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Best "NY Style" Pizza in Boston area?

3 posts · Dec 19, 1998 to Dec 22, 1998

Charles D.The Internet Access CompanyDec 19, 1998
 Someone wrote:
 >
 >So, who has the best "NY Style" pizza in the Boston metro area?
 >"NY Style" refers not just to a thin crust, but to a certain taste
 >(seasonings?) that no Dominos or Pizza Hut thin crust pizza ever
 >has.

 I don't know if it's NY Style, but the best pizza I've had in
 Boston was from Cafe Luna in Brookline on Rt. 9 between Legal
 Seafood and Star Market.

 Chuck Demas
 Needham, Mass.
Betsey B.DNRCDec 21, 1998
 Someone wrote:
 >
 > So, who has the best "NY Style" pizza in the Boston metro area?
 > "NY Style" refers not just to a thin crust, but to a certain taste
 > (seasonings?) that no Dominos or Pizza Hut thin crust pizza ever
 > has.
 >
 > On a related note:  I remember pizzarias in NY state that would slice
 > onions paper-thin, so that they crisped completely when the pizza
 > cooked.  Everywhere else, onions are just diced and mostly raw when
 > the pizza is served.  Browning (aka "carmelizing") them in advance
 > really isn't the same thing either.  Does any pizza joint in MA slice
 > them really thin?

 The best pizza I have encountered in the area actually comes from
 Paisan's Pizza in Melrose.  The onions are very thin and much like you
 describe.  Yum.

 It still isn't NY pizza, but it serves me adequately in between my trips
 to NY.
David C.The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA (ISP)Dec 22, 1998
 Someone wrote:
 >> So, who has the best "NY Style" pizza in the Boston metro area?

 Betsey B. wrote:
 >It still isn't NY pizza, but it serves me adequately in between my trips
 >to NY.

  With that caveat (corollary to the rule here that if it says "style"
 then you know it's not the real thing) I'd mention Hi-Fi Pizza
 in Central Square, Cambridge, and DiPasquale, in Medford Hillside
 (1/2 mile north, or east, of Powderhouse Square, and right next
 to a great concentration of good Italian bakeries.)
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