Oak Creek, Wisconsin: Marco's Pizza

This is not pizza for people who subscribe to the less-is-more aint'y-dainty school of slicedom. It's crazy-ass, hearty, stick-to-your-ribs fatten-you-up-for-the-harsh-Upper-Midwest-winter pizza. And it's pretty damn good.

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12 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, December 13, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Tagged: Marco's Pizza, Milwaukee, Oak Creek WI, reviews, Slice reviews, Wisconsin

Daily Slice: Spicy Calabrese and Arugula from Classic Slice, Milwaukee

It's one thing to incorporate crisp, foldy, and just-chewy-enough into a regular-size slice but it's another thing altogether to nail those qualities in a piece of pizza the size of your head. But that's what Classic Slice in Milwaukee's Bay View area seems to do.

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3 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, December 10, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Tagged: calabrese, Classic Slice, Daily Slice, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee: Transfer Pizzeria Café

In a city that may be known more for thin-and-crisp yet hearty pizzas, Transfer's Vasyl Lemberskyy forges his own path with a pizza menu as varied as his Milwaukee-via-Italy-via-Ukraine bio.

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6 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, December 10, 2010 at 12:15 PM
Tagged: Milwaukee, reviews, Slice reviews, Transfer Pizzeria Café, Vasyl Lemberskyy, Wisconsin

Your Chance to Eat the Recursive Pizza

If you saw artist John Riepenhoff's recursive pizza artwork earlier this week and thought, "Dang, I'd like to see that in person," now's your chance. He's showing it in Milwaukee at the University of Wisconsin Union Art Gallery on Friday and then every Thursday thereafter through October 14.

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7 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, September 22, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Tagged: art, John Riepenhoff, Milwaukee, Physical Pizza Networking Theory, pizza awesomeness

Dear Slice: 'Maria's Pizza in Milwaukee - It Deserves Attention'

Reaching in to the Slice mailbag, we've got ... [Photograph: Adam Kuban] I checked out Maria's Pizza last weekend in Milwaukee. It's insane! I was in town for the afternoon, so I went right when it opened at 4 p.m. Good thing I did. There was a line waiting outside for it to open, and within seconds of the door opening, the entire place was filled. People arriving at five minutes after were told there would be an hour wait! This is like a New York–pizza level of obsession.Abby and I waited patiently for our server to take our order,...

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17 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, March 19, 2010 at 6:00 AM
Tagged: Dear Slice, Maria's Pizza, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Q&A: Frankie Flood, Pizza Cutter Artist

This week's Q&A is with artist and professor Frankie Flood, the man behind those amazing pizza cutters we've seen surface online throughout the years. —The Mgmt. [Photographs: Frankie Flood] Name: Frankie Flood Location: Milwaukee Occupation: Acting head of Jewelry and Metalsmithing at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Website: frankieflood.com You're head of the Jewelry and Metalsmithing Department at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and took a master's degree at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in metals. So that explains your skill in executing these cutters, huh? I am currently acting area head of the Jewelry and Metalsmithing area at the Peck School of...

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3 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, February 15, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Tagged: Frankie Flood, Illinois, interviews, Milwaukee, pizza cutters, Q and As

Fire Destroys Building Housing Milwaukee's Popular Pizza Man Pizzeria

The building that housed Pizza Man, one of Milwaukee's favorite pizzerias burned down early this morning. No word on the cause or whether the joint will rebuild or reopen elsewhere. An arson team is probing the damage....

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1 Comment | Posted by Adam Kuban, January 19, 2010 at 11:30 AM
Tagged: fires, Milwaukee, Pizza Man, Wisconsin

'Eat to Blog' Makes Trip to Maria's Pizza

eattoblog.com OK, I'm not just linking to this story because Howard from Eat to Blog totally agrees with me on how awesome Maria's Pizza in Milwaukee is. He brings up something I think I only glossed over in my post: the pizzas are HUGE. I used this photo my sister took of me with the pizza to give you a sense of scale. Look at the size of this thing! Note the crazy look in my eyes as I realize we ordered too much food. Or did we? My first bite of the pizza threw me off. The sauce...

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3 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, August 6, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Tagged: Eat to Blog, Maria's Pizza, Milwaukee, reviews, Wisconsin

Maria's Pizza, Milwaukee

Maria's Pizza is soul food. Not in the traditional sense, of course—there are no collard-green or barbecue pizzas on the menu at this 52-year-old Milwaukee institution. Maria's brand of soul derives mostly from the love, hard work, and comfortable familiarity of the second- and third-generation family members who staff the place, providing hungry Milwaukeeans with rectangular trays of oblong pizzas.

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40 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, March 10, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Tagged: Maria's Pizza, Milwaukee, Recommended, reviews, Slice reviews, Wisconsin

Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Head to Zaffiro’s for Milwaukee-Style!

Daniel Zemans, our man in Chicago, heads north this week and checks in with a piece of pizza intel from Milwaukee. Daniel also blogs about Chicagoland pizza with his friends on the Chicago Pizza Club blog. —The Mgmt. "The cheese is, as you would expect in Wisconsin, plentiful and of very good quality. The layer of mozzarella is three or four times thicker than the crust." On Saturday, I made my first trip to Wisconsin since I watched Carlos Zambrano throw a no-hitter in September. As enjoyable as that visit was, since the stadium was filled almost exclusively with Cubs...

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5 Comments | Posted by Daniel Zemans, February 6, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Tagged: Milwaukee, reviews, Slice reviews, Wisconsin, Zaffiro's