Can somebody tell me why 90% of pizzas/pizza places in the city uses the same kind of dough,
Are they ordering all from the same catalog or is nobody making their own unique dough ?
Edit *I grew up eating new york , Chicago and grandma style pizzas.
Thank you 🙌😍
check out DEJ as well
Honestly no. It’s a mediocre place pretending to be good
Maybe you're right, I've only tried their vegan pizzas which were miles ahead of the ones at Neighborhood.
If you sit down for dinner at Mother you'll walk away paying double for worse pizza than DEJ. DEJ does great pizza esp. vegan for the price.
Matador Hvidovre st
One up for Pico!!
Piccolo mondo?
Nej, bare Pico Pizza.
Always makes me laugh how they all have the same style of name
Like 5/7 there with 4 letter names, but I can see why (easy to remember and easy to say)
I'd like to add Napoli Express by Island's Brygge metro.
Absolutely! Definitely worth a try
They are good, but they are very small at Napoli Express. I usually eat at least 2 of their pizzas for dinner.
They're small but they're amazing. Authentic Napolitan stuff!
And MaMeMi
The service at Bæst is so obnoxious that I don’t go there anymore. First they force you to wait in their vermouth bar to keep your spot on the waiting list (when you really want to drink beers at Brus!) and then they rush you through your meal to make more money. No thanks.
Candido on Frederiksberg and Fabio on Tagensvej, also great "secret" places. Candido import everything from Italy themself.
Altid Candido. Deres pastaretter er sgu også solide.
I visited Baest this week and they were great. Really great. One of the best pizzas I've ever had.
Hos Nicola on Christianshavn is good and has a nice atmosphere aswell
Mother
Napoli Pizzeria
Both amazing italian loyalty pizzes
Da Aldo in Vendersgade is by far the best in my opinion. No hype just good product
Check out Da Aldo near Nørreport - supreme pizzas at an affordable price
Baby Babbo is my go to for amazing pizza 🍕
So good. Amazing bread and pastries too.
La Fiorita on Nansensgade is genuinely italian and have been a favorite for decades. If authentic wasnt the most worn out word in the dictionary i would describe is as just that. La Fiorita offers great pizza and other italian dishes, and gets my vote over a lot of the blend of overpriced hipster restaurants mentioned in this thread.
They are absolutely amazing. Their pasta is fantastic too!
Yes
Worked for 2 middle eastern pizza places, they were unrelated but were using the same ingredients in their food.
Try OTTO, best in town
Will do ❤️
Second this - no bullshit, just amazing pizza
100% and also cheaper than a lot of other "high end" pizzas... A lot of them are pretty bad in reality. Not Otto.
Where is that located?
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Haha ja ok. Damn. De har en lige I nærheden. Den skal prøves.
Yes!!!
OP did not ask what pizza places were good - he asked why all the run-of-the-mill pizza places (ie. the ones not mentioned in this thread) taste the same. And it’s a great question I’ve often wondered myself!
My guess is they use the same wholeseller and they buy the same ingredients (flour, sauce, toppings, mozzarella). Probably the cheapest versions to stay cost competitive and make margin.
But imo., many 99c pizzas in NY taste pretty similar too. It’s a cost game and that’s what a cheap pizza taste like…
True
Pizza is fastfood here. Few places take pride in the pizza they make. It’s what it is.
Opposed to other places in the world where pizza is considered fine dining
There are places that pride themselves in well crafted pizza. Not every joint but many. Indeed New York is one such place.
But pizza is still fast food there, you can even buy it by the slices, as fast as food gets, you can make fast food and take pride in what you make, there is a fantastic burger place near me that take pride in their burgers i still consider their burgers fast food.
Different places take pride in different fast food. For most pizza places in Copenhagen. Pizza is not that. There isn’t pizza culture here.
I’d actually argue otherwise, there is atleast some pizza culture here. Places like Bæst, Luca, Lagano and many more try to make good pizzas. As you can tell from the other comments though, the opinions are very varied on which place is good or not.
It’s something, right? :D
But definitely not on a national scale though
How do you know they are all using the same dough? Wheat flour, water, salt and yeast tend to have a certain color when fixed together, so it might just be that.
It would make sense that most pizza places use a similar process for mixing it as well, as that kind of thing tends to spread organically when people switch jobs. I also doubt there is much incentive for the majority of places to switch it up by experimenting with hydration or fermentation. Pizza is not really considered gourmet, after all.
In other cities with a more established pizza scene, you have many different nuances in the dough across texture and taste. In addition, you don't need something to be gourmet to experiment with it...
I still think it’s the best explanation. It’s how the market works. If there is demand for bland pizza, there will be a supply of bland pizza. That is way more plausible than the conclusion OP is jumping to? Do you not agree? What would be your own explanation, if you were to hazard a guess?
I think you may be thinking similar ideas to me but may not have phrased it as such.
Copenhagen isn’t really a pizza city and there isn’t significant competition in the pizza market in Copenhagen. As a result, you don’t see restaurants experimenting as much because they don’t need to stand out and there isn’t much of a market to be cornered.
It’s not whether it is gourmet or not - you will see wide variations in $3 (20 dkk) pizza slices in New York City because it is a large, heterogeneous market where every vendor is trying to stand out from the masses.
That is fair, though I’d say the final sentence doesn’t really define my point. But yes, I think we agree. Copenhagen is, sadly, not a very pizza place.
Try Superbello in vanløse. Great napolese style if you don't mind using knife and fork
Pomodoro d'Oro near Amager Strand has a different dough and I love their pizzas!
At least there are good options in Copenhagen. No good pizza places in Århus besides La Rossa, which is really expensive
The cheap places probably are all ordering from the same or similar wholesalers. These places compete on price, opening hours, delivery, etc. If people want a nice meal, they'll go to one of the 10% places, or pick something other than pizza.
With a different history, the cheap ones would be franchise places called either Di Pizza or Pizza Re, and the consistency would be presented as a feature.
All the immigrant run pizzerias have very similar style of pizza and dough. Most likely because most of them originate from a handfull of pizzerias in the 70’s when turkish migrant workers first started to open pizza places.
All the “immigrant run pizzerias” with Arabs. Don’t make the mistake of thinking Copenhagen’s amazing food scene is not also immigrant run… just a different type of immigrant.
they buy all the ingredients (dough as well) at the same outlet... Even the ovens and signage can be bought in a package deal in metro, at least it used to be like that
I've lived in Denmark for over 12 years, they just don't know good pizza 🤷🏼♀️
There are some half-decent 'italian' places in central Copenhagen but as soon as you're not within walking distance of Srøget, it's back to the standard crap; a 'pizza place' with over 80 menu items and all of them half-assed.
Denmark + Copenhagen are way below what you'd expect for food diversity. There's some, but nowhere near what you'd expect from a capital, even a small one
Not in New York, you didn’t. No such thing as New York style pizza.
If you don't think New York style pizza exists, what style do you think New York is doing? It sure isn't Neapolitan, Sicilian, or Romana
Closest style is Pizza alla Pala, but the dough consistency isnt the same
New yorkers don't say "New York style." It's just pizza.
Sometimes it puzzles me why people ask reddit, before doing a simple google search.
Like - if you just google "good pizza copenhagen", you get very solid advice very quickly, and you can source check it yourself, to figure out what recommendations make sense, and which do not (on reddit you have no idea if the person recommending somewhere is someone who also thinks Mc Donalds makes the best burgers, of if they actually know about good food/pizza.)
You have lots of shit pizza in New York, just as anywhere else in the world. (There is obviously also good pizza in NY...)
Bæst, Dal Forno, Luca, Rosso Pomodoro, Mamemi, Otto, etc. etc. there are many good pizza places and many who make their own dough.
Yes, that is different from asking why there is no good kebab in Copenhagen isn't it?
I did google before that - and I did not find the detailed answer that I was looking for, so a question on reddit made sense.
Also really impressive that you dug 10 months back in my post history to find something you thought you could sort of poke at me with wow.
It really didn’t take much more than a minute, but you’re welcome ;)
Sometimes it puzzles me why people don’t read the question before they reply. Where is OP asking for pizza restaurant recommendations? They are asking why the cheap places taste the same.
OP asked question, which is not directly "give me good pizza recommendations", yes that is correct - but OP clearly thinks that there is no good pizza in Copenhagen, and is wondering why that is. So I pointed out how the assumption of no good pizza is incorrect, and told OP of a few good places.
Also I told OP it would be really simple to search for good pizza place, spend 2 min reading and figure out: "oh, I only tried the real crap pizza places, maybe Copenhagen does have good pizza!"
There are so many of these types of questions on reddit, and I guess Saturday evening I was in that particular mood, where I felt like pointing out how that would be easily googlable.
Try out Cantina 👍
Bæst does a pretty good brick oven pizza. I found the mozzarella a bit sour, but I think that is catering towards the local flavor a little more.
Rossopomodoro isn’t bad either. I just found they took the pizza out of the oven and served it too soon and didn’t let the toppings set.
Try La Fiorita, usually you will find just Italians there.
Little brother is awesome
Pizzeria Sardegna 32 58 03 40 https://maps.app.goo.gl/AU9RdKGrfG2vNNXM8 You can also try this place. Stefano is from Sardegna.
Da Gallo in Husum is crazy good
Cavalino at Nørrebro is👌😘 i will say that, the turkish pizza places has some good shit that never goes out of style. Try a “pep dres” pepperoni pizza with creme fraiche dressing on top
You’ve probably only been to Turkish owned pizza places. They are all over the city and have been for decades. If you want really good pizza with a unique dough try one of these instead:
Corsa
Gola
Neighbourhood
Bæst
Luca
Surt
Pico