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Review: Pisa Lisa Pizzeria Autentico - Sedona, AZ
Sedona is a town of 10,000 people in the Verde Valley region of Arizona. It's long been a tourist destination for its spectacular sandstone red rock formations, where more than 60 Hollywood movies were...
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Review: Lou Malnati's Frozen Deep Dish Pizza
While there are many heated debates about the merits of Chicago style deep-dish pizza versus "New York" or other thin-crust varieties, I've found they are similar in some fundamental ways. They contain...
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Review: Caliente Pizza & Draft House - Pittsburgh, PA
Before a 2019 move to Austin Texas, I lived in Pennsylvania for more than 30 years. But it was always in a suburb near Philadelphia; other than one misdirected flight, I had never visited Pittsburgh in...
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Review: Joe's Pizza (Carmine St) - Manhattan, NYC
While there are several wonderful newcomers to the expansive list of New York City's best pizza places, the city remains full of legendary pizza joints like Totonno's, Lombardi's, John's, DeNino's,...
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Review: Papa's Tomato Pies - Robbinsville NJ
Trenton NJ is terra firma for the Trenton tomato pie, even though all the legendary tomato pie joints are closed or moved to the suburbs. Today, the two best survivors are DeLorenzo’s and Papa’s, now...
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Review: Zero Otto Nove (Update) - The Bronx, NY
I first visited Zero Otto Nove (Zero Otto Nove means 0-8-9, the area code of Chef Roberto's Italian home) in July 2008. It was near the very beginning of America's Pizza Renaissance in which Neapolitan...
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Review: Playland Pizza - San Antonio, Texas
Getting any meal in an area of high tourist activity can be a challenge - restaurants know that there is a big demand from customers who likely won't ever be back. That leads to high prices,...
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Review: Bola Frozen Pizza - Austin, TX
Frozen pizza. At the right moment, even the cheapest store-brand frozen pizza can be an indulgent treat. Rarely as good as fresh-from-the pizzeria, but still boasting that magical trio of dough,...
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Review: Hoboken Pie - Austin, TX
What is the best pizza near the University of Texas in Austin? There's plenty of choices, but most lean toward the "filling bellies of drunk college kids with cheap greasy pizza" approach. After a bit...
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Review: Federici's Pizza Restaurant - Freehold, NJ
Imagine a pizza restaurant that is cash-only with no delivery. How's that going to work, especially in the pandemic era? Well, it's been working out pretty well for the first 100 years at Bruce...
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Review: Massa Roman Square Pizza - Scotch Plains, NJ
Most Americans had access to only one style of pizza (round, thin, cut into triangle slices) before the breakout (roughly 20 years ago) of Neapolitan pizzaiolo stars at places like Pizzeria Bianco in...
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New Jersey Dominates 2021 Top Ten List
Here at Pizza Quixote, we do a wrap each January to highlight the best new discoveries of the previous calendar year. Keep in mind, these are not the "Ten Best Pizzas Ever!" but simply our ten best...
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Review: Tony C's Coal Fired Pizza - Bee Cave, TX
When I moved to a suburb west of Austin in 2019, I knew about the excellent pizzas available in or near downtown: Home Slice,Salvation, and (most of all) the spectacular Detroit style pies at Via...
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Review: Quincy Hall Pints & Pizza - Arlington VA
Ballston, an area in Arlington VA where 75% of the population is under 45, is a magnet for science and tech workers. It's a nice pocket free of the noise and congestion in nearby DC, and it has become...
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Review: 40 North - Austin, TX
When I arrived in Austin's Hill Country suburbs in 2019, I quickly discovered the surprisingly great pizzerias near me like Pizzeria Sorellina, Pieous, Casa Nostra, 'Zza, and Toss. I had already...
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Review: Serious Pie, Seattle WA
The Pacific Northwest. What things come to mind when you think about the region? Coffee, rain, grunge music, Keepin' Portland Weird, rain, the Space Needle, Dungeness crabs, rain, hazelnuts, salmon,...
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Review: Sunny Hill Pizza - Seattle
I grew up eating some excellent Sicilian style pizza in the 1970s, but now the few places still making that style typically make greasy pies featuring soft crusts that are overloaded with toppings from...
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Review: Lefty's Pizza Kitchen - Austin TX
Lakeway, Bee Cave, and Spicewood are suburban towns near Lake Travis* in the Texas Hill Country west of downtown Austin. Here you can find some decent Texas BBQ, plenty of Mexican restaurants, and a...
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Review: Baldinucci Pizza Romana - West Lake Hills TX
While there is no shortage of great pizza in the city of Austin at places like Home Slice, Salvation Pizza, and Via 313, its western suburbs (Lakeway, Bee Cave, Spicewood) have quickly become even more...
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Review: Harry's Pizza - Miami FL
Coconut Grove is a lush, green, upscale, and tranquil Miami neighborhood that has little in common with the garish excess of places like South Beach. Nestled along the shoreline of Biscayne Bay, this...
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