Alright, hit me with whatever pizza pie joint you got! And the first person to say Pizza Hut, Dominos or Pappa Johns gets red carded.
Este ( I had it downtown) was good, but I still think you have to consider Stone Ground, and Settebello. Pie is a very messy pizza
^Truth. Yeah, it's messy and greasy and you have to eat it with a fork until it cools down a bit. But the bottom line is that it's ********ING AWESOME.
Sicilia Pizza and Stoneground are tied for my number one. The Pie is legendary, sure, but it's way to greasy and cheesy. However, if I'm at an event like the Twilight Concert Series and Stoneground and The Pie both have booths, I'd go with The Pie because they keep their pizzas hotter and fresher-tasting with their little heat-table thing. The original Big Apple at around 30th and 30th is very good, but we went to the one on 7th East and 70th-something after a game once and the service was atrocious (food was still good, although they completley screwed up my friend's Calzone—didn't seem to know how to make it.) Este is quite good too. The service tends to be a bit uneven, and for all the blustery "no forks" BS, it's not entirely authentic New York-style pizza (which doesn't affect the actual quality of the pizza, it just undermines the anti-elite elitist attitude). My girlfriend and I prefer Big Apple's garlic knots, too, but we may be alone on that, as Este's have become legendary. Settebello indeed has the most authentic European/Nepalese pizza around. The atmosphere there kind of sucks, though. That new Vinto place makes pretty good oval-shaped personal-size pizzas that are also somewhat in that vein. My friend swears by Rusted Sun, and I like their pizzas too. When I worked in Farmington, I used to eat at a place in Centerville named Zeponie that had a sign outside that said "The Best Pizza in Utah, PERIOD!" I don't know that I'd go that far, but it was the best I found in Davis County. They had a really great lunch special deal, too. And then I like Big Daddy's for a deal—$5 takeout special and it's actually pretty good (although it's better when it hasn't been sitting for hours). Considering the price you have to pay for a decent oven pizza, it's nothing to sneeze at. Wow—I think I spend way too much time with pizza.
Big Apple on 33rd. Navole's makes a nice white pie, but I think they have either shut down or moved (again). BTW, I am a fan of New York-style pizza. It's not easy because Salt Lake is mostly a Chicago-style town.
I didn't realize Gepetto's was still around. They used to have a location up by the U. It's been years since I ate there.
As long as you are having brunch at Fiddler's Elbow, on a Sunday next door absolutely! Otherwise - well then I should not have posted
The best used to be Grizzly Bear Pizza in Ogden but that hasn't been around for years. Now I'd say Brick Oven in Provo or Tony's in Ogden.
I have to throw my full support behind Settebello... I go there whenever I'm feeling nostalgic and want to remember how tasty life in Italy was.
I've never even heard of Grizzly Bear Pizza... Where exactly was it located? Tony's is pretty good. Their other items besides pizza are really good (i.e. meatball sandwich, salad with WAY too much vinegar dressingbut still really good).
Since I'm married to an Italian and lived in the land of pasta and pomodori for a number of years (much longer than some "wet-behind-the-ears" missionary), I can say as an expert that the best pizza in Utah is........wait for it........Pizza Hut followed by Papa John's. I hate the flat and flimsy excuse for pizza crust that Italian pizza has and in all the time that I lived in Italia, I only found one place in the whole of Italia where I lived, from the north to the south to the islands of Sardegna and Sicilia, that made pizza "come si deve" and that was on the island of Sardegna. All the rest was some variation of the flat, flimsy napolitano pizza crust that falls apart when you eat it and that missionaries swoon over as "authentic" pizza. Even my sainted straight-off-the-boat Italian wife likes Pizza Hut pizza which says a lot since she can't stand as in "will-not-under-any-circumstances-be-caught-dead-in" Olive Garden or any other so-called Italian restaurant, no matter who is the proprietor. Ergo, if the mods want to red card for stating the truth, then so be it. Give me Pizza Hut pepperoni pizza or give me death! (Um, pepperoni pizza. That brings up a humorous story about pepperoni pizza in Italy.......)
You made me laugh with your complete paradoxical and contradictory comments. I deem you worthy of a reprieve. No red card, this time. Seriously, coming from the northeast and all, I am pretty depressed with the pizza I have had so far here in Utah. But Pizza Hut in Italy is still worse than most normal Utah pizza. Pizza Hut and Pappa John's, really?
I've never really chimed in on the best pizza debate. I don't even know what style I prefer, and I almost always go plain pepperoni. NYPD Pizza (PC and Draper) is really really good.
For me it's The Pie. If you leave a pizza joint without sauce on your shirt, it wasn't very good. Rusted sun, it's been a while, but very good. Shallow Shaft (Alta) used to be the best, end of story, but I haven't been there since they changed ownership.
