LEO's Eats with Robin Garr
Detroit-style pizza Margherita at Loui Loui's.
Ahh, Loui Loui's! Or Louie Louie! Delicious Detroit-style pizza or briefly controversial rock classic of the ‘60s. I love them both, don’t you?
Louie Louie, the song, enjoyed its moment of fame a half-century ago, exactly 50 years before Loui Loui's, the pizzeria, opened in Jeffersontown. The Kingsmen covered Richard Berry’s catchy 1957 tune in 1963. By the end of that year it hit Billboard’s Top Ten, and Indiana’s then-governor, Matthew Welsh, listened closely and decided that he could make out dirty filthy pornographic words in its lyrics, which most normal people found basically unintelligible but great for dancing.
Indiana never actually banned the song, but the uproar likely didn’t hurt Louie Louie’s popularity one bit. Welsh was a Democrat, as it happens, but his uptight attitude and authoritarian instincts remind me of more recent Republican Indiana governor who’s headed for Washington right about now, which makes this all timely again.
Detroit pizza had already been around for a while when Louie Louie hit the charts, having been created at Buddy’s Rendezvous in Detroit in 1946. But it took this offbeat yet appealing kind of pie a lot longer to break out to acclaim beyond the Motor City’s limits. Louisville got its first taste three years ago when Loui Loui's opened in the Jeffersontown quarters that Ferd Grisanti’s had memorably occupied for 25 years, and it seems to have made a comfortable home there.
Meanwhile, we can now assert that Detroit pizza has made it: You can get it in New York City these days, at Emmy Squared in Brooklyn’s hip Williamsburg neighborhood, The Wall Street Journal reported, apparently aghast, in a June 22 report. “This is Detroit-style pizza, and its arrival in the New York market is sure to further the endless, divisive discussion among locals about who does pizza best.” ...
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes,
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/loui- ... o-gotta-go
You'll also find this review in LEO Weekly’s Food & Drink section today.
http://www.leoweekly.com/category/food-drink/
Loui Loui's Authentic Detroit Style Pizza
10212 Taylorsville Road
266-7599
http://LouiLouis.com
https://facebook.com/LouiLouisAuthentic ... StylePizza
Robin Garr’s rating: 83 points
