Pizza

*it’s not proofread and I don’t give a shit, I have a job in the morning Jesus Christ.   I feel like a slob.  No, not the kind that’s been eating nothing but pizza and cheesesteaks over the 3 day weekend and started the week off right with a chicken biscuit from McDonalds.  No.  Look at this blog.  What have we become, MySpace?   That last post, the New Worst Pizza in Richmond, I can’t even remember what I ate that day.  I remember hating it though.  That’s all that matters in this, ahem, industry. Well I’m not going to bore you with all the pizza I’ve eaten.. ahhhhh fuck it yes I am.  Here’s a quick recap of Richmond ‘za.  Tarrant’s continues to kill it.  Whole pies, slices to go, it’s all pretty much better than everything else out there when it comes to large, floppy New York slices.  I recommend the Bacon Delight.  Belmont fucking sucks.  Their pizza isn’t worth a damn unless you cover it in bacon and their employees would get circles run around them by the 3 mexicans that run Mary Angela’s, which by the way is the only place near the museum district you can walk and get a valuable slice at.  Sorry punks.  Learn how to answer a fucking phone.  Work downtown?  Go to JoJo’s.  It’s still pretty solid and fast.  Nothing really extraordinary.  Piccola’s and Mary Angela’s both benefit from the extra-crispy reheat.  Let it cool down, throw it back in the oven and that crust will finally support itself like a proper NY slice should. 10 bucks gets you a pizza with mama celeste sausage and a few teaspoonfuls of mozz at portrait house Portrait House?  If you’re trying to confuse yourself over the differences between coal and wood fired pizza in this building, don’t.  Until they stop hiring the new local flavor of the week crust punk band to work the oven, you might as well go wait in line at Mellow Mushroom. Okay.  It’s been a long weekend.  I’ll start off by talking about the Cheesesteak I had in south Philly.  Actually, fuck that.  I saw the Rocky statue!  Keeping my ugly face out of it, I got a shot of my Kazane and the Italian Stallion. In order to pregame my innards for the pizza onslaught that evening I read up on some Cheesesteak lore in Philly.  I had done the usual Geno’s/Pat’s crap that you’re supposed to do while in Philly and quite frankly, fuck that.  I don’t consider myself to be handy with the grill but I’ve whipped up cheesesteaks that frankly take big dumps on Pats and Geno’s steaks.  My spidey sense led me to Cosmi’s Deli in South Philly.  The resulting hoagie looked like this. And tasted a lot like the cheesesteaks you get at most places.  Fucking delicious and shitty.  I can’t tell the difference, hence why this isn’t called “Cheesesteak up yer ass!” Amidst all the discussions about Richmond being seen as more of a cycling community leading up to the World Championships of Cycling, I wanted to talk about cycling in Philly.  Philadelphia is a much larger, much heavier trafficked city than Richmond, no duh.  They’ve got more money, more people, more streets, more work, more everything.  It’s unfair to compare them, and I won’t compare them.  I’ll just tell you how nice it is to get around Philly by bike considering it’s relative heft.  Most of the time, in any direction we chose, we found bike lanes.  That’s great.  I love bike lanes.  They serve a utilitarian purpose.  Even the larger, 3 lane, 45mph highway type roads had dedicated bike lanes. So now we’re on our way to Pizza Brain, A pizza “museum” of sorts in North Philly.  I use the word museum loosely as that probably gives you the idea that this place has a gallery of rooms and displays for pizza art, collectibles and such.  It’s a pizza place.  With a lot of awesome shit like a library of pizza related mo

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You’re lost. You’re hungry. You need pizza. You have a wi-fi equipped mobile device. You are saved! Everybody knows about general food-locating apps like Yelp, Foursquare and Foodspotting but there are several apps dedicated solely to helping you find nearby pizzerias. Here’s a quick rundown of four of them. NAME: Pizza FinderPRICE: FREE (you just have to deal with the ad at the bottom)TERRITORY: Entire USADEVICES: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad Pizza Finder opens with a list of pizzerias in close proximity. You get exact distance, address and phone number right there on the main page. Clicking through to any pizzeria gives you its Yelp page for more details and reviews. You can even enter any location in the US and get a list of pizzerias if you want to plan ahead rather than wait until you’re standing sliceless at an unfamiliar intersection. It’s pretty much just a “pizza” search in the Yellow Pages. Not a bad app if you’re in a new apartment and want to order a couple pies for all the friends you roped into helping you move, but keep in mind you’re depending on Yelp reviews to light the way to the right spot. Choose the wrong pizzeria and you’ll have to find new friends for the next move. Get Pizza Finder at the App Store NAME: CheazzaPRICE: $0.99TERRITORY: NYCDEVICES: Compatible with iPad, iTouch and iPhone As its name (sort of) indicates, Cheazza is all about helping you find cheap pizza. It lists chains, dollar slice shops and pizza deals by neighborhood or via a geo-location feature. In the screenshot above, you’ll see Papa John’s (#3 chain in the US), 2 Bros. Pizza (dollar slice chain around NYC), Crocodile Lounge (one of several NYC bars that offer a free personal pizza with every drink) and a couple other dollar slice joints. Come to think of it, Cheazza is technically an app that lists pizzerias you’ll want to avoid! It amazes me that anyone New York would go out of their way to find a bad slice, but I suppose desperate times call for desperate measures. Use at your own risk! Get Cheazza at the App Store NAME: Jeff Orlick’s Real Pizza of New YorkPRICE: $2.99TERRITORY: New York Metro AreaDEVICES: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad Who is Jeff Orlick? He’s a guy who lives in Queens and really likes good food. He’s constantly searching for authenticity, honesty and general realness in eateries of all sorts but this app concentrates specifically on Jeff’s personal pizza recommendations. Instead of searching based on proximity, Real Pizza suggests pizzerias based on user-selected filters (right screenshot above) such as borough, oven type and pizza style. There are also options to sort by price and neighborhood if you don’t want to go with straight alphabetical order. This is easily my favorite pizza-finding app because it features something none of the other ones have: curation. Orlick has clearly spent countless hours, days, months, years culling his list and it is constantly being revised and expanded. His app shows you photos he took and reviews he wrote with extra info you can’t get from a simple phone book listing. Real Pizza’s only real downfall is that there’s so much information that the app tends to run a bit slow and the navigation is a bit clunky. I also wish it had a geo-location function but my fingers are crossed that’s coming with the next update. That being said, this is the only app for serious pizza enthusiasts and it’s well worth the price of admission. (Full disclosure: My tour is listed on the app, but I’d dig it even if it wasn’t.) Get Real Pizza of New York at the App Store NAME: Pizza CompassPRICE: $0.99TERRITORY: EarthDEVICES: Compatible with iPhone 3GS and later, iPod touch 3rd generation and later, iPad running iOS 6.0 or later This one just came out and its release gave me an excuse to finally review the pizza apps t

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