Buddy's Deep-Dish Pizza in Detroit: Better Than NYC Pizza?

Posted by Adam Kuban, August 10, 2009 at 12:00 PM

This is rare: a New Yorker who travels somewhere outside NYC, eats pizza, and claims it superior to Big Apple pies. Who knew a Gothamite could admit such things?! ;) In this case, it's Buddy's, with its Detroit deep-dish pizza:

So what makes Buddy's so great? As my dad likes to say, it all begins with a well-seasoned and greased blue steel pan. The dough rises in the pan, before brick cheese and then sauce is added. Different toppings find their way to different layers of the pizza. Brick cheese is also an important part of the whole equation. It is a bit saltier than mozz and pairs nicely with the thick and slightly sweet sauce. When the pizza is done, the big question is corner or middle slice. I am a fan of the corner slice because that maximizes the amount of crunchy and buttery crust. Buddy's also gets points for offering green olives as a topping, one of the most underrated and least offered topping around.

Buddy's Pizza

Various locations in Detroit area; see buddyspizza.com

3 Comments

Tags: Blogwatch, Buddy's Pizza, deep dish, Detroit, Detroit-style pizza, Michigan, New York Adventures

3 Comments:

as a brooklyn boy i agree that buddy's is off the scale spectacular
the brick cheese makes it simply the best grilled cheese sandwich in the worl
my son adores the minestrone.
unique taste and great value, it's nice to see nice people succeed
only problem it's a great distance from nyc.
with what's going on in the world, buddy's would make it big time in northern new jersey and long island
come on down

foodismylife at 4:16PM on 08/10/09

Wow, I feel so lucky. I've been eating Buddy's my whole life and it really is the best. The edges and corners with the baked-on cheese are indescribably delicious and the sauce is great too.

deetroitMI at 9:22PM on 08/11/09

I was a Buddy's fan growing up in Detroit, a detractor after I caught the Neapolitan bug, and after a visit home last week and a rare Buddy's pie... a fan again. Buddy's has it's own thing going on: mounds of burnt cheese, a tasty but dense crust (almost like a tempur pedic pillow), sauce sweet enough to cut through the heft. It still doesn't hold up to the flavor explosions I get from the best pies, but there's something very homey and comforting about it.

Lance Roberts at 5:48PM on 08/12/09

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