San Francisco is My Home

07
Jan

The Dish

Author: kris, Category: Food

Generally speaking, I prefer California-style pizza. In California cuisine you can be creative with ingredients, and you’ll usually find a lot of fresh veggies and other stuff not generally included on your average NY slice.

But even though I love Cali pies the most, even I recognize that there are times when you really need to dig into a deep dish pizza. sometimes you just need a foot-tall mound of thick, chewy bread and rich tomato sauce.

Used to be that the only reliably awesome deep dish was at Zachary’s in Berkeley. (They have a couple of other locations now too.) Zachary’s is still one of the top three reasons to live in that town, don’t get me wrong, but we city-dwellers are slowly coming up with a few deep disheries of our own.

My favorite is Little Star Pizza, and not just because one of the  pizza chefs is a friend of a friend. The pizza is excellent of course, and the atmosphere — at least at the Western Addition location — is one of those dim, hip vibes that makes me feel cooler than I am. It’s the tragedy of my life that Little Star does not deliver.

However, now The Lookout has started serving deep dish of a completely acceptable quality. They also don’t deliver, but they’re half a block from my house so I can’t complain. The prices are on par with Little Star, but my verdict is still out on which one tastes better. Check them out and decide for yourself.