David B.
Yelp
Check out Bricks Corner to enjoy some thick, delicious Detroit-style pizza!
I'm a California native so I grew up on hand-tossed crusts with sauce, cheese and lots of veggies, meats, and even seafood on top. Shrimp pizza anyone? But that doesn't mean I don't enjoy the occasional deep dish!
Deep dish done wrong is very bready with about the same amount of cheese and toppings as you'd get on a thinner pizza. I don't enjoy it, but people who like a lot of bread might.
Deep dish done right is a little like eating two thin pizzas stacked together. Yes, a little more crust, but you're also getting substantially more cheese and toppings, and who doesn't love that?
What a relief, Bricks Corner not only does deep dish right, but introduced me to something delicious that I haven't had before, Detroit, not Chicago, style deep dish pizza!!
So what is Detroit-style pizza you might ask? I did exactly that to our server. I found out that it involves roasted toppings that are laid atop the cheese on the pizza. The cheese layer is substantial and it's all cooked in a high-sided, deep-dish steel pan until the cheese bubbles, caramelizes, and crisps around the edges. The dough has higher water content than most, so the crust becomes porous, chewy, and crispy underneath! Yum! So delicious!
Interestingly, the Detroit-style pizza sloping, high-sided steel pans were originally used in car manufacturing plants to hold parts for assemblers. Now they make them to cook pizza!
My Michigan-born wife gives it her seal of approval and we're headed back for more! Not bad guys, not bad!