I am a fan of the Mellow Mushroom. Although I cannot eat it anymore, they have the best goddamn pizza and calzones of anywhere I have ever eaten. And they do it all for a reasonable price.
Have you eaten at Pizzeria Due? That pizza is of magnificently high quality. Same for Gino's.
So only two pizzerias make quality Chicago pizza?
No, they are just God Tier Chicago pizza. Giordano's is pretty good, Lou Malneti's same thing; they're quality. Gulliver's, quality. Aurelio's is shit. Connie's, shit. Art of Pizza, God Tier. I could continue.
The problem with listing good Chicago pizzerias is that once you grow fond of one, you're not apt to switch unless a trusted friend leads you to a better place. I grew up with the richly herbed sauce, thick cheese, and delicious sausage of Due, as well as its crispy cornbread cornmeal crust. I pretty much insist on eating Due when my friends and I split a pie, just like they insist on Malneti's, Gullivers, or Giordano's.
I just don't like a bready pizza. I am not saying anyone else is wrong in liking them, just that it is not to my taste. Though they are little less right than I am.
Cornbread belongs nowhere near my pizza. You can dust the pizza peel with cornmeal, but cornbread crust? Blasphemy!
I am a fan of the Mellow Mushroom. Although I cannot eat it anymore, they have the best goddamn pizza and calzones of anywhere I have ever eaten. And they do it all for a reasonable price.
I'm assuming this is a Southern chain? A small chain?
I am a fan of the Mellow Mushroom. Although I cannot eat it anymore, they have the best goddamn pizza and calzones of anywhere I have ever eaten. And they do it all for a reasonable price.
We recently went to the Feast of Saint Gabriel in Little Italy in Baltimore. The pizza at the street fair was only average, but the calzones were spectacular.
I am a fan of the Mellow Mushroom. Although I cannot eat it anymore, they have the best goddamn pizza and calzones of anywhere I have ever eaten. And they do it all for a reasonable price.
I'm assuming this is a Southern chain? A small chain?
North Carolina mountain hippies opened a pizza place. There are now several of them.
I feel kinda left out of this discussion -- never been to Chicago, and by the time I made it to New York, I was a vegan. But I think I get it -- back when I was in high school, I went skiing once in Big Bear, CA, and we went to this Italian restaurant that had the best pizza I'd ever had, by an order of magnitude. My immediate impression was that this was a real pizza, and every pizza I'd ever had was just a shadow of a pizza. It was like Plato's allegory of the cave, but for pizza.
Now, my girlfriend and I make a "pizza" from scratch every week. There's no cheese, but there's lots of fresh vegetables, including fresh tomatoes and basil from our garden. w00t!
I laugh in the face of that stereotype and false tear.
I hate calzones.
Yes, but you are self-admittedly fucked.
Yes, but I haven't reached an elderly state at which point I think that a good night's sleep and a good f*ck are mutually exclusive and if given the choice between the two would choose the former. ^_~
If you don't like calzones, I don't think I would agree with your opinion of a good fuck, so I'll just take my calzones, have a good night's sleep, and bid you a sarcastic good day, madam.
I just had one of those weird moments where you think "Oh, just grow up." and realize the average age of the people you're telling it to is more than twice yours. I suppose only some kinds of maturity come with age.
@HJ, You just made my night. ^_^ This thread is wonderfully silly!
Ah, ma petit fille, you just set dahn on dis heah faintin' couch while Joe, he go make you some etouffe and he den stuff it into one beaucoup large calzone, he. Ah, oui.
@HJ, You just made my night. ^_^ This thread is wonderfully silly!
Ah, ma petit fille, you just set dahn on dis heah faintin' couch while Joe, he go make you some etouffe and he den stuff it into one beaucoup large calzone, he. Ah, oui.
OK, you need to not do that. I had to read your post three times to figure it out.
Ah, ma petit fille, you just set dahn on dis heah faintin' couch while Joe, he go make you some etouffe and he den stuff it into one beaucoup large calzone, he. Ah, oui.
Is this the extent of Joe's French vocabulary? Or will he burst out into wicked French rhymes? Will Mrs. MacRoss ever sit down? Find out next time on: "AH! SHIT! CRAB!"
Is this the extent of Joe's French vocabulary? Or will he burst out into wicked French rhymes? Will Mrs. MacRoss ever sit down? Find out next time on: "AH! SHIT! CRAB!"
That isn't French it is highly stereotyped Creole. And what is this about me sitting down?
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The problem with listing good Chicago pizzerias is that once you grow fond of one, you're not apt to switch unless a trusted friend leads you to a better place. I grew up with the richly herbed sauce, thick cheese, and delicious sausage of Due, as well as its crispy cornbread cornmeal crust. I pretty much insist on eating Due when my friends and I split a pie, just like they insist on Malneti's, Gullivers, or Giordano's.
Though they are little less right than I am.
Now, my girlfriend and I make a "pizza" from scratch every week. There's no cheese, but there's lots of fresh vegetables, including fresh tomatoes and basil from our garden. w00t!
I wonder if there's a Cajun Rosetta Stone program?
The most average Cajun food > any NYC pizza ever made in the history of mankind.
Tomorrow I get keys to my new apartment, meaning I will be finally moving out of my mothers basement.
This thread is wonderfully silly!
EDIT: HJ, you are completely correct about Cajun food.
And what is this about me sitting down?