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125 Pizzas Worth the Calories
As the pizza renaissance rolls on, great pizza is no longer as scarce as it was just five years ago when this blog started. It is a little disturbing to see chains moving into the Neapolitan pizza...
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Review: Mama Cozzi's Three Meat French Bread Pizza
As regular ALDI shoppers know, most of the house brands are good-to-great quality. Here at Pizza Quixote, we've sampled quite a few of the ALDI pizza options of the refrigerated and frozen...
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Review: Ghibellina, Washington DC
Our nation's capitol is blessed with a lot of first-rate pizza choices. Among the most acclaimed is Ghibellina, an Italian restaurant near Logan Circle with a focus on Tuscan fare. Our group of five...
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Review: Specially Selected Stone Baked Pizza - Spinach and Goat Cheese (ALDI)
Frozen pizza. It's a go-to fun meal or snack for anyone short on funds or time. Most of us grew up enjoying frozen pies, even with the knowledge that it generally falls well short of the experience at...
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The 16 Breakouts Pizzas of 2016
It is a wonderful dilemma that the ongoing pizza renaissance continues to yield more terrific pies than I have time or capacity to experience. Is certainly is fun trying, and 2016 turned out as yet...
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Review: Wm. Mulherin's Sons - Philadelphia, PA
Just 10 years ago, the Fishtown section of Philadelphia was a hardscrabble working class neighborhood. Today, it's a bustling hipster scene, akin to Brooklyn's Williamsburg or Red Hook, teeming with...
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Review: Pizzeria Vetri at Urban Outfitters, King of Prussia PA
Trained in Italy, Marc Vetri is a native Philadelphian at the head of a family of Italian restaurants and pizzerias. The list includes Vetri, Osteria, Amis, Alla Spina, Pizzeria Vetri and Lo Spiedo. At...
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Review: Revello's Pizza, Old Forge PA
After living in southeastern Pennsylvania for 30 years, I've finally made the 2.5 hour journey up the northeast extension of the PA Turnpike to try NEPA (northeastern PA) style pizza. Any such trek has...
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Review: Elio G's Pizza, Old Forge, PA
Pizza is wonderful food, from the cheapest store-brand frozen pie to the classic old-school pizzerias to the high-end and pricey Neapolitans and Roman al taglio places. If there is anything that can...
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Review: Arcaro & Genell, Old Forge PA
After years of reading about Old Forge style pizza, I made the 2.5 hour drive on a Saturday to discover "tray" pizza in Old Forge, just outside of Scranton PA.Main Street in Old Forge is lined with...
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Review: Pizza Perfect, Trucksville PA
After a Saturday afternoon trek through the tidy town of Old Forge PA to sample three different pizzas there, I made a stop at Pizza Perfect (in Trucksville, near Wilkes-Barre) on my way home.A cut of...
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Review: Pizzeria Beddia, Philadelphia PA
You've probably read a lot of hype about Pizzeria Beddia, the small and insanely popular pizza joint in the gentrifying section of Philly called Fishtown. From a hardscrabble blue collar neighborhood...
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Review: Emma's Pizza, Boston MA
Emma's Pizza had been a mainstay in Cambridge since its opening in 1962; toward the end of 2016, Emma's moved from that college town to a corner in Boston's South End. This new location has a couple of...
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Review: The Salty Pig, Boston MA
The universe of excellent pizza keeps expanding. In Boston, I've had the legendary pies at Regina, Emma's, and Santarpio's. I've had the world-class new pizza at Picco and Coppa, just one block apart...
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Review: Giuseppina’s Pizza, Brooklyn NY
Marc Iacono is the famously erratic chef behind the iconic celebrity-magnet pizzeria in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens neighborhood. I once attempted to get that pizza - so prized by Beyoncé and Jay-Z -...
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Review: Joe Squared, Baltimore MD
When you thinking of Baltimore food, first thoughts belong to Chesapeake crab. The crabs here, steamed and seasoned with Old Bay, are as good as it gets. While the other old cities of the east coast...
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Review: Tony's Place Tomato Pie, Philadelphia PA
Despite the many new and wonderful artisan pizza shops opening all over America, my heart is most warmed by the old-school pie slingers, where you can absorb the ambiance and the flavors of pizza the...
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Review: Pequod's Pizza, Chicago IL
A visit to Chicago helped me clarify the basic types of pizza that are lumped into the "deep dish" category. The basic deep dish style is a bowl-style crust, where the bottom and high sides are...
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Review: Pizano's, Chicago IL
Pizano's is a Chicago based mini-chain of 6 pizzerias offering both deep-dish and thin crust pie. Although the thin pie is their biggest seller, I came in to the downtown loop location on Madison...
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Review: Exchequer Restaurant and Pub, Chicago IL
Prior to a recent trip to Chicago, the only memorable deep-dish pizza I'd ever had was the wonderful pie at Louisa's Pizza & Pasta, about 10 miles south of Midway in Crestwood. Read the review HERE...
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