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| - Coming from Detroit, I look forward to going back each year to visit the family AND to savor the awesomeness of an authentic Loui's deep dish pizza. For the record, an authentic Detroit deep dish pizza, rooted in Buddy's out of Hamtramck, is THE BAR to which all great Detroit pizzas aspire.Nothing like Chicago deep dish AT ALL!
Buddy's sold to outside investors anxious to sell franchises, but Loui, a Frenchman who CREATED the ACTUAL recipe for Buddy's, wanted no part of the expansion and instead opted for HIS OWN place in a city adjacent to Detroit, Hazel Park. Loui's is a full service restaurant in a working class neighborhood that I'll visit twice in 4 days! On rare occasion, I MIGHT hit up Buddy's if Loui's is closed, but NEVER AGAIN. on a 10-10 scale, Loui's is a 15, Buddy's a 7 at best.
Now to Jet's.... My brothers told me that often times they'll pick up or order in from Jet's if they lack the time for their #1 choice - Loui's - and told me it was pretty darn close to Loui's and really good. Naturally I had to try it, and was delighted to find one in Phoenix. A drag there isn't a location closer to me in North Phoenix but worth the drive once or twice a month for my Detroit fix.
The ticket is to ask them to cook it 3/4. Take it home and preheat your oven at between 350-400 degrees with a cookie sheet AND a piece of foil in the oven while it is heating. Remove and put your pizza ( I recommend the 4 corner to you can enjoy the best part in every piece) on the foil and place in that hot oven for about 15 minutes and you have got some awesome pizza! I always opt for light sauce as I prefer it NOT drenched in tomato sauce.
So how does the pizza rate and stack up against Loui's? Let me frame it this way; it's not Loui's, but it's pretty darn close and certainly WAY better than Buddy's, so I'd give it an 8.5, maybe a 9! In any case, it is the best we have here in the Valley, HANDS DOWN, unless you are fixated on thin crust pizza. :)
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