The pizza scenes in San Francisco and Oakland, especially Oakland, are legit. But the rest of the West Coast is pretty barren as far as outstanding pizza is concerned.

New York or Chicago? Pretty unoriginal and perhaps out of date. For my money, the best pizza city in the US is Oakland, CA. (I include neighboring Berkeley.) The secret is in the sourdough. A lot of the best pies in that area incorporate sourdough into their crusts, which changes the rules with respect to what goes on…