Have a friend in New Orleans looking for some pizza in the uptown area...

Zee's
Pizza Domenica - amazing garlic knots
Midway for deep dish

Too bad you banned TulaneLSU. He would tell you Dominos.

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Thanks...What about Saint Pizza?

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Saint pizza is great

So is Zee’s.

Saint is a better experience though. They can have a drink at the Bridge Lounge after

Can't go wrong with St. Pizza and Zee's.

It's downtown, but Forbidden Pizza is also good. St. Pizza technically isn't uptown either

Friend,

What do you consider the “uptown area?” Uptown as an idea has grown and shrunk over the years. In the late 18th century uptown was simply a geographic concept to describe areas upriver from the French Quarter.

In the early 19th century, when my family arrived in the area to help Andrew Jackson, the term hardened to include street boundaries. By the time Canal Street was carved from soil in 1810, according to Grandmother, who knows these things, Uptowner was a term of insult the Creoles used to describe people like my family. They saw us as apostate, cake-eating money hounds. The Americans, sometimes called Uptowners, were quick to plat the areas between Canal and Jefferson Avenue, which until the 1920s, was called Peters Avenue. We have family that have lived in the same house on that street all the way back to the Peters days.

Uptown until 1870 had the boundaries of the river, Canal Street, the back o’town cypress swamps, which roughly followed Barrone, and Peters/Jefferson Avenue. In 1870 New Orleans, foreshadowing New York’s Great Consolidation of 1898, absorbed Jefferson City and all areas of Jefferson Parish to the parish line. By this time, uptown’s boundary exchanged Peters for the current Jefferson Parish boundary line with Orleans. It was an enormous area, representing the majority of livable New Orleans in the early 20th century.

In 1974 the City Planning Committee, seeking federal funds, a story Uncle has details of which would make your head spin, chopped up the city into much smaller neighborhoods. Uptown lost its directional colloquial usage and became a nebulous idea of a smaller neighborhood.

Just as the definition for Old Metairie is yet to be agreed upon — does its northern boundary only reach Veterans or does it extend all the way into Bucktown? — so too do arguments rage about what is Uptown today. The most agreed upon boundaries of Uptown today are the River, Claiborne, Broadway, and Jackson Avenue. Its center would be the JCC, where I was once known as the king of sock hops.

Are these the boundaries you are using? Perhaps TulaneLSU’s top 10 pizzas in New Orleans will be of benefit. I will say that I do not recommend Midway and pray your friend did not become misguided to that locale.

Yours,
TulaneLSU

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Lester, I think they want to take out...I think I will push Saint.

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Then I'd pick whichever is closer to where they are staying, Chick.


If they are in the CBD area, Forbidden Pizza is in that same stratosphere.

St Pizza is fantastic
Can do takeout at the window starting at noon

Good list, Zee's is definitely the best of those three, but all are good.

Zee's> Nola> Saint

Il supremo is in Metairie but just want to call it out, they and Zee's are the best in the city.

do zee's for takeout for sure