Forget the truffles, Bauer ...
The Chron's Michael Bauer claims to have found the six best pizza places in the Bay Area, and they are all so chi-chi I can't imagine eating at any of them. Condsider this comment on Pizzaiolo:
The pizza I remember most fondly is topped with potatoes, fontina and truffles, but there are always several even further afield: delicate squash with Gorgonzola, or cherry tomatoes with squid and aioli.
No, no, no: You don't put squash or squid and aioli on a pizza. You don't put truffles on pizza, either.
You want the world's best pizza? Here it is. I grew up eating it, I still know the phone number by heart, the guy who made me pizza when I was a kid still owns the place and there are no goddam squash or truffles or fontina (whatever the hell that is) in the place. I wish he delivered to Bernal Heights.
[Editor's Note: PS -- for the record, here are the Guardian's favorite local pizza palaces, from our Feast guide of Fall 2007.]
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Comments (8)
Read the Guardian's list. Sounds pretty "chi-chi" to me also...A16? Delfina? Not debating whether those are good or not, but more that they are pretty pricey pizzas in my mind. Has the Bay Guardian visited Gioaia in Berkeley? They are cheap and pretty basic with their ingredients. Perhaps you are being a little harsh on Bauer.
Posted by Rav | August 5, 2008 02:01 PM
So when you say...
"No, no, no: You don't put squash or squid and aioli on a pizza."
and then link to your pizza roundup, which includes the line:
"Restaurant LuLu...too had it going on, with first-rate pies emerging from its wood-fired oven (were we seeing the beginnings of a pattern there?), including one with an unforgettable topping of calamari."
you intend to prove what, exactly?
Thanks for staying awesome, Guardian.
Posted by Tad Benton | August 5, 2008 02:03 PM
The list is from our Guardian food writer Paul Reidinger -- just to prove that we're open to everything. That's why it was prefaced with "for the record." And we will stay awesome!
Posted by Marke B. | August 5, 2008 03:01 PM
Little Star? Zachary's? hello?
Posted by Anonymous | August 5, 2008 08:18 PM
um... Little Star? Zachary's? Lanesplitter's? hello!?!
Posted by Alex | August 5, 2008 08:21 PM
but pizzaiola is pretty damn good. it's got a family vibe and it's on telegraph in oakland. i don't believe that squid, squash or aioli would be considered chi chi in naples, which, you know, actually beats new york for the title of the original...by a couple hundred years or so.
Posted by Anonymous | August 6, 2008 05:42 AM
>No, no, no: You don't put squash or squid and aioli on a pizza.
Oh yeah, that's real edumacated there, champ. Someday, someone might do you the favor of informing you that aioli is "garlic and olive oil". Wouldn't wanna put that on a pizza now, would we? That would be seriously messing with tradition, now, wouldn't it?
Americans...feh.
Posted by preahkaew | August 13, 2008 11:05 PM
Oh hell yes fleety peetz
Posted by green hornet | January 28, 2009 07:40 PM