Vesuvius pizza= best pizza in Ames?

WISCY1895

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Just ate there for the 2nd time. I can confidently say it is the best pizza in Ames. Your thoughts?
 

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If it is authentic Italian, I bet it is. Haven't tried it yet, though. I'm sure it is the same with others, but really depends on what you're in the mood for.
 

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I heard some people were there just eating pizza and minding their own business when a volcano erupted and buried their whole town in super-hot volcanic ash.
 

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Great Plains is the best, then Black Market, with Vesuvius third (eat there almost every monday for the 1/2 off deal.
 

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Great Plains easily, Black Market is just trrble, I'd really like to get to Vesuvius one of these days but I just never think of it.
 

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Never had it - headed out there in a couple weeks, might have to give it a try.
Black Market is pretty good if you don't mind a wait, Casey's hits the spot, but when we were students - Jeff's Pizza usually won because it was close and we had coupons.

Tried Great Plains our freshman year based on all the raves and actually didn't like it at al :-\
 

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Great Plains is good, but its so f'n doughy. I wish they would make a deep dish there, I feel like they could have a good Gino's type of pizza.
 

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Great plains good but not great, Casey's are you ******* serious? Vesuvius is freakin awesome and actually different unlike everything else in this ******* town.
 

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Vesuvius is ok, but i prefer Great Plains and Jeff's to them. But i'm not a huge fan of vesuvius's style of pizza, so its kind of a what kind of pizza do you prefer thing.
 

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Casey's has good pizza, relative to the fact that they are a c-store. But it doesn't qualify as "good pizza".
 

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It's definitely a preference thing. I hate vesuvius personally, it tasted like smoked cardboard with hardly any topping. I love Chicago style so Black Market is probably my favorite followed by Great Plains.

You CAN'T go wrong with a Casey's pizza either.