Pizza Review: Woosta Pizza

I ended up Woosta pizza for pretty much one reason, I was hungry and it happened to be the closest pizza place around. To my surprise it was some of the best pizza I've gotten in Worcester. It's not the fanciest place in the world but it's darn tasty.

In my 5 years in Worcester this is the closest thing I have ever had to New York style neo-neopolitan pizza. I thought that Brick Oven Pizza Factory would be the best I could do in a sea of Greek pizza places. I have even read online that pizza like this can't be found in Worcester, but I guess people might not be looking downtown.

I had a couple slices of cheese pizza on my visit. They were thin, with a pretty good sauce/cheese ratio. In New York this would be your average corner slice, nothing special, but when you move that to Worcester it is a welcome experience. In the strange pizza landscape of Worcester this spot fills a important void.

Pizza Premiere: The Quest for Pizza

Me and my buddies went out and made a video about a quest for the greatest treasure of all, pizza! Enjoy PizzAcross America's first original film.

Pizza Power Rankings: Pizza Flavored Snacks

Sometimes you're in the mood for pizza, but you're in the middle of a pizza barren road trip and the only food you can get is from the gas station snack counter. Or maybe you've already had pizza for lunch and are planning to have it for dinner so you can't justify having it for a snack as well. What's a pizza fiend supposed to do in these situations? Eat a pizza flavored snack of course! Here are my rankings for the best ones out there.

1. Pizzeria Pretzel Combos

Worcester's Best Pizza: Corner Grille

Worcester, MA. A vast wasteland of New England Greek pizza as far as the eye can see. Is there somebody, anybody, who can do something different? Can somebody deliver some quality za? Thank god for Corner Grille.

Corner Grille has been turning out some of Worcester's best pizza since 1997. But what makes Corner Grille so good isn't necessarily based in tradition. If you're looking for New York, or Neapolitan style pizza you can go elsewhere, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Corner Grille rocks some of the thinnest crust around. I have no idea how they stretch their dough so thin (I could use some tips). This is what some might refer to as "cracker crust" pizza. The kind of pizza that you wind up eating 5 or 7 or 10 square slices of without even realizing it. They make a darn good standard sweet tomato and basil pie, but as someone who has been around the block a few times at Corner Grille I suggest picking just about any of their specialty pizzas.

My personal go to is the chicken pesto pie. There's just something about bacon and pesto that is meant to go extra thin crust. I'm not always a fan of chicken on pizza (it can be too bland) but the chicken here is seasoned better than most chicken dishes at fancy restaurants. It tastes so good you could eat it on its own. It's no wonder they feature 7 pizzas with chicken.

That being said all the pizzas here are amazing. I would recommend picking which ever one best suits your tastes, because odds are you won't be disappointed. Make sure you wash it down with a homemade lemonade in a mason jar and if you have room finish things off with a delicious baked good.

Not all pizza places succeed when they try to go outside the world tomato sauce, cheese, and meat. I have been known to dread places that over think pizza, make it too fancy, and take it too far away from tradition. Corner Grille is the gold standard in how to think outside of the (pizza) box in the right way. I could practically eat there every day.

Remembering Pizzagate in Honor of the Red Sox World Series Berth

At baseball games pizza rarely takes center stage.The focus is always on hotdogs, peanuts, and cracker jacks. During the 2007 season, however, pizza got in on the action. It was the Red Sox traditional Patriot's Day morning game. They were sticking it to the Angels on a cold rainy day. What happened next has lived on in NESN telecasts to this day.

In Defense: Celeste Pizza

My relationship with Mama Celeste goes back a long way. One of my early childhood memories is of eating a Celeste pizza by candlelight that had just finished cooking just before the power was knocked out during a thunderstorm. I was four years old, and Celeste has been in my life ever since.

Maybe that's why I got so worked up the other day when my roommate told me he didn't understand how people can like Celeste pizza, even going so far as saying that Celeste smelt like puke to him.

Review: Portland Pie Co. Beer Dough

I love making pizza from scratch, but my cravings for homemade pizza don't always match up with my planning ability. I found myself in this situation last week and decided to head to Big Y to pick up some dough. I normally just get store brand dough to save money but the dough from Portland Pie Co. struck my eye.

Portland Pie Co. has been selling their dough throughout New England since 2000. They sell five different types: blonde, garlic, beer, wheat and basil. I opted to try the beer since a beer and pizza combination is a no brainer.