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Anthony’s Pizza and Pasta—Originator of the Great Denver Slice?
The Pizza Snob’s first trip to Denver in over 20 years would of course include as many pizza stops as humanly possible. Confined to the downtown vicinity, I had a stroke of luck finding a 2014 piece by Michael Goodwin on Thrillist titled “Your Guide to Eating NYC-Style Pizza in Denver.” Letting Mr. Goodwin narrow […]
Slim & Husky’s Pizza Beeria—New Design-Your-Own Place Opens in Nashville’s Germantown
The opening of Slim & Husky’s Pizza Beeria in the Buchanan section of Nashville’s Germantown district attracted a bit of buzz from the local on-line food blogs. While new restaurants happen in Music City faster than new country songs, the photos of this place looked slick, and folks were excited about its location in this […]
UPDATE: Sal’s Pizza in Brentwood, TN Makes Way for Florida Chain
Original Review: 11/12/12 PIZZA SNOB RATING **1/2 Not a Total Waste Sal’s Pizza in Brentwood tried the impossible task of resurrecting the sacred ground once occupied by Joey’s House of Pizza. Well, after somehow staying alive for several years, the site has recently given way to a small Florida chain called Westshore Pizza & […]
Westshore Pizza & Cheesesteaks—Florida Chain Moves to Sacred Ground in Brentwood, TN
The Pizza Snob recently caught some pizza news courtesy of the Nashville Scene weekly. Sal’s Pizza, holder of the sacred pizza ground once occupied by Joey’s House of Pizza in the Maryland Farms area of Nashville suburb, Brentwood, has closed and relinquished its space to Westshore Pizza & Cheesesteaks. Westshore is a Florida chain of […]
Nick’s Pizza—A Crispy Margherita on Manhattan’s Upper East Side
Heading back home to Music City through LaGuardia, I came upon the idea of looking for a pizza place on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Totally unfamiliar with this area, all I had were impressions of it being a wealthy part of town. Doing my advance work, I was on to something about it being close […]
Spirito’s Restaurant & Tavern in Elizabeth, NJ– Making Special Pizza Since 1932
Sometimes I think that I will need a second lifetime to visit all the legendary pizza places in Jersey. Not wanting to waste any time in this one, I took Dad for a Sunday afternoon journey to try one that I missed once before when I didn’t check to see that they don’t do lunch. […]
UPDATE: Joe’s Pizzeria—Bayonne, NJ Pizza Landmark Making a Move
Original Review: 08/14/13 PIZZA SNOB RATING ***** Sets the Standard Whenever I am back in my hometown of Bayonne, I feel obligated to cruise around town to check on the status of all the pizza joints. While heading down Broadway on this sunny winter Sunday afternoon, I pulled over on the corner of 46th Street […]
Brooklyn Boys—A Tomato Pie Delight in Jersey!
New pizza discovery is quite often relationally-based. Therefore, it was only a matter of time before the Snob began attacking the slices in my brother’s current residence of Edison, NJ. The namesake of the “Wizard of Menlo Park” who gave us both the light bulb and recorded music, this mostly-suburban north-central Jersey town, is the […]
Lucia Pizza—The King of Pizza in Queens?
To be a truly adventurous Pizza Snob, you need to take advantage of every opportunity to discover new pizza. Landing at New York La Guardia Airport for my current trip back home to Jersey, I looked to see what might be close by and chose the highly Yelp-rated Lucia Pizza just 3.2 miles away. Lucia […]
Bella Napoli Pizzeria—The Best Neapolitan in Nashville!
The original premise of this blog was to document my devotion to thin crisp New York-style pizza. Now, after several enjoyable experiences with the definitely-not-crisp Neapolitan style, the question needs to be asked: “Is the Pizza Snob softening up?” During the cold busy months of winter, I was working more than I liked, and had […]
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