Chicago Pizza is Best -- Suck it NYC

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Tons Mel - not priced as well as Berns in Tampa - but their list rivals it for sure. They have three different cellars packed with wine. What I found most interesting was the old Domestic stuff - '85 & '86 Arterberry Pinots were two that stuck out and a ton of labels from wineries that no longer exist. The older Italian stuff was also pretty impressive.

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Sausage patty this time - hadn’t had it before - it was delicious, that spicy sauce and crust are just to die for.

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Used to love the patty…porky deliciousness in every bite.

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Buddys

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Loved Buddy’s. It’s been years

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Any such list that has Washngton DC in the top 50 has to be taken with more than salt. DC, with few exceptions, is a pizza wasteland. Pizza Paradiso? Average on a good day. [wow.gif]

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Just for clarification, Deep dish is not the preffered pizza among Chicagoans. Thin crust is by far. At least 4 to 1 if not more. There’s a reason why all the top deep dish places are located in the tourist area.

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I love Buddy’s and have known the owner since we were teenagers.
Try Loui’s in Hazel Park for an interesting variation of the Buddys-style pizza as well as the Loui’s special steak sandwich which is worth a journey by itself.

The best thin crust in Detroit is Supino’s at Eastern Market with Tomatos Apizza a close second place.

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I forgot about Supino’s.

I’ve always thought that Detroit needs to pizza-atone for giving the world Dominos and Little Caesar’s

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Two Amys is rockstar worthy.

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Any other Pizano’s fans in Chicago?

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Dominos and Little Caesars are distractions created to keep the rest of the world in the dark about Detroit pizza.

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Agreed, but its the exception that proves the rule, Nick. Pete’s New Haven isn’t bad either, though it can be hit or miss. Most pizza - especially if can be delivered - is barely edible in DC.

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Understood Drew. Speaking of my friends at The Red Hen are starting a new pizza oriented place.

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Two Amys is really good.

Not NYC good but very good. neener

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So true. The one or two times it happened while growing up I couldn’t believe it. When I moved to KC, the pizza here was godawful, except for one place called Italian Delight that would have done okay in Jersey. Everything else was a crime. We now have about three or four places that do decent pizza in that vein, but it used to be the first thing I would eat when I went back to Jersey to visit was pizza. Second was bagels.

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A LONG time ago, Armand’s used to be pretty good for deep dish, although it wasn’t nearly as good as the best Chicago deep dish. I have no idea how they are
now, and it looks like they’ve moved from their original location (out on Wisconsin, as I recall).

Bruce

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Chef Grant Achatz on Chicago pizza (and others he likes)…

"Chicago deep-pan pizza? I’ve had a change of heart recently. I used to like it and now I don’t. It’s too doughy. I prefer thin-crust. > The best deep-dish, the best place to find it, would be Pequod’s. They have this cast-iron pan they bake it in and the crust gets really crispy. That’s where you should go."

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Clearly, cancer treatments impacted Achatz’s taste buds more than he realized.