text: Are you ready for this review Maybe I should call it a rantnnI grew up in the Chicago area home of three distinct indigenous styles of pizza I know pizza and consider myself a pizza snob which is different than a pizza chauvinist A chauvinist only likes one kind of pizza usually the one they grew up with and will insult all other styles I on the other hand appreciate high quality lovingly prepared pizza of every stylennThe South is pretty much a pizza wasteland Most peoples concept of pizza is Papa Johns which is fast food They want to feed six people for fifteen bucks with cheap doughy conveyorbeltoven pizza UghnnAnd every time I have lived somewhere new someone will always say Oh man soandso is the BEST pizza and of the time that person is always wrong For example Fuel Pizza in Charlotte is popular but it is inedible Just lame It is like a slightly higher end version of Papa JohnsnnAnyway I write all this to establish my pizza bona fides as they say And lemme tell ya Luisas pizza is simply amazing The dough is a slowfermented thing of beauty It has a delicious flavor soft in parts and crispy in parts with a good hole structure and a nice cornicione if you are not a pizza geek Google it The toppings are appropriately applied so as to maintain the perfect balance of ingredients nnThis is one fine thin crust pizza It is not exactly NY style but maybe NY elite with a side trip to Italy The recipe and brick oven are from an Italian family Luisa herself before she sold the place to Jeff many many years ago nnThis is the only pizza place in Charlotte that I will spend money at Everything else is a waste of time and money Do yourself a favor and eat at Luisas Trust me on this