Give up, good pizza doesn't exist on the west coast.

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True, you have to go to Phoenix, AZ. Peter Bianco.

False, you have to be in or around NY City and the guy making it has to be right off the boat from Italy with a wood brick oven.

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Whoops, got the name wrong, it's Chris Bianco, not Peter. He is an Italian boy from the Bronx . . . he's got the oven too, and he makes the pies, but he also has a James Beard award.

New York Times agreed in 2004

Food & Wine, 2005, 2008 and 2009

2005 book "Slice of Heaven" by Ed Levine picks C. Bianco as the best in the nation.

I saw a segment on the Food Network and there was also an article in Gourmet magazine (my aunt subscribes ) on Bianco's. I guess the point is that it would take a NY Italian to bring good pizza to the West.

Frank Pepe's and Sally's are the two big ones on Wooster St. and it seems that the camps are well divided. My wife is from the New Haven area and her family is firmly in the Pepe's camp. How dare I even suggest we try Sally's sometime!

I will sneak down and order a pie for myself from Sally's someday just to try it.

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I've been to the Pepe's in Manchester and it is pretty good. I don't know how it stacks up against the Wooster st. location though, heard great things about both.

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I've had it too and it is pretty good (I'm right in Wethersfield so it's a quick trip to Buckland Hills for me). But it is different somehow. I think it might have something to do with the 3/4 century of "seasoning" the wood in that Wooster St. brick oven has provided. Even The Spot, which is part of Pepe's and located right next door, isn't the same. Good, just different.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

They're both good. Figures all you kids on the coast can't keep the peace on pizza

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Yea. Im going to go to cornmeal instead of flour. Not only because of this problem but it actually has abetter texture and taste to me.

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1992 SEL 600..... 143,000 miles

No kidding!

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)