Pizza, Dayton Style…

By on January 25, 2008 in FUN

http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2008/01/a-list-of-regional-pizza-styles.html

I love to eat pizza. All kinds of it. As an under­grad at Wright State, I worked at Fly­ing Pizza, where they were kind enough to let me take home a big box of slices every night. I lived on the stuff and love it to this day. As it hap­pens, South­west­ern Ohio is home to an astound­ing num­ber of great and very dif­fer­ent pizza joints — New York Style, Deep Dish, Gourmet, Dine In, Carry-Out, and even Day­ton Style. Fly­ing Pizza, LaRosas, Pizza Fac­tory, Joe’s, Marion’s, Cassano’s, Dewey’s, and on and on. Not to men­tion the usual list of national pizza chains that blan­ket the area. Check­ing out Boing­Bo­ing today, and came across a story about types of pizza by region. View­ing this as vital infor­ma­tion. I felt obliged to dig deeper. So off to the site Slice I went. The story is pretty good, dis­cussing how “pizza” dif­fers across the coun­try. My search then led to a site called Seri­ous Eats — where as I scanned the com­ments, I came upon a dis­cus­sion of “Day­ton Style” pizza. This is the thin, crispy style which is usu­ally cut into squares. Great read­ing as peo­ple dis­cuss some­thing we take for granted round these here parts. What makes South­west­ern, Ohio great? Pizza is def­i­nitely high on the list for me. Boy am I hun­gry. Luck­ily, we are hav­ing Fly­ing Pizza (New York and Sicil­ian style for the record) for lunch today for my going away party here at Hafen­brack. What Pizza joint do you love?

For those ques­tion­ing the “Gary Sandy” thumb­nail on the home­page, visit Marion’s.

Seri­ous Eats: Talk: How many dif­fer­ent kinds of regional vari­a­tions of pizza exist?

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3 Responses to Pizza, Dayton Style…

  1. Jason Hillard January 30, 2008 at 9:21 pm #

    David,

    You for­got to men­tion the pie at the Ore­gon Express in the Ore­gon Dis­trict, which fits the descrip­tion of a “Day­ton Style” pizza very taste­fully, and its free dur­ing happy hour on Fridays.

    Your research is much appre­ci­ated. The Pizza Fac­tory and the O.E. get my vote!

    J

  2. DAVIDeBOWMAN January 31, 2008 at 8:18 am #

    Jason,

    I have to agree that OE has some tasty pizza. Pizza Fac­tory is also amaz­ing. Another I over­looked is Lit­tle York, north of town, which has deli­cious “Day­ton Style” pizza. Thanks for the comments.‘

  3. John March 4, 2008 at 9:26 am #

    Dave,

    How I yearn for a pie from Cassano’s. I have found the pizza in the Wash­ing­ton D.C. area to be very unex­cit­ing. One of the things I miss most about home is the pizza. Your blog couldn’t be more right. Pizza truly does very by region.

    John