Food & Wine Rates Boise's Casanova The Best Pizza

BOISE, ID — Food & Wine magazine recently released the list of the ten best pizza states and the best pizza in every state. Surprisingly, Idaho was not ranked as one of the ten best states to grab a slice.

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As we talk pizza, we are not discussing the chain pizza delivered to your door by a struggling college student in a Prius. We are talking the Neopolitan pies reminiscent of grandma standing in the kitchen in Italy. Pizza is now sold from food trucks, from vending machines and yes, delivered to your door. Pizza is as different as picking your favorite NFL team-not one taste fits all.

Food & Wine chose New Jersey as the pizza capital of the United States. Surprisingly, Connecticut was second followed by, not surprisingly, New York. Illinois and Michigan wrap up the top five.

Looking at Idaho, the magazine's writer had chose Casanova Pizzeria as the place to partake of a slice. Also mentioned is Tony's Pizza Teatro, a joint seeing increased business after Dan Guild closed Casanova for a period before recently reopening.

Here is the Boise section of the article in full:

"Dan Guild rode into Boise back in the early aughts from his native New Haven with a promise of good pizza. After spending an extraordinary amount of time working to get it right, Guild delivered and then some; Casanova Pizzeria serves the kind of pies that your average Idahoan had perhaps never seen, no offense. Look, it wasn't every day you found a serious Napoletana, as in, the real thing, with anchovies, but Boise not only responded, it fell in love, leaving so many pizza lovers heartbroken when the first shop ended up closing. The story ends happily, however, like a good Hollywood movie. After too many years away, Guild is back, Casanova is back, and right in the middle of the pandemic to boot, when the city needed him most. Where were the pizza lovers eating, in the interim? No doubt more than a few of the pies—a pleasing cross between New York-style and Neapolitan—at Tony's Pizza Teatro, another local favorite."

The burning question here is not if you agree, but what is your favorite? Is it an old favorite like Flying Pie? Do the children demand Chuck E. Cheese? Do you miss the pizza and jo-jos at Shakey's? Are you happy with pizza delivered to your door?

For the full article of pizza around the country, see here.

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