Best Pizza City Rankings: Buffalo #4 Cool... ROC #1 WHAT?!?!

[JoeSchmoe]

Has anyone else seen this?

https://www.wgrz.com/article/life/food/best-pizza-cities-american-wny-buffalo-us/71-05139e3d-aaa1-40cc-b620-2ef18f7c53fe

[LGR4GM]

9 minutes ago, JoeSchmoe said:

Has anyone else seen this?

https://www.wgrz.com/article/life/food/best-pizza-cities-american-wny-buffalo-us/71-05139e3d-aaa1-40cc-b620-2ef18f7c53fe

Buffalo has better pizza than Rochester. Sorry Rochester 

[gregmo]

26- Dallas, TX – 90.3

I've given up trying to find any decent pizza in Dallas.  Can't understand how they made the list.

[Jorcus]

When you look at the criteria used for the rankings it rewards the cities that have the most pizza places, the cheapest prices and how many on line searches there are. So too me that indicates we are lazy and cheap. Kind of like our hockey team at the moment.

[LGR4GM]

2 minutes ago, Jorcus said:

When you look at the criteria used for the rankings it rewards the cities that have the most pizza places, the cheapest prices and how many on line searches there are. So too me that indicates we are lazy and cheap. Kind of like our hockey team at the moment.

It's 2025, saying searching online and buying pizza is lazy and cheap is certainly a take. Maybe ppl in Buffalo like pizza (hence the searching) and there's a lot of competition in a relatively poor area (hence the cheapness) 

 

[Weave]

Rochester’s best pizza is a Buffalo transplant, Carbone’s.  Fight me.

[bob_sauve28]

But don't most cities have Little Caesars pizza? 

 

Call it a wash  

[Porous Five Hole]

I live in ROC and we are saturated with pizza joints and it is awesome.  The variety is nice.  The traditional pizza and wing joints (Carbone’s & Guida’s are great), the high end wood fired (Ardor, Fiorella, & Merchants). Then you’ve got the new age like Pizza Wizard, Peels on Wheels, & Salty Bread Pizza Co  

Buffalo style pizza is not for me.  Too much cheese and BTW crust is a good thing y’all.  

[JustOneParade]

1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

It's 2025, saying searching online and buying pizza is lazy and cheap is certainly a take. Maybe ppl in Buffalo like pizza (hence the searching) and there's a lot of competition in a relatively poor area (hence the cheapness) 

 

I can’t imagine that anyone living in Buffalo any length of time needs to do an internet search to decide where to get their pizza. The criteria is a bit weak.

[Amerks8796]

1 hour ago, Weave said:

Rochester’s best pizza is a Buffalo transplant, Carbone’s.  Fight me.

Carbones is good but it's not even close to the best in Rochester or even in Greece. 

Edited Sunday at 03:17 PM by Amerks8796

[Doohicksie]

4 hours ago, gregmo said:

26- Dallas, TX – 90.3

I've given up trying to find any decent pizza in Dallas.  Can't understand how they made the list.

Come over to Fort Worth on Monday and check out the half off Mondays special at Buffalo Bros.  Ed, the owner, is from Kenmore and knows his stuff.  Good Buffalo style pizza.

[Doohicksie]

Also, the Buffalo Bros by TCU is the DFW Bills Backer bar for Fort Worth, come by on Bills game days.

[Ross Rhea]

Cinquinos Pizza in Batavia is some pretty damn good pizza. 

[LGR4GM]

Had Picasso's last night. So good, on transit in Amherst. 

[Weave]

4 hours ago, Porous Five Hole said:

I live in ROC and we are saturated with pizza joints and it is awesome.  The variety is nice.  The traditional pizza and wing joints (Carbone’s & Guida’s are great), the high end wood fired (Ardor, Fiorella, & Merchants). Then you’ve got the new age like Pizza Wizard, Peels on Wheels, & Salty Bread Pizza Co  

Buffalo style pizza is not for me.  Too much cheese and BTW crust is a good thing y’all.  

Ummm, Carbone’s is Buffalo style pizza.  They’re from Buffalo.

[Wyldnwoody44]

I'm still a fan of the OG Bocce Club. I live down in Allegany now and I hate the pizza down here, everything is NY style and only a couple of them are OK. Miss my Buffalo style za

[Porous Five Hole]

37 minutes ago, Weave said:

Ummm, Carbone’s is Buffalo style pizza.  They’re from Buffalo.

I noticed you had said that. I have only had it visiting friends because I’m not close to a location.  The last two times I had it, one was a sheet and had crust and normal cheese portions.  The time before that it was a white pizza and it definitely had crust and normal cheese.  Maybe it varies a bit by location? My experience is from N Greece Rd. 

[BfloSabresFan]

Live in the Rochester area now.  Haven't had Carbones in Rochester yet but nothing comes remotely close to Buffalo pizza.  My sons (11 YO and 8 YO) even notice the difference and like Buffalo pizza better. 

 

Guidas and Clemenzas are the best in the area.  Marks, Salvatores, Perri's, Pontillos are so generic. 

Just looked at the list...Authentic Detroit style is underrated, still not as good as Buffalo!

 

Edited yesterday at 12:02 AM by BfloSabresFan

[Pimlach]

I went to RIT, graduated in ‘81.  Back then the best pizza that I had there was Pizza Hut.  The subs had bad rolls and mostly sucked.   There were no wings unless you ordered a fried chicken dinner.  Never had a taco there.  No beef on weck in a local tavern, go to Arby’s for the thin colorful beef.  
 

 BUT.  They had House of Guitars.  

[inkman]

10 hours ago, Weave said:

Rochester’s best pizza is a Buffalo transplant, Carbone’s.  Fight me.

Had no idea Carbone’s was a Buffalo joint.  My favorite on Rochester’s westside.  I’ve never thought about Rochester having the best pizza, it certainly may have the most per capita. In my quaint little east side town has 20 pizza shops within 10 minutes of my house. It’s nutty.  

Edited yesterday at 12:19 AM by inkman

[Amerks8796]

29 minutes ago, BfloSabresFan said:

Live in the Rochester area now.  Haven't had Carbones in Rochester yet but nothing comes remotely close to Buffalo pizza.  My sons (11 YO and 8 YO) even notice the difference and like Buffalo pizza better. 

 

Guidas and Clemenzas are the best in the area.  Marks, Salvatores, Perri's, Pontillos are so generic. 

Just looked at the list...Authentic Detroit style is underrated, still not as good as Buffalo!

 

It's all preference. The quality isn't any better in Buffalo. I grew up in Rochester and went to college in Buffalo and found the pizza sauce too sweet and the pizza too doughy in many cases. People generally like what they grow up with.