2 Questions re: The Best Pizza You Ever Had...
Mates,
Following on the heels of the 'Marijuana and Work-Out' thread, it seems apropos to ask about your favorite pizza. Back in the day deep dish was the 'new' pizza. IIRC, there was an "Uno's" on S. University over by Washtenaw Ave that majored in deep dish. Later on, stuffed-crust pizza is/was all the rage and now its come back around to thin crust in many places. So today's questions are these:
1. Where did/do you get the best pizza you ever ate?
2. What is your favorite frozen/store-bought pizza?
XM
Picture here to get you in the mood to 'dish' on your favorites....
UNOs is gross.
#CottageInn4lyfe
#HalfOffPizza
#1990s
Cottage inn is greasy heart burn shit.
Even though cheap, Little Caesars, when made well, is delicious. Also, Buddys for Detroit style.
wtf? little caesar's tastes like if you ate the cardboard box another slightly-less-shitty pizza was in.
Yeah, anyone who shuts on cottage Inn, then turns around and votes Little Caesars needs their head checked. Little Caesars was good about 20 years ago. Its crap now
Listen, Little Caesar's has a $5 hot n ready pizza. It's hot, it's ready, it's pizza, and it's $5. Everything after that is on you, they tell you exactly what you're getting lmao
Dominos has really gotten better. They offer a pretty good deal every week. I was surprised the last time I checked and their stock was trading over $200/share. They must have bought back a lot of stock.
this might be the dumbest post i’ve ever read on this board and that’s saying something. little caesar’s is objectively terrible
Dumbest post goes to the home/jar gravy post.
What this post (and the gravy post) does prove, you can get a ton of discussion on the most innocent/goofy question.
BTW: my vote 1) Lou Malnotti in Chicago, and 2) I’ve really been enjoying Jets Square Pizza here in Detroit
I was in Little Cesars one time last year and if I hadn't seen that bag of flour on the floor sitting in the doorway, I would have sworn their pizza came in frozen and was reheated before they put it in a box.
If you worked for Little Ceasers, you might be inclined to post something nice here. Otherwise, you likely lost your taste buds in a horrible industrial accident and actually like their pizza.
Buddy's has gone to shit over the last year or two.
Pizza House had some pretty good stuff back in the day.
They did! I was already nostalgic by like Junior year for the early Pizza House stuff though. They cut back on quality when they scaled up to meet demand.
I have a lot of different great pizza including the well known places in Chicago and the only pizza I actually crave from time to time is pizza house. I'm pretty sure the only reason I survived and didn't starve during finals week was due to pizza house delivery.
Used to be my favorite pizza. Always compared favorably to anywhere else I tried in the country. Now it’s total shit. Expensive ass shit.
My two favorites are Buddy's and Lou Malnati's.
For frozen, for some reason I really like Home Run Inn.
I'm a big fan of Home Run Inn too. It's got that buttery, flaky crust and it reminds me a bit of the Lou's deep dish. It's usually a couple dollars more than the other choices but when it goes on sale it's hard to beat.
I am so disappointed the Home Run Inn near me just closed. I called in to order last weekend and unexpectedly got transferred to another location.
Yassss. Great choices.
Yassss queen?
One bite everybody knows the rules!
Best pizza: I’m gonna go Pisanello’s in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
Store bought pizza is so damn gross, DiGiornos is the worst pizza on earth. California Kitchen pizza is alright.
DiGiorno and CPK are made in the same factory (both owned by Nestle). They're the same ingredients.
Best Pizza: Pequods in Chicago
Store Bought: In college, it was whatever was cheapest so Jacks?
Was Village Corner the name of the convenience store on State and William? They had a pretty cheap pizza too. Greasy, but delicious when it was hot.
That was State Street Discount on State & William. I bought a lot of records in there.
VC was on the corner of South U & Forest.
Jacks and Palermos for sure in college. Plus Back Room.
Back room was the best in AA in my opinion, but so many good memories of Cottage Inn, NYPD, etc.
I'm a big fan of Jet's in Michigan and Pequod's in Chicago as my top though.
PEQUOD’S !!!!!!!
That’s insane. My taste buds deceived me.
Pisanello’s is my favorite pizza on earth.
In the 80s, there was a Comos on the west side of Detroit. It was like a little pizzeria you would find in a movie. It was a small shop with a large window where you could see the guy spinning the pizza as you drove by. They had the most distictive pepperoni I ever had. To this day, I haven't had anything like it again. Now I assume the only location is in Ferndale. I never went to see if they still have the same pepperoni.
Pequods in Chicago.
Best deep dish, absolutely. But Chicago style pizza sucks and it’s a shame that such an amazing food city is famous for such a meh product.
I'll have to say Thano's Lamplighter on Liberty was my favorite (now gone). Maybe it's because of the fond memories of going there with my fraternity brothers or the time my wife and I went there on a February night in the mid-80's after watching Michigan clinch the Big Ten Basketball title and seeing the most of the team come into the restaurant. Aside from all that, I always loved the crust they made. Most pizzas it's like cardboard. Theirs was excellent.
Thanos' was good and a fun place. I was a regular there throughout my years at U of M. '90-'97.
Bill Frieder was a part owner of Lamplighter when he was coach. I remember coming in the day or so after an early NCAA loss and he was behind the cash register for some reason. IIRC I said something like “You lose one game and they do this?” Got a chuckle.
Damn right, Grit. Back in the day (Tuesdays, to be specific), Thano's had 1/2 off their deep dish pepperoni and onions, with $3.00 pitchers. It was a weekly migration from Linden Street for us. Another echo of pizza greatness from the past was ordering the 12" sausage pie from Bell's, at the corner of Packard and State. Pour some liquor in me and I would hammer one down by myself.
As far as the current day, the new Buddy's on Ann Arbor Saline Rd is pretty good, but the champ for the last 20 years has been Anthony's meat lover's deep dish. They have an astounding density of pizza ingredients per square inch.
Thano’s for sure. First date with my wife included a football game and deep dish pizza there - a good day. Sorry to see it close.
oh man, i absolutely loved thano’s. was so pissed when it closed
I honestly don’t think I could name a best pizza. There are so many great ones. It’s like woman. Variety is a wonderful thing.
With these toppings, I do thee wed....
In general, the best pizza I've ever had is not all that much better than the worst. Pizza is delicious almost no matter what - gourmet, fancy cheese or a wood fired oven doesn't do much more for me than a Little Caesars Hot n Ready. I'll take them both happily, particularly after a few drinks. Why go through the hassle of Pizza House when you can wait outside after Rick's and pay a dollar for Back Room?
I'm not going to hate on deep dish style because above, but I have some sympathy for the crowd that says "that's lasagna, not pizza." I prefer Detroit style, easily.
For my money, Jet's is the best of the major pizza chains. It's good and greasy, and more important, consistent. Always a crowd-pleaser.
Incidentally, Michigan seems to be the birthplace and hub of mega-pizza chains, including Domino's, Little Caesars, Jet's, Hungry Howie's, and others.
This is very accurate.
This is a pretty good take actually. And I agree with Jet's on the major chains...they're expanding here in Chicago thanks to all the ex-Detroiters.
As the saying goes, "good pizza is pretty good, and bad pizza is.......pretty good"
I don't know about this. I've had some pretty godawful pizza. For example, St. Louis style pizza is just not good. I also remember getting a pizza on New Year's day -- hungover, when any pizza should be good enough -- that was so terrible that I couldn't eat it.
Best pizza ever?
From a little bar overlooking Lake Como in the north of Italy: http://www.pepposbar-it.com/
Favorite national chain pizza?
Dominos thin crust (Chicken, bacon, and tomato, on garlic parm)
Favorite store-bought/frozen pizza?
Trader Joe's has the best stuff
Pizza in Windsor is way better than anything I've had in Michigan. That's one thing worth trying if you visit.
Well of course, pizza is always better when you're drunk, and why the hell else would anyone go to Windsor?
My family will take my homemade Chicago style pizza over any commercial offering. We make our own sauce from scratch-from our garden and produce many of our own toppings on our little farm. Plus , I am a baker so I will match any crust out there. This is an ego-ethnocentric take but we are all ego-ethnocentric so it counts :)
While it sounds absolutely delicious, I think I'm really going to have to sample and be the judge of that. Let me know where you live and what kind of beer you like and I can swing by to render a verdict!