re: Why are ALL NY Style Pizza Restaurants the same?

Friend,

The mocking of Sbarro pizza is overdone and unfair. If you go to a good Sbarro and get a whole pie, it is a good NY style pizza. I have been to the original location down in Bensonhurst, which is now a sushi restaurant, and have talked to locals in the neighborhood including pizza men nearby, such as at J&V and DaVinci’s, and they will tell you the original Sbarro’s was one of the best pies in Brooklyn.

That the New Orleans Metro lacks a Sbarro’s is even more evidence to me that New Orleanians on the whole do not care about pizza. My favorite Sbarro was the one in Canal Place. I loved watching a movie there and getting two slices and a Coke. It was for a time a top five pizza in New Orleans, right up with Nino’s on S Carrollton, Dino’s on Vets, and Brooklyn’s on Vets. And guess what? All three of those are closed. Meanwhile Regenelli’s and Italian Pie live on. Like I said, New Orleanians do not respect good pizza.

Yours,
TulaneLSU