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So even though I live close I never was going to wait 30-45 minutes outside to get into a place for pizza but driving through town and took a chance and only had a 10-minute wait to be seated.
NYC is the best for ordering a couple of slices but for a whole pie NH was the best I've ever had.
....After hearing about New Haven style for so long I didn't think it could live up to expectations but it did.
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Did you screw up with punctuation and/or capitalization in the thread title?
How good is this apizza?
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So even though I live close I never was going to wait 30-45 minutes outside to get into a place for pizza but driving through town and took a chance and only had a 10-minute wait to be seated.
NYC is the best for ordering a couple of slices but for a whole pie NH was the best I've ever had.
....After hearing about New Haven style for so long I didn't think it could live up to expectations but it did.
I prefer Napoli Pizza
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New Haven pizza is not the best. Please can we stop with this madness. Its good. Some days it’s out of this world!
But so is NYC pizza, NJ pizza, and Chicago pizza. If your pizza is good, you don’t need to keep reminding everyone and constantly tell everyone it’s good. It’s ridiculous that CT put billboards in NYC telling everyone CT pizza is the best. And they went down to Washington to whine and moan and annoy all the legislators and made them sign some proclamation that CT is the pizza capital or something. Very embarrassing.
Do you see NYC doing stuff like this? Of course not. They just let their quality pizza do the talking.
Yes, Pepe’s is good. So is Sally’s…so is Modern…so is Bar. Colony is also good. Lombardi’s is good. Prince St is good. Defaras is fine.
Don’t let worthless Dave Portnoy and his cocaine tarnished taste buds get you to drink his Koolaid. His opinion is garbage and so is he.
Pepe’s and Sally’s are now franchised. What they can’t replicate is the passion and love that the founders had when making the pizza. It’s just mass produced. And it’s fine. If you want to wait in line at the New Haven places go for it. But it’s not like you’re going to eat a slice of Sally’s and the clouds will open and angels will come down and lift you up.
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Did you screw up with punctuation and/or capitalization in the thread title?
How good is this apizza?
It’s fine. It’s pizza. Some days it’s great, some days it’s burned. It’s all personal opinion. Frozen pizza is also fine.
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Did you screw up with punctuation and/or capitalization in the thread title?
How good is this apizza?
No, In New Haven it's called apizza.
New Haven pizza is not the best. Please can we stop with this madness. Its good. Some days it’s out of this world!
But so is NYC pizza, NJ pizza, and Chicago pizza. If your pizza is good, you don’t need to keep reminding everyone and constantly tell everyone it’s good. It’s ridiculous that CT put billboards in NYC telling everyone CT pizza is the best. And they went down to Washington to whine and moan and annoy all the legislators and made them sign some proclamation that CT is the pizza capital or something. Very embarrassing.
Do you see NYC doing stuff like this? Of course not. They just let their quality pizza do the talking.
Yes, Pepe’s is good. So is Sally’s…so is Modern…so is Bar. Colony is also good. Lombardi’s is good. Prince St is good. Defaras is fine.
Don’t let worthless Dave Portnoy and his cocaine tarnished taste buds get you to drink his Koolaid. His opinion is garbage and so is he.
Pepe’s and Sally’s are now franchised. What they can’t replicate is the passion and love that the founders had when making the pizza. It’s just mass produced. And it’s fine. If you want to wait in line at the New Haven places go for it. But it’s not like you’re going to eat a slice of Sally’s and the clouds will open and angels will come down and lift you up.
Chicago pizza is a casserole.
New Jersey makes the best steak and cheese but their pizza doesn't compare to CT or even NYC.
NYC pizza is the best for a couple of slices on a paper plate with a soda.
New Haven is the best for a whole pie.
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No point in arguing over 9s or 9.5s or 10s. Count your blessings. 2 slices of Good cheap pizza is a godsend.
If you move out to LA you'll have great Mexican but shit pizza and miss it, if you move back you'll miss the Mexican food.
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No, In New Haven it's called apizza.
Chicago pizza is a casserole.
New Jersey makes the best steak and cheese but their pizza doesn't compare to CT or even NYC.
NYC pizza is the best for a couple of slices on a paper plate with a soda.
New Haven is the best for a whole pie.
QFT
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New Haven pizza is not the best. Please can we stop with this madness. Its good. Some days it’s out of this world!
But so is NYC pizza, NJ pizza, and Chicago pizza. If your pizza is good, you don’t need to keep reminding everyone and constantly tell everyone it’s good. It’s ridiculous that CT put billboards in NYC telling everyone CT pizza is the best. And they went down to Washington to whine and moan and annoy all the legislators and made them sign some proclamation that CT is the pizza capital or something. Very embarrassing.
Do you see NYC doing stuff like this? Of course not. They just let their quality pizza do the talking.
Yes, Pepe’s is good. So is Sally’s…so is Modern…so is Bar. Colony is also good. Lombardi’s is good. Prince St is good. Defaras is fine.
Don’t let worthless Dave Portnoy and his cocaine tarnished taste buds get you to drink his Koolaid. His opinion is garbage and so is he.
Pepe’s and Sally’s are now franchised. What they can’t replicate is the passion and love that the founders had when making the pizza. It’s just mass produced. And it’s fine. If you want to wait in line at the New Haven places go for it. But it’s not like you’re going to eat a slice of Sally’s and the clouds will open and angels will come down and lift you up.
Absolutely!! Fuck Portnoy!! Every time that little midget takes a pic he has to stand on his tippy toes , what an insecure fuck
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£500,000 please.
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It's hard to fuck up pizza. Even cheap shit out of a box is pretty damn good.
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It's hard to fuck up pizza. Even cheap shit out of a box is pretty damn good.
All the stuff I had in Italy was fucking crap. I was raging. Would love to do a decent tour around the US some time and try the best spots. Deep dish can get fucked, though, and the irregular slices of New Haven-style would annoy me.
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All the stuff I had in Italy was fucking crap. I was raging. Would love to do a decent tour around the US some time and try the best spots. Deep dish can get fucked, though, and the irregular slices of New Haven-style would annoy me.
Do you beat any ass?
JM blakely was in Italia with a gf and some eyetalin dude kept trying to Mack up on her so he picked him up and locked him in tbe freezer 🤣🤣🤣
And wonder, come on man frozen pizzas suck.ass
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Do you beat any ass?
JM blakely was in Italia with a gf and some eyetalin dude kept trying to Mack up on her so he picked him up and locked him in tbe freezer 🤣🤣🤣
And wonder, come on man frozen pizzas suck.ass
No, it was all very pleasant and civilized aside from telling one of those street rats selling roses to fuck off.
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No, it was all very pleasant and civilized aside from telling one of those street rats selling roses to fuck off.
Hahahahaha
I was in contact with a swiss-french girl whom I visited and we went into the north of Italy to visit some of her Italian friends and one of them said to me ciao bello 😎
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Hahahahaha
I was in contact with a swiss-french girl whom I visited and we went into the north of Italy to visit some of her Italian friends and one of them said to me ciao bello 😎
Sounds like you charmed her, chief. You should have slipped her your number.
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Sounds like you charmed her, chief. You should have slipped her your number.
But I kinda had my eye on the swiss girl
We made out a few times but nothing else I even converted to being a Catholic for her :D
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All the stuff I had in Italy was fucking crap. I was raging. Would love to do a decent tour around the US some time and try the best spots. Deep dish can get fucked, though, and the irregular slices of New Haven-style would annoy me.
You tried Da Michele?
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You tried Da Michele?
No, mate. First time reading about it now. It was more the whole style there I wasn't used to. It felt strange having to use a fork and knife, and most of them were kinda soggy. In restaurants it wasn't too bad, and I liked it dipping the crusts in olive oil, but they were a nightmare when ordered as takeaway. I was told to try Romana style next time instead, though.
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The absolute best pizza I have ever had in my life was in Bergen Norway, in the Ole Bull Scene area. It had literally hundreds of items you could have added. Duck, deer, elk, oysters, scallops, etc.. and the best part is that each ingredient was cooked individually. Not like normal pizzas where you throw it on the crust and then throw the crust in the oven. Here you picked a crust and they started on it first, then depending on what your selections were, they were cooked and/or added at intervals when they were ready. If you got beef, it was cooked and then added to the crust - back into the oven, then if you peppers or onions they were added right at the very end. Each selection was perfect. Things like pepperoni or mushrooms were not rubbery, meats like duck and ground beef were not greasy or dry. It took about 45 minutes to get a pie and it was around 50-90USD depending on your selections. But it was worth it.
I haven't been back since 2017 so not sure if it is there. I will have to dig out out external hard drives and see if I can find a photo of it and get the name off it. It was across the street from TGIF in the park area.
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No, In New Haven it's called apizza.
Chicago pizza is a casserole.
New Jersey makes the best steak and cheese but their pizza doesn't compare to CT or even NYC.
NYC pizza is the best for a couple of slices on a paper plate with a soda.
New Haven is the best for a whole pie.
Not quite accurate. Yes, you can get great slices at Luigi's, Prince St. Pizza, Joe's, L'Industrie, LB Spumoni Gardens, or Scarrs. This is not even scratching the surface of how many amazing NYC slice shops exist. You can't say same of CT. Yes, CT has great slice shops. But not the magnitude, legacy, or widespread love that NYC has. But there are also amazing sit down places in NYC that CT can't touch, such as Lucali, Johns Bleeker St., Lombardis, or Una Pizza Napoletana.
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QFT
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The absolute best pizza I have ever had in my life was in Bergen Norway, in the Ole Bull Scene area. It had literally hundreds of items you could have added. Duck, deer, elk, oysters, scallops, etc.. and the best part is that each ingredient was cooked individually. Not like normal pizzas where you throw it on the crust and then throw the crust in the oven. Here you picked a crust and they started on it first, then depending on what your selections were, they were cooked and/or added at intervals when they were ready. If you got beef, it was cooked and then added to the crust - back into the oven, then if you peppers or onions they were added right at the very end. Each selection was perfect. Things like pepperoni or mushrooms were not rubbery, meats like duck and ground beef were not greasy or dry. It took about 45 minutes to get a pie and it was around 50-90USD depending on your selections. But it was worth it.
I haven't been back since 2017 so not sure if it is there. I will have to dig out out external hard drives and see if I can find a photo of it and get the name off it. It was across the street from TGIF in the park area.
Was it Trattoria del Napoli, Hoggorm, or Bien Centro?
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Was it Trattoria del Napoli, Hoggorm, or Bien Centro?
I will have to look at the photos. It was across the street from TGIF and at the end-ish part of the square/park where the water started.
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Don’t let worthless Dave Portnoy and his cocaine tarnished taste buds get you to drink his Koolaid. His opinion is garbage and so is he.
I knew something was up with Dave Portnoy's reviews when the owner of this store came out to complain about what he was doing. I think what he does is go to the competition and give them a low score like 5.3 but make it sound like he's being scientific by adding the decimal. Like it's some precise calculation he's coming up with. When in actuality he's actually competing with these guys and benefits by them having a low score. I'm not on the East coast, so I don't know what's really going on. Do you have some insight on the situation?
@5:25
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All the stuff I had in Italy was fucking crap. I was raging. Would love to do a decent tour around the US some time and try the best spots. Deep dish can get fucked, though, and the irregular slices of New Haven-style would annoy me.
Italy invented it and America perfected it probably because there are more Italians in the U.S. than in Italy.
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New Haven pizza is not the best. Please can we stop with this madness. Its good. Some days it’s out of this world!
But so is NYC pizza, NJ pizza, and Chicago pizza. If your pizza is good, you don’t need to keep reminding everyone and constantly tell everyone it’s good. It’s ridiculous that CT put billboards in NYC telling everyone CT pizza is the best. And they went down to Washington to whine and moan and annoy all the legislators and made them sign some proclamation that CT is the pizza capital or something. Very embarrassing.
Do you see NYC doing stuff like this? Of course not. They just let their quality pizza do the talking.
Yes, Pepe’s is good. So is Sally’s…so is Modern…so is Bar. Colony is also good. Lombardi’s is good. Prince St is good. Defaras is fine.
Don’t let worthless Dave Portnoy and his cocaine tarnished taste buds get you to drink his Koolaid. His opinion is garbage and so is he.
Pepe’s and Sally’s are now franchised. What they can’t replicate is the passion and love that the founders had when making the pizza. It’s just mass produced. And it’s fine. If you want to wait in line at the New Haven places go for it. But it’s not like you’re going to eat a slice of Sally’s and the clouds will open and angels will come down and lift you up.
Colony is the WORST pizza I ever had. Had it once
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Colony is the WORST pizza I ever had. Had it once
Colony is good some days. Not amazing. It used to be much better. Now its more mass produced and franchised/chain. There are better CT places. I still say its good because of historic significance to Stamford.
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No, mate. First time reading about it now. It was more the whole style there I wasn't used to. It felt strange having to use a fork and knife, and most of them were kinda soggy. In restaurants it wasn't too bad, and I liked it dipping the crusts in olive oil, but they were a nightmare when ordered as takeaway. I was told to try Romana style next time instead, though.
It was years ago that I went but it was my favorite. Very simple and cheap and I had no bloated feeling after the full pie. I liked the stuff there better than what's in NY and Chicago. I haven't tried pizza in Connecticut.
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Pizza is kind of like coney dogs and omelets. It's hard to fuck up. They almost always taste good.
Now Portland OR has bastardized the coney dog. I don't know how they did it but they royaly fucked up their coney dogs. They don't even call it chili, they call it 'coney sauce' wtf? It's gross. Shitty stale buns and overdone dried out dogs. It's garbage.
Anyway, the places that fuck up pizza are fewer and farther between than the places that make great pizza imo.
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Pizza is kind of like coney dogs and omelets. It's hard to fuck up. They almost always taste good.
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I knew something was up with Dave Portnoy's reviews when the owner of this store came out to complain about what he was doing. I think what he does is go to the competition and give them a low score like 5.3 but make it sound like he's being scientific by adding the decimal. Like it's some precise calculation he's coming up with. When in actuality he's actually competing with these guys and benefits by them having a low score. I'm not on the East coast, so I don't know what's really going on. Do you have some insight on the situation?
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Portnoy is the scum of the earth. A true living, breathing vile scum bag. He thinks that he has heroically kept the pizza industry alive. He's a joke.
His taste buds are destroyed from drug use I've heard. He has no clue about what makes a good pizza. His score is nonsense. Look how confused and inconsistent he always is when scoring. But ohhhhhhhhh...he struts around like his score is the holy word. Like a pizza place hasn't really "made it" until they get his seal of approval/score. The pizza shops don't want him there. The owners look miserable when hes there. But they are forced to stay silent out of fear of retribution against their small businesses from Dave's vicious fans and Dave's unrelenting and vindictive online bullying tactics.
Good for that Dragon's shop owner standing up to him. And look at the little hissy fit sweet Dave threw. You could see him bright red and shaking that someone dared to challenge his self-perceived godly presence. Same thing at GoodFellows when they kicked him out. And what did the little princess do? Spit the food on the ground and stormed off like a diva. Screw him. And then he got all his followers to harass the restaurant with nasty calls and reviews. But wait...Oh yeah....Dave is the self proclaimed hero who supposedly cares sooo much for small business owners and the little man. Kinda odd then that he had nooooooo problems with the business getting harassed.
If Dave visits your pizza shop and you want an okay review...Here's what you'll need to do: Bow down to him, kiss his feet, praise him, give him free food, don't make him wait in line, don't make him wait for his food, everyone needs to make a big deal that he's there, everyone needs to clear away from him, and you must stop everything in your life just to give him 100% attention. Then, thank him for his score...thank him for being fair...and profusely thank him for saving the pizza industry during Covid. You better also make sure to thank him, on camera, so EVERYONE can see and hear you announcing how selfless and amazing he is.
And if you can strike a deal with his people to sell your pizza on Goldbelly, and hopefully give him commission to help him make more money off you, well...even better! The more money you can make for Dave, the happier he will be. Because did you know? Dave is rich!!! He's like super duper rich from Barstool!! Dave is soooo amazing!!!! And so rich! And he's just a simple every day guy that loves pizza. And apparently he knows what real good pizza tastes like because of his scoring system. Did I mention he's crazy rich from selling Barstool?!!
And I honestly feel he has worked out a little arrangement with some of these shops and marketing. Sally's is a perfect example. Sally's is nothing special. Blah blah blah...Yeah yeah...Sinatra supposedly would get Sally's "flown out to him in Chicago." I don't believe that for a freaking millisecond. Probably he would just eat there if he was close by and thought the pizza was fine. Or he asked one of his men to bring some pizza with him if they flew out to Chicago. So where are the photos of Sinatra and the owner of Sally's if he was such a golden customer? It's all nonsense.
Stupid big nosed Dave reviews some of these places, gets people squawking and talking, gets the restaurants on Goldbelly, and then the recipe gets cheap and mass produced. Sally's became famous because of the original owner and his passion and love for his pizza. Once he passed away, it seemed like his ungrateful ghoulish zombie looking kids couldn't sell it fast enough to cash out. They wouldn't even sell to their relatives at Pepe's. How sad that they wouldnt sell to their family to keep it in the family. And Dave's little Sally's review seems to have happened right around the time of Sally's being sold off. Now it's all mass produced. Staff doesn't care and the quality shows.
Dave is a shell of his former self. He stumbles around, his eyes are sunken in, he shakes, he mumbles, forgets what he is talking about, and even forgets where he is. His lifestyle is finally catching up to him. The pizza industry just has to deal with him for now. He's like a homeless vampire with a bag of valuable collectible soda cans. And the owners are really stuck because they can't get him to leave the restaurant because he'll flip out. We are all to blame for entertaining him and encouraging him to do his reviews. He's a leech. He sucks the money blood out of pizza shops and people to make himself richer. He's a user and abuser of people. Look at how he exploited that poor heavy set Uber driver gal in his videos.
Eventually, he's going to open his mouth to the wrong person...or try to harm the wrong business reputation...and he will get the instant karma he justly deserves.
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That's different. They intentionally fucked those up.
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Pizza in New England (depending on where you go) is great.
When I lived in Florida for 4 years I couldn`t find good pizza anyfuckingwhere.
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Colony is good some days. Not amazing. It used to be much better. Now its more mass produced and franchised/chain. There are better CT places. I still say its good because of historic significance to Stamford.
The Stamford location is still very good but not so much any of the others.
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The Stamford location is still very good but not so much any of the others.
Agreed. I just think its changed a bit. I don’t think it tastes the same as it used to. I also think it’s smaller as well. I had Colony a month or so back and it looked smaller to me. I compared it to a photo online and it’s definitely smaller. I hate to say, but it tasted really close to Ricos. It just tasted like a tortilla pizza. It was good, but not like I remember it was back in the 1990s. I remember they used to have to take the phone off the hook on weekends. You knew it was too busy to even try to order over the weekends. They have so many locations now. Of course it’s impossible for them to still have the same quality as they used to. I would rather go to smaller places like Westover, John’s on Grove, Italia, or Sal’s.
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The absolute best pizza I have ever had in my life was in Bergen Norway, in the Ole Bull Scene area. It had literally hundreds of items you could have added. Duck, deer, elk, oysters, scallops, etc.. and the best part is that each ingredient was cooked individually. Not like normal pizzas where you throw it on the crust and then throw the crust in the oven. Here you picked a crust and they started on it first, then depending on what your selections were, they were cooked and/or added at intervals when they were ready. If you got beef, it was cooked and then added to the crust - back into the oven, then if you peppers or onions they were added right at the very end. Each selection was perfect. Things like pepperoni or mushrooms were not rubbery, meats like duck and ground beef were not greasy or dry. It took about 45 minutes to get a pie and it was around 50-90USD depending on your selections. But it was worth it.
I haven't been back since 2017 so not sure if it is there. I will have to dig out out external hard drives and see if I can find a photo of it and get the name off it. It was across the street from TGIF in the park area.
Bergen … beautiful city … was there 25 years ago … so which toppings did you choose for the best pizza of your life?
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Pizza in New England (depending on where you go) is great.
When I lived in Florida for 4 years I couldn`t find good pizza anyfuckingwhere.
There was no Pizza Hut?
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Portnoy is the scum of the earth. A true living, breathing vile scum bag. He thinks that he has heroically kept the pizza industry alive. He's a joke.
His taste buds are destroyed from drug use I've heard. He has no clue about what makes a good pizza. His score is nonsense. Look how confused and inconsistent he always is when scoring. But ohhhhhhhhh...he struts around like his score is the holy word. Like a pizza place hasn't really "made it" until they get his seal of approval/score. The pizza shops don't want him there. The owners look miserable when hes there. But they are forced to stay silent out of fear of retribution against their small businesses from Dave's vicious fans and Dave's unrelenting and vindictive online bullying tactics.
Good for that Dragon's shop owner standing up to him. And look at the little hissy fit sweet Dave threw. You could see him bright red and shaking that someone dared to challenge his self-perceived godly presence. Same thing at GoodFellows when they kicked him out. And what did the little princess do? Spit the food on the ground and stormed off like a diva. Screw him. And then he got all his followers to harass the restaurant with nasty calls and reviews. But wait...Oh yeah....Dave is the self proclaimed hero who supposedly cares sooo much for small business owners and the little man. Kinda odd then that he had nooooooo problems with the business getting harassed.
If Dave visits your pizza shop and you want an okay review...Here's what you'll need to do: Bow down to him, kiss his feet, praise him, give him free food, don't make him wait in line, don't make him wait for his food, everyone needs to make a big deal that he's there, everyone needs to clear away from him, and you must stop everything in your life just to give him 100% attention. Then, thank him for his score...thank him for being fair...and profusely thank him for saving the pizza industry during Covid. You better also make sure to thank him, on camera, so EVERYONE can see and hear you announcing how selfless and amazing he is.
And if you can strike a deal with his people to sell your pizza on Goldbelly, and hopefully give him commission to help him make more money off you, well...even better! The more money you can make for Dave, the happier he will be. Because did you know? Dave is rich!!! He's like super duper rich from Barstool!! Dave is soooo amazing!!!! And so rich! And he's just a simple every day guy that loves pizza. And apparently he knows what real good pizza tastes like because of his scoring system. Did I mention he's crazy rich from selling Barstool?!!
And I honestly feel he has worked out a little arrangement with some of these shops and marketing. Sally's is a perfect example. Sally's is nothing special. Blah blah blah...Yeah yeah...Sinatra supposedly would get Sally's "flown out to him in Chicago." I don't believe that for a freaking millisecond. Probably he would just eat there if he was close by and thought the pizza was fine. Or he asked one of his men to bring some pizza with him if they flew out to Chicago. So where are the photos of Sinatra and the owner of Sally's if he was such a golden customer? It's all nonsense.
Stupid big nosed Dave reviews some of these places, gets people squawking and talking, gets the restaurants on Goldbelly, and then the recipe gets cheap and mass produced. Sally's became famous because of the original owner and his passion and love for his pizza. Once he passed away, it seemed like his ungrateful ghoulish zombie looking kids couldn't sell it fast enough to cash out. They wouldn't even sell to their relatives at Pepe's. How sad that they wouldnt sell to their family to keep it in the family. And Dave's little Sally's review seems to have happened right around the time of Sally's being sold off. Now it's all mass produced. Staff doesn't care and the quality shows.
Dave is a shell of his former self. He stumbles around, his eyes are sunken in, he shakes, he mumbles, forgets what he is talking about, and even forgets where he is. His lifestyle is finally catching up to him. The pizza industry just has to deal with him for now. He's like a homeless vampire with a bag of valuable collectible soda cans. And the owners are really stuck because they can't get him to leave the restaurant because he'll flip out. We are all to blame for entertaining him and encouraging him to do his reviews. He's a leech. He sucks the money blood out of pizza shops and people to make himself richer. He's a user and abuser of people. Look at how he exploited that poor heavy set Uber driver gal in his videos.
Eventually, he's going to open his mouth to the wrong person...or try to harm the wrong business reputation...and he will get the instant karma he justly deserves.
This is the context I needed. I stopped watching his reviews because my intuition told me something was off.
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There was no Pizza Hut?
Yeah but not the same as a quality Italian neighborhood well established joint that is known for making great pizza.
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As a teenager, I actually worked in a pizza place until the head chef died under mysterious circumstances. I remember coming in one day and seeing him lying on the floor, covered in pepperoni, anchovies and pineapple. They reckon he topped himself.
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Yeah but not the same as a quality Italian neighborhood well established joint that is known for making great pizza.
True, but still pretty good.
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As a teenager, I actually worked in a pizza place until the head chef died under mysterious circumstances. I remember coming in one day and seeing him lying on the floor, covered in pepperoni, anchovies and pineapple. They reckon he topped himself.
Doh !! :D
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As a teenager, I actually worked in a pizza place until the head chef died under mysterious circumstances. I remember coming in one day and seeing him lying on the floor, covered in pepperoni, anchovies and pineapple. They reckon he topped himself.
Poison is cleaner than slice n dice
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I've been reviewing pizza now for a little over 5 years and have been to over 600 different pizzerias (as well as having gone to many of them more than once).
What I have found is that the majority of decent sized cities in the Northeast are going to have at least one pizzeria that is comparable to what were once considered to be among the best in the United States!
For example, one of the highest scores I have ever given was to Peels on Wheels located in Rochester, New York, and another was to Forno Frankie's located in Montreal, Quebec! Up until recently, neither of these cities was known for their Pizza whatsoever, but both of them now are!
Both of these pizzerias were a notable step up from anything in New Haven, and both compare favorably to the absolute best pizzerias throughout the country (Tony's Napoletona in SF, L'industrie in Brooklyn).
It's not the '80s anymore. Any Pizzeria with a high-end pizza Master oven, an owner who is willing to spend a little more on their ingredients, and cares enough to either by the pizza Bible book or watch some how-to videos on YouTube, can essentially make pizza that is very comparable to the best you are going to find! 🍕💪
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I've been reviewing pizza now for a little over 5 years and have been to over 600 different pizzerias (as well as having gone to many of them more than once).
What I have found is that the majority of decent sized cities in the Northeast are going to have at least one pizzeria that is comparable to what were once considered to be among the best in the United States!
For example, one of the highest scores I have ever given was to Peels on Wheels located in Rochester, New York, and another was to Forno Frankie's located in Montreal, Quebec! Up until recently, neither of these cities was known for their Pizza whatsoever, but both of them now are!
Both of these pizzerias were a notable step up from anything in New Haven, and both compare favorably to the absolute best pizzerias throughout the country (Tony's Napoletona in SF, L'industrie in Brooklyn).
It's not the '80s anymore. Any Pizzeria with a high-end pizza Master oven, an owner who is willing to spend a little more on their ingredients, and cares enough to either by the pizza Bible book or watch some how-to videos on YouTube, can essentially make pizza that is very comparable to the best you are going to find! 🍕💪
Thanls for the input Dave!
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Thanls for the input Dave!
The irony in that comment is that Dave would want you to believe the exact opposite of what I just stated above! Lol.
He factors in a Pizzerias history massively in his scores, and is a stickler for any spot that either has a coal-fired oven, or a very old oven in general.
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A couple of weeks ago when we were in NYC we went this little outdoor pizza place, couldn't fit three people in the entry so there was quite a line, well worth though. It was called 'Pops Pizza" on West 57th.
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Bergen … beautiful city … was there 25 years ago … so which toppings did you choose for the best pizza of your life?
I no longer see it on the map, but I got the meat special there. Filet, pepperoni, bacon, and turkey sausage. I am not very adventuresome with my food.
I haven't been since 2017. But it is a fantastic town. And the train ride from Olso to Bergen is STUNNING.
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The irony in that comment is that Dave would want you to believe the exact opposite of what I just stated above! Lol.
He factors in a Pizzerias history massively in his scores, and is a stickler for any spot that either has a coal-fired oven, or a very old oven in general.
Dave Portnoy is a bumbling fool who should NOT be allowed to review any pizza parlor anywhere. His scores, criteria's, ratings, etc are worthless. No one remembers his scores and coal ovens/old ovens mean nothing. No one seeks out an old oven if they want pizza. No one drives around cities with a large old pizza oven map and makes their way up the coastline eating parts of history in the form of old ovens.
No one eats a slice of pizza baked in an ancient oven and sits back with wide eyes and feels enlightened from old charcoal dust. Stop with the charred nonsense. No sane person wants a hand covered in black charcoal dust and a dry, irritated mouth from charcoal. The stupid old oven takes forever at Sally’s and they are too cheap to get a larger, more modern oven. What if someone falls asleep behind the wheel and drives their car into the oven and breaks it to pieces? Good luck finding parts to rebuild it. Dave is a rambling, senile , confused lunatic who intimidates pizza shop owners and scares away customers.
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I haven't tried too many different style pizzas. Here in Sweden we have this, what I call the standard arab pizza. Pretty similar in most places here, it's so standardized. Wonder how Americans would rate it :D
Kwon, have you compared to pizzas abroad?
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I haven't tried too many different style pizzas. Here in Sweden we have this, what I call the standard arab pizza. Pretty similar in most places here, it's so standardized. Wonder how Americans would rate it :D
Kwon, have you compared to pizzas abroad?
People in the States take their pizza seriously!