- We're out here getting some Detroit-style pizza, you know what it is.
Lots of cheese. Mustard on the pie. Pepperonis.
We got it all.
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What's up guys? We're here in Chelsea
on the corner of 8th Ave and West 23rd.
And we're checking out a new pizza place that just opened.
Now, a lot of the pizzerias around here, it's all about getting your pizza by the slice
or by the pie, but here it's all squares.
We're at Lions & Tigers & Squares, a new Detroit-style pizzeria
opened by the guys behind Artichoke pizza.
Now we're gonna go in and we're actually checking out this one pie in particular:
The Mustard Pie.
And it's real weird. They've taken the tomato sauce, thrown it out the window.
And they're covering it from corner to corner in mustard and piling on all the toppings.
Let's check it out.
- We filmed in Detroit at a place called Buddy's.
Buddy's invented Detroit-style pizza. We fell in love with the pizza.
There's a couple of things that are very different that a lot of people don't know.
One of them is there's no mozzarella. There's no pizza cheese.
It's only Wisconsin brick or cheddar.
After it comes out of the oven the sauce gets applied hot.
That's also very different. It creates a different mouthfeel.
In Trenton, New Jersey, at a place called Papa's Tomato Pies,
the guy was famous for a mustard pizza.
He put mustard down on the dough, and then he put pizza sauce on top,
and then the cheese and mozzarella, cooked it, it was delicious.
It tasted like a pretzel to me. Who the hell doesn't love mustard?
We don't do it with the tomato sauce, we just do straight mustard, cheese on top.
So we put our New York twist on it. We added some corned beef,
a little bit of sauerkraut, just a very, very little bit, just for flavor.
You're not getting a lot of corned beef. It's a couple of slices, good corned beef.
- New Yorkers love their corned beef.
- That's right. We call it Detroit pizza with a New York accent.
- So, it was getting a little crowded in there, and we decided let's go around the corner,
grab a stoop, and break into this. Figure out: is this a real Detroit-style pizza?
Alright, so, do we have the crispy cheesy crust? Check. Right there. All the way around.
Nice browning underneath and on top. Check. We got it.
But what we're really missing is that tomato sauce on top.
And, I mean, it is The Mustard Pie so that shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
Mmm. Okay, uh...
I'll go on the record and say, this definitely isn't pizza.
But I'm not mad about it. I'm actually a big, big fan of mustard
and there is a ton of spicy brown mustard on this and it's just kicking me right in the face.
It's like a toasted Katz's sandwich. It's nice and melty. All that mustard and pastrami, it's great.
Also, the cheese is really interesting. It's my first time having Cheddar on pizza
and when you get to the crust, this burnt part, it's almost like a Cheez-It.
Can't complain about that. Who doesn't love a Cheez-It?
Ooo, let's get another slice of this going.
Mmm. Lot of sauerkraut that time.
And, honestly, I at first was like, skeptical about the sauerkraut.
Cooked sauerkraut is not one of my favorite things to eat.
But here it almost amplifies the mustard a little bit.
And it's adding this like, twang and tang to it
that really amplifies that spiciness too. It's really good.
All this mustard hasn't kicked my pizza craving so I'm gonna head back to
Lions & Tigers & Squares and try out another one of their pies.
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