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Burt’s in Morton Grove Il is still my favorite.
Burt passed a few years ago, but some locals bought it and reopened. It’s as good as ever.
Imo’s in St. Louis is my favorite overall. Thin, crispy crust, square cut, Provel as the base cheese. It scratches an itch that all other pizzas don’t. I’d eat it 7 days a week if I could, hot or cold.
I’ve had pizzas with superior ingredients, made in fancy ovens, served with wine instead of cold beer, but if I could get any pizza right now, it’d be Imo’s black olive or veggie pizza.
Lou’s
The best pizza I’ve ever had is probably the Little Caesars by my old apartment. Money can’t buy the experience of getting a couple cheap zas on your way home from work, sitting down in your living room with your brother, and playing Overwatch “split screen” (two TVs next to each other) until 4 o’clock on Friday (as in 4:00 AM on Saturday)
The best single pizza was a pepperoni pizza from a street vendor in Hawaii many years ago, with hot sauce I still special order from the islands.
However… if we’re just talling toppings a pineapple, peppercini pizza is my dark horse favorite pizzas. I first tried essentially on a bet. Never would’ve expected it to be so good, and have since determined it’s best (optionally) with chicken, feta, and/or roasted garlic.
A random delivery from a place I can’t remember the name of in Vancouver. The cheese was fresh and thick, the veggies were fragrant, the sauce was sweetly herbal with a hint of red wine, the pepperoni was perfectly crispy and the dough was soft and firm in all the right ways with that just-baked-bread earthy musk.
When I tried to order again they’d just shut down. That pizza was too pure for this world.
The first time I had Papa John’s with the garlic sauce. I guess I just like garlic.
It was in a pizzeria called Da Michele in Naples. It does only Margherita and Napoletana. It is on another level.
Julia Roberts, in the movie, Eat, prey, love ate there.
Off the Bryn Mawr stop on the far North Side of Chicago, there was a little storefront called “Barry’s Pizza Spot”. They sold stuffed pizza* by the slice, and they almost always had one that sausage, mushroom, and onion. I sublet an apartment off this stop for a month one summer and ate this slice for dinner over a dozen times. The first time, it was the best pizza of my life. Two other times surpassed the record before I moved away. It closed a couple years later. My mouth is watering just thinking about it now.
*If you don’t know what stuffed pizza is, it’s the best of the three Chicago pizza styles. It’s stopped pretending to be anything other than a pie, and the cheese and “toppings” are all underneath a second, upper crust that’s prevented from burning by a top layer of sauce. One slice is a meal.
Okay this is totally not what you’re asking but I have to share a funny story. (To answer your actual question, can’t think of anything but I don’t live in NY or Chicago so…)
My family visited Scotland when my daughter was about 6, and there was one night we got to a hotel and just needed some food, and not a lot of places near us were open. But there was a pizza place, which would satisfy the kids. My daughter chose the “American” pizza, which had chicken, barbecue sauce, and yellow corn on it. (Yes, I’m serious.) She has been asking for that pizza for years since then. WTF?
Yeah. Love sweetcorn on my pizza.
I mean, you do you! My daughter agrees with you in matters of taste. I did think it was awfully funny what the Scots thought of as “American.”
they dont really think of it as american, they just dont really care. like american pizza in ireland is almost always “hot” pepperoni and jalepenos, mixed peppers and like a shake of some kind of pepper flakes.
also in ireland they have “american wine gums” which as you know isnt a thing, theyre these really chewey gummy things live ive never seen
Pesto base, grilled chicken, cashews, red onions, sun-dried tomatoes.
In most recent memory it was a caprese cheesy pizza at 3 am on a cold autumn night. Nothing hits like that imo.
Elephant & Co. in Detroit. But I grew up on Detroit style, so I may be biased.
Detroit style is the deep dish pan greasy crunchy stuff right? If so, then thats probably my favorite second to wood fired hand tossed.
Yeah. Deep dish with thick bread, crispy cheesy edges, and always square (or rectangular). It should also use brick cheese, not mozzarella.
Famoso. It’s pricy unfortunately, being a restaurant instead of a takeout style place, but the price is indeed worth it
Does it not depend on hunger for you? I’ll honestly find the frozen pizza from Aldi to be amazing when I’m super hungry.
Apart from that I had really great pizza at an Italian grocery store in Dijon. They’re all the same after a certain point. It was also great somewhere in Amalfi
