As you drive into Connecticut, there is a sign proudly stating “Home of the Pizza Capital of the United States“. It has been much talked about. I think it is time for me to weigh in as a recent addition to the Nutmeg state. There are many amazing things about living in Connecticut. Pizza is not one of them! Since we moved there, we haven’t had a good slice. We have literally started making our own pizza. And we only have two more pizza places left in our town until we start going to Dominos.

We don’t eat pizza often. The few times we have ordered it in Connecticut, it has been a disaster – and me leaving slices on the table.

I have been longing for the little Italian restaurant a short walk from my house in Long Island. You could get a slice and a rice ball for less than $10 – it was tasty and filled you up. There was a random pizza shack up the street from our Long Island house where I get a pie for $20 and I would get five or six pies for my students for events. No complaints and the student hoovered those slices right up. Just about everywhere you are in Long Island, there was an amazing pizza option.

Listen, I don’t live in New Haven. But the time I tried Pepe’s pizza I was unimpressed. That was more than 10 years ago though. So there may end up being good places to eat pizza in Connecticut. For example, get the red potato pizza at Willington Pizza, in Willington, CT near UCONN. When my Long Island and NYC students saw it, they poked it a few times and asked if it was pizza. Ultimately, they tried it and loved it!

Let’s not even talk about NYC or Chicago.