Best pizza you've ever had? I went out tonight and had a mozza, arugula

[applegrove]

alfredo sauce and pancetta pizza. It was amazing. Thankfully they are right down the street so I can order it for my parents.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Second night in a row, a thin crust veggie delight from Papa Murphy's.

It's incredibly good, I kid you not.

Creamy garlic sauce, tomatoes, mushrooms, and spinach on a cracker-thin crust.

I added some home-grown Shiitake mushrooms from a kit by Far West Fungi, and that made the pie even better!

Mushroom kit: http://store.farwestfungi.com/fwf147.html

[azurnoir]

12. +1 I love Papa Murphy's they have great pizza

[GoCubsGo]

33. That's a good breakfast pie, too.

Cold pizza--the breakfast of champions.

[hlthe2b]

2. When I was a kid and the old Shakey's franchise was still around...

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A thin crust with baby shrimp, black olives, mushrooms and lots of fresh mozzarella.

I don't know what they did with the shrimp (because baby shrimp usually don't have much taste), but I've been unable to recreate it and make it taste the same...sigh....

I really miss Shakey's....

[LadyHawkAZ]

13. I miss Shakeys

I adored their pizza. It was my requested birthday dinner throughout my teens.

[Mr.Bill]

23. I grew up in the 60s in a Hispanic neighborhood.

The Shakey's there had a Pizza called The Bullfighter Special. It was Jalapeno peppers and Chorizo. That was my favorite.

[Chan790]

3. Rossini's, used to be in Farmington CT.

There's one now in Cheshire I think. Best pizza I ever had. The owner was from Naples and...well...I never heard him speak, only his wife who in the nearly 30 years I went there I don't think she aged. She was like perpetually 50. He supposedly had learned in one of the kitchens of one of the New Haven joints, decided he could do it better and opened his own restaurants closer to the center of the state because that's where he lived.

Great pizza. Dinner in a log cabin. Nice people.

Edit: They're probably responsible for my brother deciding after college that he didn't want to be an engineer and becoming a pizzaiolo. (A pizza chef. It's harder than it looks. It's not like the guy making pizza at Domino's. It's an art.)

[digonswine]

4. Try this if you like to cook-

Play around with it and I suggest a 12 inch cast iron pan. You have to make the dough, but it is easy and awesome. I have made my own pizza for ages, but this is soo good!

http://www.unos.com/about/press/2009/0109_1.html

[riderinthestorm]

5. Chicago style, deep dish Giordano's w any ingredients you crave. Hands down THE best pizza ever. nt

[WillyT]

6. North Beach Pizza - San Francisco

Yummy!

[kwassa]

7. Home-made.

Vastly better than any store-bought.

[sakabatou]

8. Restarurant: Lombardi's

At home: Red Barron's.

[siligut]

9. I just made an arugula pizza

That's funny. I had seen the idea on the Food Channel, so when I saw arugula on sale, I decided to try it. No alfredo sauce or pancetta though. Garlic oil, mozzarella and asiago for pizza, then a lemon vinaigrette dressing for the arugula. It was quite good.

[GReedDiamond]

10. It may not be the best, but it's as close as it comes, for me...

...living in the Los Angeles area, and I've searched far and wide.

The Best: Casa Bianca in Eagle Rock.

On Edit: Best Frozen - Bristol Farms, South Pasadena, CA - handmade thin crust pizzas - actually, they're not frozen, they're freshly made every day and displayed in one of those chilled, open air coolers.

Price is like 6 or 7 bucks, well worth it.

[nomorenomore08]

11. Hard to say... Maybe Zachary's (East Bay mini-chain).

I can also make a pretty damn good homemade crust nowadays, though I can't take full credit since it's my folks who experimented and perfected the recipe.

[vanlassie]

28. Is that the one that's stuffed? I love Gioia pizza in

Berkeley near Monterey Market, too. Mmmmm! But it's a "toss up" between those two. Ha Ha. See what I did there?

[nomorenomore08]

29. Zachary's specialty is Chicago-style deep dish.

I think they make "regular" pizza also though. Haven't had it in years.

[vanlassie]

30. I often drive three and a half hours after a nine hour work day

up to Oakland to spend the weekend with my kids and grandbabies. It's always so great to arrive, hungry, and find a nice big piece of Zachary's deep dish pizza waiting for me! Pizza and grand kids=heaven!!

[LadyHawkAZ]

14. Any of the little holes in the wall

that I wandered into at random while visiting Manhattan. I fell in love with New York pizza. I think I ate it for every meal while I was there.

[Initech]

15. There's a great pizza and beer joint not too far from where I live called Oggi's Pizza.

Great pizza - I particularly like the Lightning and March Madness styles. Great beer too.

[olddots]

16. I've never met a pizza I didn't like

In L.A. everybody has a different opinion ,I like Barone's plain .

[a la izquierda]

17. Any pizza made by my mom or grandma nt

[Earth_First]

18. I make a whole wheat homemade pizza.

Very little sauce, red onion, thin sliced sweet potato, red onion and fresh-sliced mozz.

[KamaAina]

19. Modern Apizza, New Haven

Italian Bomb, baby!

Note: many old-line joints in So. CT call the pie "apizza", authentically pronounced "abeetz". It's a Neapolitan thing.

[KamaAina]

20. Alfredo sauce on pizza?

Is that a Canadian thing?

And I thought arugula as a topping was forbidden outside California.

[applegrove]

25. LOL!

[AsahinaKimi]

21. Gaspare's Pizza House & Italian Restaurant, Geary Boulevard, San Francisco

http://www.gasparespizza.com/

[Taverner]

22. Some place I can't remember in Chicago

Deep dish, crust with corn meal...mmmmmmmmmmm

Second to that was this place in Buffalo NY that had cracker thin crust. Mmmmmmmmm

[mucifer]

27. Cornmeal Chicago crust is Burt's or Pequods:

http://www.chicagonow.com/sugar-buzz-chicago/2011/10/does-the-pizza-at-burts-place-live-up-to-the-hype/

[First Speaker]

24. Pop's Pizza, Cheshire, CT

Just the best. I've been to all the great ones in New Haven, and none--not even Abate's--quite matches Pop's. Needless to say, places outside CT don't count... ...

[Bertha Venation]

26. any pizza sounds good right now

Best one: extra pepperoni, thin crust from Round Table. I miss Round Table Pizza.

[Paladin]

31. John's Pizza, down towards The Village, Manhattan.

Incredible.

[GoCubsGo]

32. One that I made recently.

I picked up a big slab of Bucheron cheese for a buck on a Manager's special. I'd never had it, and couldn't pass up the deal. Of course, when I got home, I didn't know what the hell I was going to do with it, so I looked up some recipes using it. There was a recipe using it in a Margherita-style pizza, so I gave that a try. It was delicious! I love Pizza Margherita already, so it was a perfect choice for using up some of this cheese. The only thing that would have made it better would have been if it was made with a good pizza parlor crust in a wood-fire oven. Not that my crust was all that bad...