pizza wars

We've been here eight months and are still in search of the best pizza in Salt Lake City.  It's not like we're going out and making an effort to track down and try all the different pizzerias in town, but if you know us at all, you know we like to make lists.  Thus, once you've had pizza at more than one place, you have to start keeping track.  In addition to the regular restaurants where pizza has been consumed (the Porcupine, Hog Wallow, Lumpy's and Fratelli), there have been three pizza joints attempted to date: Wasatch Pizza (carry-out only), Smoky Mountain Pizza; and most recently The Pie, perennially voted Best Pizza in SLC.

The Pie has multiple locations from Ogden to South Jordan; we went to the Midvale one, around 7:30 p.m. on Sunday.  There were a fair number of other customers there for both take-out and eat-in, those eating in raptly watching the Celtics* v. Lakers game.  We were gratified to see beer on tap (both Uinta Cutthroat and Evolution Pale for the local representation) and got a pitcher of Evolution to go with our pepperoni and black olive pie.  The crust comes in three thicknesses: standard, thick-crust and thin.  I figured that H would go for thin crust, which is his favorite and which has been difficult to find out here, but he opted for "standard" instead.  Because that way we'd know the baseline.

The baseline is pretty thick, Cabin Pizza-style, for my Bath, Maine, readers.  The pizza was good but not great, with plenty of toppings but really too much cheese, which the thin spread of sauce completely failed at keeping on the crust.

For me, Wasatch comes in first (their sauce is loaded with oregano - really flavorful), then Smoky Mountain, then The Pie.  I'd like to go back to The Pie and try their thin crust version, however, because both the others have thick crusts too and the difference just might be enough to move up a place or two in the rankings.  Stay tuned - I'm sure the search will be expanded soon!

* Out here, Utahns seem to be rooting for the Celtics - but in a "we hate the Lakers because they beat the Jazz" kind of way rather than any sort of real fandom.