Best Pizza In US (Rank By City); Not Chicago, Not NY

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The thing about Chicago pizza vs New York that people don't realize is its not a competition. It's really comparing apples to oranges and I'll tell you why:

-You want a quick snack, a slice or two on the go? New York pizza is what you want.
-You want a full meal? Sit down with the family with a fork in hand and get full as fuck? Chicago pizza.

Both are dope as fuck, just depends on the circumstance and your mood.

The northwest is kinda whack pizza. I mean pizza isn't rocket science first off, you can find decent pizza anywhere. But I have not found any decent or somewhat authentic deep dish in Washington. What they pass off for deep dish is retarded - more cheese, thinker crust. That's not Chicago style. Chicago style, again, is a fuckin meal. Small little pieces of sausage scattered on top? NO. How about an entire sausage patty on top? That way each and every bite contains a layer of sausage. That's Chicago style, where you need a fork since you couldn't possibly eat it by hand. Fills you up, one maybe two pieces and you're KOd.

My family here in Seattle, anytime da bears or Seahawks made the Superbowl, and some playoff games, we order from Lou Malnati's. Yeah it's expensive for shipping but for special occasions it's worth it. Plus a lot of people don't know about their Italian Beef sandwich, which is dope:


I was telling butcher a while back that another thing Seattle lacks in is deli meat. For whatever reason you just can't get the same kind you'd find in the Midwest or New York. Italian beef, Pastrami, corned beef, it's crazy how much different it is.

So if you get some pies from Lou's, make sure to add the Portillo's Italian Beef Kit:


2 lbs. of Portillo's Famous Italian Beef
2 qts of Portillo's signature gravy
8 bake and serve Italian rolls
8 oz. of Sweet Peppers & 8 oz. of Hot Giardinara

Now we're talking.

Add two of Lou Malnati's famous deep dish pizzas for:

$89.99 including shipping? Not bad at all, for the special occasion.

While you're at it, throw in some corned beef


And some Polish Sausage


Which reminds me, why the hell is it so hard to find poppy-seed hotdog buns here? Makes no sense, they go hand in hand. Yet it's rare to find them in supermarkets in Washington. You can find poppy seed hamburger buns usually no problem, hotdog buns? Rarely ever.

Might as well have them toss in some Chicago hotdogs



Which is dope because they do include the bright green relish and poppy seed buns. All beef Vienna beef hotdogs though you can get here at supermarkets so it's not as important as everything above.

You order this? I swear to god after you eat it all you will instantly grow a thick mustache

You my friend just discovered a need to be fulfilled. Whether via restaurant of your own or just as a grocery delivery startup. Don't know why I'm barely seeing this now but Lou Malnati's was so crack that I had to order some pies the same night I flew back to California so that I could have some a few days later. It was something like $89 for 4 pies with overnight shipping included. Everyone I shared with said it was the best pizza they ever had.
 

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If you ever come to China, I make a great triple go thin crust pizza, and my dawgz are out of this world. Homemade sausages, go recipes, unique topics and sauces...I'm franchising too.
 
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i had UNOs at the one in Jack London Square shit was alright, but u guys got a bomb spot up north called toto's (i think)... that shit was A1, had the lil tiny pepperoni slices that crisp better and all that...
my cousin was manager at the totos in san bruno so I would get the plug. bad ass pesto ravioli and smacking pizzas; till he got fired. Now its fuck totos expensive ass
 
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There is a Lou Malnatis in Phoenix and a Portillos in Scottsdale... Toms BBQ in AZ also has amazing Italian Beef Sammiches.
That's dope.. didn't know. I'll have to try them when I go to Giants' spring training.


Yup and in redwood city behind the train station
There's one in San Mateo too. Next to the BMW dealership, little strip mall next to AT&T and Fitness 19. I avoid the San Bruno Toto's, that was/is LPL (Sureno) territory.
 

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i dunno personally, alot of pizza ive had are different and can be rated on their own styles...liek 2-0-sixx said above id look at chicagos and new yorks different... like it would matter if were talking giant slice pizza or sit down resteraunt pizza...i personally like deep dish, as far as accessable pizza without going all across different states and trying some mom and pop spot that some old motherfucker makes the best pizza from here to central iceland, i fuck with BJ's in la jolla SD.... because it needs to be mentioned, best frozen pizza is wolfgang puck's 4 cheese pesto joint, they used to sell them in stores but i havent seen it in a good decade, id pay a good 20 dollars for those small personal ones now a days they were so fucking good. and im real real picky on pesto pizza to begin with, some people hate em but i like it.

theres a spot in he bay somewhere, i for some reason remember it to be near walnut creek, that had some of the best shit ive had up here, i forgot the name, one spot i had to look up to remember is bertolucci's ristorante in SF, i fuck with them as far as old school italian joints. but once again, acessable joints, zachary's is cool... most people like they shit in the bay. but this is coming from a black-creole guy, i guess it would be like someone trying to tell me where they got the best gumbo and shit....lol..i can only judge on what ive eaten personally?

wish i had more to shout out from San Diego, but you eat mexican food there, not italian/pizza.
 
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theres this one spot in san diego thats hilarious, i gotta think of the name of it, but the whole thing, its kind of like that spot dicks last resort (if youve never heard of dicks last resort, and you want a laugh, go on yelp for some laughs...the sensitive people will have a page or two with their review crying.) except its not as purposely-dick like, the dude at the shop is like some old school italian dude from new york and he disses the total shit out of damn near everyone who comes in there. the first time i went in there, this old lady asked if they had espresso and dude literally cursed her out, called her a fucking idiot and told her to take her ass across the street to the cafe where the homo's run it, dude got on her ass something fierce to the point where even me, I literally had my order to-fucking-gether, no stutter, exactly what i wanted to a T, to give this motherfucker no reason to try to talk shit because then i was gonna get forced into a oldschool diss session that i wouldnt have backed out of. i got left alone.

im sure most of you havent been there, its at the very end of hillcrest in SD that borders downtown, which would be kinda like the part of the castro in SF that is a little before the gayer part of it, but dude literally takes advantage of the area hes in and disses the shit out of people. i gotta remember where that place is, you should go there if youre ever in SD. ill figure out the name and let yall know. im sure the old dude is still shitting on every fucking person who comes in unless you're a regular.

i thought it was bronx pizza, but i dont think it is. bronx pizza is considered one of the best spots in SD as far as new york style. if it was bronx pizza, the guy who dissed people left, not mentions on yelp anymore. but ill find it for yall!

im more into finding the best philly cheese steaks IMO. took me a while to find out the 'original' philly cheese steaks aint even really what you want, fuck some cheez whiz on your food.
 
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we went to portillos while we were over there and that shit was burnt... the "italian-beef" shit was nasty AF tasted like subway's beef n cheese sub, and the lines retarded long for no reason....



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Burnt? Where at? See when we order from Lou's, it's obviously not cooked all the way, so we have to heat it up, toast the bread. And you heat up the Italian beef in the sauce/broth on the stove, like so:



so that when you put the thin-sliced beef you pile it on wet onto the bread, topped with giardiniera of course. So you want that stuff dripping wet of the soupy-broth which makes it so delicious. Almost like a French dip. Should never be burnt! And when you get an Italian beef in Chicago, it should always be a dripping mess, so I don't know how they could fuck that up unless it was just the toast that was burnt, if that's the case should have gave it back! Nothing even close to subway though lmao
 
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Burnt? Where at? See when we order from Lou's, it's obviously not cooked all the way, so we have to heat it up, toast the bread. And you heat up the Italian beef in the sauce/broth on the stove, like so:



so that when you put the thin-sliced beef you pile it on wet onto the bread, topped with giardiniera of course. So you want that stuff dripping wet of the soupy-broth which makes it so delicious. Almost like a French dip. Should never be burnt!
lol nah burnt is slang... it means somethings played, turnt-down, or its-out...