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[Brett911]

Not from Chicago, but have been to Uno, Due, and Giordano's. All good, though after got ill one night after eating Uno's Clam and Garlic pizza.

That would get me sick too. NYers aren't that adventerous with their pizza. Cheese, meatball, pepperoni, suasage, peppers and onions is about as crazy I ever got growing up back east. I never saw such inventive pizza till I move to Calif. CPK was an eye-opener for me.

[TheCourtJester]

Best pizza I had ws in Rome this summer. Interestingly enough....It wasn't the big pizza place that we ate at first...that stuff tasted like GARBAGE.

It was some litle hole-in-the-wall pizza place I stopped at 'cuz I was needing a snack... Best pizza I've ever had in my LIFE.

Best pizza here in FOLSOM, IMO, is Folsom Family Pizza. Pizzaria Classico is quite good also, but far more expensive.

Strangely, the bbest ice cream I've ever had was also in Rome. Their Gellato ice cream is to DIE FOR. Seriously, ice cream here just isn't the same for me.

[Chad Vander Veen]

I agree. I had real Italian Gellato in Rome...it is much better than our ice cream. I thought pizza in Europe sucked though. I had it in at least 7 countries. The worst was in Amesterdam when they put a fried egg on top for no apparent reason. Pizza is American anyway, it ain't from Italy, at least the way we know it.

I think Pizzeria Classico is some of the best pizza I've had. Folsom Family Pizza? They're cheap and all but not very good. With pizza you really get what you pay for...even the frozen kind at the store.

[CataBird]

I agree with CV!

The pizza that we know and love is definitely an American creation! I spent a couple years in England, and you had to be REAL careful where you went and how you ordered your pizza. Then again, the English are not known for being great cooks! It was amazing how easy it was for them to totally screw up a perfectly good recipe! Like putting everything but the kitchen sink on their Combination pizzas--even fish-heads! YUK!!!

Oddly enough, though I consider IDR pizza (where IDR means I don't remember the name, but it's where you "gather 'round the good stuff") to be terrible on this side of the Atlantic, the chains in England made pretty good pizza--if you were carefull! We just stuck to safe Pepperoni.

Here, my current faves--in ranking order--are Round Table Pizza, Papa Murphy's Pizza, and Domino's Pizza. Though, when I lived in San Francisco, there was this tiny little Italian family restaurant in my neighborhood (Outer Richmond District), located on Clement Street at either 24th or 25th Avenue. I lived on 26th Avenue near Clement, and sometimes had to pass by this place after getting off the bus from work. Without fail, everytime I passed by their open door and I smelled the pure heavenly aroma wafting out as they cooked their yummy sauces and other dishes, I insisted upon going to Ernesto's Family Italian restaurant for dinner!

They were a very successful business, even though they were only open for dinner. The whole neighborhood knew about them, and more often than not, you had to wait in a long line streaming out their door to get a table--they did not take reservations. It was all first-come-first-serve. Sure, you signed in when you arrived, but then you had to wait. I tell you, waiting was TORTURE because you could see the patrons eating the delicious food and SMELL the cooking, but they only had about 12 tables. You just got hungrier and hungrier as you waited. The owners were very understanding though. They would bring out complimentary glasses of wine out to all the adults.

Dang! I'm getting hungry just thinking about it!

Well, I'm off to eat something for dinner before heading out to the Republican HQ Grand Opening.

[cybertrano]

i just love italian foods, but wait ...... i love foods.

[Cloud9]

As I recall my pizza experience in Italy - it consisted of dough, tomato sauce and a strip of cheese so thin you could barely see or taste it..... definitely not at the top of my list....

Here's some of the best according to JD Powers....

http://www.pizzatoda...hot_slice.shtml

[TheCourtJester]

As I recall my pizza experience in Italy - it consisted of dough, tomato sauce and a strip of cheese so thin you could barely see or taste it..... definitely not at the top of my list....

Here's some of the best according to JD Powers....

http://www.pizzatoda...hot_slice.shtml

Chances are that means you hit a tourist pizza place then. ALL the places in the heavy-tourist areas were/are crap! It's the same with the ice-cream, pizza, AND the spaghetti (even though it's not a native Italian food...they ust turned it into what we "know" nowadays). It was like they cooked the spaghetti IN the suace (which was usually about the quality of the canned junk you get here) and it just made it taste AWEFUL.

The easiest way to tell if it's a good restaurant or not is to see if the LOCAL people are even eating there. Most of them won't touch the restaurants that are all snazzed up, because they're snazzed up just to catch the attention of the gullible tourists...

[Cloud9]

I lived in Europe for 4yrs.... no matter how many times/places I went to Italy or anywhere else, the pizza was awful....

[cybertrano]

well because you did not try the mafia-pizza in Sicily.....

I lived in Europe for 4yrs.... no matter how many times/places I went to Italy or anywhere else, the pizza was awful....

[Cloud9]

Does it come riddled with bullets?

[Erika]

The worst was in Amesterdam when they put a fried egg on top for no apparent reason.

I haven't had any great pizza here. My husband raved about the pizza in Italy and had mentioned he had to be careful not to order the fried egg thing. He was on business and received some assistance with that. I wish there was a really good pizza place here. Papa Murphy's with the garlic sauce and pepperoni is my fave.

[intelkid]

There was a pizza place I found in Chicago once when I visited there. It was a dive restaurant but packed, so I figured to give it a shot... it was pretty tasty!

[Cloud9]

East coast pizza is far superior.....

[cybertrano]

i agree with that........ due to the large population of italians.


......... i still remember those fast food restaurants in Massachusetts, called Papa Gino, serve quickie italian dishes.....

[Cloud9]

Food is one of the few things we miss about NY...

Manhattan alone has over 10,000 restaurants in its 24 square miles...

Pizza, bagels, chinese, indian, greek, and so many other ethnic varieties....