Best Pizza at Disney World

[Scooter]

There is no good pizza outside of the NY metro area. :

Except for Chicago where we have great Pizza from places like:
Lou Malnati's
Giordano's
Aurilio's
Home Run Inn
Gino's East.

I once had a friend from Iowa who thought Pizza Hut made the worlds best Pizza.:ROFLOL:

 

[mary219]

For me, the best pizza experience (sorry, no "best pizza" unless you goto Chicago) is from the Spoodle pizza window on the Boardwalk. Great way to kill an afternoon.

My son got a small pepperoni pizza from spoodles(as an appetizer on the ddp)and he loved it.I tasted a bite and it was good.He can't wait to go back to eat at spoodles and have the pizza again.

 

[mary219]

There is no good pizza outside of the NY metro area. It would be so cool if Boardwalk would have good NY-style pizza, since it's supposed to be based on Atlantic City, and other NJ shore resort areas, all of which have GREAT NY-style pizza. But maybe that would not appeal to the rest of the world. :sigh:

You are going to start a pizza war with that statement!:lol:
Although,i must agree.I have yet to have pizza outside of NYC that can really be called a pizza!:lookaroun.Sorry chicago!

 

[ThinkTink721]

Pizza Planet at Disney Studios :slurp:

 

[mary219]

Except for Chicago where we have great Pizza from places like:
Lou Malnati's
Giordano's
Aurilio's
Home Run Inn
Gino's East.

I once had a friend from Iowa who thought Pizza Hut made the worlds best Pizza.:ROFLOL:

My kids fight with us all the time,because they want pizza hut or dominos.They tell my husband they had it at a friends house and it is so much better than the pizza we order.My husband would never ever order or pick up a pizza from a chain restaurant.Me,i am a wimp,i would order it for them.

 

[dox]

It's sad how food and dining all over WDW has improved a great deal since the 80s. But the one exception is the pizza.
However, at least the pizza in the parks isn't as bad as the pizza delivery you get over at the Port Orleans resorts. That stuff is truly awful.

 

[KingStefan]

Except for Chicago where we have great Pizza from places like:
Lou Malnati's
Giordano's
Aurilio's
Home Run Inn
Gino's East.

I once had a friend from Iowa who thought Pizza Hut made the worlds best Pizza.:ROFLOL:

I was waiting for someone from Chicago to speak up! :wave::lol:

I know, I know, people from Chicago are very proud of their style of pizza. And I've had it a few times, although I'm sure that what I had was not the best, at places like Pizzaria Uno. I'm sure the pizza at the places you mention above is really good and much better than the Pizzaria Uno pizza. And I like Chicago-style pizza once in a while for a change.

But it's still Chicago-style pizza (isn't it? - to be honest, I don't know! Is there NY-style pizza available in Chicago?). And it's different from the NY-style pizza. When someone from this part of the country says "pizza", he usually doesn't mean to include Chicago-style pizza. As good as it is, to us it doesn't really "count".

So from my standpoint, a bit south of Ocean City, NJ, a bit west of the Philadelphia area (where ironically it's not called pizza at all, but "tomato pie":lol, a bit north of Rockland and Westchester counties, and a bit east of the middle of Connecticut (not counting Long Island - pizza there is ok), what they call "pizza" morphs into something entirely different!

It was so funny, a guy I used to work with in NW FL visited NYC a few years back, and saw a sign over a bar he was in that pizza was available to order at the bar from the restaurant next door. So he ordered a pizza and the bartender asked what size he wanted, and he was really hungry, so he ordered a large! A large pie in NW FL is generally like 12", maybe a bit bigger, depending on where you go exactly, and generally has pretty thin crust. Well, this pie was about 24" across with normal "NY-style" crust, which is enough to feed 3-4 people! He couldn't believe it! You have to picture him telling this story with a NW FL (read south Alabama) accent! :ROFLOL:

 

[KingStefan]

You are going to start a pizza war with that statement!:lol:
...

(I thought of that as I wrote it - but then I thought - OK, let's see if someone from Chicago speaks up:lol

 

[ImaYoyo]

On-property: The Coffee Chicken Flatbread at Jiko. Sort of a pizza.
Off property: Pizza Xtreme... AMAZING NY pizza. pizzaxtreme.com I think. WOW... I'm willing to bet the owners are from NY.

 

[Scooter]

(I thought of that as I wrote it - but then I thought - OK, let's see if someone from Chicago speaks up:lol

Well you certainly didn't expect us Chicago Pizza Fans to just sit here quietly and not say anything did you?

Actually, I'm not a fan of Chicago STYLE pizza. I prefer a thinner crust. That being said, I'm sure I would enjoy New York STYLE pizza.

We have both types here in the Chicago area and we have some pretty darn good pizza joints. I'm talking about flavor and texture, not about thinness or thickness.

Those tasteless, doughy, nasty pizzas with faux soybean sausage pellets sold on Disney property, wouldn't even be concidered to be pizza where I live. It would be an insult to serve anything like that to anyone here.

 

[mary219]

what about pita bread with canned sauce and mozzarela?How does that become a pizza?LOL

 

[palmage]

Ah, someone else who feels my pain. Not just at WDW, but anywhere. I try to explain the concept of a thin crust that is not crisp like a cracker, but wonderfully chewy, and I get odd stares. and tomato sauce that tastes like - surprise surprise, tomatoes not catsup.

Growing up in NE New Jersey has spoiled me for all other pizza.

-dave

If only you could have NY Style pizza without the New Yorkers


Just kidding.........about the pizza........Chicago is the best!!!

 

[baz212]

Except for Chicago where we have great Pizza from places like:
Lou Malnati's
Giordano's
Aurilio's
Home Run Inn
Gino's East.

I once had a friend from Iowa who thought Pizza Hut made the worlds best Pizza.:ROFLOL:

You forgot Pizzeria Uno and Due. That's the original Chicago style pizza. Don't go to the one by Downtown Disney. It's not the same. The sauce must be on the top.

 

[tkldisney]

We like Wolf Gang Puck express in DD Marketplace!

 

[ConstanceIrene]

There is no good pizza outside of the NY metro area. It would be so cool if Boardwalk would have good NY-style pizza, since it's supposed to be based on Atlantic City, and other NJ shore resort areas, all of which have GREAT NY-style pizza. But maybe that would not appeal to the rest of the world. :sigh:

Don't expect the pizza at the Spoodles window to be like home. It's fresh and it's palatable, but it's not NY pizza. I wonder if people outside the NY area know that we have arguments about whether "regular" or "Sicilian" is better.

They used to make a calzone that was pretty good and my husband did OK with the meatball hero, but they took them off the menu

 

[KingStefan]

... I wonder if people outside the NY area know that we have arguments about whether "regular" or "Sicilian" is better.
...

Oh, that's so funny! I was thinking of that! I'm a "regular" guy myself, but I like "Sicilian" for a change. The "regular" is really "Napolitan". But neither style was invented in Italy at all, but by NY Italian immigrants from those areas!

I'm on the fence about so-called "gourmet" pizzas. Buffalo chicken topping with no tomato sauce, white pie, etc. Still NY-style dough, but not classic NY-style pizza. These, too, I like for a change.

 

[ImaYoyo]

We like Wolf Gang Puck express in DD Marketplace!

They have great breakfast pizza!

 

[PoohsGang]

There is no such thing at Disney that even resembles good pizza. (Even bad Pizza for that matter) I usually bring a pair of my old workboots and ketchup, as that is pretty close to Disney Pizza. (That way I save some dough.....:ROFLOL: Get it?)

Regina Pizza , Bostons North End is what I consider Pizza.

A couple years back after eating WHAT THEY CALL PIZZA at Pop Century, I posted peoples take on Disney Pizza either here or another board and it generated about 14 pages of responses. Pizza is quite a sticky subject......

 

[KingStefan]

There is no such thing at Disney that even resembles good pizza. (Even bad Pizza for that matter) ...

Even though I'm a big NY pizza fan, and I agree that nothing at Disney that I've been able to find resembles that, the stuff they call pizza is generally not all that bad in a pinch.

You know what they say about the similarity between pizza and s__: when it's good, it's really quite an experience, and when it's bad ... well, it's still pretty good!:lol:

 

[Horizons1]

The pizza at Trail's End in Fort Wilderness, the best in "The World".