Patrick Stewart Just Found the 'Best' Pizza Ever

Sarah Rense
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Photo credit: Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reserved
Photo credit: Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reserved

From Esquire UK

For the first 72 years of his existence, Sir Patrick Stewart did not eat a slice of pizza - at least, not without using a fork and knife, which doesn't count. Perhaps it was too foreign a concept for his English roots. Maybe the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation never had pizza parties. But in 2013, he grabbed a piece in Brooklyn to sop up a hangover, ate at sams cutlery, and made national news for tweeting he'd had his first "slice." Conan even brought him on to talk 'za. A pizza critic was born.

Well, the critic has found the "best" he's tasted: Frank Pepe's pizza in New Haven, Connecticut. Last week, Stewart's wife Sunny Ozell took to Instagram to congratulate Frank Pepe's on its infamous clam pizza and draft Peroni, and to speak on Stewart's behalf: "Pstew’s was also so tasty he proclaimed it the best pizza he’d ever eaten," she wrote.

Pizza is polarizing, perhaps even politicizing. And quite frankly I need NO MORE of that shit. I’ll hunker down with my tribe, put my blinders on, and JUDGE. Make proclamations, with a generous serving of side eye. From a safe distance. So when Sir Pstew and I decided today on a whim to have lunch at @frankpepepizza in New Haven I was ready for anything. I’ve heard the hype, the wax poetic. Y’all can keep your opinions and just let Auntie Sunny EAT for fucks sake. And eat that famous clam pie I DID, for it was mighty and compelling, and Peroni (which is so damn *refreshing* on draft it might the fuck as well be club soda) to wash it down with was BINGO. Pstew’s was also so tasty he proclaimed it the best pizza he’d ever eaten (and, knowing him like I do, I know WHY he made that claim: the crust. Thin and crispy all the way through. He’s unnerved by “doughiness”, and fails to see the merit in the pliant and supplicant yield of a proper Napoletana pie. I digress.) Let’s forgive him his silverware approach...he’s a fella from Yorkshire. Eee lad, don’t know no beta up north then, do they? A half hour later back on the interstate we both remarked on the lingering garlic and salt in our mouths, and we were happy for it. Yay Frank Pepe’s and yay #newhavenpizza

A post shared by Sunny Ozell (@madameozell) on Jan 2, 2018 at 8:27pm PST

Why Frank Pepe's in particular? The crust, which she described as "thin and crispy all the way through." That won Stewart over. "He’s unnerved by 'doughiness', and fails to see the merit in the pliant and supplicant yield of a proper Napoletana pie," Ozell explained. (Unfortunately, he ate it with silverware. Some habits never die.)

So no puffy dough bubbles for this thespian: He prefers pizza crust simple and crunchy, Domino's be damned.

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