BEST Pizza By City! Where Does Boston RANK?
With football driving us crazy, I am CRAVING PIZZA! I love pizza while watching us lose. So I felt it is my mission to find the BEST pizza by city!…
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With football driving us crazy, I am CRAVING PIZZA! I love pizza while watching us lose. So I felt it is my mission to find the BEST pizza by city! Maybe it will bring us good luck this Sunday.
Over the weekend Heidi and I hit our FAVORITE pizza joint. You may have heard of it. It's MYSTIC PIZZA! Yes, from the movie! There are two fun locations, one in of course, Mystic, Connecticut, and Mystic Pizza II in North Stonington Connecticut. Our favorite pizza is Hawaiian. Pretty simple BUT DELICIOUS! Plus both locations sell merch from the movie, telling the famous story of how "the day Hollywood came knocking."
Where Does Boston RANK?
I'm not gonna lie. Usually, my favorite pizza joints are outside the city limits. As I mentioned, Mystic Pizza is unreal. Another favorite is on the list you are about to see from Daily Meal.
Add to that, back when I worked in CHICAGO, there was this amazing joint on Rush Street called Pizza Due'. I had NEVER had deep dish pizza like that!! I was told, that THAT place was the inspiration for Pizzeria UNO.
So let's take a deep DISH, I mean DEEP DIVE to find the BEST pizza by city! Where DOES Boston RANK?
Pay CLOSE attention to NUMBER 9! It's nationally known, although I have NOT tried it!! Caution: You maybe urged to eat your screen when you scroll.
#25 Galleria Umberto (Boston, Massachusetts)
It's cash only, counter, so come READY!!!
#24 ZuriLee (Brooklyn, New York)
I'm eating my screen. Don't miss out on The Jerk Chicken Pizza with mozzarella and fresh corn.
#23 Cibo (Phoenix, Arizona)
These guys learned pizza in NAPLES ITALY
#22 Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria (Chicago, Illinois)
I can handle this one, it's ok. THIS is like the deep dish I had in Chicago. After this, you need a nap.
#21 Joe’s Pizza (New York City, New York)
Another dude from Naples, Italy. Joe Pozzuoli opened Joe's pizzeria in 1975, and he still operates the original location today. Perfect New York.
#20 Pizzeria Delfina (San Francisco, California)
YUM.
#19 Lombardi’s (New York City, New York)
Coal oven, smoky, amazing! Maybe the first pizza joint in America
#18 Patsy’s (New York City, New York)
Patsy's dates back to 1933 and is widely credited as the first pizzeria to sell by the slice, as well as with popularizing New York's thin-crust pizza. The historic East Harlem spot still makes thin-crust pizza in its coal oven with just three options: old-fashioned square pie, old-school round pie and white pie with your choice of toppings.
#17 Lovely’s Fifty Fifty (Portland, Oregon)
Is that an EGG!?
#16 Modern Apizza (New Haven, Connecticut)
Connecticut is known for INSURANCE, and PIZZA. They populate this list several times!!!
#15 Paulie Gee’s (Brooklyn, New York)
Most popular on menu is the Hellboy with fresh mozzarella, Italian tomatoes, Berkshire soppressata piccante, Parmigiano-Reggiano and Mike's Hot Honey. HOT HONEY?
#14 Pizzeria Bianco (Phoenix, Arizona)
Salami, with tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, more salami and olives.
#13 Cart-Driver (Denver, Colorado)
Yes, that's SQUASH
#12 Prince Street Pizza (New York City, New York)
Another spicy one!!!
#11 Smiling with Hope (Reno, Nevada)
Pizza with a cause:
Smiling with Hope is a New York-style pizzeria in Reno, Nevada, that trains and employs people with developmental disabilities, who currently make up 30% of the staff.
#10 Piece (Chicago, Illinois)
Piece is an award-winning pizzeria specializing in New Haven-style pizza, and beer is brewed on premise.
#9 Sally’s Apizza (New Haven, Connecticut)
This is the place: WHITE CLAM PIZZA. It's CHOWDA, on a pizza!!!
Sally's Apizza is a pillar in the New Haven, Connecticut, pizza scene. Straying from the state's iconic white clam pie, Sally's sets itself apart with other specialties including a White Potato variety with potato, onion, mozzarella, imported Parmesan and rosemary.
#8 Lucali (Brooklyn, New York)
Ed Sheerin goes there when he's in NYC!
#7 Santarpio’s (Boston, Massachusetts)
Shrimp Scampi PIZZA!
#6 Buddy’s Pizza (Detroit, Michigan)
Make your own with Wisconsin brick cheese, tomato or tomato basil sauce and all the toppings your heart desires, or go for one of 14 signature pies.
#5 Slim & Husky’s Pizza Beeria (Nashville, Tennessee)
Cee No Green!!! HAHAHA!
"Cee No Green" with classic red sauce, the house cheese blend, ground beef, pepperoni, hickory-smoked bacon, Canadian bacon and Italian sausage.
#4 Razza Pizza Artigianale (Jersey City, New Jersey)
Potato Pie!!
#3 John’s of Bleecker Street (New York City, New York)
John's of Bleecker Street is a New York City landmark that opened in 1929 and has been "doing it the same way ever since." The family-owned pizzeria is best known for its pepperoni and sausage mushroom pizzas, but don't come here expecting a slice. Pizza is sold by the whole pie only.
#2 Pequod’s (Chicago, Illinois)
LOOK AT THAT CHICAGO DEEP DISH!! Just enough for me and my EMT
#1 Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana (New Haven, Connecticut)
The Daily Meal says:
Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana is a household name for pizza buffs everywhere. The New Haven-based pizzeria is famous for its signature coal-fired White Clam Pizza featuring fresh clams, grated pecorino romano, garlic, oregano and olive oil. Get a taste at any location in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New York. Not only is Frank Pepe's the top pizza destination in the country, but it's also one of the greatest old-school restaurants of all time.
I've BEEN THERE!!! This is an ACTUAL MEATBALL PIZZA! The meatball pizza is the BEST I have ever had. The coal fire-brick oven adds that smoky flavor then traditional ovens can't provide. THIS IS THE BEFORE
This is the AFTER
