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| - FINALLY found a NY style pizza place in Madison that is delicious. Thin chewy crust, good sauce, nice thick cheese and toppings, bends when you pick it up, and GASP, is cut into slices not squares. I give it a 4/5, and it will be the only pizza place I order from in Madison from now on. This is the first food review I have ever written so that should tell you something about my pizza mission here in Madison and that this place is very good.
I moved here just about a year ago from CT, and have been trying out various Italian places to find something that resembles the pizza I love back home. Never thought it would be so hard, but I guess good pizza is hard to find out here.
The first pizza place I tried, The Pizza Pit...I had never heard of it, and now I know why, WOW horrible....if you'd like to eat something that tastes like sauced cardboard, go here. I threw the leftovers out...never a good sign, I LOVE leftovers. I have no idea how they remain in business.
Second place I tried was Glass Nickel Pizza...I got a coupon in the mail, so there ya go. Pizza is decent but not NY style by any means. Crust is thicker and toppings are scarce.
Third place I tried after a friends recommendation was Cafe La Bellitalia. I ordered the thin crust wondering if thats what you had to order in Madison to get NY style pizza. Blech no, was the crunchy wafer like crust, ruined further by being cut into squares. Maybe their regular pizza is better.
Fourth place I tried cause I thought it might be interesting was Papa Murphy's Pizza. This pizza was actually very good. Its a take and bake thing, and the pizza is very tasty, high quality ingredients, really good sausage. However, not NY style. But was so far, the best pizza I had found. I ordered from here a few times.
Fifth place I tried was the Roman Candle. Pizza was pizza, nothing amazing, but good enough. Again a thicker crust and not the classic heavy topping NY style I was looking for.
Sixth place I tried was The Pizza Oven after purchasing a Living Social Deal. I was hopeful about this place as it got good reviews and has been around for a while. Pizza was pretty good, however once again major docked points for cutting the pizza into small squares, and having wafer like crust. Ugh.
Then I tried Pizza di Roma. WINNER, my search is over. I got sausage, pepperoni and mushroom 18". Price is whats expected, but for me the pizza seemed very large. My boyfriend and I had lots of leftovers. We both loved it and it took all the willpower in the world to not eat it for every meal the next day, only two out of the three, hehe.
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