<p>I'll start: After we visited Duke, on a cute little shopping street near the campus, we had the worst pizza at the worst "New York Style" joint we ever visited: huge tasteless slices at a place that seemed to advertise itself as THE campus pizzeria. </p>
<p>In all fairness, it was summer and campus was deserted, so we couldn't ask any students. Where should we have gone?</p>
<p>And which campus pizzerias have any of you or your students found good?</p>
<p>I clearly need a break from thinking about colleges.</p>
<p>I haven’t had much pizza in Portland- but I do like the pizza they sell in commons- it isn’t as good as this place two blocks from my house [wood-fired</a> oven](<a href=“http://www.veracipizza.com/]wood-fired”>http://www.veracipizza.com/)
Portland does have good Vietnamese food though</p>
<p>Portland has some GREAT pizza joints. Pizza Schmizza is my fave fast-food variety. If you find yourself in Hamilton, NY (home of Colgate,) Slices is pretty good.</p>
<p>As far as I have ever been able to tell, there is no edible pizza on the East Coast south of Baltimore. It’s not a college phenomenon. It’s regional. So I’m not surprised about Duke.</p>
<p>For any college near Boston, you should be able to find good pizza nearby. Especially if it’s within walking or easy-subway-ride distance of the North End.</p>
<p>I’ve heard, but can’t say from experience, that the pizza at Iowa State is horrendous, and that actually most pizza from Iowa as a whole is terrible. I wouldn’t doubt it.</p>
<p>IloveLA, you really need to go up to Berkeley and get a spinach-mushroom pie at Zachary’s. The best Chicago pizza I have ever had, including anything I’ve had in Chicago. Blondie’s used to have wonderful huge slices. </p>
<p>D1 is using (vegetarian) burritos as her fast food ranking metric on college visits.</p>
<p>We’ve never found good pizza in Williamsburg, VA although there are tons of places to get it (and we’ve tried almost all). You’d think a tourist draw would try harder. The “Caf” pizza at William and Mary is okay, good selection for vegetarian D. I wish there was a Bertucci’s.</p>
<p>Having grown up in New Jersey and moved to Boston after college, I have to say that I think Boston has terrible pizza. We just don’t get it up here. The sauce is too bland and there’s too little of it, and the crust is not chewy and yeasty enough–pizzerias up here seem to think that “light” and “crisp” are good qualities for a pizza crust, which is heresy.</p>
<p>Across from the University of Cincinnati, on McMillan St., is one of the best pizza places in Cincinnati. Pomodori’s wood-fired pizza, with good ingredients such as goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes. </p>
<p>Fortunately they opened a 2nd pizzeria in the suburbs so people don’t have to go so far. :)</p>
<p>Of course now there are other good wood-fired pizza places, but Pomodori’s is the oldest and the best.</p>
<p>I miss Boston pizza terribly. That light crisp crust–hard to come by! I like lightly sauced thin and crispy crust with fresh toppings and a light drizzle of olive oil… in other words, Italian pizza, which is what they serve in Boston (mostly) (unless they label it as Chicago or New York style pizza). As for Portland pizza, the kinds most places have here–heavy and soggy with mounds of vegetables–yecch. I’d rather cook it myself–it’s not that hard!</p>
<p>dmd77, I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. I think that crisp-crusted, minimally sauced Boston style of pizza is more Greek in character than Italian. To me “Italian style” and “New York style” are synonyms.</p>