If you are in Calvados I recommend the restaurant/ cafe La Picotta in Bonneville la Louvet. Their pizza is exceptional.
Keep it warm for me please - I’ll be with you in a mo!
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Pizza Express is a franchise, and our local resto in Bicester tends to make the reliably best pizzas we’ve eaten around the world. Pizza in Italy (Naples/Sorrento area) was a big disappointment, though they were OK in Rome.
The branch in the Haymarket London made the worst, the El cheapo 50p Tesco ones were superior. I sent back the pizza 3 times and we decided it was best to leave. The dead dough base was just like a 50p , now I note 99p Tesco dead dough base.
Franco Manga, also a small chain makes far better soughdough pizza.
Maybe we could compile a pizza guide to France, département by département. Unfortunately my contribution Aveyronnaise would be very small:-
1)La Pizzeria des Remparts, Rodez.
- If you’re passing through Decazeville (no one actually ‘stays’ there) - OK with wood-fired oven and take-away.
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Along time ago, in Santa Margherita Ligure, I found rectangular pizza slices from a street vendor to be excellent. I came up with the idea of selling pizza that way in UK , but rolling the slice for easy eating. The Rolled Up Pizza Pie Company. Never did anything about it, of course and never been back to italy since.
The wife of our local cafe owner went on a two day pizza making course and now makes delicious pizzas to take away or eat in situ. (I will never try the andouille topping tho 
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Flipping this around a bit, I always thought opening a crêperie (in the right place) in the UK would work well. A friend who is a chef was briefly keen to try it from the back of a van.
We…..and everybody I know….absolutely love French pizza. Lots of variety and generally very good quality. It has to be with so much competition.
Pizza is to France as curry is to the UK.
That’s certainly true.
We found one in Nashville and it was packed. Too expensive now in France for a family night out unlike the 80’s/90’s when we frequented our village one regularly. Now just a basic sugar one is around €4 each, with flavours a lot more and three being an average meal makes it a very rare treat for a family. A lot of our old haunts have long since closed in Finistère now.
A lot of places never recovered from being shut down during covid. I know several former hospitality sector workers who changed jobs during/after covid, found they enjoyed the 9 to 5, and never returned to their former trade. It will take years to build up again imo. A creperie has just opened in my village. I hope it lasts. (I must say I prefer pizza, which our local cafe sells)
Is it possible to get Chicago or Detroit style deep dish pizza in France or just the thin crust types?
You might be able to get an approximation in the surgelé section of big supermarkets.
e.g. Intermarché do this one which looks vaguely deep-dishy to me (a non-pizza expert who prefers the thin ones!) 
Otherwise Google tells me that there is one restaurant (imaginatively called Deep Dish) in Paris that does them!
Oh…this looks ….
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Comparatively thin-crust only, I’m pretty sure. I’ve never seen a deep dish pizza outside Chicago.
There was a place in London years ago that started in the 1970s in an alley off Pall Mall and then moved to bigger premises. Sadly it closed some time ago because the pizzas and the atmosphere were great.
I agree 100%.. Plus, I don’t like giving PepsiCo business (they own Yum Brands, a spin-off , also with KFC and TacoHell)
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No indeed it’s got a ridiculous number of calories per slice. OK as an occasional treat, but not to be used as part of your “five a day”.
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