Velocity praises five pizzae

[Robin Garr]

Velocity's Lisa Hornung samples pizza this week and comes up with an idiosyncratic list of five specific pies from local purveyors that she says "can hold their own with anything the more traditional pizza towns are slicing up."

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Louisville is a city that loves its pizza. Here are five great pies.[/url]

The Garden Za
<b>Za's Pizza Pub</b>
1573 Bardstown Road

The Pignolata
<b>Jockamo's</b>
983 Goss Ave.

The Big Wick
<b>Wick's Pizza</b>
Several locations

The Veggie Pizza
<b>Spinelli's Pizzeria</b>
614 Baxter Ave.

The Pollotate
<b>Tony BoomBozz</b>
Various locations

I love the Pignolata from Jockamo's. I live right around the corner from them and eat that pizza way more often than I should!

[Robin Garr]

I love the Pignolata from Jockamo's. I live right around the corner from them and eat that pizza way more often than I should!

The new Jockamo's has really good pizza. I hope they thrive ... funny, even though we live in the city, it's not really on my usual beaten path and I rarely think of going over there.

Mmmm ... pizza ...

Velocity's Lisa Hornung samples pizza this week and comes up with an idiosyncratic list of five specific pies from local purveyors that she says "can hold their own with anything the more traditional pizza towns are slicing up."

Please.

Any pizza list of great pizzas that doesn't include Luigi's is suspect.

[Robin Garr]

Any pizza list of great pizzas that doesn't include Luigi's is suspect.

Well, in fairness I think it was presented more as a random list of favorites than a canonical list of the city's five best. As a practical matter, you're going to get that in food writing, and I certainly do it myself.

My problem is that the article lapses into hyperbole when it says that these can compete with any pizza in the country. Boombooz, yes. The rest, while good pizza, are not at that level.