Entries tagged with 'best-of lists'
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The Detroit Metro Area's Top 25 Pizzas
[Credit: Detroit Free Press] In May Alan Richman dropped his Top 25 Pizza List in GQ magazine and in a related story somewhat counterintuitively declared Detroit the No. 3 pizza city in the U.S. The Detroit Free Press now seems to be reacting to the pizza spotlight—a little late but better than never. What's interesting, though, is that the Freep story focuses not on the Sicilian style that Richman praised as being "flawlessly executed" consistently throughout the region but on the up-and-coming pizzerias in the Motor City. The paper rounds up 25 places to check out. View the list,...10 Perfect Pizzas
Over on I Think This World Is Perfect... the blogger and Friend of Slice who goes by "Dad" ranks his top 10 pizzas: Frank Pepe's, New Haven, Connecticut Mario's, Arthur Avenue, The Bronx Nick's, Forest Hills, Queens, Una Pizza Napoletana (now closed) Totonno's, Upper East Side, Manhattan Caioti, Los Angeles Colosseo, Long Island, New York Pizzeria Paradiso, D.C. John's of Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan His own I've had six of the 10 from this nicely varied list—minus Caioti, Colosseo, Paradiso, and "Dad"'s own pizza. On that note, including your own pizza on a best-of list is at once a...Dear Slice: On the Topsy Turvy Realm of Pizza Rankings
Clicking in to the Slice inbox today, a thoughtful email on the futility of ranking pizzerias. —The Mgmt. I’m a longtime reader and put a lot of stock in your (and Ed Levine’s) opinions, and was just wondering what your thoughts were on the spate of recent high-profile pizza rankings.Here’s my take (sorry so long): I personally think attempting to rank pizza is almost absurd for a number of reasons. Basically, trying to make finite distinctions between different pizzas is a very subjective and often inaccurate process....Blogger: Frank Pepe's 'Overrated, Overhyped, Awful'
The blog Food Network Humor reacts to Alan Richman's pizza list in GQ, focusing on No. 12 Frank Pepe's: Here’s the thing: I live in Connecticut. I’ve waited in the lines. I’ve feasted on the various “world famous” pizza pies. And I’ve left disappointed, every time. Sure the place is filled with history, and yes, they cook in a coal oven, but so what? The result is a tired, dated restaurant and pizzas that are so chewy you can hardly swallow them. The truth is, Pepe’s serves the worst pizza I have ever eaten in my life (and I’ve...Alan Richman Names Top 25 Pizzas in the U.S.
Chicago Upstart Great Lake Has Country's Best Pizza Alan Richman (left) and Lucali proprietor-pizzaiolo Mark Iacono (right) hold a copy of the June 2009 issue of "GQ" in front of Iacono's Lucali (the No. 2 pizza in the U.S.) at press event celebrating the story's May 19 publication. The issue contains Richman's "American Pie," a list of the top 25 pizzerias in the country. In the June issue of GQ, food writer extraordinaire Alan Richman ranks the top 25 pizzas in the U.S. after visiting what he considers the top 10 pizza cities in the country. The story is much...Gridskipper's Map of Best L.A. Pizza
The blog Gridskipper gives its take on the best pizza in Los Angeles: Pizza Buona, Casa Bianca, Vito's Pizza, Mozza, Lamonica's, Mulberry, and Nicky D's. What say you, pizza freaks?...Slice vs. Vice: Stone-Coal WRONG
Best-of lists are opinions, and opinions are like assholes—everybody's got one. Am I right? But there's opinion and then there's fact. Sometimes folks come down with some wack stuff that mixes opinion and so-called fact, getting us all to the point where we don't know what to believe. That's when Slice pulls out the truth hammer and gives someone a knock on the skull with it. Witness Vice magazine's statement about Lee's Tavern from that pizza list we mentioned yesterday: "Their coal-oven pizzas surpass the vaunted Lombardi’s and just about every other place we’ve tried." Let's break it down....Best Pizza in San Francisco, According to Michael Bauer
Michael Bauer, food critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, recently named his six favorite pizzerias in the Bay Area. Bauer has been writing a weekly blog post about San Francisco pizza for nearly a year now, usually with accompanying videos, and I guess he feels he has surveyed the field thoroughly enough to weigh in with a definitive list. Or maybe he's finally sick of pizza. There are some surprising names on the list, along with a few sure-to-be-controversial omissions. The omissions are sure to bring out a hornet's nest of protesters. They include Chicago-style Zachary's, the most popular...'USA Today' Pizza Roundup
The previous post about Ed Levine's top pizza picks drew some emailed and IMed responses that the choices were mostly all coastal and that there were no Chicago joints on it whatsoever. Well, here's a list that ran earlier this month in USA Today. In it, Jeff Ruby, coauthor of Everybody Loves Pizza (along with Penny Pollack), gives the paper his and Ms. Pollack's top spots: Metro Pizza [four locations, Las Vegas NV; metropizza.com] "The pizza menu at this gourmet oasis in the desert reads like a map of regional flavors. With grilled shrimp on the New Orleans, barbecued chicken...Slice is part of the Foodblog Ad Network. To advertise on this site or across a network of food-related weblogs, click here.
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