing NY food, including PIZZA!
Eh. I feel like I've had a broad enough sample that I can confidently say that it's not much different than the pizza in other cities. I grew up in Philadelphia so I've been eating NY Style Pizza my whole life. It's frankly overrated.
If I had relatives visiting from out of town, the last place I would take them would be a pizza joint, especially considering all of the non-watered down, non-generic ethnic food the city has to offer.
Eh. I feel like I've had a broad enough sample that I can confidently say that it's not much different than the pizza in other cities. I grew up in Philadelphia so I've been eating NY Style Pizza my whole life. It's frankly overrated.
If I had relatives visiting from out of town, the last place I would take them would be a pizza joint, especially considering all of the non-watered down, non-generic ethnic food the city has to offer.
You wouldn't give them a choice?
Maybe it's just the people that visit me and my friends, but everybody from out of state and/or out of the country want to eat GOOD NY pizza at least once on their visit! So I take them there. (Just like I've been to the Empire State Building ten zillion times.)
I wouldn't think to suggest it. If they asked, I would oblige, but I wouldn't go out of my way to make sure they had something that's probably similar to what they've tasted in their hometown.
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Originally Posted by I_Love_LI_but
Maybe it's just the people that visit me and my friends, but everybody from out of state and/or out of the country want to eat GOOD NY pizza at least once on their visit! So I take them there. (Just like I've been to the Empire State Building ten zillion times.)
The thing about New York pizza is that no one can ever articulate what exactly makes a New York style pizza what it is.
I can tell you what a Philadelphia Cheesesteak is. And if someone prepares it wrong, I'm quick to get in that a-- like a drill sergeant.
"Nope, chop those onions and mushrooms all the way up. Let em carmelize."
"No, no, no. The mayonnaise goes on the roll first. Then the provologne goes in. Then you put the roll on top of the meat for a few minutes."
The best pizzas are found in Phoenix, Dallas, Orange County, Seattle and Chicago. NY pizzas and it exact taste and texture can be found in Bute Montana, Dallas, Tex, Denver, Colo, Portland, Ore, Orange County and so many other cities like San Antonio. They're real authentic NY pizzas, and the restaurants owners are from Manhattan, Brooklyn and Bronx.
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Although the fact that you consider what they serve at Sbarro's "pizza" makes your judgment a bit suspect after all ... 
