There will always be debate over whether New York Style or Chicago Style is better. I think it's unfortunate that the Shoals doesn't have a better choice of Pizzas but there are some good choices here. I like Ricatoni's brick oven pizza and also like the Marina Restaurant (Barge inn, I believe) but since Pizza Marina closed I haven't really found a locally owned pizza place that I can get excited about. Nothing like the choices that I had while living in the Atlanta area.
One thing comes to mind though, when I considered the "best" pizza in the places that I've eaten at. Without exception it seems that the best pizza that I've found comes from places that utilize the old style pizza ovens. These are the shelf type ovens that they slide the pizza into and allow to cook. Not the type that are the conveyor type where they put it on a rack that continues to move the pizza through the oven. Hence the topic here. Has anyone else found this to be true in their case? Do the best Pizzas come from the restaurants that utilize the old style ovens? What about the brick ovens?
Just curious what other's opinions are.