Best Pizza in SMC

Call me a pizza snob, I know I am, but I just can't get excited about any of the pizzas I've had here. Papa Johns is decent, but you take two bites of a slice and there's no more cheese. They don't add cheese to the crust edge. Mom and Pops is more convenient for me and is pretty good, but it definitely fails the morning-after test. I've only gotten slices from St. James, and they are pretty good too, so I've never done the morning-after test on them

The crust is what's lacking on most of these, they just don't compare to NY/NJ/PA baked in a real stone pizza oven, not these conveyor belt contraptions. The crust tastes different here and has a different texture, and the general theory is the difference in the water, just like bagels. I do know that in NY the pizza dough is in it's own separate sealed container brushed in olive oil while it rises, and here they put the dough, uncoated, in open bins to rise. Seems to make a difference when it's baked, the crust here just doesn't get crispy.

Anyway.... my 2 cents. Now I need to make a NY trip, got a hankerin' for pizza!
 

Crewdawg141

IYAMYAS!!!!!
Call me a pizza snob, I know I am, but I just can't get excited about any of the pizzas I've had here. Papa Johns is decent, but you take two bites of a slice and there's no more cheese. They don't add cheese to the crust edge. Mom and Pops is more convenient for me and is pretty good, but it definitely fails the morning-after test. I've only gotten slices from St. James, and they are pretty good too, so I've never done the morning-after test on them

The crust is what's lacking on most of these, they just don't compare to NY/NJ/PA baked in a real stone pizza oven, not these conveyor belt contraptions. The crust tastes different here and has a different texture, and the general theory is the difference in the water, just like bagels. I do know that in NY the pizza dough is in it's own separate sealed container brushed in olive oil while it rises, and here they put the dough, uncoated, in open bins to rise. Seems to make a difference when it's baked, the crust here just doesn't get crispy.

Anyway.... my 2 cents. Now I need to make a NY trip, got a hankerin' for pizza!

I think that in this area there is a lack of Ethnic Pride in the foods here. Heck, I have to drive to Baltimore to find pierogi that is not Mrs. T's (if they can be found at all). I have had pizza like your reference and there is something truly different and tastier about them.
 
John's Pizza?

:lol: I'll bet there's hundreds of John's Pizza in NY!

I have a few on eastern Long Island I like. There's one in Coram off Rt 112 that was rated 'the best' on LI. I have to try that one next trip up....
 

TPD

the poor dad
:lol: I'll bet there's hundreds of John's Pizza in NY!

I have a few on eastern Long Island I like. There's one in Coram off Rt 112 that was rated 'the best' on LI. I have to try that one next trip up....

This is the one I was talking about, probably the more famous of all of the John's Pizzas out there - John's Pizzeria West 44th Street, New York City.
 

TPD

the poor dad
Nice looking place! I'll have to remember that next time I'm in the city.
Thanx!

I was there last summer on the advice of an employee. Enjoyed it very much! The wait can be long to get in at times - 30+ minutes.... :buddies:
 

TGB

New Member
Nicolettis is blah..and I haven't stepped foot since 2004. I ordered our pizza and when I went to go get a drink A MOUSE ran from the cup holder into the napkin thinggy...eeewwww I walked out. Papa Johns ok(expensive), Ledos alright. Dominos and Pizzahut is not in my fast food restaurant list.
 
Now that I'm thinking of it, there's a new pizza place by Kohls. Maybe I'll stop by there tonight and try them.
 

RPMDAD

Well-Known Member
Mamma Lucias in Prince Frederick is pretty good we normally get their white pizza.
Used to be a place in Ches. Beach, think it was called Italia by the Bay, next door to Abners. They had a wood burning pizza oven, used to make a great white pizza.
 
Now that I'm thinking of it, there's a new pizza place by Kohls. Maybe I'll stop by there tonight and try them.

Like was said, meh. The crust is not a rising dough crust, more similar to a cracker crust but not as crispy, more like a flat bread. Not my style. Topping was ok, nothing special. Got some wings, could have been cooked a bit longer. Could have been crispier too, but it took me awhile to get home, so they might have 'steamed' a bit. Tasty, large.

Side note.... spilled the hot sauce on myself, soaked thru my shirt. I got the shirt off right away and washed, but my side is burning a bit.... :dope:
 
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