Pizza

New York Style Pizza in Tampa / St. Petersburg

I showed up in St. Pete the other night for some training and on Monday at lunch time I set out to find some good pizza in the area.  I am staying and working near the St. Pete airport.  I drove north on #19 then West to Clearwater.  Then I drove south along the beach and east on 686 back to the office. 

I saw two promising pizzerias that were closed-- it was Columbus Day!  Any good Italian-American restaurant is going to be closed on Columbus Day, right?  Maybe, maybe not.   Just a couple miles before reaching my office I spotted a sign across the way that said simply, "Pizzeria."

I crossed several lanes of traffic and did a U-Turn and walked up the steps to a pleasant surprise - La Pizza Mia Pizzeria.   I ordered the lunch special, 2 slices and a coke for under $5.   It was delicious.  The place was run by two Italian women who spoke Italian to one another. 

The slices were perfect!  Just what I wanted.  I didn't do the math, but I'm pretty sure this place ranked 95 on the Sliker Scale (no Sicilian that I saw.)

If you're in the neighborhood, be sure to stop by La Pizza Mia Pizzeria!

More notes on NY Pizza in Los Angeles

I was recently reviewing some comments on this blog as well as recent user-submitted entries at www.newyorkpizzafinder.com, and I found some of the following items of note:

  1. My original post about Pizza in L.A.

Best Pizza in SF Bay Area

On my last night in the Silicon Valley area, I decided to head up the east side of San Francisco Bay to visit Vito's Pizzeria located in Newark, California.  I have to say it was excellent!  I met the owner (Vito!) and after eating a couple slices I introduced myself.  I was happy to know he was familiar with the New York Pizza Blog and the New York Pizza Finder directory.   Once we got to talking he decided I NEEDED to try some bread sticks and home-made marinara sauce and they were muy delicioso.  I fin

Slices of Pizza in San Jose, CA

I was at a conference at the convention center in San Jose, and took out for a walk at lunch time.  The prior morning while getting exercise I had seen two places that sold pizza by the slice and I was anxious to give them a try.    The first stop was at Tony Soprano's Pizzeria on San Fernando Street, which was pretty good pizza and scored an 80 on the Sliker Scale

Next was

Eating Pizza in Silicon Valley

I arrived here in the Bay Area Saturday and had a few hours to kill, so I went to Palo Alto and drove around the campus of Stanford University-- very nice and MUCH bigger than I expected.  I then made my way down El Camino Real until I found Frankie, Johnny, & Luigi, Too located at 939 W.

Sbarro's Breakfast Pizza in ATL

I'm heading to out to Silicon Valley this weekend-- No, not to get venture funding for NewYorkPizzaFinder.net :-)   I found myself in Atlanta (ATL) airport needing some breakfast and wandered into the food court in B Concourse.   Sbarro's was doing a booming business so I wandered over there.  They had three breakfast pizzas available in additional to their normal slices.   I had a slice with egg, cheese, bacon, peppers, & onions and it wasn't bad.   My biggest complaint about Sbarro's generally is that they try to keep the pizzas warm and wh

New York Pizza Finder is Going Strong

I sent out an email last night to hundreds of people who have posted comments on this blog, directing them to the new New York Pizza Finder wiki site.   I am pleased to see that several people have already started adding New York Style Pizza places to the directory. 

I've added several new features over the last couple days.  First, and most importantly, is Google Maps integration.  The Map is Back!  Secondly, I've added a "boilerplate" page so that when someone creates a new page, it will automatically be formatted properly. 

Thanks to Andrew

New York Style Pizza near San Jose & Silicon Valley, CA

I had an interesting post this week suggesting that we should check out Vito's Ristorante & Pizzeria in Newark, California, between Oakland and San Jose.   Well, it just so happens that I'm heading to San Jose this weekend.  I was planning to stop by Frankie, Johnny, & Luigi, Too which has a place in San Jose and another in Mountain View

So much pizza but so little time!   How 'bout you?  Know of any good New York Style Pizza in the Silicon Valley area?

Besides c

Pizza in Florida Sucks? First Posts at New York Pizza Finder Wiki

As some of you are already aware, I recently converted the New York Pizza Finder Web site to a wiki.   Up until recently, I've been trying to keep up a database of New York Style Pizza places as well as comments and links to more information.  This has been quite a challenge and I continually let the database get out of date.

So now I've turned to the "wisdom of crowds."

Thousands of people view this blog every month, and hundreds have commented on specific Pizza Places in particular cities throughout the U.S.    Now w

Where's the New York Style Pizza in Alabama? Birmingham? Montgomery? Mobile?

A little over a year ago, I visited the Grand Hotel, just outside Mobile, Alabama.  While there, I found Papa's Pizza in Daphney, and I blogged about the experience.   I recently visited Papa's Web Site and it appears to be "down."  Does Papa's still exist? 

By the way, the New York Pizza Finder web site has an entire page devoted to New York Style Pizza in Alabama

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