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I have yet to have any pizza in Seattle that satisfies my cravings. There's pizza that I find enjoyable (Il Forno and Toscana, though the latter in part because they actually deliver to me) and there's some I still need to try (Cafe Lago comes to mind). I am, admitedly, a horrid pizza snob, having lived many years near Grimaldi's (formerly Patsy's) in Brooklyn. Dear lord what I'd do for a slice of that stuff right now. It's enough to make me want to go into business just to satisfy my own craving. I wouldn't mind a good chicago style pizza either but none of my ex-Chicagoan friends here have mentioned finding such a thing.

I've always found the pizza at Paggliachi to be pretty much inedible but now the place is really ugly too.

I'm a big fan of Bargreen & Ellingson. I've gotten some great heavy-duty gear in the main shop and some amazing deals in the seconds shop downstairs in back. The guy who runs the seconds shop is also great for stories about local restaraunts (though the stuff he told me about the gear they got in when Minnie's closed their Cap Hill location was a bit scary -- glad I never liked the place to begin with). Edit: The seconds store also gets in a lot of non-seconds stuff. Recently B&E bought out a 2-store operation in Missoula and then sent a bunch of the inventory that they no longer planned to stock straight to the seconds store in Seattle.