Let the Pizza Wars of 2010 begin!!
Actually, I prefer a thinner crust but every now & then I do enjoy the 50 lb. Chicago deep dish delicacy!

Had to go into Brooklyn yesterday for my daughter's softball game which took place about 2 miles from L&B Spumoni Gardens.

Guess I don't have to tell you where she and I went for pizza after the game! ..........




...... I ordered a half sheet ( 12 sicilian slices ). We ate 4 of them there and took the rest home.

Breakfast was delicious this morning!

You're KILLING me Cardi. What train takes you from Manhattan to there?

Used to be that you could take either the the B Line or the N Line. But they changed many of the routes after 9/11. So I'm not 100% sure.

Too much sauce, not enough cheese. What am I missing here?

Don't knock it until you try it. Ironically I love a lot of cheese on my pizza. But this has a one of a kind taste. Many pizza places now make and sell what they label L&B "STYLE" Pizza.

A couple of years ago Molto Mario did a show where he went to several different Pizza places to rate them. L&B Spumoni Gardens was one of them. While he was watching the guy make the Sicilian pie, Mario commented that there was not enough cheese, too much sauce, and said that he did not think that this was going to be a good pizza. Turned out that after he tasted it, he loved it and eventually rated the Spumoni Gardens sicilian pizza the top out of all the pizza places that he went to and reviewed for that show!

Hey, it has to mean something when the place has lines out the door with people ordering whole pies one after another as well as not being able to get a seat inside and in cold weather seeing people sit outside eating the famous spumoni gardens / L&B Sicilian Pizza!

I can't begin to tell you how much business they did there on Saturday afternoon while I was there. Pies were flying out the door and the outside seats were at capacity, cold and damp weather and all.

So is this a deep dish NY style?

Sicilian pie is the thickest, then deep-dish/pan pizza, then real pizza

"I see", said the blind man. You mean "real pizza" like this.

No, like this

More bread please... and more cheese too.

If I wanted more bread I'd just get a loaf and dip it in the sauce like Sonny

That pizza would be good if it wasn't for all that nasty fungus on it.

God, I'm licking the screen!

I hate most toppings. I just want my pizza plain, but my family LOVES mushroom pizza. But that crust looks good, especially for a Jersey pie.

I'll let that slide since I'm always jabbing as well!

So now I know what I'm gonna eat tonight -- gonna stop at the place that specializes in really thin pizza.

That last mushroom on the bottom of that pizza looks like a little penis.

I'm one for globs of cheese on my pizza too. The only topping I usually order is extra cheese. But that Spumoni Gardens pizza is to die for. I could buy 2 of them and it every day for weeks.

Okay, so I didn't quite get what I was craving for from Picasso's. I'd only been there like twice before and finally checked out their "thin crust" pie (as opposed to regular thin crust). They also make Chicago-style and Sicilian, including "Grandma's Tomato Pie" that DC might like but I probably wouldn't -- it's about halfway down the photos page.

Anyway, I ordered the thin crust white pie (mozz, ricotta, garlic) with spinach -- this thin crust was really thin, almost like matza. lol But not too thin, so I had no problem with that. The problem I had was assuming that a spinach topping would be fresh spinach and not previously frozen grass clippings.

I think I'll stick to my usual places, whose pizzas are thin enough.



Who you been dating??

Geoff, if you love thin and crispy pizza then you MUST try Denino's Pizza! An outstanding Bar Pie!




Denino's Pizzeria Tavern
524 Port Richmond Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10302-1721





Oh, and right across the street it the ORIGINAL RALPH'S ICES.

At least that pizza didn't have that nasty fungus on it.

Sauseege his own.

LOVE extra cheese. That's the best part of making your own pie, you control the cheese!

Extra cheese yea baby and stuffed crust.

-Or-
Whatever trips your trigger.

I like extra cheese, too. But to be honest, having been to Italy more than once (like many of our board members), I don't ever recall seeing a pizza with excessive cheese. I think gobs and gobs of cheese is an American indulgence. Neither of my grandmothers even used mozzarella on pizza. Just a sprinkling of good grated cheese right before the pies came out of the oven.

I'll never forget when my husband (against my advice) ordered sausage pizza in Rome. It came with what looked like a whole hot dog plopped in the middle. I like the personal pies we had in Sicily the best (big surprise, I know), and they're all made in a brick oven. There's one made with artichoke that is out of this world.

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Maybe one of the best pizzas ive ever eatten.

Okay New Yorkers, attack!

http://local.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=23943252&GT1=24000

Obviously written by some numbskull from North Dakota .

But seriously, while all of those towns/cities make a great pie in their own right (especially Chicago), New York City pizza is the most similar to what you'd find in Rome. There's no debating that fact.

Thin crust, fresh tomatoes, just the right amount of fresh mozzarella, and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Maybe a sprinkle of fresh shredded basil. Perfetto.

Homemade Pizza