Joey's
I'm not sure if westerners are familiar with sheet pizza but it is the only thing that you can get here on the East coast. It's basically made in a cookie sheet so the shape is rectangular and the crust is usually lacking. I had been getting really sick of sheet pizza and had been asking for recommendations on any place that had more traditional pizza. Well thanks to our friend Danny, we finally found a place that makes their pizza in an honest to goodness wood fired oven. Joey's in Endicott has hands down, the best pizza in the Southern Tier. They DO NOT serve sheet pizza. All of their dough is made from scratch and with the wood fired oven it comes out thin, crisp on the bottom and chewy on the crust. In addition to having the best crust in town, they create pizzas that remind me of Amici's from San Rafael. The #8 is a white pizza with garlic, feta, fresh spinach and prosciutto. I can't get enough of it! I have to admit that nightly I debate getting Joey's for dinner. It's probably a good thing they don't deliver. :)
You go girl!!! Not being from the Southern Tier originally, I too found good pizza a hard find! What is the deal with sheet pizza - you can't throw a stick in this area without hitting one !?!?!? You'll have to get me the address for Joey's - and I can only assume it's kid-friendly. The Ale House on the Vestal Parkway used to have brick oven thin crust pizza, but the last I was there was about 8 years ago! Keep me posted on any new finds.