Difficult to say what's best. The thing I like about pizza is everybody makes it a little bit differently, and most are good.
I have fond childhood memories of a place called the Pizza Palace, located on the main drag of my hometown. It was apparently a chain, although I can only remember ever seeing one other like it. The building had a fake Persian palace facade on it, which was so weird in a small town, but that's what I liked about it. I don't remember much (it was torn down sometime in the early 80s) but I do remember loving the pizza. It was spicy, and had lots of flavour.
The other place in town was a place called Pizza Delight, which might even be the best pizza I've ever had. It left around the late 80s. As I understand it, the chain retreated back where it came from. Since we got satellite TV, we've been seeing Pizza Delight ads from the east coast, where it is still going strong. That alone could entice me to visit New Brunswick again.
I also have fond memories of a place called Mother's Pizza Parlour and Spaghetti House, another small chain that, sadly, went bust years ago. Amazing pizza. A rare treat when I was a kid.
And when we lived in the city, it was Pizza Pizza. Lots of standard pizzas, lots of toppings to choose from, great package deals, decent wings and several flavours of dipping sauce for the crust. Even better was when they got online ordering. Convenience, variety, and a good value for money. Can't complain about that.
http://www.pizzapizza.caThere were a couple of other regional chains I liked, but what I love best is independent pizza. The latest pizzeria to open in my hometown was a place called Raphael's, owned by a guy named....Joe. It had the benefit of being the first independent pizza place in town not owned by a Greek or a Turk. Sure, Joe was Portuguese, but that was closer to Italian than we'd had previously.
Since we moved away from the urban sprawl, it's been strictly Mom and Pop pizza. The thing I love about that is it's just like the old days. Every town has it's own unique little pizza shop, and they all have their own way of making it. We get pizza about once a week from a place called Enzo's, owned by a guy named....Lawrie, who has a British ancestry as far as I can tell. Actually, I think we'll be getting some pizza from there tonight. I've gone most of the day on bagels and coffee, and I'm starved. This discussion isn't helping either.
