The wife and I recently embarked upon a quest to find our perfect pizza in Las Vegas.
I'm Australian and the wife grew up in Michigan and neither of us are fans of the two most prominent styles of pizza available in town - New York Style and Chigaco style.
I posted a thread on the discussion forums here detailing my preferences when it comes to pizza and a few people suggested Metro pizza and their "metro crust" as possibly satisfying our needs so we decided to give it a try.
The restaurant seemed very pleasant, but we decided on take-out. I ordered a large "Gotham" minus the mushrooms and my wife, ironically, ordered a plain cheese with mushrooms. Both were metro style and we were very encouraged watching our nice puffy looking pizzas come out of the oven.
When we got home we discovered that Metro Pizza is getting close to what we are looking for, but still isn't quite on the money. The real strength of metro is the superior quality of the toppings. They are absolutely delicious.
The crust is also tasty, but I sort of wished it wasn't quite so thick on the outside and wasn't quite so thin in the middle - perhaps a uniform thickness throughout.... Like many pizza places around town, the pizzas are a bit wet for my tastes and slices tend to point straight down to the ground when you pick one up rather than exhibiting any sort of backbone. This is a shame because the crust has a pleasantly chewy texture that I enjoy. If they could somehow cut the wetness about the interior of the pizza this would be a real winner.
Overall Metro Pizza is probably going to satisfy the majority of pizza fans in Vegas, particularly those with tastes less exacting than my own. It wasn't quite the crust we were looking for, but the quality of the toppings makes for a delicious taste that will surely call us back for repeat visits - at least until we find the holy grail of Vegas pizza.