Dave hits Il Supremo, Stop 8?

It's fantastic pizza. My favorite pizza in the city, mind you I haven't had Forbidden yet.

Happy for them!

Friends,

Those saying Il Supremo > Forbidden, I think are correct. The pizza and service and atmosphere are all better. Il Supremo is also significantly cheaper, with a 20" plain costing $18 compared to the $26 at Forbidden, which puts Forbidden in the middle of the pack of elite pizzeria pricing in NYC.

Dave Portnoy concluded his Super Bowl visit to New Orleans with the city's best pizzeria, Il Supremo. He seems surprised that New Orleans has an established Italian pizzeria-restaurant scene. I will argue unto death that New Orleans Italian food has always been the epicenter of Italian cuisine in America and its best is better than the best of Chicago and San Francisco. On a bad day, New Orleans Italian food is equivalent to New York's, that is how highly I perceive New Orleans Italian food. It was only a matter of time for New Orleans pizza to rebound into the elite range, putting it on par with Portland and Chicago in the pizza world.I hope Portnoy's reviews will compel the rest of the nation to give us our due credit.

It was our resident pizza Epicure, toof, who put me on Il Supremo back in the summer. And since that time, I cannot get enough. Eating Il Supremo transports me to eating in NY. Unlike a few of the other gourmet slice shop newcomers to our area, which taste like carbon copies of other NY pizzerias, Il Supremo is crafting something new and wonderful. It is the first and only Louisiana pizzeria to reach the 9s in my rankings. In fact, it is only the third American pizza outside the NJ-NY-CT pizza corridor to achieve above a 9 for me -- the others being Ken's Artisan Pizza in Portland, OR (9.10) and Deluca in Hot Springs, AR (9.61).

Il Supremo is worthy of every accolade it will be receiving this year. My only regret is that it is no longer our little secret on The Food Board, and it will be very difficult to get a pizza there in the coming months. And since neither Mother nor I has made a good contact at Il Supremo, it may be some time before we get to delight in its pizza and garlic knots.

If someone asked me for the two New Orleans pizzerias a visitor must try, I would suggest Il Supremo and Tower of Pizza. Il Supremo because it is the best tasting. Tower of Pizza because it best embodies what New Orleans pizza has historically been. Also the atmosphere and salads at Tower, both of which I have written about at length over the years, are unbeatable.

Here are my ratings next to Dave Portnoy ratings:

Il Supremo 9.22 / 8.2
St. Pizza 8.87 / 7.8
Tower of Pizza 7.19 / 7.5
Forbidden Pizza 7.10 / 8.3
Zee's 7.00 / 7.8
Venezia 6.88 / did not try
Margot’s 6.86 / did not try
Paladar 511 6.85 / did not try
Mid City Pizza 6.77 / did not try
Pizza Delicious 6.53 / 7.8

Non top ten pizza comparisons
New Orleans Pizza Company 6.23 / 7.4
Gio's 5.84 / 7.6
That's Amore 4.82 / 7.4

Yours,
TulaneLSU

Updated accurate NOLA Area One Bite scoreboard:

Forbidden Pizza 8.3
iL Supremo 8.2
St. Pizza 7.8
Pizza Delicious 7.8
Zees Pizza B&M 7.8
Zees Pizza Truck @ Zony 7.7
Gio's Pizza 7.6
Tower of Pizza 7.5
That's Amore Deep Dish 7.4
NOLA Pizza Co. 7.4
Mid-City Pizza 6.8
The Boot Pizza 6.7
Fat Boys 5.4
Big Easy Daiquiris 2.4

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8.2, should have been higher than Forbidden

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Never had Forbidden. But as I mentioned in the stop 7 thread. He wouldn’t rank Supremo higher after going all in on Forbidden.

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8.2

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Not too surprised. It really is fantastic pizza

I didn’t peg you as a TLSU arse kisser.

Excuse me?

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Excuse me?

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I assumed you were mocking toof.

But you were mocking TLSU?

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I assumed you were mocking toof.

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What did I do this time?

Ok

Can’t control any of that

I report what I like here and it goes where it goes