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Yelp's Best Pizza Place In America Isn't ln NYC Or Chicago

I haven't tried this one. But if they're cooking at 786F/420C, then that's a massive improvement on the relatively cool ovens used by most American pizzerias. A hotter oven necessarily means a thinner crust, which necessarily means fermented dough, which makes it closer to Neapolitan. There are scores of pizzerias which carry the torch for authentic pizza. Just google "VPN." If you're lucky, there's one nearby. It's one of a handful of things I'm going to miss from the mainland. I'll build a brick oven and make it myself. There's no substitute.

Naming Neapolican pizza an "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" is the best thing the UN has done in awhile.
 
Connecticut has a proposal to name pizza as the state food. Pepe's in New Haven is considered by many to be the best in the USAand two other highly rated pizza restaurants are on the same street.
 
I have found Yelp's lists to be horrible. So, I am quite doubtful about which pizza place is the best in the US.

A few of the pizza shown on the list look just gross. The chicago one looked like semi-raw dough and undercooked cheese. And I like chicago deep dish - I am heating up a Geno's East frozen deep dish pizza as we speak.
 
ScoopKona said:
I haven't tried this one. But if they're cooking at 786F/420C, then that's a massive improvement on the relatively cool ovens used by most American pizzerias. A hotter oven necessarily means a thinner crust, which necessarily means fermented dough, which makes it closer to Neapolitan. There are scores of pizzerias which carry the torch for authentic pizza. Just google "VPN." If you're lucky, there's one nearby. It's one of a handful of things I'm going to miss from the mainland. I'll build a brick oven and make it myself. There's no substitute.

Naming Neapolican pizza an "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" is the best thing the UN has done in awhile.
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Based on you post I sent my sister info on this place in Falls Church, VA, which is a member of VPN. She went there tonight and said it was great. I had never heard of the group before and will have to search for members in our travels. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

www.pizzeriaorso.com

Pizzeria Orso

About Pizzeria Orso The team behind 2941 Restaurant opened their sister restaurant, Pizzeria Orso in June 2010. The 117-seat restaurant specializes in traditional Neapolitan pizzas, and traditional Italian and Mediterranean influenced comfort foods.
www.pizzeriaorso.com
 
BingoBangoBongo said:
Based on you post I sent my sister info on this place in Falls Church, VA, which is a member of VPN. She went there tonight and said it was great. I had never heard of the group before and will have to search for members in our travels. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
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Glad to help.

The difference between actual Neapolitan pizza and Pizza Hut is like the difference between actual maple syrup and "Mrs. Butterworth's." Or the difference between real and fake olive oil.

Does that mean Mrs. Butterworth sucks? No. But it isn't actual maple syrup, either. (Fake olive oil sucks, though. And it enriches terrorists and the mafia.)

Does Chicago Deep Dish suck? Absolutely not. I think it's great. I'd gladly sit down to a Milly's or a Pizano's. But it isn't pizza. If they just called it "Chicago Deep Dish" it would be famous in its own right as a regional specialty which can be found nowhere else.
 
BingoBangoBongo said:
www.pizzeriaorso.com

Pizzeria Orso

About Pizzeria Orso The team behind 2941 Restaurant opened their sister restaurant, Pizzeria Orso in June 2010. The 117-seat restaurant specializes in traditional Neapolitan pizzas, and traditional Italian and Mediterranean influenced comfort foods.
www.pizzeriaorso.com
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I just looked at their menu. The Orso pizza with five kinds of cheese, garlic and prosciutto is only $17. That's much better than having to buy a plane ticket to get a pizza fix.

I imagine there will be people who say, "I can get THREE Little Caesar's pizzas for less!"
 
ScoopKona said:
I just looked at their menu. The Orso pizza with five kinds of cheese, garlic and prosciutto is only $17. That's much better than having to buy a plane ticket to get a pizza fix.

I imagine there will be people who say, "I can get THREE Little Caesar's pizzas for less!"
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Im planning on visiting that area in April and will definitely try it out.
 
joestein said:
I have found Yelp's lists to be horrible. So, I am quite doubtful about which pizza place is the best in the US.
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I concur. Yelps lists are fairly useless... mostly hole-in-the-wall places.
OTOH... I like the moveable map feature.
I use it to gather some names and look 'em up on TripAdvisor.
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BingoBangoBongo said:
Im planning on visiting that area in April and will definitely try it out.
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I've been to a bunch of VPNs and I've never had anything that wasn't outstanding -- but it's STILL not Naples. But that's OK. At least they're in the same ballpark.

Spending a year as a child in Italy was both a blessing and a curse. I'm glad I did it. Nothing but happy memories of Italy. But I came home to a food wasteland of Wonder bread and Chef Boyardee. It's only recently that the food landscape has improved to the point where I can go nearly anywhere and source decent ingredients to make a meal.
 
Just in time. Will be visiting Central California in a couple of weeks and will see if we can fit in Flour House!
 
Here you go: Tony's Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco. Rated #2 in US in 2022, behind Una Pizza Napoletana in New York.

Tony's was #1 in 2021.

I'll vouch for Tony's, having had it many times. Nothing quite like it, and he does many different styles, all well. Was the first (maybe only?) American to win the pizza making contest in Naples Italy a few decades ago. Champion pizza dough spinner too.

The guy behind Una Pizza Napoletana came out to San Francisco some years back. I went there too, very good, but not up to Tony's quality or diversity of pies, IMO. He left and went back to NY some years ago.

Here's an article on Tony's with some good photos and a video clip of him rolling the dough. There's a link to the ratings site within this article also:

www.sfgate.com

Where SF’s greatest pizza chef grabs a slice in the Bay Area

When the chef isn't slinging dough at his restaurant, he ventures to his favorite...
www.sfgate.com www.sfgate.com
 
vikingsholm said:
Here you go: Tony's Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco. Rated #2 in US in 2022, behind Una Pizza Napoletana in New York.

Tony's was #1 in 2021.
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Tony won the world pizza championship in Naples so many times they asked him to stop competing to give others a chance. Anyone can go there and try it -- the Margherita pizza on his menu. You'll know it's the one because they make some ridiculously low number of them per day. I'd like to say 75? Something like that.

Is it identical to Naples? No. Nothing is. But it's close enough that it beats buying airfare if all you want is world-class pizza.
 
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