The best pizzas in every state, plus the ten best pizza states in America. What could be better!
The following written content by David Landsel.
I spent a good deal of 2007 hanging around Detroit, back before the world became fully aware of what exactly had happened to the city. That was the year I first went to the original location of Buddy’s Pizza, historically known as Buddy’s Rendezvous, at the corner of Conant and McNichols. Then and now, it’s an address fairly far off the beaten path, way up in the northeast part of town.
There are so many to choose from, but Buddy’s is inarguably Detroit’s most iconic pizzeria; since the early days, it has expanded to become a regional chain, but this bunker-like pile, distinguished from nearly everything else around it by showing signs of life, remains its spiritual home.
Buddy’s goes back, way back, to Prohibition times, when Gus Guerra, an immigrant from the tiny Republic of San Marino, ran the place as a blind pig, or speakeasy. Eventually he enlisted his wife, Anna, who borrowed her Sicilian mother’s recipes, and began to make pizza, cooking them in the sturdy metal trays used to store parts at the automobile plants. By the late 1940s, Detroit was on to Guerra’s curious square pies, with their crispy edges and generous amounts of sauce ladled on top, cut into hearty, satisfying squares. Read more from Food & Wine.
The 10 Best Pizza States in America
1. New Jersey
Before the world turned upside down, it had been established that some of the best pizza in the country was being made in Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan. First there was Razza, over at Grove Street, one of those sit-down places you planned an evening around, a brilliant showcase for Matawan-born Dan Richer’s expert-level pizza-making capabilities, but also for the exceptional, often underrated bounty of the Garden State, from heirloom tomatoes, to buffalo mozzarella, to—yes, locally grown— hazelnuts.
Read more about the list from Food & Wine.
