let's have a pizza party
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just wanted to take a few quick minutes to talk about pizza.
Miami may not be known as a pizza city, but we've been lucky to feel the effect of what I like to call "frou-frou pizza fad." Around the country, pizza's gone from a lazy delivery order of cheap ingredient's from your place of choice Pizza Hut/Papa John's/Dominos - I've never liked delivery pizza. As I kid I used to order a tuna sandwich when my family would order pizza from Mona Lisa Pizza on 8th Street and 47th Avenue; that's not to be taken as a commentary on Mona Lisa's pizza, it's just to say that I grew up thinking I didn't like pizza.
Turns out, I love pizza. Quality pizza. Because I love cheese and bread and pretty much everything they'll put on top of a pizza. I just don't like bad pizza. No offense Pizza Hut lovers, I totally get liking bad food in the right time and place, but I can't get behind bad pizza.
When a pizza-enthustiast friend moved to Miami - I mean a real pizza enthusiast, she has a major toolkit for making pizza with her cousin's recipe, who runs a famous pizza place in Seattle called Delancey - I gave her a full pizza tour and here's a short list of our top rankings from the UnOfficial Official Miami Pizza Tour.
1. Stanzione87, Brickell
2. Lucali, South Beach
3. Pummarola, Coral Gables
Photo of Stanzione87 by Cesar M. Vega for Miami Nice.