Best Charlotte Pizza Restaurant?

Best Charlotte Pizza Restaurant?
by Charlotte Critic

The search for the best pizza in Charlotte or even good pizza for that matter.

Seems whatever home town you are from you have stops that are the best in town, and one of the staples of every hometown diet is the best pizza in town. Once upon a time I had thought this was a phenomenon that every person that moves away from home suffers from, the fact that there is no local estalishments like those of home.

I now believe differently, and that Western New York has the best of 'most' any market.

When it comes to pizza, wings and gameday foods of similar affair like calzones and fried mushroms seem almost impossible t ofind anywhere in the south.

I cant drive 10 meters without seeing avertisment of NY style pizza being peddled, but how is that the case? its not.

Having lived throughout the south, and namely troughout Florida and North Carolina in Charlotte I have long sought after a pzza and wings of the taste of home, and continue to find fake represenations of just that.

Often the owners are once NY natives, and often NY natives who also owned pizz shops in NY as well, which seems a solid qualification, but time and time again the "overly thin" and bland attempts to try and be what is thought of as NY style is what we get.

I like pizza in every form and style, hard not to respect a good Chicago style deep dish pizza. But attempts to bring a taste of what s done right in NY to local patrons has been a repeated lacking affair.

I have Dreams of Pontillos Pizza in Rochester NY,and Chester Cab Pizza of New York, but continue to find sharper immitation of dominos and not much else in the south. Iam certain I am not looking right, or I hope that to be the case. I will not give up the very fun task of looking.

Whats the cure for this hopeless trying, and pretending to be?

Just make it with a soft foldable bread style dough, dont make it thin just for the sake of being thin, and win your customers with ingrdients and lare slices.

Add a bit of Frank's Red Hot and Blue cheese and celery on the side if you want a hint of NY style, and making t fe would ring true.

So whats the closest thing to home in Charlotte so far? DaVincs Pizza in Davis Lake is a very solid slice, and has the real homestyle ownership to make it tat way.

DaVincis owner is connected to Luca Pizza in Rochester New York which I frequented as a preteen. A place that offered up thick squares or thin triangles in the mall.

A bit pricey at DaVincis but the best Pizza in Charlotte thus far.

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