Lawn Guylander who finds herself stuck in Boston seeks help getting Italian and Chinese food in Boston of the sort that can only be found in New York because the water's different or something (oh, wait, that's bagels).
And one other thing: "I need some advice from other New Yorkers ONLY."
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Somebody on the linked site...
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 2:59am
...beat me to it, but it bears repeating:
GO BACK TO NEW YORK.
I was on the train up to
By anon
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 8:58am
I was on the train up to Lechmere this weekend and a rider was talking about someone visiting from NYC and complaining about how much worse our trains are. I think he summed it up quite well when he said: "The LAST things Boston needs is another New York rivalry."
People from New York always
By ShadyMilkMan
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 8:44am
People from New York always forget that NY is much more crowded then Boston. Therefor people can have specialty shops that sell ziti on pizza (carb overload???) because there are more people around. Yes they can also have more 24 hour delis because once again their are more people per square foot and a higher demand.
actually boston is one of the most compact cities
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 12:50pm
and it is regarded as a great walking city so it totally makes sense to have these kind of places. As far as 24 hours availability that is very limited here do to crazy politics here. For some reason this city has something against places being open late eateries or not. You can't even get a 24 hour gorcery store around here! Try finding one or try finding a place to eat late at night, Your screwed. But that's a whole other topic. Why things close up so early in boston. That will be her next compaint. I can see it coming.
Poor thing
By Proper Bostonian
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 9:53am
I feel sorry for her, because it's not easy to find things that taste like NYC around here because so few of our restaurants have stooped to that. She's in real trouble, being homesick for the weird tastes one only finds elsewhere. Too bad she doesn't simply want to enjoy the taste of GOOD FOOD.
Boston food: Italian "A"; Chinese "C+"
By david_yamada
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 9:56am
Boston beats NYC for Italian food. I'll take the North End over Little Italy any day, for atmosphere, variety, and taste.
But as for Chinese food, not so great. Transport your typical Manhattan neighborhood Empire Szechuan-type eat in/delivery place to Boston and it would instantly become one of the very best Chinese restaurants in town.
It's ok to prefer the comfort food you were raised on
By mediaseth
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 10:26am
I don't understand why people get mad at NY'ers for preferring the comfort food they grew up on. If a Bostonian moved to NY, they might miss comfort foods the way they're prepared up here, and they might even display a little attitude when the chowder doesn't taste right or the pizza isn't Greek.
So what?
I've been a full time resident in New England for thirteen years, and before the stupid gluten-sensitive thing I've developed, I used to miss NY pizza and bagels like the rest of them, but you can't change the locals to suit your taste. I would simply visit my friends and relatives to get my fix now and then. It's only a four hour drive!! Well, to me it's not a long drive, but I heard I'm strange like that..:)
But anyway, for bagels, try Katz's in Chelsea. They are the closest to the real thing. Brookline doesn't even play in the same league as Katz's. You'll walk out with a dozen in a brown paper bag and maybe a couple of black-and-white cookies, just like home.
OK, OK, you have a point
By adamg
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 10:51am
It took me a long time to get over the fact that you couldn't get decent meat knishes in the Boston area, at least not after Bagels, Bagels, Bagels and More in Framingham closed, because apparently people here think banana-yellow dough lozenges with about 1/1000th of an ounce of meat-like substance inside qualify as "knishes." Not that I'm kvetching or anything.
S&S in Inman Sq
By mediaseth
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 11:06am
It's been a while, but at least the last time I went and braved the brunch line, the potato knishes at the S&S were ok. I never had meat ones.
Dammit, now I'm hungry
By adamg
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 1:20pm
It's a good thing the S&S is so far away from us (not to mention that cruise liner, the S.S. Mein Kind), or I'd eat there way too often for my own good.
Yeah, it's not the potato knishes that are bad around here; just the meat ones.
Greek Pizza?
By anon-a-mouse
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 10:54am
I've lived in MA my whole life and I have never liked that crap. Most people I know hate it.
Katz is closest to the real
By Matt Frank
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 11:59am
Katz is closest to the real thing because it is the real thing. They set up shop when Chelsea was still a Jewish enclave and have been churning out bagels ever since. They even have a cream cheese with locks, although I have never brought up the courage to try it. They have the craziest hours, I've been in there at 1am on a Friday night and had to stand in line.
chowder
By issacg
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 1:15pm
for the record, the chowder doesn't taste right because you cannot have tomatoes in it and call it chowder.
and if you have to put the words "new england" in front of it, well, you can't expect it to taste good.
If you read her original
By anon
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 10:43am
If you read her original post, this seems to be less of a New York City vs. Boston issue. She is from Long Island, and Huntington (which she mentions in her post) is about 35 miles from Manhattan. Seems to me that she is looking for local variations on food, made the way she had it growing up.
Of course, you know who lives on Long Island
By adamg
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 10:49am
People who moved out from the City!
Long Island migration
By issacg
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 1:30pm
Adam, I think that was true until the 50s, but most long islanders I know (and that is a very great many, including most of my family) were born and raised there, and most of their parents were, too. As a matter of fact, I am one of a very few who got the hell out asap, moved up here to much greener pastures and never, ever wants to go back. It was my grandparents generation (born early 1905-20) that moved out from the lower east side, to queens and then on to long island (for those of you wondering, yes, queens is geologically part of long island, as is brooklyn, but everyone in new york just glosses over that).
anyway, it's not unlike the south boston to quincy to stoughton (or some such town) progression south of Boston, or north end/east boston to saugus to peabody movement on the north side of town. Hence, all of those yellow (and I think very interesting) "originally from dorchester" stickers on the south shore. I do have doubts about how many of those people actually are though. Some of them look a little too cohasset.
My family just went in the other direction, mostly
By mediaseth
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 1:40pm
We first moved out of Riverdale (Bronx for those not in the know) to Mt Kisco (no - not rich, it was an apartment building there also) and then after another move further upstate my father tired of the Metro North and we landed in NJ, just about 20 miles from the City.
The funny thing is that Long Islanders seem to think they're closer to the city than anyone who lives in NJ, even people in Hoboken or Jersey City who have the PATH trains (a subway) :)
Here's a dumb question with no answer - Why is it that NJ diners are so much cheaper than Long Island ones?
Ok - I'll stop dumping on LI. It's nice in places, which is about all one can say for NJ, too.
Sure there's an answer
By Jay Levitt
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 4:27pm
It's not just the diners. Even the people who aren't eating are cheap!
Thankyougoodnight.
Pioneers.
By Jay Levitt
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 2:43pm
Issac, your grandparents must be early settlers! I'm from Hauppauge, about 20 minutes east of Huntington, and my neighborhoods were all settled in the '50s and '60s. IIRC, in the 1940s Hauppauge was still using its original one-room schoolhouse (though they'd built others).
By the late 1960s, we'd built a new high school, repurposed it as a middle school, and built another ginormous high school right next to it. You could tell every department got their wish list fulfilled; we had a fully-stocked auto shop, metal shop, wood shops, chem labs, giant stage with giant auditorium (the LI Philharmonic plays there), two smaller black-box theatres, indoor swimming pool, indoor archery room, two gyms, a wrestling room, a weight room... pretty incredible stuff for a public school system. And computer labs, which was no small feat in the 1970s.
At its peak, I think there were 2500 students there. Now there are 400.
And yeah, you won't find LI-style pizza anywhere here, though there was a great place on Main St. in Waltham that had terrific eggplant parmigiana subs.
early settlers, indeed!
By issacg
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 3:41pm
again, small world. I am very familiar with your old neighborhood, as i spent my formative years right on the other side of Jericho Turnpike. but as I said in my reply to yamada, my folks came from just over the queens line in nassau and then moved out when my sibilings and I were in the picture. Ah, suburban sprawl at its finest!
I had a good laugh at the 20 minutes thing...nowadays, I think you could only make it from Hauppauge to Huntington in 20 minutes if it was the middle of the night! its probably the biggest reason why I don't see the family so much anymore. I just cannot take the congestion.
Lawn Guyland Pizza
By david_yamada
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 3:12pm
Some of the best thin crust pizza I've ever had came from a place called Eddie's, somewhere within spitting distance of Manhasset I believe. One of my law school pals would invite me to hop on the LIRR and then we'd proceed over to Eddie's and gorge on these incredible thin crust pies...it gets me hungry just thinking about it.
Eddie's Pizza!
By issacg
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 3:35pm
small world, it is.
Eddie's pizza is on hillside avenue in new hyde park. it is the town in which my folks grew up in. it is arguably long island's most redeeming feature (although, I think the south shore beaches still have it beat in that regard).
I have never had anything like Eddies before. Not here, not in NYC, not in SF, Rome, Naples, Milan - nowhere. Frankly, I cannot even adequately describe it in words, but it is truly magnificent and it is not just because of the crust.
so you, too, know
By david_yamada
Mon, 10/12/2009 - 4:59pm
It's the kind of pizza you get the crave for . . . like nowhere else, I agree.
the truth from someone from ny (upstate)
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 10:20am
Let me enlighten everyone here about this whole pizza/bagel/chinese food issue and ny v.s. boston food. I am not from form nyc but i spent most of my life in some part of upstate ny and spent time in nyc. I can definitely shed some some light on this food issue because I have pretty much gone through the same thing this girl has and i have been dissapointed and frustrated in the same things she has for the 4 years or so I've been in Boston.
First of all Bostonians- what is with all the hostility with people here telling her to "go back to ny" etc. I also could never understand the general hostility towards new yorkers her just because of the Yankees/Red Sox basball rivalry. It's so immature to hate a whole city and its people just over a baseball team! There are plenty of great things about ny and its people! Open up your minds.
Anyway about the food-
First the bagels and pizza. Yes it is very hard to find good pizza and bagels here. They both suck here big time. Now in all fairness ny is the pizza and bagel capital of the world (among other things) but it shouldnt be that hard to find at least some places that have them. The problem I've found is that most people in boston don;t even KNOW what good pizza and bagels are, Its all what your used to. I only know of a few good pizza places in boston. One of the main problems I've noticed about the pizza places in Boston is that they are not runned or owned by italians. Alot of them are run by greeks and its completely different pizza. I have only been able to find a few really good pizza places and each place is in a different area of boston. Now you would think the place to go for great pizza in boston would be the north end and you would find plenty of great slices there because it is little italy. But there is actually only ONE place there that serves great slices and they close at like 2 pm or when they run out of pizza so its not very useful but their pizza (and prices) are awesome. Now you can find plenty of great italian restaurants in the north end if you want to sit down and have some great pasta and wine and you want to spend the $, but good luck simply finding a great slice there. Not to mention it is a royal pain to get to the N end (unless you live near there) there is no parking and N station is the closest T and its on the super sucky slow green line. A long way to go for a good slice of pizza! As far the water being different in ny I'm not sure about that but i remember a guy I knew who worked in a pizza place for a long time in buffalo telling me that the water makes the difference in the pizza there.
Now for the bagels- In nyc you can go anywhere and get a great bagel and that's because there are indepently run delis and bagel shops everywhere that put care into their food passed down form generations instead of a crappy chain called Dunkin Donuts everywhere and that is what you have here in Boston.
Thier bagels are horrible and so is everything else they sell there. Their coffee and donuts are surely terrible there and thats what they specialize in! Don't even get me started on their service. But what would you expect from a crapppy corporate chain that only cares about profit and spends all their money on marketing and not their products? Not to mention that are run buy an evil corporation that exploits its workers among other things (Bain Capital) but that's a whole other topic. It always amazed me that people here keep flocking to D&D's to get the crappy coffee and breakfast food they have. Well i guess because there aren't many better options when they are on every friggin corner! Funny how D'Ds is only this succesful in boston i guess people just have bad taste in food and coffee here or they are just easily brainwashed by the corporate marketing so they keep going there.
Now as for the chinese food she is right about that as well. I don't know why the chinese food sucks so bad here but it does! I have myself searched for decent chinese food here with little luck. Now I can understand the pizza/bagels being better in ny cause it's thier thing but chinese food? I don't get that its not like there aren't plenty of chinese people in boston because there are. So there are no excuses. I mean there is even an official chinatown here! This i could never understand and it remains a mystery to me. Lucky for me i have finally found a place that has good chinese food in my hood and its the only place i've found so far and I've tried many. I don't know I never would have thought that ny was also known for its great chinese food, but i'm pretty sure i've had good chinese food in other places.
Its funny the things you take for granted that you have until you go somewhere else. I guess you can get good shellfish here but that's if your into that.
Goodness
By adamg
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 10:40am
I can't imagine why Bostonians would be so hostile toward New Yorkers who move here and start ranting about how stupid and moronic they are just because they go to Dunkin' Donuts in the morning. And I can't fathom why, after hearing said New Yorkers repeat ad nauseum year after year about how much better "the City" is that they would have any reason to get grumpy when somebody asks them where they can get some "real" pizza/Chinese food/bagels/whatever, not like the crap that passes for food around here.
Srsly
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 11:00am
It isn't hostile to say "go to NYC" ... it will just save time. You can spend days seeking out what you want, or get there in four hours.
thats a long way to go for a slice of pizza
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 11:53am
or a bagel girl when you live in a city the size of boston with all its culture and eateries. There are ppl from all over the world here. Honestly you would think that the food would be better in boston being that there are so many so called great restaurants and chefs you always hear about that it prides itself on. I'll tell you one thing is that you will be sure to spend an arm and a leg in these fine restaurants! Also knowing how much people enjoy eating here and you have local shows like "phantom gourmet" and all kinds of awards and ratings dedicated to these eateries. But yet it's so hard to find a good slice/bagel or chinese food here. C'mon ppl its not like we are talkin about some weird/unusual food here this is stuff everyone eats. It just makes no sense.
Good slice/bagels/Chinese food cheap
By adamg
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 12:02pm
Pizza: DeNo's in West Roxbury or Pizzeria Regina in the North End.
Bagels: That place in Chelsea Matt mentioned (Katz?).
Chinese food: Golden House in Roslindale.
Hope that helps.
Pizza Wars
By david_yamada
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 1:39pm
Folks, it ain't Boston vs. New York.
It's the Chicagoland region vs. the rest of the world. Not just deep dish, but other varieties as well.
And if you're not into pizza, but in the same general gustatory mood, try the Windy City's incredible Italian Beef sandwiches (so good I had to capitalize) or Chicago-style hot dogs.
My digestive system has settled the issue for me....
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 1:48pm
...(along with other medical issues). Regardless of pure tastiness considerations, my system can now only cope with the most-thin crusted of pizzas. So New York pizza it must be.
Or North vs. South?
By FrancescaFordiani
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 7:03pm
I think that New York and Boston both had more Southern Italian immigrants, but I think that New York had more Northern Italian immigrants than Boston. The thin vs. thick crust thing could be due to the influence of Northern vs. Southern Italians.
I also just noticed that in my earlier post I referred to New York as "the city." Old habits die hard.
do they not have "enter" buttons
By anon-a-mouse
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 12:54pm
on computers in upstate NY? A carraige return now and then couldn't hurt.
As for Bostonians "not knowing" what good pizza is...that's just retarded.
First of all, I do know what good pizza is. There are a few places you can get it around here...but not many. And I know what a good bagel is, I've been to New York plenty of times. I know they suck here. I don't care. If it is such a big deal, open up a NY-style bagel shop or pizza place. Clearly there is a demand for it.
Do I really care about crap like bagels and pizza? No. Its junk food. who f-ing cares. If it is such a big concern in your life to find a place to properly carbo-load...go to NY.
And this has nothing to do with baseball. It has to do with constantly hearing from NYers about how much bagels and pzza suck here. Who cares?
New Haven is closer
By FrancescaFordiani
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 1:17pm
For Pepe's pizza.
To be fair, there's plenty of bad food in NYC, too, including pizza, bagels and Chinese food. I think NYC has more options that are good mostly because it has more options, period. The city is on a whole different scale.
That said, I really liked the food at Wong's Gourmet near Journal Square in Jersey City.
Closest I've found
By bph
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 6:15pm
The closest thing to a NY bagel I've found is Rosenfeld's in Newton Centre.
Dude
By Katia
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 11:17am
Commas and paragraphs, for Pete's sake.
Is the Boston/NY thing
By avjudge
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 11:49am
Is the Boston/NY thing really a result of baseball rivalry? I find that hard to believe - I think it's the other way around. And probably older than baseball.
oh it's totally a yankees/red sox thing
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 12:06pm
and i'm utterly sick of it. That's why every bar you go to around here has tv's with the sox playing and if they are not playing they are watching the yankees game and rooting for whatever team is playing them to beat them. Everything revolves around the red sox here. Try wearing any kind of yankees gear anywhere you go in boston and you will instantly become the center of attention and stared at. You might even get beat up. I've read in the news of guys getting jumped just for earing a yankees hat around here and i've seen fights about to start because of that too. That is just stupid. Its just a hat after all. I mean here is another exapmple I was on one of those booze cruises they have here once and at the end of the night out of no where a bunch of ppl just starting chanting "yankees suck" along with "a rod suck jeter" everyone just joined in like a cult and there wasn't even a game on that night! either team! I was like what the hell is wrong with these ppl?
Upstate...
By Jay Levitt
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 2:26pm
I think you'll find some bungalow colonies in the Berkshires. Make yourself at home.
upstate cities
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 2:41pm
No buddy i lived in cities in upstate ny where you can actually get good pizza and bagels.
It might not be NYC but you can't compare upstate NY to western MA for sure. These places actually have culture.
There are sizable cities there like Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Utica, etc..
Shows how much you know.
Rochester's a cute city
By adamg
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 2:48pm
Once you get past all the abandoned Kodak buildings.
The Strong Museum is a very nice place to spend a day, and Iroquois has a classic small-town Fourth of July parade - and a Friendly's where they actually serve you quickly, which would be something of a shock for people used to the glacial pace of Boston-area Friendly's.
Ahem
By Kaz
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 5:54pm
It's Irondequoit. And Rochester also has the Garbage Plate (half a plate of browned potatoes, half a plate of macaroni salad, 2 cheeseburger patties on top, covered with a Cincinnati-chili-esque "hot sauce", mustard, ketchup, tabasco, and onions). So there.
But seriously, upstate NY has more "culture" than anywhere in MA? Ha. Ha ha.
Having lived 4+ years in Rochester and about 10+ now in Boston, you are ass-backwards, rageagainst.
Ugh, sorry
By adamg
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 5:56pm
Yeah, you're right.
i was comparing upstate ny to western ma
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 6:06pm
eastern ma is another story and a fair comparison there would be comparing it to the nyc area.
No culture in western Massachusetts?
By Ron Newman
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 4:17pm
People at these institutions will be surprised to learn that they aren't culture: Tanglewood, Jacob's Pillow, Shakespeare & Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Berkshire Opera Company, Barrington Stage Company, Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Clark Art Institute, MassMoCA, Norman Rockwell Museum, Williams College, Amherst College, Smith College, Mt. Holyoke College, Hampshire College, UMass-Amherst, ...
i love it when people think culture is
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 4:30pm
museums and colleges. That is not culture those are institutions paid for by our tax $ or your tuition.
I would say culture is a mix of different people with different backgrounds, colors, ethnicities, customs, ideas, cuisines, etc that combine together in place to make it an interesting and unique place to live.
actually culture is often viewed as...
By bandit
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 4:54pm
appreciation for the arts, which includes a lot of those "paid for" museums, institutions, etc. one doesn't need to have a diverse ethnic mix to have culture, although it can certainly help.
you seem to be thinking of culture solely in terms of multiculturalism, which i think is shortsighted. western mass has a lot of culture.
Actually the reason is quite simple
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 2:25pm
Ny has better pizza and bagels because there is a high population of jews and italians that migrated there. Therefore making great bagels (jewish) and great pizza (italian) and established the standard there a long time ago.
Boston's immigrant population is mostly irish so you end up with crappy food (the irish are not known for their cuisine) but you do end up with plenty of pubs and lots of beer options.
So for bagels & pizza here you are stuck with crappy corporate chains, ( dunkin donuts, dominos) Or you get the immigrant who comes here and opens a shop here in Boston, and adds pizza as an after thought. Because he knows everyone likes pizza- especially college kids. But has no clue how to make it right. It goes good with beer.
As for the chinese food being so much better in ny I don't get it because there are lots of chinese people in boston. My guess is they haven't quite caught up with how to make it the way americans like to eat it as the chinese do in ny. I guess the chinese are just smarter in ny.
Not really familiar with Boston's immigrant history, are you?
By adamg
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 2:39pm
Or, for that matter, with independently owned pizza places around here. I've lived in Roslindale for 16 years now and not once have I ever felt the need to order from the Dominos on Washington Street.
I also see there are quite a few Dominos in New York City. Gawd!
Didn't we have a discussion here, not too long ago....
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 2:51pm
...about places in Boston (and environs) that served good thin crust pizza?
Thin-crust pizza
By adamg
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 2:55pm
Yep, in the discussion about whether Upper Crust is God's gift to humanity or a chain that should be burned to the ground.
One of our most useful discussions ever....
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:03pm
...for me, at least.
My wife and I went to Emma's as a result (and were pleased) and re-visited Pleasant Cafe for the first time in years -- and then went again with all kids in tow. And I invented a new (for me) pizza -- Canadian bacon, artichoke and jalapeno -- which everyone approved of.
;~}
upper crust sucks
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:05pm
The most overpriced and overated pizza in boston.
upper crust sucks
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:06pm
The most overpriced and overated pizza in boston.
Say it one more time...
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:10pm
... and we'll all know it MUST be true.
(Logic courtesy of Lewis Carroll)
Boston doesn't have Italians?
By Ron Newman
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 2:49pm
You're not looking very hard, or else you've never visited the North End, East Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Medford, Revere, etc.
Or even....
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 2:52pm
Roslindale.
;~}
roslindale this rosindale that
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:04pm
I keep hearing about roslindale in this site. Apparently roslindale is a great place and i need to check it out again. Seems to be a lot of fans here...
Fans?
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:05pm
Or just reasonably contented residents?
;~}
No, don't come here
By adamg
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:10pm
It won't meet your exacting standards and then you'll just come back here to complain about how much it sucks.
And plus
By bph
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 5:09pm
It ain't New York!
of course there are italians in boston
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:02pm
Just not as prevalant as in ny. I realize there are also jews in boston.
But still no good pizza or bagels...
of course there are italians in boston
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:02pm
Just not as prevalant as in ny. I realize there are also jews in boston.
But still no good pizza or bagels...
And just how many Boston area non-chain pizza places....
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:05pm
...have you been to?
many trust me
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:10pm
That's why i can speak on this. Been to many pizza places around here.
I would never eat chain pizza.
Didn't you hear man- Friends don't let friends eat chain pizza.
But some of us here have also had respectable New York pizza....
By Michael Kerpan
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:14pm
...in New York City, no less -- and yet do not find all Boston area pizza "bad".
it's not all bad
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:19pm
I do know of a few good places. A few. It's just really hard to find here. You would just think it wouldn't be that hard that's all.
It could be that our pizza
By Matt Frank
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:49pm
It could be that our pizza is different from New York style. If memory serves me correctly pizza was popularized in New York after WWII. While it was available prior to that across the US it was not as popular as it is today, it would seem like New York had a chance to get a head start on pizza and a chance to develop a style.
People have different tastes but in my opinion it is hard to travel around without finding some good pizza. I am a North Shore guy so my experience is more with that area. Most of these places are small places, non chain, one slice available at a time type places.
Revere:
*Bianchi's on Revere Beach, great roadside pizza
*Also some nice down town places
Chelsea:
*The Brown Jug has its own great twist on pizza
*John's Pizza is great as well, he is also very charitable
*Katz actually pulls double for you as they do an awesome Pizza bagel...
Everett:
*I remember a Nana's and a Mimi's but it has been a while but they were both good
East Boston:
*In addition to the multiple Italian places in Eastie they have Kelley's Pub which has a mean pizza (not to mention Santarpio's)
Medford:
*Some really good places scattered around the square
Lynn:
*Fauci's Pizza in Wyoma Square, I think its Greek but its good
Saugus:
*Angela's coal fired pizza, now your cooking with coal!
Salem:
*I went to Salem State and used to love the pizza at a small pizza place right outside of campus but it has since closed, it was a tiny place but very good.
Cambridge:
*Pinocchio's pizza is award winning
*Cambridge 1 has its own twist on pizza
Pre-war pizza in Boston
By adamg
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 3:58pm
Pizzeria Regina, which is owned by actual Italians, has been making pizza since 1926.
Bravo pizza -in allston(believe it or not)
By rageagainst
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 4:33pm
is great kind of a new place they have sicilian too which is very hard to find in boston. great guys over there. The owner is from ny. They are also open late.
for pizza on the cheap, italian-style
By anon-a-mouse
Tue, 10/13/2009 - 6:56pm
in Brighton, I'm a big fan of imperial.
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