If you are in the Brooklyn area, there is a relatively new place that you must try. I love pizza and this place shot to the top of the list for our household. Check out La Rose on Smith Street in Boerum Hill/Cobble Hill. They are a Detroit style, which I may not have necessarily gone for. But, 2 weeks ago my wife took my kids and texted me on my way home from work that I had to stop in (it was National Pizza Day, if I needed an excuse) and have a slice. I had two and loved every drop. We loved it so much that we added it to our Super Bowl menu. Crispy thick crust with burnt cheese at the edges, great sauce, a great mix of a few different cheeses that melts great. These are masterpieces.
Now a question. I don't really check out Barstool Sport, but I watch the pizza reviews. How do I get a recommendation for a review to them?
I think from the app (one bite) you can request them to go to specific places. I think they get thousands of requests.
Speaking of pizza reviews. My buddy from high school, Johnny Mong (Johnny Mongillo) who I grew up with and he spent 20 years as a pizza cook at Sally's in New Haven opened a place called Mangia in North Haven, CT and he got Portnoy to do a review. it's funny. good score too.
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I will forever die on the Dilorenzos in Robbinsville NJ hill.
I have started to feel the same. A couple of NJ places I used to go to, he rated Ralph's in Nutley over Star Tavern in Orange. Im sorry, but Star is not only far superior to Ralph's but also is exactly the kind of pizza Dave claimed to have liked.
You see Dave's score and the community score, kind of like rotten tomatoes or IMDB for movie reviews.
Dave has a specific style he likes. thin, crispy crust, new haven style is his favorite.
I do tend to align with most of his high scores, since that's my favorite too, but not all the time.
Even New Haven though, somtimes places are inconsistent. I went to Pepe's a couple months ago - the original on Wooster street and it was awful. So who knows how the place was when he went, he doesn't always let them know he's coming and who makes the pie sometimes matters.
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to a pizza place in my town that is really very mediocre. It is a place you take the u10 soccer team to and then GTFO. I don't have confidence in his reviews now. My daughter also worked as a waitress there one summer and did not like the way the food was prepared.
I have started to feel the same. A couple of NJ places I used to go to, he rated Ralph's in Nutley over Star Tavern in Orange. Im sorry, but Star is not only far superior to Ralph's but also is exactly the kind of pizza Dave claimed to have liked.
Shout out to Artie's in Maplewood. Also, the Grandma pie at Sabatino's in Maplewood is also great(especially if you get the meatball topping! yum!)
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I have started to feel the same. A couple of NJ places I used to go to, he rated Ralph's in Nutley over Star Tavern in Orange. Im sorry, but Star is not only far superior to Ralph's but also is exactly the kind of pizza Dave claimed to have liked.
I used to go to Star Tavern as a kid with my parents in the late '70s. It was smoky & dark; there was an old 1950s bowling pin game in the corner where you slid this heavy chrome puck down the long table. The waiter for years was a skinny old guy who always wore a collared shirt with a pocket protector to guard against pen marks, and their meatball & garlic pie was the best I've ever had.
I was back in NJ @10 years ago and I had to get back to Star Tavern for some pizza. The place was nothing like it used to be, however. It was more of a generic sports bar with "Welcome to the World Famous Star Tavern" signs up on the walls. I went with a four-cheese pizza, and it turned out one of the four was cheddar.
Needless to say, I wish I hadn't made the pilgrimage back there.
Shout out to Artie's in Maplewood. Also, the Grandma pie at Sabatino's in Maplewood is also great(especially if you get the meatball topping! yum!)
Is the Roman Gourmet still there? They went a little heavy on the oregano, but still very good, crispy crust.
I will forever die on the Dilorenzos in Robbinsville NJ hill.
oghwga - if you are going to choose a hill, that's a great one.
I will forever die on the Dilorenzos in Robbinsville NJ hill.
The mercer county trifecta of DiLorenzos, Papa's and Conte's is up there with New Haven. Growing up I didn't realize how spoiled I was.
The whole vibe of that place is epic.
Never heard of Papa's though, will have to look that up.
I am also not a plain cheese guy, but I like that he does the same type everywhere, so the ratings are the same. Never been to New Haven so I have to make a trip one day.
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I have started to feel the same. A couple of NJ places I used to go to, he rated Ralph's in Nutley over Star Tavern in Orange. Im sorry, but Star is not only far superior to Ralph's but also is exactly the kind of pizza Dave claimed to have liked.
I used to go to Star Tavern as a kid with my parents in the late '70s. It was smoky & dark; there was an old 1950s bowling pin game in the corner where you slid this heavy chrome puck down the long table. The waiter for years was a skinny old guy who always wore a collared shirt with a pocket protector to guard against pen marks, and their meatball & garlic pie was the best I've ever had.
I was back in NJ @10 years ago and I had to get back to Star Tavern for some pizza. The place was nothing like it used to be, however. It was more of a generic sports bar with "Welcome to the World Famous Star Tavern" signs up on the walls. I went with a four-cheese pizza, and it turned out one of the four was cheddar.
Needless to say, I wish I hadn't made the pilgrimage back there.
That sounds like a disppointing trip to say the least.
Although ordering Quattro Formaggio at Star was your first mistake. Lol.
My point was not that Star was the graleatest of all time, but its better than Ralphs in Nutlet.