Heathen! Fricano's in Grand Haven, Michigan is the best.
Posted on 04/15/2014 2:22:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Australian pizza is now officially the best in the world. Well, sort of.
Judges at last weekend's Campionato Mondiale Della Pizza (Pizza World Championship) held in Parma, Italy, awarded the world's top margherita pizza title to Australian chef Johnny Di Francesco, owner of the 400 Gradi restaurant in Brunswick, a Melbourne suburb.
Di Francesco, 36, beat more than 600 competitors from 35 countries to take home the Specialita Traditionale Garantita pizza prize in the annual competition.
The win and subsequent publicity has made the small restaurant he owns in his hometown an overnight sensation.
"It's been an amazing reaction," Di Francesco tells CNN. "Honestly, I just went to Naples to do what I love. I didn't think it was going to make such a stir."
"A lot of people think it is easy to produce a margherita but it is one of the hardest (pizzas) to produce," Di Francesco told Australian website Good Food.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Are they still making pizza on Bisquik with Velveeta and tomato sauce where you live?
Modern is actually on State St. In case anyone gets inspired enough to go to New Haven. Which I’m not suggesting. Except for a pizza. Quickly.
Heathen! Fricano's in Grand Haven, Michigan is the best.
I was going to show you a picture, but it was too big:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-83Xf18PJ3DM/TwvEvB8N-KI/AAAAAAAAJGc/jxP8_EOw8C4/s1600/DSC02300.JPG
BTW, haven’t been there in many moons. Live in Texas now. Never actually lived in Cedar Rapids, but my first wife had people there so when we’d drive over from Des Moines I’d go get pizza for family get-togethers. Never had anything even close.
Tomato sauce is a trendy abomination. We use ketchup.
No! New York and New Jersey!
BTW, I’ve had some really bad pizza in Italy - particularly Rome.
Exactly!!!!
Trail Rider Pizza in Tijeras, also known as the "Best Smelling Singlewide in the World".
In Indiana, I was once served pizza cut into tiny pieces to avoid those nasty, sloppy slices. Horrifying.
New Yorkers always salt their pizzas - well, some of us do.
I agree with you one hundred percent. Although the only pizza I’ve ever had in NYC is at John’s. How touristy is that for someone born there?
I may be in the minority here but I think Lou Malnati’s is way over rated here in Chicagoland. All crust which I don’t care for.
“Australian pizza is now officially the best in the world”
Bull. If it isnt new york city pizza, it isn’t pizza.
Those look like good pizzas. Reminds me of a great place in Larkspur, Marin County, CA, a place called Pizzeria Picco. For dessert, they have a soft serve ice cream from a local dairy topped with with olive oil and sea salt - really good. Next door is Picco Restaurant of the same owner - excellent food there as well. Optional outside eating amongst the redwoods - pretty cool
If you’d said barbecue sauce, I’d have suspected you were Californian.
Sounds very similar to the "Oh Boy" brand frozen pizzas I used to buy at the grocery store in the late 1960s and early '70s. First pizza I ever had. It was good.
That looks like your own picture. Dang, I’m getting hungry.
Just cover the sucker with ketchup. Yum.
Casanova’s in Boise. Great thin crust brick oven.
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