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TripAdvisor's list of best pizza and best pizza cities.

No Philly, nowhere.

pizza in alaska? ok

In the past week, I've seen lists like this - the one built on TripAdvisor reviews, and the other based on Yelp reviews.

One of them had San Diego and Orlando in the top pizza cities. Either way, Yelp is noise, not information. TripAdvisor is indeed a good source to scout out where to eat (or stay) but hardly an indicator of top pizza cities.

Here's my view - kind of in order:

Top Tier:
New York
New Haven
San Francisco

Good Swing
Philly
Chicago

Honorable Mention
Boston
NOLA
Trenton (vicinity)
DC

By sheer volume of GREAT pizza, New York takes it by a large margin. Philly is closing the gap, though.

Marra's just ousted Francoluigi's as my favorite pizza in the new neighborhood (so far). Looking forward to trying Grace and Pat's next.

TomatoPie wrote:In the past week, I've seen lists like this - the one built on TripAdvisor reviews, and the other based on Yelp reviews.

One of them had San Diego and Orlando in the top pizza cities. Either way, Yelp is noise, not information. TripAdvisor is indeed a good source to scout out where to eat (or stay) but hardly an indicator of top pizza cities.

Here's my view - kind of in order:

Top Tier:
New York
New Haven
San Francisco

Good Swing
Philly
Chicago

Honorable Mention
Boston
NOLA
Trenton (vicinity)
DC

By sheer volume of GREAT pizza, New York takes it by a large margin. Philly is closing the gap, though.

One of the major factors TripAdvisor used in choosing great pizza cities was the quantity of reviews of pizza restaurants in proportion to those of other restaurants. So I think a few of those cities sneak on there just because the other dining options are a lot more meager than Philadelphia's. Doesn't explain San francisco, though, I guess.

I still find Yelp useful even though, as you say, there is a lot of nonsense on there. A critical reader, and I'm sure you're one, can cut through that though in most cases and get some solid information in making a choice.

swishnicholson wrote:
I still find Yelp useful even though, as you say, there is a lot of nonsense on there. A critical reader, and I'm sure you're one, can cut through that though in most cases and get some solid information in making a choice.

TripAdvisor seems to draw more 'experienced' diners and travlers.

I also preferred UrbanSpoon to yelp, because it drew a smaller crowd but more serious foodies. Now it has been eaten by Zomato, and the jury is still out. Most Zomato reviewers seem to be in India.

San Francisco has so much bad pizza.

& Philly has lots of good pizza but also huge swaths where all you can get is pizza from Greek people who don't know how to make pizza.

TomatoPie wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:
I still find Yelp useful even though, as you say, there is a lot of nonsense on there. A critical reader, and I'm sure you're one, can cut through that though in most cases and get some solid information in making a choice.

TripAdvisor seems to draw more 'experienced' diners and travlers.

I also preferred UrbanSpoon to yelp, because it drew a smaller crowd but more serious foodies. Now it has been eaten by Zomato, and the jury is still out. Most Zomato reviewers seem to be in India.

Oh, I agree, but Yelp is so much more active that you can't just discount it since sometimes it has the only substantial amount of reviews out there.

I chose Pizzeria Beddia totally at random for comparison, and TripAdvisor has two reviews posted. Yelp has 124.

swishnicholson wrote:

TomatoPie wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:
I still find Yelp useful even though, as you say, there is a lot of nonsense on there. A critical reader, and I'm sure you're one, can cut through that though in most cases and get some solid information in making a choice.

TripAdvisor seems to draw more 'experienced' diners and travlers.

I also preferred UrbanSpoon to yelp, because it drew a smaller crowd but more serious foodies. Now it has been eaten by Zomato, and the jury is still out. Most Zomato reviewers seem to be in India.

Oh, I agree, but Yelp is so much more active that you can't just discount it since sometimes it has the only substantial amount of reviews out there.

I chose Pizzeria Beddia totally at random for comparison, and TripAdvisor has two reviews posted. Yelp has 124.

I checked it out - the Yelp reviews on Beddia are surprisingly helpful. I may need to revisit.

Phoenix is a disaster when it comes to pizza. Philadelphia blows them out of the water.

The B1G Piece wrote:Phoenix is a disaster when it comes to pizza. Philadelphia blows them out of the water.

Philly sure has more quantity - but Phoenix has Pizzeria Bianco, its very own Beddia. And his brother opened Pane Bianco, where you can get the same pies without the wait.

didnt think pizzeria bianco was all that wonderful tbh.

that's bc you need your art spoonfed to you

slugsrbad wrote:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/65603/ev ... cious-pies

Heh, who knew the garbage style pizza I was eating in Grand Forks, ND had a name. Fuck you, St. Louis style pizza. Who cuts a round pie into squares?

SK790 wrote:Heh, who knew the garbage style pizza I was eating in Grand Forks, ND had a name. Fuck you, St. Louis style pizza. Who cuts a round pie into squares?

Huh, that's what I always think of as Pizza Hut style pizza. I see the company was founded in Wichita. I guess they didn't know any better, though that's not really an excuse.

RapiDough opening today in West Chester. Moved from Collegeville. Looks like a promising Neapolitan joint.

A&M Pizza in Palmyra was really bad. Super greasy and flavorless. Bad combo. They did toast the crust nice.

pacino wrote:A&M Pizza in Palmyra was really bad. Super greasy and flavorless. Bad combo. They did toast the crust nice.

Speaking of that area, has anyone eaten at the District Bistro in Riverton lately? It used to be District611 when it had a liquor license and a different co-owner. Those are gone, but it still has a tremendous wood-fired pizza oven and used to make great Neapolitan pizza...

Oh, never mind. see it just closed this month for failure to pay taxes.

new domino's opening in roxborough. can't wait!