Metro Detroit pizzas rank with nation's best
BY SYLVIA RECTOR • FREE PRESS RESTAURANT CRITIC • June 4, 2009
We didn't need GQ to tell us in its June issue that Detroit's a great pizza city, but it was satisfying to have the rest of the country read it, too. The Motor City's pizza props were long overdue.
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GQ's Alan Richman named us America's third-best pizza city, ahead of No. 4 Chicago. And he placed four local pies on the magazine's list of the 25 Best Pizzas in America.
Richman said the city ranked so high because our pizzerias execute our signature pie -- the square, thick-crusted Sicilian -- so consistently well.
But as aficionados know, old-school Detroit pizza, with its rich local history and tradition, isn't the only game here anymore. A new school of pies with thin crust, a lighter style and more modern ingredients has been created by a younger generation that has its own ideas and inspirations and is building a serious following of its own.
"It's hard to go wrong wherever you eat," Richman wrote.